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...The sprawling W-Arly-Pendjari Complex, a series of protected land and national parks that stretch across Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso, has been used by insurgents as a smuggling route for some time, and...
...That a president who pledged to lead an American clean energy revolution and electrify the nation’s cars is now trying to make it cheaper to burn oil underlines the need to curry favour with drivers who...
...Candidates such as George H W Bush and George W Bush actively courted the community’s vote. But the arrival in 2015 of the unconventional Trump threatened to disrupt this relationship....
...The move, last week followed by Bahrain, was seen by many as an attempt to curry favour across the political divide in the US....
...Prime ministers or US presidents were always referred to only by their first names, such as Tony [Blair], or George [W Bush]....
...US law provides for the sale of weapons to Taiwan, but in the latter years of George W Bush’s presidency Washington dropped annual sales in favour of bundling requests every few years....
...Randall Stephenson, AT&T chief executive, on Thursday said US telecoms companies were concerned about how much of their supply chains come from China....
...The crowd was stumped by the appearance of American pastor Michael Curry, who was authoritative but without pomp, and seemed to think he was leading a religious celebration of the power of human love....
...After President George W Bush imposed tariffs on steel imports in 2002, a study found that the move had cost the US about 200,000 jobs....
...“W-A-I-N-A. It’s made from rice. The rice is ground. It’s then made into paste and fried in oil. And it goes with a vegetable soup.”...
...The sale to HNA, which has historic ties to powerful Chinese officials, raises the prospect that the acquisitive Chinese group is trying to curry favour with a member of Mr Trump’s inner circle....
...The private equity firm he founded but no longer owns, W L Ross & Co, is teaming up with a Chinese steel producer to invest in the sector in China....
...The prime minister is of course right that there are other significant matters in the Israel-Palestine dispute, but this looked like a blatant attempt to curry favour....
...The organisation is run by a group of lawyers including Norman Eisen, who was an ethics lawyer in the Obama administration, and Richard Painter, a former ethics lawyer for President George W Bush....
...“If he doesn’t sell the hotel, it’s going to create a constitutional crisis,” said Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for President George W Bush....
...Richard Painter, a former ethics adviser to President George W Bush, argues that Mr Trump fall foul of the law on day one of his presidency....
...Meanwhile, leaks from inside the White House point to infighting among senior aides trying to curry favour with a president who — like many of them — has never worked in government....
...Lisa Randall Author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs (Bodley Head/Ecco) I recommend Jane Mayer’s Dark Money (Scribe/ Doubleday) — not because of the wordplay on dark matter but because Mayer’s book does...
...“ Longer term w e didn’t buy DirecTV because we love the satellite distribution technology,” he says....
...Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe, by Lisa Randall, Jonathan Cape £19.99/Ecco $29.99 (2015) A Harvard physicist investigates dark matter — and the part it...
...No puddings: he was going to a curry-and-champagne party that evening thrown by one of Pink Floyd. Nino produced some bits and pieces before lunch — pecorino, salami and what I thought was olive oil....
...The theory is speculative but Randall tells it with great verve....
...The stock was downgraded by analysts at Robert W Baird and Roth Capital....
...The stricken country’s leader — George W Bush in 2001, French president François Hollande now — comes up with a quick, tough, emotionally satisfying response....
...’s publication, members of her team have characterised the allegations as a partisan smear based on “absurd conspiracy theories”, written by an author who was part of former Republican president George W...
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