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...In an apparent dig at Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor who entered the race late last month, Ms Harris added: “I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign.”...
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...Seemingly unaware of this, a new example of the form appears every few years, whether it’s a fresh take on the sub-genre of the acid western, such as the recent Michael Fassbender-starring Slow West, or...
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...“There would be nothing sweeter than having a rainy Memorial day weekend,” said Kelli Merritt, president of CropMark Direct, a Texas cotton merchant and broker....
...My best friend John Merritt – and later his daughter, Ellie – had died of leukaemia so it was an obvious choice. I had a rough target of £100,000 but raised more than £500,000....
...Perfect period detail has our hero smoking Park Drives, worrying over a halfpenny and criticising the works of Michael Arlen and Warwick Deeping....
...“Abiotic stress reduces yield in major crops by 65-80 per cent,” says Michael Metzlaff, head of crop productivity for Bayer of Germany....
...So they have, according to Merritt Cluff, an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation, an arm of the United Nations. But the outlook for cereals farmers is still good....
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