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...China: The annual gathering of the country’s rubber-stamp parliament ends today....
...Ditching stamp duty on UK share transactions, which is not levied on purchases of foreign shares outside the UK, is one....
...But instead of eliminating these activities, they have simply been pushed out to the growing shadow banking sector. 2023 was the year that regulators began to stamp their authority on the hedge funds and...
...Republican candidates who bear his stamp have a mixed electoral record at best....
...That could allow criminals to successfully claim unemployment benefits, and apply for federal college loans, food stamps and other programs....
...Snap [food stamp] dollars have been reduced and tax refunds are running lower....
...Soundbite of the week: DeSantis backs bitcoin Ron DeSantis, controversial governor of Florida and new presidential candidate, is on team bitcoin....
...We have already seen the campaigns of established politicians, such as the former Republican US presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, use deepfaked attack ads....
...If candidates bearing the stamp of the former president do well, his already strong chances of winning the Republican nomination in 2024 will go up....
...Morrell’s brief tenure was marked by the company’s chaotic response to legislation championed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis that limited teaching about LGBTQ issues in public elementary schools....
...We're like stamp collectors. Most people don't pay that much attention to politics until the closing stretches of a campaign. And this happened in the closing stretch....
...Given the Kafkaesque difficulty of getting Washington’s inter-agency system to do anything at speed, only a big name with Biden’s personal stamp could galvanise the system. No one knows who that is....
...Having survived that, Chapek had hoped to put his own stamp on the company this year following Iger’s departure as chair emeritus....
...According to a 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office, no other US company employs more people who are on some form of federal assistance, such as food stamps....
...Wright, the widow of former congressman Ron Wright, lost to Ellzey by six points. Carey will face Democrat Allison Russo in a general election in November....
...The outlook for 2021 will also be of interest as the UK stamp duty holiday is due to end shortly. In the US Walgreens Boots Alliance reports on Thursday....
...“No money for food stamps but a deduction for a three-martini lunch for a big businessman. Big cushion for defence contractors, no cushion for people who have been kicked out of their house....
...She has had to dip into her savings, take out a small government-backed loan, and partly rely on her son’s food stamps for groceries. She is back driving the limo, but earning much less than before....
...“Stamps, postal orders, cash in the safe.” This was not a robbery....
...On my first business trip to Europe and the UK, in 1985, Paul-san took us on a guided tour around Covent Garden, introducing us to many interesting shops and people like Ron Arad, who was then an up-and-coming...
...asks Ron Epstein, a trained aerospace engineer and equity analyst....
...Also, is it fair that a whole newsroom gets booted out of the Civil network -- losing the Civil “badge” that the start-up hopes will become a kind of stamp of quality journalism -- when only one journalist...
...The room, which has a postage stamp-sized kitchen off it with unwashed dishes, is like a mature man cave....
...House prices in the town have been rising at a rate of 15 per cent a year for the past three or four years, according to Ron Krueger of Engel & Völkers, buoyed by international cash buyers and lack of supply...
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