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...In Ceylon I saw your English diffusing comfort and equal laws, opening roads, encouraging industry, destroying forced labour and selling cinnamon to all the world.”...
...The middle class was very, very protective of its comfort zone....
...Most art, he tells me, now does no more than “reflect the mainstream” and provide “comfort, entertainment and please the market”. Yet Ai’s hardly an art-world outsider....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...The exhibition at the V&A, London, runs until January 9; vam.ac.uk Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...“More an I-shaped recovery than a V-shaped!”...
...“If we get stuck at this level of output for much longer, there is no way the economy can expand this year compared to last year,” says Trivium co-founder Andrew Polk....
...History can also offer some pointers — but not always ones that provide comfort....
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...There, a growing number of mobile camps allow visitors to get a taste of the world’s largest sand desert without sacrificing comfort....
...The Steinhoff Africa Retail Assets group have, for the periods presented, been under the control of Steinhoff International Holdings N.V.....
...‘The Fabric of India’ runs at the V&A in London until January 10 2016 Photographs: V&A...
...It’s even said that Charles V came through on his way from Flanders to take up the Spanish throne....
...The investors selling stock are led by the promoters (core shareholders) – V.S.S. Mani, the chief executive who founded the company in 1996, and non-executive directors Ramani Iyer and V. Krishnan....
...R.V....
...‘Buy English-law bonds’ is one possible reading of Assenagon Asset Management SA v Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Ltd....
...V.I....
...“The overall deficit in the system persists above the comfort level of the Reserve Bank,” the central bank said in a statement....
...In China, General Motors is preparing to deploy the EN-V, its tiny two-seat, self-driving experimental car, in the country’s largest “eco-city” on the outskirts of Tianjin....
...But the one constant for students that provides comfort and familiarity is Insead....
...But while it may be socially desirable, that kind of comfort doesn’t necessarily make for vibrancy or dynamism. If everybody is where they want to be, no one is going anywhere....
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...While Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman, and others have noted that the risks of a “double dip” recession have receded, there is also little comfort that the chances of a much stronger V-shaped recovery have increased...
...Southern Italy’s Strait of Messina may have been the bane of many an ancient mariner, but Stuart Popham has just returned tanned and unscathed....
...Investors will draw some comfort from the withdrawal of a lawsuit by Russia’s federal customs service that sought $22.5bn of damages from Bank of New York Mellon....
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