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...While Apple clearly has some way to go to match the House of Windsor for jubilee planning, the royals could also learn a lot about product refreshes....
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...What about #MeToo and the allegations against high-profile figures such as Charles Dutoit, the now ex-conductor of the Royal Philharmonic?...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Museums are holding special shows, from Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern to Paul Strand at the V&A, while many commercial art galleries have put on photography: for instance, Shigeo Anzaï at White...
...(WSJ) COMMENTS etc For Moscow, Ukraine is always ‘Little Russia’ (Reuters) Europe has to stop hiding beneath the bedcovers (Financial Times, Stephens) US v China: is this the new cold war?...
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Thursday’s Kiobel v Royal Dutch Shell ruling by the US Supreme Court provides much-needed clarification about the scope of an obscure US law utilised by a growing number of claimants from emerging economies...
...Some light reading late on Wednesday: the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum....
...He describes turning up to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 wearing “a V-neck tennis sweater in the traditional white, maroon and black, over white pants”....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...When Lola Lely wanted to create original cutlery for a Royal College of Art project last year, she couldn’t find a cutlery maker in Sheffield – the home of British steel – to take it on....
...Related reading: Turkey: inflation nears 10 per cent, beyondbrics Turkey: regulators v banks, beyondbrics Fitch: not so Turkey-friendly, beyondbrics Turkey’s central bank plays hardball, beyondbrics Turkey...
...Suits in the City have been smirking at royal wedding-themed research notes from Panmure’s IT analyst George O’Connor this week....
...So, Fabrice Tourre is now demanding that Royal Bank of Scotland, hedge fund Magnetar and monoline ACA Capital produce documents relating to the case....
...A boutique on Place Vendôme, private dinners, champagne and nights at the ballet in the royal box, it appears, are just not enough....
...I have been trying to resolve my internal Mac v PC battle....
...Maxeda, the company that sold Hema to Lion Capital, earlier this year announced a review of its Dutch holdings, including large department store chain V&D, ahead of an expected sale....
...Furthermore, in youth she looked to her mother’s nephew, Charles V, for support, and as queen her chief adviser was his ambassador, Renard....
...But the parallel interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II are more than that....
...Amid hopes that a V-shaped recovery beckons and indicative of the US economy growing about 4 per cent this year, others remained cautious, however, on the prospects of a recovery beyond the rebuilding of...
...“A plain V-shaped waistcoat is a bit bland. It’s a waistcoat, not a vest. And women like men in waistcoats because it makes them look sexy.”...
...The shape of the current recession has been described in many ways – a double-dipping W with more pain to come or a V-style recovery, with the rise as steep as the fall....
...Their v-shaped recovery pointed to a “very quick unwinding of the confidence shock, which could overshoot”, argued Jacques Cailloux, European economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland....
...“Proponents of a V-shaped [economic] recovery are underestimating how much rising unemployment and an unstable structure of indebtedness can lengthen and deepen this recession,” says Sandy Chen, banks analyst...
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