Hints and tips:
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...Patrick McHenry, a Republican congressman from North Carolina and close McCarthy ally, has been designated “Speaker pro tempore” to lead the chamber in the absence of an elected Speaker....
...The same deference appeared to prevail in the North Carolina case, where a state elections board had extended ballot deadlines with the approval of a state court....
...Nearly 17 per cent of shareholders in Aston Martin rebelled against the re-election of executive chair Lawrence Stroll, the billionaire Canadian who rescued the luxury carmaker last year....
...I went back to the 2000 election. Al Gore, son of Tennessee, lost Tennessee. Lost the entire south, across the south. This is something that has been solidly Republican for a generation....
...Mr Trump, meanwhile, on Wednesday suggested voters in North Carolina should stress-test the security of their elections systems by voting twice — an act that is illegal under US law....
...Born in Pune, India, and raised in Mumbai, Sawant studied economics in North Carolina before becoming a software engineer at Nortel, the Canadian telecoms company....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(FT, Quartz) North Carolina election rerun President Donald Trump is betting that his political brand will help Republicans keep hold of a North Carolina US House seat in a special election on Tuesday....
...All told, 37 states and the District of Columbia allow early voting without any need to provide a justification, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures....
...Maureen Dowd of the New York Times flew all the way to North Carolina to wring a recantation out of the charismatic Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley, who had once praised Melania’s “impeccable...
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...Anna-Codrea Rado, Quartz: In a literature review of studies on open-plan offices, researchers from Virginia State University and North Carolina State University found evidence to suggest that they’re linked...
...In Pringle v Ireland, the court suggested that member-states are fine to use the ESM to do areas of ‘economic policy’ where the EU lacks specific competence....
...DNA profiling has shown that Pignola Valtellinese and Pignolo from Friuli are completely distinct (Fossati et al. 2001; Salmaso et al. 2008)....
...Mitt Romney’s prospects in the critical swing state of Virginia were complicated after the state’s board of elections ruled that it would allow Virgil Goode, a conservative candidate who has been likened...
...And Mr Romney’s supporters are all but giving up in his home state of Michigan. The three most-watched polling averages now show Mr Obama winning every battleground state except North Carolina....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Gerhardt, professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, claims he has never had so much fun writing a book as he did with this one....
...Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, told the Washington Post at the conference that the party was losing the “demographics race” badly....
...Confident speech by Cameron, followed by the Premiership heavyweights of Wenger, Ferguson et al, all soundtracked by Elbow’s ‘One day like this’....
...I know you have the ear of the Pope, Obama, Lakshmi et al, but I ask you humbly to let this be strictly “off the record”....
...Mr Cuomo’s case is New York vs Bank of America Corp et al, New York State Supreme Court, New York County, number 450115/2010....
...Yet, more than a half century after Brown v. Board of Education, the dream of a world-class education is still being deferred all across this country....
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