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...The main tower, whose most famous resident was another bibulous writer, Jeffrey Bernard, who died there in 1997, remains relatively unchanged....
...I brace myself for some bland comments about golf. But instead he flushes again with a shyly confessional air. “I ride motorbikes....
...Its class of “bland fanatics” has sought to reinvent the west as a benign global force....
...The prospect of measuring out my life in A6 notebooks, on a bland diet of videocalls and virtual encounters is draining. One colleague calls this “the blancmange era”....
...That statement, bland though it is, will be regarded with alarm in Beijing and delight in Washington....
...ben.bland@ft.com...
...Starbucks coffee may have a milky bland reputation today but it drove the transformation of the coffee and café culture....
...Jeffrey Wasserstrom, professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Irvine, called on publishers to resist Beijing and test its willingness to block access en masse to the world’s greatest...
...Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Irvine, says that because of the Chinese government’s “enduring paranoid streak” it is likely to respond to the growing...
...Jeffrey Cirio’s footwork has some rough edges and he made a bland and uninvolving James....
...Jeffrey Lowe, managing director of Asian Sky, said the chartering business in China was also initially hit by President’s Xi’s graft crackdown and austerity drive....
...No wonder Spencer Fung, chief executive of Hong Kong-listed sourcing group Li & Fung, has called in Ram Charan, a management guru who has advised top executives including Jeffrey Immelt of GE and Alan Mulally...
...Jeffrey Ngo, a postgraduate student from Hong Kong at New York University and one of the lead architects of the new history project, rejected the claim that he and Mr Wong were merely trying to promote their...
...The leaders of the UK’s three main political parties struck a very different tone this Easter, swapping bland platitudes for serious takes on the Christian message....
...“This is a well-run company and it sticks to what it’s doing,” said Jeffrey Gao, a property analyst at Nomura in Hong Kong....
...Jeffrey Gao, a Hong Kong-based property analyst with Nomura, says Vanke’s financial performance has been impressive....
...Jeffrey Gao, a property analyst at Nomura in Hong Kong, says that while second-tier cities on average have one year of housing inventory, the tier-one average is nine months and Shenzhen has just over six...
...“The junkets are going to be under increasing pressure,” says Jeffrey Fiedler of the International Union of Operating Engineers, a US trade union that watches the Macau casino industry closely because of...
...Jeffrey Winters, a professor of Indonesian politics at Northwestern University in the US, said the nascent democracy was entering a “dangerous” phase, given that most Indonesians “do not have a high degree...
...“The raison d’être of Indonesian politics is bagi-bagi or dividing the spoils,” said Jeffrey Winters, an Indonesia-focused political scientist at Northwestern University....
...The blocks are bland but the eye-catching centrepiece is a cluster of sci-fi biodomes, sitting like soap bubbles in a landscaped plaza and creating covered green space for the colder weather....
...If eating them solo, you can’t with good Southern conscience add sugar, but if you find them too bland then grated mild cheese is an endorsed embellishment....
...All sincerely meant, no doubt; but as I chewed on this bland pap, God how I longed for a flagon of vinegar!...
...This beats the bland “our people are our strength” sections in most ordinary companies’ annual reports. But it cuts both ways....
...You could say that his cooking, much like him, is never bland....
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