Hints and tips:
...C restaurant (short for “Pearls and Chiffon”)....
...“Big Tech and Silicon Valley have been among the most politically insulated sectors in the S&P 500, while financials and energy have been among the most closely scrutinised....
...If he or she smiles and says, “Good joke. Entrepreneurs, eh, what are they like? Marvellous clients,” be faintly reassured....
...Venezuela’s national assembly this week, one of the bloodied opposition parliamentarians recounted how Diosdado Cabello, the assembly’s pro-government head, had looked down on the rowdy scene with a gleeful smile...
...Time for some smug smiles in Colombia, perhaps, and some gnashing of teeth in Brazil: Ecopetrol has once again surpassed Petrobras as the largest listed energy company in Latin America by market capitalisation...
...Downstairs, in the shop’s poetry corner, I come across a copy of C P Cavafy’s Collected Poems, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn, whose commentary on “The God Abandons Antony” explains that the title is taken...
...A recipe for Chicken Divan, for example, is donated by “Mrs William P. Rogers, wife of the Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.”; Company Casserole comes from the “Wife of the Governor of Vermont”....
...His benevolent smile returned as he patted the shoulder with the same reverence as he had shown for the rest of the carcass....
...European politicians could be forgiven for the occasional smug smile following S&P’s unprecedented revision of the US outlook to negative....
...expressions, but I smile. “Don’t worry. The vice president of product development is up next, he’s going to be killer!”...
...Since the piece was written, P&O have offered £5,000 to two of the families....
...Copyright (c) 2006 by Jonathan A. Knee, an excerpted by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc....
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