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...“In the long term, productivity growth in the US is projected to be higher than in Europe,” said Bart van Ark, managing director at the UK-based Productivity Institute....
...The Chinese officer made reference to past efforts to target Martin Selmayr, a former secretary-general of the European Commission who was once among the most powerful officials in Brussels....
...The “elaborate withholding” of aid to Gaza by Israel is a “textbook war crime”, Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland senator, said in a speech on the Senate floor on Monday....
...Sargent’s painting, made in 1885-86, is part of a long tradition taking in Leonardo Da Vinci, Van Gogh and Patrick Proctor....
...But David Martin, senior oil analyst at the International Energy Agency, said governments in the OECD had enough emergency stocks to counter any supply crunch....
...The estate of American artist James Rosenquist, who died in 2017, will offer about 50 of his prints at Phillips in New York on February 15....
...Glenn Martens, a fellow Belgian designer and alumnus of Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, has long explored the avant-garde through his work at Y/Project....
...Martin van Maële created the cover art for HG Wells’s popular 1901 “science romance” Les premiers hommes dans la lune (The First Men in the Moon); a first edition is available for £15,000 at Peter Harrington...
...For Hans Van kasteren, a retired energy company director from Antwerp, the changing climate has fuelled his decision to sell his €3.5mn home in Marbella and buy instead in San Sebastián on Spain’s north...
.... — Chris van Steenbergen, director, Antwerp Palácio Príncipe Real, Lisbon My favourite independent small hotel....
...Fink asked Martin Small, BlackRock’s chief financial officer, to negotiate details, while Raj Rao, GIP’s president, was enlisted by Ogunlesi to lead its talks....
...In the modern sections there are discoveries galore, from the unsettling art of Ostend-born James Ensor to the sensual portraits of women by Rik Wouters, who died in 1916 at the age of 33....
...Mulier has never identified as being “an Antwerp designer” – in the vein of Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester or Martin Margiela, who brought an intellectual rigour to fashion in the ’90s....
...Lunch with the FT: CNN’s former chief executive Jeff Zucker discusses the future of the US cable news channel — and sharing dining tips with Steve Martin....
...Van Buuren spent a lot of time telling me about track-access charges — enough for me to realise I wouldn’t want to tangle with them....
...By necessity, one has to camp somewhere that a van can drive to; by definition, that is not somewhere I want to camp....
...Martin Yates leads the orchestra....
...Martin Weale: Easing planning laws....
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...The chief of Ocado’s technology solutions division Luke Jensen will step down in September and be replaced by non-executive director John Martin....
...It is a massive achievement given that O’Sullivan only founded his studio 10 years ago after periods working with Martin Brudnizki, David Collins and Annabelle Selldorf....
...James Watt is moving carefully....
...Martin Bailey, the author of Van Gogh’s Finale: Auvers and the Artist’s Rise to Fame (2021), says that the restoration should “reveal much more about one of Van Gogh’s finest Dutch landscapes”, shedding...
...Advanced users can add details for aspect ratio, lighting, style and other variables Prompt: A robot in an office, ink drawing, sumi-e Prompt: A robot in an office, detailed, in style of Van Gogh Van...
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