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...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...(He also brought banging youth music nights to the usually quiet halls of the V&A.)...
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...A focus on the politics of cloth explores wax prints and commemorative fabrics, including one made in the early 1990s following the release of Nelson Mandela....
...Daimler chief executive Ola Källenius hailed a “remarkable” recovery in the Chinese market after the owner of Mercedes-Benz notched up a sixth straight month of double-digit sales growth in Asia’s largest...
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...Nasa administrator Bill Nelson called cost-plus contracts such as this “the old way of doing business” when he testified before Congress in May....
...She was literally a rainbow, a symbol that brightened up a room: and whether that person was Nelson Mandela or Martin McGuinness, she had a magnetism that made all sorts of people smile....
...The riders, for Uber and the Indian company Ola, claimed they were subject to unjust automated decisions, including financial penalties, based on data collected by the companies....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“It’s easy — and largely accurate — to present the 2021 commodity outlook as a V-shaped vaccine trade,” said Goldman Sachs in a recent report....
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...“They've managed a V-shaped recovery in the Chinese economy.”...
...Among the pressing questions from their clients, the shape of the recovery trade ranks highly: “Recovery trades are always V-shaped and led by cyclical stocks....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...“We wanted a package directed towards Americans and funnelled through airlines,” said Sarah Nelson the president of the Association of Flight Attendants....
...Results from Diploma and Victrex are the highlights in the FTSE 350, while in the small caps the main event is IQE chief executive Drew Nelson getting margin called on his hock loan with stock pawnbroker...
...But to a younger generation some of these objects are increasingly as alien as objects in the V&A or the British Museum.”...
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...The results can be manipulated by the public and will be projected on to Nelson’s column....
...Uber subsidises rides to compete with rivals including Lyft in the US, Ola in India and Careem in the Middle East....
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