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...“I’m hoping for a fall in prices, a fall in mortgage rates or a large bonus from work that would increase my deposit — but really it’s interest rates that dominate everything.”...
...Condesa Garden by Serena Dugan Studio, $105 per yard A geometric design inspired by Mexican architect Luis Barragán. serenadugan.com Pompadour II by Made of Matter, £62 per sq m Created by French graphic...
...Nellie Mae Rowe’s “Pocketbook” (1982), in paint and pencil, was her final drawing after a cancer diagnosis, its indigo purse aglow with memories....
...When I wrote them they were absolutely heretical and I’m really proud of all that.”...
...Hello from California, where I’m filling in for Ed for the next couple of editions of Swamp Notes. In the tech world that I inhabit, I’m writing to you at a pivotal moment....
...The first in the Atlantic, by Nellie Bowles, looks at why San Francisco is a failing city....
...When that happens, it’s shocking — to us, to him, even, Beck suggests, to Nellie herself....
...Maybe I’m just not old enough to be that sane yet....
...You may recognise the voice as belonging to the actor David Tennant and, by the end of his reading of J.M....
...The last thing I bought and loved was my dog, Nellie, but that was a few years ago....
...My mother never actually said the word, but spelt it out instead: “C-O-M-M-O-N”. Cryptic spelling, usually to protect the kiddies, was popular in my parents’ time....
...Added Ms Yellen, who chaired her last Fed meeting earlier this week: I’m delighted to be joining the Brookings Institution....
...He'd attended Covent Garden and applauded Nellie Melba in Lohengrin, and this gave him the inspiration of serving up his creation next day. Nellie liked it so much. She said, what's it called?...
...Her grandfather Ron and his wife Nellie began raising her and her younger sister Adria when Biles had just turned three....
...In the motorcade, the Texan governor’s wife, Nellie Connally, gushed, “Mr President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.” She was mostly right....
...She recalled him raging one night: “I’m going to cut your mother up and put her in a little black box in the garden under the gardenia.”...
...“I do the pitch,” said Clark before climbing on to Potterne’s magnificent heavy roller, “and I’m a batsman. So it’s good for batting.”...
...The kitchens were under the control of Auguste Escoffier, who famously created two dishes for Dame Nellie Melba, the celebrated soprano and regular guest: Melba Toast for when she was dieting, Peach Melba...
...Dan Bylsma, a commodities trader from Chicago who had just bought a Berkshire piggy-bank for his daughter, said: “I’m not disappointed....
...“I’m not disappointed,” said Dan Bylsma, a commodities trader from Chicago who had just bought a Berkshire piggy-bank for his daughter....
...Nellie McKay plays his bride, Polly, promisingly in the first act, wanly later....
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