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...Pharmaceutical companies have criticised the UK for paying far less than many peer countries for products, but chancellor Jeremy Hunt in May said there was “no magic wand” to tackle the financial pressures...
...The “Willow Wand”, with its plaited stems forming a trunk, can be grown as a standalone tree, or in a line to form a pleached hedge....
...No magic wands exist. Being a good Conservative, the chancellor rejects “big government, high spending and high tax because we know that leads to less growth, not more”....
...“There’s no magic wands,” Charap said. “It’s hard to make the case that long-range strike [missiles] can fix the problem of minefields or all these defences.”...
...If the government has blown a hole in this budget, I can’t say I can wave a magic wand and right all the wrongs that they’ve done,” she says. “But it would be incredibly frustrating for me.”...
...Finally, the Lord Chamberlain, leader of the royal household, broke his wand of office, symbolising the end of his service to the late monarch, and placed it on the Queen’s coffin alongside the flag....
...A restored Stormont executive will not have a magic wand to fix the accumulating problems, but the longer it remains suspended, the harder they will be to address....
...A life-size statue of her stands there now, erected to mark her 31st birthday, its arms covered in colourful friendship bracelets attached by pilgrims....
...He’s not getting any, though,” said Mark Zandi, an economist at Moody’s Analytics who has advised Republican and Democratic politicians....
...You know, you can’t wave a wand and make businesspeople an expert into bank finances. But does the bank have plenty of capital? Does it have a variety of deposit clients?...
...Teaching a lesson can’t be the mark of a good book....
...Reinvent was led by tech royalty — Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Mark Pincus of Zynga....
...But if it was a magic wand to growth, why wouldn’t these previous Tory chancellors have done it?...
...If the trade deal can be signed this year, it would mark the first big bilateral agreement entirely negotiated since the UK quit the EU....
...Encoded had used a feed licensed from Bloomberg to broadcast information on the internet, allowing some traders listening in to hear comments from then-governor Mark Carney at press conferences up to eight...
...Mark Carney urges ‘50 shades of green’ approach Last Friday Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England and the UK climate adviser, indicated that he was worried about the way that the EU green...
...The confusion marks the start of Donald Trump’s final full day in office, when he is expected to issue more than 100 pardons and commutations....
...Jefferies entered 2020 with record quarterly earnings, setting chief executive Rich Handler on course for a celebration to mark his 20th year at the helm of one of the world’s biggest independent investment...
...It is run by Tom Sillence and Philip Wand, who also act as directors of Encoded....
...The decision to mark down Industrial Heat’s values was made by the WPCT’s corporate director Link Fund Solutions and IHS Markit, which provided valuation services....
...If there’s even a hint of the dark mark, trust your instincts....
...It’s basically a response to the bashing business leaders have taken for the downsides of modern shareholder capitalism and isn’t some magic wand we can wave over the economy....
...Smart reads We should beware the rise of stakeholderism “Stakeholderism isn’t some magic wand we can wave over the economy,” writes the FT’s Jonathan Ford....
...Last week was supposed to mark a milestone for the fintech industry with the implementation of the final parts of the EU’s wide-ranging open banking legislation, PSD2....
...The operator was supposed to hold the device, called the “ADE-651”, like a wand, and allow its subtle movements to direct them towards dangerous substances....
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