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...Mary Lou McDonald, leader of the nationalist Sinn Féin party, told the FT that the British government needed to improve its offer....
...“The package has got all the elements you need, just not enough money in all of them,” said Ann Watt, director of think-tank Pivotal....
...Heaton-Harris said Ireland’s position was “inconsistent and hard to reconcile with its own record”....
...Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, on Wednesday night extended the talks into the coming days but set no deadline....
...“I watched him build his empire and, by the way, it is an empire,” said Mary Ann Tighe, chief executive of another real estate firm CBRE’s New York office....
...Soon Lucy Lou (Lee Braithwaite) has dumped the skirts and become plain Lou, the sheriff (Paul Hunter) has kicked the booze and slipped into silky skirts and Miss Lillian has fallen head-over-heels in love...
...“Public sector pay disputes may be [Stormont’s] first problem because there isn’t enough money,” said Ann Watt, director of think-tank Pivotal....
...All eyes now on whether Chris Heaton-Harris remains as Northern Ireland secretary....
...Ann Watt, head of think-tank Pivotal, called it a “sticking plaster” budget and with inflation at about 10 per cent “severe cuts to services are inevitable”....
...The lack of political stability has institutionalised short-term planning and a “reluctance to make unpopular choices financially”, said Ann Watt, director of Pivotal, a think-tank....
...Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, who attended the meeting with the secretary of state in Belfast, said Heaton-Harris was “legislating for further drift”....
...It’s utterly unacceptable,” said Mary Lou McDonald, leader of the nationalist Sinn Féin party....
...Mary Lou McDonald, leader of the pro-Irish unity Sinn Féin party, was not allowed to attend talks about the Northern Ireland protocol in Belfast with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Wednesday....
...But Mary Lou McDonald, whose pro-Irish unity party Sinn Féin won the May elections in Northern Ireland, said it was time to deliver....
...Ann Watt, director of Northern Ireland think-tank Pivotal, said budgetary discipline in the region had been hampered by ministers not being able to meet every week to agree how to share funds....
...Make-up assistants, Lou Boidin and Fay Bio-Toura. Production, Elsa Puangsudrac at Farago Projects...
...A lot of the reasons we were selling off still exist,” said Lou Brien, a market strategist at DRW Trading....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] George Parker The views there of ex-PM Boris Johnson, former Tory Eurosceptic MP Ann Widdecombe and the Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker....
...Côte d’Ivoire’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou, who led the first round with an African record 10.78, said she was “in shock” at the fast times being run in Tokyo on the first day of competition....
...Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Côte d’Ivoire set a personal best of 10.78 seconds....
...Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Côte d’Ivoire set a personal best of 10.78 seconds. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah, the defending gold medallists from 2012 and 2016, respectively also ran....
...The writer Ann Beattie – who published a book on Katz’s work in 1987, positioning 26 of his paintings alongside text that tried to probe their psychological dimension – wrote that “it is difficult to look...
...It joined the ranks of the largest womenswear retailers five years ago when it struck a deal to acquire Ann, parent company of Ann Taylor, LOFT and Lou & Grey, for about $2.16bn, giving it a total number...
...Lou Ann Lofton notes eight ways that the typical approach of female investors jibes with Warren Buffett’s. She notes that female investors are more realistic in their investment expectations than men....
...Like Lou Gerstner, who was brought in to save IBM in the early 1990s, Mr Hurd conspicuously arrived without a vision....
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