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...Adrian Lester plays Britain’s first black prime minister, who ousted Boris Johnson 15 months earlier and now comes into conflict with GCHQ figures including its head of operations (Simon Pegg)....
...John Kirby introduces his orchestra by expounding on Harlem tastes and the mechanics of a jam session — “we modulated right on through the chorus, from A-Flat to C”, says Kirby over his band’s mellow swing...
...The overlord of one of the weirdest experiments in trade policy just got in a helicopter and flew off to the strains of “Y.M.C.A.”....
...Whiting Petroleum, a Denver-based oil and gas company which filed for Chapter 11 on April Fool’s day is up 328 per cent since last Monday....
...Every 1% change in bad debt will impact by £82mn, or c.1.1p/share. Bad debt in 2019 was c.1.5% for residential and 0.7% for business....
...Alex Whiting, a Harvard Law School professor, questioned whether the US could prosecute ICC staff. “There is no criminal statute which allows for those kinds of prosecution....
...Perhaps unsurprisingly, he would greet his customers with the words, “Hello, c***.” As the day progressed, his behaviour seems, if anything, to have grown worse....
...He will be replaced by Lawson Whiting, currently executive vice-president and chief operating officer. Varga will retain his seat on the company’s board of directors....
...Lester and Laura Lee Catron have been married 57 years and moved here in the 1970s from Oregon....
...Mr Jenkins said the company’s gas wells would break even at any price above C$2.10 ($1.57) per thousand cubic feet, and benchmark US gas is about C$2.80 per thousand cubic feet....
...As a final, cruel irony, the last scene shows the now aged Aldridge, without comment, “whiting up” to play King Lear. To February 27, branaghtheatre.com...
...Lester Lynch’s powerful baritone signified Porgy’s unexpected physical strength, although his singing was at times overly stentorian....
...“It is mostly the distressed part of the market that benefited from this rally, a lot of triple C securities,” said Scott Roberts, co-head of high yield at Invesco....
...“I like the story of the potential of the country more than the [actual] growth,” says Lester Tan, the Heineken venture’s managing director, who is upbeat but cautious. “It’s a long-term investment.”...
...There are eight oil producers with credit ratings of triple-C or lower, meaning that “they’ve got about a year or less before they burn out of cash”, says Thomas Watters, a managing director at S&P....
...The blazes have since burnt out and this week producers got the unwelcome news that a 250,000 b/d crude processing unit at BP’s Whiting refinery near Chicago suffered an unplanned shutdown....
...Martin Simpson, acting as compere, threw in Jackson C. Frank’s “Blues Run the Game” and Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel”, sliding up and down the frets....
...Dr Who’s sonic screwdriver. 8. a) China (Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons); b) India (Chennai Express); c) US (Iron Man 3)....
...Whiting saw a possible interpretation of the rule that might make this possible, and checked with the FIA legal department....
...Other academics involved in the Bay Area node include André Marquis, executive director of Haas’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship, who will be Node manager, Erik Lium, assistant vice chancellor of innovation...
...The business school gives you a great platform and the resources, like the Lester Center for Entreprenuership, that you need to get going....
...It was keeping the Whiting, Cherry Point and Toledo refineries because they were less expensive to upgrade and were located closer to supplies of Canadian crude oil, it added....
...San Miguel, by T.C. Boyle, Bloomsbury £14.99/Viking $27.95, 367 pages According to my unscientific research at literary festivals, where audiences are often curious about my favourite writers, T.C....
...John Whiting, a leading tax expert, said it was hard to state for certain that someone was using a company with the purpose of avoiding PAYE tax and national insurance....
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