Hints and tips:
...Legendary US runner Michael Johnson recently announced plans for a new track league designed to be more TV-friendly. So watch this space....
...There is an additional transferable £175,000 “residence nil-rate band” when a home is left to children or direct descendants....
...“Virtually all of us can expect to be worse off,” Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said in the wake of the Autumn Statement....
...And it was exactly the same dynamic that we saw when Boris Johnson introduced the smaller Ulez. Many more people who than were ever going to pay it feared that they would....
...And, as is the case with calls for another Scottish independence referendum, the chances of Boris Johnson acceding to one are next to nil....
...If he suggested that “the cost of getting out would be virtually nil”, then surely Brexit couldn’t be just a hazardous leap into the dark? Brexit did eventually carry Johnson into Downing Street....
...Coronavirus has lifted the earnings outlook for private hospitals, even as nil-profit overspill deals allow them to be good citizens....
...And, you know, in terms of getting rid of prime ministers, his star rose two nil up. (Laughter) He has had seen off two already....
...By the end of my three years, I had nil desire for a career in programming, but I had developed a love of data and statistics. And when it came to finding a job, my BSc caught employers’ eyes....
...The paper by Nils Redeker and Thu Nguyen says Brussels should trim back Semester recommendations that are not linked to recovery fund payments, to avoid making proposals that are “bound to be ignored”....
...Richard Holden, now its MP, had invited me to join him on the campaign trail but I turned him down — wrongly judging his chances to be nil....
...Gianni Infantino, president of Fifa, which organises the international tournament, wrote to UK prime minister Boris Johnson to find a way to allow players to compete....
...Boris Johnson’s party trick is reciting the opening lines of The Iliad in Greek....
...But regulatory action hinges on the outcome of the November US election: if Donald Trump wins again, the chance of a nationwide carbon pricing programme will probably be nil....
...The revised “Global Tariff” schedule applied to all WTO members — including the EU in case of a hard Brexit with no trade agreement — released a year later under Boris Johnson was much more cautious, mainly...
...For non-cricketers, that is broadly the equivalent of being three-nil down at football before the spectators have cleared the turnstiles....
...In the words of Nils Anderson, Unilever’s chairman, the company’s structure is “outdated”....
...Boris Johnson came under fire for spending £900,000 on a post-Brexit paint job for the prime minister’s aircraft....
...Imagine if, in a year’s time, 300m doses of a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine have been manufactured in Donald Trump’s America, Xi Jinping’s China or Boris Johnson’s Britain....
...He and chairman Nils Andersen said on Thursday they would seek to create a single entity based in London....
...A “merger of equals” structured as a nil-premium offer from PMI could amount to a “takeunder” of Altria, she noted....
...Last month, it emerged that the Lausanne-based group was in talks with Altria about a nil-premium merger that would reshape the global tobacco industry....
...Additional reporting by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York...
...One Conservative MP opposed to a no-deal Brexit described the chances of its success as “nil”....
...But nil desperandum; I am told there is a healthy smattering of media types who may still be eligible....
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