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...It was much as you’d expect: a big house with beautiful grounds, total silence, and many hours of sitting on a cushion, observing the rise and fall of my perceptions with 50 other people....
...And I'd love to think that wasn't the case....
...It peaked in 2022 with 599 shows — meaning you’d have to watch 1.6 series a day to see all of them....
...Like a sartorial equator, many guys dress for chilly temperatures north of the belt, but below it you’d think it was scorching....
...I’d recommend Ted Baker’s Anniiya style (£130, tedbaker.com) or Polo Ralph Lauren’s streamlined RA5254 Women’s Butterfly Sunglasses (£91, johnlewis.com)....
...and restaurant customers,” says Brittain Ladd, a consultant specialising in the grocery sector....
...There is a strong school of thought that smaller, streamlined units are easier for managers to run and investors to value....
...A consultant from Bain & Co, a firm also secretly working with Cigna, wrote in an email after the WSJ story came out, “They [Cigna] must be leaking this shit. Yikes.”...
...Miami, too, was a riot of Art Deco, mostly in the commercial, streamlined style, echoing the fenders of American automobiles or the stepped, Aztec-influenced version painted in pastel colours and adorned...
...After discussions with the likes of proxy consultant ISS, Micro Focus will poll shareholders on withdrawing a waiver of their pre-emption rights....
...On Thursday a US judge ordered VW’s lawyers to negotiate a “plan B” in case 85,000 3-litre cars in the US could not be brought up to environmental standards....
...Through these avenues, US oil exports earlier this year rose as high as 600,000 b/d — more than the output of Ecuador, an Opec member....
...But on Thursday, a weekly report from the US energy department showed domestic gasoline, or petrol, consumption was a robust 9.1m barrels per day, up nearly 600,000 b/d from a week before....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...US exports of processed condensate reached 126,000 b/d in June, from zero a year before, according to Clipper Data....
...The Canadian Energy Research Institute said last month that Canada’s crude oil output growth would fall by 59 per cent by next year, from about 41,000 b/d to about 17,000 b/d in 2016.* Canada’s main stock...
...A consultant visits Tony Blair Associates to advise on new offices overseas*. Blair: What’s your thinking? Consultant: Stable democracies with diversified economies are popular. B: Not at TBA....
...Others, however, say UK reluctance means Scotland is likely to have to come up with a Plan B....
...As ready-to-wear designers continue to poach elements from the streamlined world of sportswear, a clutch of independent activewear designers are busy flexing their muscles on the specialist exercise scene...
...In January, loadings of the four blends that make up Brent fell to 930,000 barrels a day, according to figures from consultants Energy Aspects, down from 1.1m b/d in the same month three years ago....
...Mr Kim, now 21 months into a five-year term at the head of the world’s most important development institution, will tell ministers the World Bank is well on its way to becoming a streamlined “solutions bank...
...The good news for them is that this year almost all the top schools have streamlined the application process, cutting down on the applicants’ workload....
...Crude imports from Canada, a key supplier of “sour” barrels, hit an all-time high of 2.8m b/d in February, even as US imports overall dropped to a 17-year-low of 7.3m b/d....
...Output surpassed 7m b/d in both November and December. Net US crude imports meanwhile fell by 437,000 b/d last year to 8.5m b/d, the lowest level in 15 years....
...The Association of Oil Pipe Lines said new US pipeline capacity totalling 500,000 b/d came into operation last year. US crude output rose 780,000 b/d last year, the government estimates....
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