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...That might have been the end of it — but for the fact that Spender’s friend, the poet John Fuller, rediscovered the manuscript after Spender’s papers were acquired by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research...
...Joanna Kearns, 42, of Broward County, Florida, said the end of the pause was “unfair.”...
...the Democratic Unionist party has put forming a new power-sharing executive on hold until its demands over post-Brexit trade for the region are fulfilled — a tactic O’Neill says is “holding the people to ransom...
...Whatever the risk posed by hostile governments, Krebs is far more worried about civilian teams of criminals who try to infiltrate corporate and government servers in an attempt to extract a ransom....
...For perspective, this week’s face-saving deal for Go-Ahead to spend £15m on “passenger improvements” to ease the misery on the home counties commuter trains amounts to 0.027 per cent of HS2’s £56bn budget...
...“I’m not against the company and jobs per se, but against the ‘ransom’ being paid out to the company,” he says....
...Earlier this year Lincolnshire County Council’s IT systems shut down for almost a week when it refused to pay a ransom demand....
...The company was contacted by criminals asking for a ransom on Thursday last week, although other groups have also sought to claim responsibility in recent days....
...In 2007, a resident of Marion County, Ida Starks, wrote to her local newspaper condemning house numbers as evidence of a communist plot to rob people of their individuality....
...The subsequent guerrilla war ended in the treaty of 1921: three-quarters of Ireland gained a large measure of autonomy as the Irish Free State; the six north-eastern counties received their own home rule...
...Zhang Xiantu was only freed because her father paid a ransom. He sold all his sheep, and the payment ruined him. “I felt so angry I couldn’t stand it,” she says....
...No ransom value on compulsory purchase I own shooting rights over a piece of land that the local authority wants to redevelop....
...They will get a remarkable record of the past millennium just as the subject of monarchy becomes topical — but at a price that you might call a king’s ransom....
...The UK’s unbalanced recovery is no cause for complacency (Financial Times, Wolf) Britain needs a foreign policy (Financial Times, Stephens) Aereo could have saved the airwaves from the broadcasters’ ransom...
...Or quibble that the counties where Redrow plans to expand following a debt reduction are trickily competitive, when the incumbents are soft southerners?...
...Shareholder Executive, said on Monday said that where possible the government should try to retain ownership of its estate as this gave it the greatest strategic flexibility and meant it could not be held to ransom...
...When Somali pirates ransom a ship, they demand that the ransom money be parachuted to them in dollars. As the Wall Street Journal has put it, “In the black market, the dollar still rules.”...
...It may be tempting to skirt over any underlying issues that could impact on your return, but it is not worth the stress of being held to ransom at the eleventh hour. 6) Avoid delays in the selling process...
...What must be one of the flattest places on earth gives way, after a lonely 75-mile drive, to the south-west through Ransom County to the delightful Sheyenne River Valley....
...It may be tempting to skirt over any underlying issues that could impact on your return, but it is not worth the stress of being held to ransom at the eleventh hour....
...But only 20 days later it was stolen from his premises by thieves, who then cut off strips of canvas and posted them to Agnew with ransom demands....
...But property experts said they did buy “ransom strips” – slices of land acquired in an attempt to scupper a rival’s effort to piece together a new site....
...At the time, investigators said the trio tried to ransom the painting, demanding a million dollars from the government. It was never paid. ?The Scream?...
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