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...The US, in particular, is on course to increase oil output by 1.4mn barrels a day in 2023, three times the 0.4mn b/d cut from Opec+ nations....
...The 2022 documentary Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb offered remarkable insight into the decades-long relationship between the great biographer of Lyndon B Johnson and...
...A ‘king’s ransom’ Private providers are for the most part responding nimbly to deficits in the health service....
...John B Powell, who became a hero as events unfolded, was The Chicago Tribune’s reporter in China....
...The RMT’s long history of holding passengers to ransom makes it ironic that the government is being criticised for taking a “militant” approach to the strikes....
...Unlike with normal kidnappings, experts often advise companies to pay the ransom Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-February....
...He says the Conservatives have lost not only their plan B should Boris Johnson’s premiership blow up but also their best hope for renewal of the party brand....
...“We spend so much time working hard earning the money, but not enough nurturing our wealth,” says Charlotte Ransom, founder of Netwealth....
...“I worked in a doctors’ surgery and had to have a hepatitis B shot. I do not think a small minority can hold a nation to ransom.”...
...Dyal believed the two firms were mistaken in understanding their legal contracts, or, more nefariously, were simply trying to extract a ransom....
...Wood Mackenzie says that with the opening of this arbitrage window, gasoline shipments across the Atlantic could increase by 500,000 b/d....
...B&M European Value said revenues and margins have remained strong in the final quarter of its financial year ending March 27....
...The process is known as a ransom attack. It might not be legal. It might even be classified as extortion or theft....
...We also must take steps to ensure Libya’s oil production is never again held to ransom.”...
...“Fear is the driver of this investor behaviour,” said Mark Grant, managing director and chief global strategist at investment bank B. Riley FBR....
...The cut-out ransom-note lettering of the Sex Pistols, the B-movie horror imagery of The Cramps and The Damned, and the black-and-white electric shocks of Lou Reed and Richard Hell have become a part of our...
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...Mr Buhari’s advisers meanwhile have accused the fuel marketers of holding the country to ransom, and appear to be intending to bypass them by speaking with the majors....
...A deal between Labour and the Scottish National party could see the country held to ransom and would undermine the stability of the UK....
...Bodley Head, RRP£16.99, 304 pages Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State, by Andrew Hosken, Oneworld, RRP£12.99, 336 pages Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier of the New Jihad, by Sami Moubayed, I.B....
...Although modest compared with the peak of 300,000 b/d extracted by the Syrian government, the production generates sizeable revenues....
...She privatised 40 businesses employing 600,000 people, readied the City for European dominance in financial services and emasculated the trade unions which had once held the country to ransom....
...President Rafael Correa has railed at “wealthy nations” for their poor response, threatening to reconsider “plan B” – drilling for oil – if donations to the United Nations-backed Yasuní fund did not attract...
...He hated to deal with such people and promised it would not happen again, but this time he either paid the ransom or everybody’s taxes would go up. What else could he do?...
...These are typically: • Reimbursement of supplier(s) • Financier(s) and/or investor(s): 30% of the ransom • Local elders: 5 to 10 %of the ransom (anchoring rights) • Class B shares (approx. $15,000 each):...
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