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...Dialogue is minimal, but Aurore Déon’s elephant narrator heaves us through dense thickets of exposition....
...But ultimately my instinct is that Russia will most certainly huff and puff, may blow others’ houses down, but won’t actually be the one to blow our house down....
...He flew to Washington in a huff to get some verbal reassurances from Robert Lighthizer that these were not “inspectors”, and then declared himself “satisfied”....
...But neither Stone nor Deon Meyer can touch Willocks’ formidable body count....
...Science fiction by James Lovegrove Sea of Rust, by C Robert Cargill, Gollancz, RRP£14.99 After the machines rise up and humankind is exterminated, the world remains as corrupt as it ever was....
...The most focused part of US trade policy has been driven by the most experienced senior figure in the administration, Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative....
...Robert Mugabe may be a posterboy for political and personal longevity, but outraged international reaction meant his World Health Organization title of “goodwill ambassador for non-communicable diseases”...
...Two labradors huff by his side. But the idyll wasn’t won easily....
...Robert Johnston New York, NY, US...
...The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro, Bodley Head, RRP£35/Vintage, RRP$26 First published in 1974 but only now appearing in the UK, this slab of a book is a fine monument...
...Harding; Della Huff/Alamy; Robert Landau/Alamy; Instagram @rgarrahan; Susanne Kremer...
...private equity firms to fix the price of some of the biggest ever leveraged buyouts — the case was brought in 2007 against 13 private equity firms of which five remain: Blackstone, Carlyle, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts...
...Robert Zoellick goes from the World Bank, no doubt biding his time and eyeing up the possibility of a job as secretary of state or Treasury secretary in a future Republican administration (most likely Romney...
...We learn that Binet is self-righteous and a little sentimental (he’s full of huff and puff about the cowardice and hypocrisy of Neville Chamberlain), that he’s more than a bit obsessive about his story and...
...A decade after Robert Mugabe, president, implemented his controversial and often violent land reform programme, both farmers are living off seized white-owned land....
...This is the domain of Robert Large, Yeoman of the Royal Cellars, in charge of several vaults full of wine....
...Zimbabwe’s Commercial Farmers’ Union on Friday criticised the government for failing to halt farm invasions across the country and prevent “crimes against humanity” by President Robert Mugabe’s followers...
...The Chinese might huff and puff about US protectionism and threaten that they will no longer finance the US trade deficit – but that chatter would be hollow because the single most important cause of that...
...EasyJet’s board spent much of the past year squabbling over expansion plans before walking off in a huff....
...But if you are a managing director or senior partner, you don’t want your receptionist or your PA to end up on the adjacent treadmill while you huff and puff and generally display your unfit body....
...When the teenage Robert Zimmerman renamed himself Bob Dylan, it was an act of self-invention to rival any novelist’s characterisation....
...Robert Peston is a friend and a former colleague....
...Analyst Tim Huff said: “First is the question of whether ENRC will make a bid for Kazakhmys and second is the extent of the new export duties to be imposed on ores and metals in Kazakhstan.”...
...The sale of Mitchells & Butlers stake in 1,300 pubs to Robert Tchenguiz was also ditched because of rising debt costs....
...Instead, a mongrel army of “libertarians” gathers, unopposed, on high ground overlooking the motherland, from Boris Johnson with his huff-and-puff Toryism to Tony Benn, whose far-left utopia, if ever implemented...
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