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...The remarks are an echo of those by Marks and Spencer’s chief executive Stuart Machin, who has described his team as “always positively dissatisfied”....
...Surely, the mark of good prosthetics in a biopic is that you stop noticing them, but you wouldn’t notice an actor wearing them in the first place if they weren’t famous....
...This fits with recent research by Mark Williams and Gabriel Ng of Capital Economics....
...(That would be Mark Rylance as a veteran eater, huffing at the air like a macabre Oxo advert.)...
...One of the latest Chicago grads to make a mark at AQR is Bryan Kelly, its head of machine learning....
...Its dowdy high street shops might be the butt of jokes on social media, but WHSmith’s share price performance is a lot smarter — delivering total returns almost 1.5 times the market....
...Exactly how the happy ending will arrive is given a teasing question mark. That it will is not in doubt....
...For Politico, Tanya Gold marks the end of Liz Truss’s political career with a portrait so caustic it could unblock a drain....
...David Cameron, a slick PR type, was replaced by Theresa May, a dowdy trier, who was in turn replaced by Boris Johnson....
...“In terms of protection from extra booster shots, it may be more about when you get them than how many you get,” said David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University....
...Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said recent data supplied by Pfizer prompted the agency to determine it needed to see data on a third dose before rescheduling...
...When I’m styling for the red carpet I go to Marks and Spencer and buy packs of thin ribbed lambswool or cotton. Get ones that go right up to the knee so there’s no gap.”...
...“Since the drug doesn’t stop infection I’m not sure I’d go so far as calling it a game-changer in the way the vaccines have been,” said Dowdy....
...By the mid-1960s, he’d been invited to apply his forward- thinking to the house of Fendi, turning the dowdy Roman furrier into a fun, fashion-led label....
...The film is part of the BBC’s programming to mark Coventry as the 2021 UK City of Culture....
...The dowdy brick building just north of Omaha’s centre was once a convent....
...Source: “Dating Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1700-2010”, Stephen Broadberry, Jagjit Chadha, Jason Lennard and Ryland Thomas, Economic History Review (forthcoming)....
...Serves six For the preserved lemon gremolata Heat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Grease and line a 25cm loose-bottomed cake tin....
...As she explains why England never had a successful revolution, a note passes between male academics — a mark out of 10, unrelated to her take on Cromwell....
...The 1960s still makes other decades cringe like dowdy wallflowers at a party. This is understandable enough. The artistic feats were legion....
...It is precisely because of these abundant talents that I hope that Sweet Sorrow marks the end of this phase of Nicholls’ career....
...The 1980s saw Ira’s life take another bewildering turn as she moved to London to open an antiques shop with her new lover, and landed on the Mark Birley, Anouska Hempel, Charles Powell, Margaret Thatcher...
...The rest of our party are huddled around the cairn that marks the top of the mostly invisible Sgùrr na Lapaich, “the peak of the bog”....
...Of these, less than 30 per cent are estimated to be in class A malls — the kind that may feature an Apple store or a Whole Foods, where a dowdy Sears would be regarded as a blot....
...In a stroke of curatorial blindness in an otherwise sensitive show, Tate hangs this subtle wistful masterpiece next to Dod Procter’s clunky, dowdy “Morning”....
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