Hints and tips:
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Then the Americans came....
...Yet that same year, it didn’t have a single film in the American box-office top 10....
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...Meanwhile in American male major league sports, teams are actually getting younger for a variety of reasons. In other words, Benzema et al are outliers....
...The primary driver of wealth, the primary asset on most Americans' balance sheet, is a home. Most of the ways in which Americans build wealth involves borrowing money....
...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...In the US, a survey by the American Pet Products Association in December found that 10 per cent of respondents got a new pet as a direct result of the pandemic....
...Et cetera, ad nauseam. The numbers seem to back up the thesis....
...Although this last theme might seem oddly non-political, that positive-affect language was a hallmark of politically left-leaning trolls in the 2016 election interference (Marcellino, Cox, et al., 2020)....
...Have you seen the miles-long lines for American food banks? The sight is disorienting....
...al) with buildings by Ando, Rogers, Piano, Niemeyer and Nouvel....
...al — arrived....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The CDC only issued a cryptic tweet advising Americans to: “Follow the instructions on the product label.” “I can’t even get my calls returned,” says Garrett....
...Today’s version of the Carnegies and Rockefellers mostly live 30 or so miles south of Reich’s office in Silicon Valley — and up the west coast in Seattle, home to Microsoft and Amazon....
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...More than a year after launching its quest for a second North American headquarters, or “HQ2”, the company has finally decided on a location for a new home....
...Like the pioneers with their sense of American exceptionalism, there’s a messianic fervour to California’s remaking of the world....
...Although it is now the “new naturalism” of Oudolf et al that is resented, the struggle to define this corrupting Dutch influence continues....
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