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...The Copperbelt’s current financial straits is having an adverse effect on working conditions....
...The two-thirds of the world’s population that don’t live in an advanced economy or China are in terrible straits....
...By contrast, what surprised me in the opposite direction was the dire straits of the bottom third of the class — most of whom are from deprived backgrounds....
...wrote one netizen, quoted in Singapore’s Straits Times....
...Tutored by John Minton and Kenneth Rowntree, his early paintings – a trio of Mintonesque vultures penned in a barn like Gothic monsters, a bird-cage traced with Rowntree’s decorative graphic – show how he...
...Act One: 1967, the summer of love, and excited, wannabe-liberated Oxford student Kenneth is avoiding spending the long vacation with his parents by hiding in his strait-laced, sullen brother Henry’s flat...
...Why a country whose actual and prospective public debt will remain below the average of the past two centuries should be in such dire straits is very far from evident....
...Lately, Mr Dobbs’s 7pm show, Lou Dobbs Tonight , has seemed out of place among the network’s more strait-laced programmes and the renewed effort at CNN to distinguish itself from its more partisan rivals...
...David Bullock, managing director at Advent Capital, said: “You have leverage at historically high levels in an economy that is in historically dire straits”....
...Kenneth Lieberthal, then a senior National Security Council official under US president Bill Clinton, proposed in 1998 that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait could sign a 50-year interim agreement on the...
...Allen’s goal was to reach the province’s easternmost point, where the Chukchi Peninsula juts out into the Bering Strait, unaided except for a team of dogs....
...Back in the early 1970s, when the UK was in serious economic straits, Scottish nationalism was a powerful force (the SNP drew 30 per cent of of the vote in Scotland in the October 1974 general election)....
...Equally problematic would be a meltdown in one of the world’s many hotspots, for example in the Middle East, North Korea or the Taiwan Strait....
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