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...“If we look at what the least popular governors were criticised for, it’s all about public services — icicles, snow not cleared, garbage not removed, cold flats, burst pipes,” said Kynev, the independent...
...In the background, the pipes and plumbing that make this possible have grown increasingly complicated and fragmented....
...It’s freezing outside in the Cornish winter, but I wait a while, trying to get my breathing under control....
...Blackrock has been accused of failing to protect pension fund clients by freezing hedges in certain funds at the height of this week’s UK bond market tumult....
...I wound the window down and let the freezing air slap my cheeks....
...Yes, the shower is still warm now, but the pipes are filling up with ice cold water for next year....
...Service to existing buildings was not affected by the legislation....
...a woman from southern Florida pipes up. “Because I’m gonna need to sell my house.” The group breaks into loud, rather anxious laughter. “I wish I could tell you,” Horn replies....
...Despite freezing the project, the company had continued to prepare documentation to get the 88-92 seat plane, known as the M90, certified. It was supposed to have entered service 10 years ago....
...The Vix market suffered an interruption of a different sort last week, when a burst pipe above its Chicago trading pit forced Cboe to shut down open-outcry trading in the market for a day....
...I spent one freezing night, all through the night outside Stormont buildings waiting for the deal to be signed, and back-and-forth emotions whether it was gonna happen....
...Airbnb this week launched several service updates to further increase the number of available rooms and properties....
...(Wu & Armstrong) One good read In one form or another, nearly all web advertising runs through Google’s pipes. It has an internal ad-tech system called, no joke, the Borg. Resistance is futile....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 20 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...HomeServe fixes pipes and boilers, operates an online portal for tradespeople and is branching out into electric charging and other services....
...Russia’s finance minister Anton Siluanov said earlier in the week that it would be “absolutely fair” to make repayments in roubles until western sanctions freezing the assets of Russia’s central bank are...
...The so-called Pipe market has dried up significantly in recent months as the enthusiasm for blank-cheque deals has cooled significantly because of poor performance and increasing regulatory scrutiny....
...“There is a risk that Apple is trying to increase the cost of spare parts by freezing out third-party manufacturers,” said Vallauri....
...“They’ve been too broad, doing too many things with too many products and services,” he said. “We are a dumb pipe but we are going to be a bloody good dumb pipe.”...
...The 33-year-old is sitting in the front room of his Kriptomir shop in Irkutsk, which services cryptomining machines and sells cables and spare parts. A mining machine flickers by his desk....
...Yet telecoms-media convergence often comes at great cost and companies including AT&T and Verizon have embraced the notion that focusing on the pipes may not be so dumb after all....
...While the corporate metaverse sounds like some pipe dream, the truth is business phone calls provide a new reality for Zoom....
...At a recent wedding in Kandahar, even Taliban foot soldiers listened enthusiastically to live music and smoked shisha pipes....
...A new $250m funding round values Pipe at $2bn, 10 times more than a year ago. 4....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 27. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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