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...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Then the Americans came....
...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....
...And the IMF is forecasting that the ratio of public debt to gross domestic product, you know, it’s an often-cited figure, but it’s supposed to hit 256 per cent in 2024....
...She is speaking from her home in Southampton, Long Island, where she lived with her husband, the artist Roy Lichtenstein....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...The primary driver of wealth, the primary asset on most Americans' balance sheet, is a home. Most of the ways in which Americans build wealth involves borrowing money....
...The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, in a US drone attack in Kabul in July shows that the game is still on, she says....
...Pieces in unglazed grey are finished with metallic details inspired by the drawings of Darwin et al....
...To this day, many Americans will take their first steps on the road to appreciating art via the legacy of Frick, Rockefeller, Carnegie et al....
...Independent hawkers are in on the fun too: there’s even a new family-owned bakery in town, Buns from Home, that’s dedicated almost entirely to buns — chocolate, coconut, pistachio et al....
...“There’s a sweet spot between 20 and 30 miles, where there is a lot of congestion and car trips can take a long time,” says Eric Allison, head of product for Joby, the American eVTOL start-up....
...Biden has also continued to give billions in military aid with only minimal conditions attached to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s dictatorial regime in Egypt....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...“If I think of the amount of pressure I’m under as a deposit taker and the care and attention I have to take when providing unsecured lending to younger people, it is staggering me that Klarna et al are...
...In the US, a survey by the American Pet Products Association in December found that 10 per cent of respondents got a new pet as a direct result of the pandemic....
...It isn’t the first international business venture for the North American-based league, which also holds operations in China....
...The big rush to buy weapons came in early July when news broke that the Americans had done a midnight lift from Bagram, the vast air base just a short distance south of his village that was once home to...
...I don’t see them being weakened as the Americans [wish].”...
.... — Nessi Erkmenoglu, head of US revenue, luxury & B2C advertising The Smith At Home The brimming box from The Smith, a popular American brasserie, landed on my doorstep like an aid package for a family...
...But as ever with South Park the take-home message is much more subtle....
...Chris Corbin and Jeremy King’s feted Green Park restaurant has been packed out since it opened in 2003....
..., Emin et al) with buildings by Ando, Rogers, Piano, Niemeyer and Nouvel....
...Nightclubs less dangerous than parks?! Ranking “danger” It seems Benzell et al. have a funny way of determining the “danger” of a given location....
...al — arrived....
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