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...“People were continuously saying in the media and elsewhere that the answer was to shield the elderly and let [coronavirus] rip,” Johnson told the inquiry. “I needed to have the counterarguments.”...
...Also on Saturday, the US said that the USS Eisenhower carrier group would join the USS Gerald R Ford strike group in the eastern Mediterranean....
...Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Mitt Romney (R-UT), this week introduced the Crypto-Asset National Security Enhancement and Enforcement Bill, aptly dubbed the “Cansee...
...In the winter I rely on Living Proof’s Humidity Shield, but in the summer I like to embrace the humidity....
...He self-describes as a “big R” Republican and a “little L” libertarian. He’s non-interventionist, but this is not as counterintuitive as it sounds....
...Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s president, argues her island is protected by a “silicon shield”, considering how vital its leading-edge chips are for the global economy....
...Taiwan sees this dominance as a crucial security guarantee — sometimes referred to as its “silicon shield”....
...That and the fact we’re all potentially paying $2bn a year towards Big Tech’s R&D budget seems like reason enough for regulators to tighten the screw....
...With no victory in sight, it is becoming increasingly difficult to shield Russians from the war’s blowback....
...Other unexpected court venues have also attracted cases: Richmond, Virginia, has become a hub for retail bankruptcies including Toys R Us and J Crew....
...The dissenting creditors are owed R$22bn ($4.3bn)....
...In early 2020 he started tracking down survivors of the first Sars outbreak, acting on a theory that the antibodies still present in their blood would shield them from Sars-Cov-2, but was disappointed to...
...(FT) News round-up PwC to sell mobility unit to private equity group CD&R for $2.2bn (FT) DraftKings given more time to pursue Entain takeover (FT) JAB targets pet insurance M&A with purchase of BNP...
...Other developers came under pressure this week, including Guangzhou R&F, which Moody’s has also downgraded, and Fantasia Group, which was founded by the niece of the country’s former vice-president Zeng...
...Another item of contention was an EU push for US defence contracts and R&D funds to be covered by the subsidy rules....
...In an attempt to discredit the protests, officials have accused Mr Navalny of using children as “human shields”, though an informal survey of the Moscow rally found that only 10 per cent of people there...
...The state reported debt of R$165bn ($29bn) in 2019, up from R$153bn the previous year and amounting to more than 280 per cent of revenue. “In Rio, inequality kills....
...One group urges suppression — on-off rolling restrictions and lockdowns — to get the R number down. This group, mostly experts in public health, contends that this protects, not imperils, the economy....
...People with serious health conditions will be asked to continue to shield themselves, but those aged over 70 will be able to take part in the social gatherings....
...He wanted to shield the economy from the risk of “significantly greater” restrictions later on, adopting the principle of “a stitch in time saves nine”....
...face a nascent challenge to his leadership from two key lieutenants: Juan Carlos González, known as “03”, who the government says founded the elite group last year, and Ricardo Ruiz Velazco, or “Double R”...
...It would be a huge shift collectively to do R&D, let alone infrastructure, on a big scale....
...Heavy R&D spend led to a pre-tax loss of £1.7m (£2.3m) but it had plenty of cash (£5.8m) after a £6m fundraising, £3.5m in equity and a £2.5m convertible loan....
...Lyrically, though, it sees her grappling with the racism from which her parents tried to shield her as a child growing up in small-town Alabama (“Goat Head”), and pleading for unity against those “who are...
...In 2016 the BoE introduced the Term Funding Scheme to help shield banks from the adverse consequences of a BoE rate cut to 0.5%....
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