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...We’re nearly six years into the snack war between Morrisons and HMRC....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...We think about £1mn or £1.1mn was a penalty and the rest is in interest. And that is quite a lot of money to be coughing up to HMRC....
...“There is a similar one in the V&A; it’s now worth in excess of £5,000.”...
...In that case we get the much-discussed V-shaped recovery in the third quarter....
...As a reminder, every 1% on agents is 0.5% on EPS....
...Polo Tang of UBS remains a seller: [V]isibility on the bigger picture issues remains limited....
...The Financial Stability Board is examining parts of the $1.4tn leveraged loan market to see if there could be trouble on the horizon....
...Letter in response to this article: Legal data can deliver better results for clients / From Alastair Morrison, London, UK...
...(Annals of Family Medicine) Podcast of the week Criminal treatment Nearly 50 per cent of US prison inmates are mentally ill yet many receive very limited therapy, says Alisa Roth, author of a new book...
...Inmates dropped these things there as anonymous charity donations....
...Rather than being put through cold turkey on the floor of a cell, inmates were sent to a 1,500-bed facility in Lexington, Kentucky, where they were slowly weaned off drugs....
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...Among the other big names in the Design Frontiers line-up are Jasper Morrison and Spain’s Jaime Hayon, who will be launching a new menswear brand called “Jijibaba”....
...News round-up Tata Steel offers to pay £520m into UK pension scheme (FT) Axel Springer Buys Stake in Uber (WSJ) Elliott turns the screw on Akzo Nobel in PPG takeover battle (FT) and Akzo/PPG: payout v...
...The Examiner’s report on the death of Caesars appropriately landed late on the Ides of March and came in at a juicy 1,787 pages....
...Two separate samples of Soylent 1.5 were tested. According to the Soylent website, Soylent 1.5 is “designed for use as a staple meal by all adults.”...
...Viaduct, 1-10 Summers Street, London EC1 (020-7278 8456; viaduct.co.uk). Vitra, vitra.com....
...Yet Carrefour, often seen as a precedent for Tesco, doubled its margin in the two years from a similar trough level and forecasts for Wm Morrison imply a V-shaped recovery in profitability....
...Four years later, the expanded company was valued at £1.05bn....
...The 1.8 per cent fall in like-for-like sales in the three months to early May was less than half the drop in the final quarter of 2012-13....
...In addition to Miyake’s own definitive private archive in Tokyo, his work is in the permanent collections of the V&A in London, MoMa in New York and key museums worldwide....
...As for quality, a cashmere V-neck jumper will be 9 per cent heavier but £4 cheaper . . . … Shoppers are certainly demanding both higher quality and more style....
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...(3) whether FOP should be treated as a conduit entity under the step-transaction doctrine and the transaction recharacterized as a direct loan from petitioner to ABN AMRO Bank N.V. (ABN)....
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