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...When Denzil Lush was a child, his grandmother was about to throw away a mass-produced coronation beaker with a portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. “This was the early 1960s,” he says....
...After the continuous 10-minute slaughter, at least 379 lay dead and more than 1,000 wounded. Some estimates put the number of casualties much higher....
...A Federal Reserve Board of Governors paper by Edmund Crawley et al says $2.5tn of Fed balance sheet unwind would approximately equate to a 0.50 percentage point of tightening, or 20 basis points per trillion...
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...Once they’ve mastered new methods, they’ll pass some of them on to Chanel et al. “The Barrie brand is a shop window so people can see what we can actually do,” he says....
...Focusing on 10 protagonists, of whom the most familiar are Vanessa Bell and Gwen John, Birrell admits that her artists — all of whom are white — “benefited hugely from wealthy upbringings . . . and enjoyed...
...“Everyone on that board [of 11] is white and 10 of them are men.”...
...al) with buildings by Ando, Rogers, Piano, Niemeyer and Nouvel....
...Al-Hajri is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar....
...Adjusted EBITDA of £126.5m (+50% yoy) was c.2.3% better than company complied consensus of £123.6m, with EBITDA margin increasing by 30bps to 10.2% (GSe 10.1%, company compiled consensus 10.1%), driven by...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...The canny Scottish propagandist was the brains behind the enormously successful royal tour of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, to Canada and the US in 1939, designed to shore up support...
...Go deeper with FT reads from the battle: John Gapper: Bramson does not deserve to rule Barclays Our Big Read from January on the proxy war Can HBO hold on to the TV crown after GOT?...
...Teo has enlisted John Warren, bloodstock adviser to the Queen, to his advisory council....
...My style icon is Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani....
...It got worse when I gave up smoking on January 1 1988....
...[3] The current version of the Antolin Diaz et al empirical model is estimated to explain about 50 per cent of the variation in US real equity returns over 3-year periods ahead....
...If Holt does decide to take the journalistic route to moderating, he may have his work cut out for him with Trump....
...That said, our forecasts are higher than others’ because they are based on a continued decline in sterling, in line with the view of our FX strategists, who see the pound falling to 1.10 against the USD...
...Recall that in the Emergency 2010 Budget, the OBR forecast that the deficit would fall from 11.0% on 2009-10 to 1.1% of GDP by 2015-16. The out-turn was 4.0%....
...John Van Reenen, professor of economics, MIT Slow to about 1.4%....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford I just don’t know....
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