Hints and tips:
...After eight months moping on a friend’s couch, Kagan realised he had been “liberated” by his failure. “It lit a fire under my ass to get going on my own,” he writes....
...Another effort was made in 2019, when then environment secretary Michael Gove asked Leon Restaurants co-founder Henry Dimbleby to come up with a national food strategy....
...Sonja Hutson Caitlin and Drew spent nine months getting to this point where they could relax on their couch in their home....
...Lilah Raptopoulos Feel like the wrong paint color, or the wrong, buying the wrong couch? Jonathan Adler Yeah. And so you might just have to repaint....
...The US reached its $31.4tn borrowing limit back in January, and has since been using “extraordinary measures” (ie, digging spare change out of the couch cushions) to pay its bills....
...For me, that’s, you know, Michael Bublé, which I recognise is not creative....
...In the grand scheme of things, not very, writes Michael Pettis....
...As Manfred Kets de Vries, the psychoanalyst and Insead business school professor, wrote in his book The Leader on the Couch: “The ability of narcissists to manipulate others and their capacity to establish...
...Increasingly, I’m hearing Tory MPs talk about benefits, wasters and scoundrels who don’t want to get off the couch and would prefer to claim, you know, they’ve got mental health issues....
...Solvay has been careful to couch its pollution-cutting plans in the language of goals and ambitions, rather than hard commitments....
...“I was making zero and couch surfing for the last 10 years, so that was a lot of money,” Strand says....
...She was left homeless and was forced to “couch surf” with her then six-year-old daughter. She went without food so her child could eat....
..., a series largely attributed to Michael Apted, which followed the lives of 14 seven-year-olds from widely varied backgrounds, who were first interviewed in 1964 and then every seven years after that....
...After two years at Winchester Art School she went to London to study at the Royal Academy Schools, where she met her late husband, Michael Little, a fellow artist and illustrator....
...“She deceived me,” says Precious, sitting on a couch in Benin City, Nigeria’s fourth-largest city and a major hub for human trafficking and migration to Europe. “And I suffered.”...
...But David Littleproud, Australia’s agricultural minister, has admitted most Australians do not want to get “off the couch” to pick fruit and is hoping seasonal workers from the Pacific can fill the gap....
...They know all the lines cold, as they sit crowded on to a couch in a large, otherwise bare suburban living room....
...From across the couch, his wife chimed in, “Did anyone tell Bernie you have to have wealth before you can redistribute wealth?”...
...Rich in cinematic description, it cuts from ornate hotel lobbies to Caucasian battlefields, from Steve Bannon’s couch to a Hare Krishna ashram in Mumbai....
...A few commercial lenders have exited the market in the past few years as the economics of movies became more precarious and Netflix’s star rose, giving people less reason to leave the couch for the cinema...
...dad Michael, who sleeps on the couch....
...It’s not clear whether Wicks has fully succeeded in his mission to prevent Britons becoming a nation of couch potatoes....
...Fine Gael are never good at persuading people they care,” said Michael Marsh, an emeritus professor at Trinity College Dublin....
...Afterwards, Mr Emanuel napped on a couch at CFG’s offices to sleep off the effects of a transatlantic flight the night before....
...Michael Kraus sings a sturdy Faninal. The smaller roles have more misses than hits. Take a tip. With eyes closed, this performance suddenly seems a whole lot better....
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