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...“In the richest nation on earth, how did the bar get set so low?” asks Rick Wartzman, author of an upcoming book on Walmart, Still Broke....
...Law firm McDermott Will & Emery issued a fresh round of promotions. View them here....
...In the Facebook-Vietnam face-off, the state has moved away from attempts to bar the site entirely, opting instead to sway public opinion by setting up many of its own pages, verified by blue check marks....
...Now, Facebook is testing a similar feature, Facebook Stories, in its “big blue app” in Ireland....
...This cross-promotion helps to pool audiences. Zoella’s gang includes her boyfriend, her brother Joe (whose blog, now with 2m subscribers, started after hers, she insists) and Marcus Butler....
...But this is an important first-hand account of the Snowden affair....
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...That promotion coincided with the sale of a 4.8 carat blue diamond for $1.45m, believed to be one of the highest value achieved on the sale of a rough diamond....
...Economists dispute the nature of the recovery – is it a bounce-back “v” or a double-dip “w” – while old market hands caution that the summer rally could eventually give way to a correction....
...Mitchells & Butlers added 6.4 per cent to 141p on talk that Joe Lewis, the billionaire, might want to lift his holding in the All Bar One operator to 29.9 per cent....
...People are nostalgic for those days, says Joe Bageant, a son of Winchester who left to become a journalist in California and elsewhere....
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...The shape of the packaging was also redesigned, creating a distinctive oval half-gallon that suggests a traditional hand-packed tub....
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