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...The political scientists Jonathan K Hanson and Rachel Sigman have measured state capacity by combining indicators such as the ability to raise complex taxes and the availability of good statistics....
...This time around, we expect these levels to be tested even in a mild recession, signalling significant downside from current levels (480bp in spread; 95 cash price)....
...It allowed the government to pursue mild easing in the coming two fiscal years....
...North opened a Weak 1NT; South responded with a mild slam try. Three cue-bids followed and South bid the slam. West led K♥. Unless diamonds break badly, all is well....
...Officially recorded cases exclude the far larger numbers who were infected but not tested because their symptoms were non-existent or mild....
...In one important section, Amoako offers a mild defence of the infamous Berg report of 1981 — Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa — whose author, Elliot Berg, pushed a heavily free-market prescription...
...Of the notable movers, South Korea’s Kospi slipped 1.2 per cent as chipmakers Samsung and S K Hynix dropped....
...When the FT revealed that UBS had named Ralph Hamers, pictured centre, the mild-mannered head of Dutch bank ING, as its new chief executive, people in the banking industry were surprised....
...He has brushed off corporate fears about Brexit with the words “f**k business”. He has called the president of Turkey a “wankerer” (in a limerick where it had to rhyme with Ankara)....
...The PI that’s definitely not K is the ebitda loss of £71.9m, or £78.2m after tax etc, which has ballooned from a £26.2m cash burn in the previous year and leaves the net cash position at £74.1m....
...They are far from an endearing bunch: one is loud and lippy, another implausibly mild-mannered, a third endlessly argumentative....
...“K-shaped” recovery anyone? For more on this, check out my “Confessions of an economic forecaster"....
...Behind the bar is a sign that reads “think global; eat lokal”, in English but spelt with the Basque k....
...Ricardo Reis , professor, London School of Economics Perhaps, but I'd guess a mild one....
...But I do think to myself, ‘How the f**k did we do that?’”...
...It might stagger through a mild winter but it is classed as an annual and is much better in its first year. So what else is on display?...
...Winning the right to shout “f**k you!”...
...On one occasion, he even went so far as to say “f**k the politicians”....
...However a mild winter and reduced demand for de-icing salt, as well as sluggish global growth constraining investment in agriculture will weigh this year and hurt sales and profits, it said....
...As fastFT reported earlier, K+S has warned that a mild winter, which led to lower demand for de-icing salt, and subdued investment in agriculture amid sluggish global growth will hurt its results this year...
...A mild recession over coming quarters remains likely, as firms halt all but essential expenditure as a result of uncertainty about the U.K.’s future relationship with the EU....
...herself wishing to help Sara “carve great pink hams, open jars of pâté from Strasbourg, bottles of black cured Greek olives . . . to cut thick wedges of brown bread, slice through the smooth flesh of a mild...
...Peter Westaway, chief European economist, Vanguard I expect U.K. growth to fall away markedly next year, from its current 2% rate probably to around 1%, slightly weaker than the consensus view....
...But effects on U.K. only marginally positive — and the fiscal expansion may not happen....
...Its mild flavour makes it a blank canvas for recipes ranging from nuggets to vindaloo....
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