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...“Mr Zhao . . . endangered those who serve in the US military,” assistant attorney general for national security Matthew Olsen said....
...Vilte, also in his mid-twenties, had been described in the local press as a “wheeler-dealer” versed in small-scale crimes, like cattle rustling and petty theft....
...Wenheng Zhao, a petty officer who worked at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, was separately charged with providing sensitive military data to “an individual posing as a maritime economic researcher...
...Two of Whatmore’s other characters are Irish — Edmund Burke and William Petty, the earl of Shelburne, a politician who created a kind of intellectual think-tank, the Bowood Circle....
...“It may sound petty, but in my experience people with disabilities passionately want the focus to be on what they can do, not what they can’t.”...
...Indeed, McDonagh’s idea of funny has always been macabre, and his work filled with petty grievances, absurdist murders and dead cats....
...I think the delight some people find with Succession is how ugly, petty and unhappy the lives of the mega-wealthy can be....
...The person added that these sums were reimbursed when required and audited, and that petty cash was not used since the end of 2017....
...Some have even resorted to petty penalties such as, in the case of two UK tenants, threatening to remove air conditioning facilities....
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...Their refusal to go for Ry Cooderesque slide guitar meshes with director Matthew Dunster’s vision of the play’s psychogeography....
...Matthew Dunster’s direction is in keen sympathy with both the thematic and dramatic drives of the play....
...Petty had a song that he hadn’t used on an album — “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”. Iovine thought it would work better as a pop track, with Nicks and Petty duetting....
...You’d find it hard to disagree with someone richer than you, even over something petty, because you’d know that that person could legally take your belongings just to spite you....
...the railway empire of Bethel Henry Strousberg, a major industrialist at the time whose prehistory included a stint in jail for absconding from a previous job as financial agent with other people’s money (petty...
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...The allegations in Lord Ashcroft’s biography of Mr Cameron, which burst into life in the pages of Monday’s Daily Mail, were petty and mean-minded and palpably vindictive....
...For an important counterpoint, Matthew Klein quite rightly points out that all the attention is out of proportion with the minute size of the move in the exchange rate....
...Petty, came the inevitable complaint: the bank made $22bn profit last year and so to kill voicemail in order to save a few million made no sense....
...While they argued about petty disputes, he saw the bigger picture of television rights, sponsorship, international growth and an unending diet of drama and controversy to sustain interest....
...I did indeed choose not to bet the maximum, but only in case the FT’s expenses department raised a petty objection to my expenses (Four hours research: £72,000)....
...In the years that followed, he carved out a reputation as an engineer, working on Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, and producing records for acts such as Tom Petty & the Heatbreakers, Stevie Nicks and U2...
...This merely emphasises both the ludicrous control over petty cash exercised by the Treasury over other departments and the abolition of any meaningful local government....
...“She wasn’t going to give the people there the satisfaction of being petty; at a moment like that it shows incredible strength of character. It felt amazing to say what she said. I loved doing it.”...
...Who knows what trick some petty official at Heathrow might one day attempt? Matthew Engel is an FT columnist ——————————————- Would you pass?...
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