Hints and tips:
...heading for a “soft landing” in the wake of brutal interest rate increases, that story is being drowned out by rising anxiety about the myriad geopolitical risks that are looming in 2024 and casting a haze...
...An early revelation is the Frick’s “Officer and Laughing Girl”, a luminously sweet, unusually constructed conversation piece....
...Haze Fan, who worked at Bloomberg News’ Beijing bureau, was taken from her apartment by plainclothes officers in December 2020....
...Cheng has been allowed monthly virtual visits with Australian consular officers....
...I’m here at Money2020 where I will be moderating a fireside chat with the chief operating officer of Plaid, one of the larger application programming interface (API) companies powering the US transition...
...The waiting room seats are dark wood and the light comes through the high windows as if through a church, particles afire with the haze of an Alabama afternoon....
...I should never have left,” the officer had said wistfully, recounting his many trips to the islands as a younger man....
...The resulting pollution and haze have caused health problems and disrupted schools not only in Indonesia but also in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore....
...Friends arrived through the haze, cycling along roads heavily lined with guards....
...The challenge now for investors is how to see through the haze to sort winners from losers....
...But a more serious question — and one that risked being overlooked in the pot-induced haze — is whether his behaviour is turning Tesla into a dysfunctional organisation....
...A similar finding can be seen in the Deloitte survey of 106 UK chief financial officers released on Monday....
...Not even Boardman, a genial former police officer from Lancashire who married a Peruvian and now runs 4x4 tours here, had travelled the route before....
...An initial review by Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, concluded that there is evidence of medicinal cannabis having therapeutic benefits....
...“It certainly woke people up from the summer haze,” says Erin Browne, head of macro investments at UBS O’Connor, a hedge fund. “But I always ask myself two questions....
...My mind started wandering in a haze. Quite early on, I realised I couldn’t listen to a word this man was saying....
...The haze from burning forest land in Indonesia has also spread pollution across the region, forcing the closure of schools and straining relations between states....
...Beijing is a favoured destination for the chief executive officers of US tech companies that are on the outs with China’s leadership, for high-profile shows of good will in as public a way as possible....
...He was 19 when Gaddafi seized his father, an army officer, diplomat and poet....
...Since February 2014, he has been at the head of about 380 hectares in the city and as much again at the Royal Botanic Garden’s site in the Blue Mountains 60 miles west of Sydney, where a blue haze shimmers...
...However, I’m now three weeks into consulting recruiting and am firmly existing in a haze of coffee chats, case preparation sessions and recruiting mixers....
...Stories are told of episodes made in marijuana hazes; Margaret Thatcher called its young, cocksure journalists “Trotskyists”. In truth, they were eclectically anti-establishment....
...Another police officer in plain clothes, who had searched the premises a few hours earlier, was already on site....
...And on the distant horizon, there is the unformed and approaching haze of financial destabilisation....
...Others to buy into Truell’s dream include his brother Danny, chief investment officer of the Wellcome Trust, and veteran UK banker Peter Kiernan....
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