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...There is still a murmuration over the road bridge of Mérida, a city in western Spain littered with magnificent Roman architecture....
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...For my experience, I don't think most banks here in Mississippi are fair to a lot of loaners....
...“A V-shaped recovery is extremely unlikely.”...
...So we got on a plane and, instead of going to London, we went to Tupelo, Mississippi, to Bentonville, Arkansas. We’ve visited banks in 125 small cities in total. At first we were laughed at....
...“External demand is one of three major economic headwinds ahead which will cause the recovery to be W-shaped instead of V-shaped,” says Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie....
...“Therefore, it again means a V-shaped recovery remains a distant scenario.”...
...More ominously for China’s cash-strapped local governments, which in 2018 raised almost 40 per cent of their total revenues from land sales, house sales across China’s 30 largest cities fell more than 80...
...Letter in response to this article: Oil price crunch could be bad news for Russia / From Andrei V Belyi, University of Eastern Finland...
...Sebastian and I met in Medellín in 1974, as he reached the city having walked the length of South America from Tierra del Fuego. His goal was Alaska....
...The land and ferry crossings between Hong Kong and Chinese cities in the Pearl River Delta are some of the busiest in the world....
...Kiln Theatre, London to March 21 kilntheatre.com The Upstart Crow Shakespeare (David Mitchell) is in a pickle trying to come up with a new play in this entertaining stage spin-off of Ben Elton’s larky...
...The title suggests that the wages of optimism are a present of relentless misery. In 1947 he travelled to Mexico City to see the work of Rivera and other leftist muralists up close....
...As the Japanese property and stock bubble neared its peak, the price of living in the cities skeetered out of the reach of ordinary “salarymen”....
...She said, however, that the decision in the case of Mills v Mills does not necessarily mean that all wives will be entitled to substantial maintenance many years after a divorce....
...Moonglow briefly but vividly recounts the history of the Nazi missile effort, which killed thousands of civilians in London, Antwerp and other cities....
...Named after Ambridge’s fictional nearest city, the anonymous superfans frequently post letters advising “clients” on the best course of action....
...Robert Armstrong is editor of the FT’s Lex column Photographs: Harry Mitchell...
...Comcast was born in 1963 when Ralph Roberts, an entrepreneur from Philadelphia, bought American Cable Systems, a 1,200 subscriber cable television operation in Tupelo, Mississippi....
...Some Chinese cities such as Beijing are moving even further ahead, with plans to force trucks and buses to adhere to a higher Euro V standard....
...When Mr Roberts’s father Ralph Roberts founded the company in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1963, the cable industry comprised tens of thousands of local franchises that did not overlap....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...His real characters include Frederick Douglass, the black American abolitionist, and Senator George Mitchell, broker of the Northern Ireland peace process....
...But the Latin American art invasion has equal clout, reflecting the strong presence of South Americans in the city (according to the National Association of Realtors, in 2009 17 per cent of international...
...giving in memory of his mother, “Helen Mitchell Scott”....
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