Hints and tips:
...With its labyrinthine bureaucracy and weak local administrative capacity, Italy has historically struggled to use money from Brussels, spending just 34 per cent of the €126bn in EU cohesion funds available...
...We utterly need to defend the standards that we have here - the environmental standards, the animal welfare standards. We have some of the highest in the world....
...Meszaros — a former pipe fitter who has openly attributed his rise to “God, good fortune and Viktor Orban” — controls a business empire that includes several banks, construction, tourism, energy and media...
...Mészáros, a former pipe-fitter who grew up in the same village as the prime minister, had risen to become one of the country’s wealthiest individuals as his companies won scores of state procurement contracts...
...Suren Thiru: Achieving a high wage/high productivity economy may prove to be a pipe dream if business investment continues to lag the wider recovery and rising business costs limit firms’ ability to offer...
...These desires are a pipe dream and to see why you need to look no further than a simple chart known as the “graph of doom”. The concept was first coined in local government....
...Many US trade unions, such as the pipe fitters and boilermakers, used to train their own. Perhaps they should remember their history. Siemens, meanwhile, is angling for a third Obama mention....
...Last time “Work”, Ford Madox Brown’s vibrant, populous street scene of navvies laying water pipes in Hampstead, was shown at London’s Tate gallery, it was 1984....
...Sheltering from the cold at a central Budapest railway station, Mihaly Bayer, 76, a softly-spoken retired pipe fitter cannot begrudge the wait for his train....
...Index providers would build indices based on measures of positive contributions to societal welfare as well as size or some other financial metric. Maybe it is just a pipe-dream....
...At the end of 2004, China was the world’s ninth largest market as lottery sales reached Rmb38bn with Rmb22.6bn from a welfare lottery and Rmb15.4 bn from sports lotteries....
...The money came mostly from Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, as well as the United Nations Trust Fund....
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