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...To be fair, the award also went to Martha Stewart, who is actually female. But the announcement sparked fierce criticism....
...Morgan Entrekin, chief executive of Grove Atlantic, the publisher behind last year’s Booker prize-winner, Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, agrees. “The boom in [romantasy] has been amazing,” he says....
...Professor Donald J Boudreaux Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, US...
...In April this year, the finance ministry announced two incentive programmes: — the “Small/Micro Merchant Incentive Program”, which will reward 10,000 food stores, gas stations and salons with a J$25,000...
...Claire Keegan credits readers with the phenomenal success of her short novel Small Things Like These, shortlisted for the Booker and other prizes and now a film....
...Trevor Eliot Bowes is suitably grave as the philosopher tutor Seneca, and Amy J Payne walks away with her scene-stealing opportunity as nurse Arnalta....
...When Tesco acquired Booker, it estimated it would make cost savings of about £175mn a year, largely in procurement and distribution. Booker also managed to take market share as a result....
...gideon.rachman@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The ‘myth’ of America’s deindustrialisation / From Professor Donald J Boudreaux, Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism...
...HOLD: J Sainsbury (SBRY) A strong Christmas season underpinned a bullish trading update for the supermarket group, writes Christopher Akers....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Someone’s wearing, them, anyway: J Press sells no fewer than seven different models. Trousers. Here we enter trickier territory. I don’t own a pair....
...Group sales, which also include operations in Ireland, central Europe and the Booker wholesale business, grew 7.9 per cent over Christmas and 5.7 per cent in the third quarter....
...“The late Steven J Ross first introduced Ralph and I in the early 1980s and we hit it off immediately. In Ralph I recognised another storyteller....
...Its Melges 24s and J/80s are definitely the race cars of the harbour....
...Group same-store sales, which include operations in Ireland and central Europe along with the Booker wholesale business, were up 7.9 per cent....
...You have Cory Booker, who ran the last time, who's an attractive person....
...Martha, after her death, has fragmented. “There are now many versions of Martha, many truths, perhaps many untruths.”...
...Supermarket chain J Sainsbury set up a £500mn loan facility for its pension scheme at the height of the gilt market crisis that followed the Truss government’s “mini” Budget in September....
...Brazil has also been a popular location for phase 3 trials and has agreed to test shots from AstraZeneca, SinoVac, J&J and the partnership between Pfizer and BioNTech....
...It was the 1996 novel Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter, by the Zimbabwean author J Nozipo Maraire....
...Thursday that full-year operating profit from its retail operations would be “slightly above” its previously indicated £2.5-2.6bn range after a Christmas trading performance that mirrored that of rival J...
...And City Center’s spring Dance Festival is a showcase for Martha Graham Dance Company, Dance Theater of Harlem, Paul Taylor Dance Company and others — a wonderfully welcome return to the stage for many....
...Martha said: “If we couldn’t open for a second year, we would be in trouble.”...
...Green J Jam from Worcestershire is showing more than 50 different varieties of those late summer staples, penstemons....
...Its operating profit margins are little different to rivals such as J Sainsbury, despite its low rent bill and captive supply chain....
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