Hints and tips:
...Card sharps and tricksters make money from the gullible and spend it in the clubs, mingling with toffs, minor royalty and soubrettes....
...Coronavirus digest Gold soared to a record high on Monday as the sharp rise in US coronavirus cases and flare-ups around the world weighed on investor confidence....
...In days past La fille du régiment was mostly about the singing, but Pelly’s production tilts the balance to an evening of sharp comic ensemble....
...Aziraphale’s lamblike white curls remain unchanged over the centuries, while Crowley sports ringlets, quiffs, flowing locks or sharp cuts to suit each milieu....
...All three are coming-of-age stories driven by sharp awakenings and have been beautifully translated from Russian into English by Antonina W Bouis....
...These young women are at the sharp end of the American dream: when one tears a ligament, her whole future is thrown into jeopardy. Teen life seems do-or-die, now-or-never....
...Like other forces, Durham has seen sharp cuts in officer numbers, which are down 23 per cent from 2010 levels....
...We were softened up for that by another Skutnik — Staff Sergeant Justin Peck (standing behind Melania), who saved a comrade, wounded while clearing a hospital in Raqqa of Isis booby traps....
...At the end of the path that leads through the forest of remembrance, Sergeant Major Michael Eichstaedt points out that the planners left enough space for three further name columns....
...His father had fought the Americans as a sergeant in the 1898 Spanish-American war....
...The recruiting sergeants of radical Islam realised long ago that prisons offered rich pickings....
...The Indian government has announced sharp increases in the pensions of retired military personnel, a popular move that will strain the national budget but boost the chances of Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
...The last such review, conducted in 2010, led to heavy cuts in capabilities including the loss of the UK’s maritime patrol aircraft and sharp reductions in the number of operational tanks, warships and fighter...
...StanChart shares ended the week down 5 per cent after Bill Winters, chief executive, presented a first set of results, including a sharp drop in profits and a halving of the dividend....
...Ebrima Sankareh, editor in chief of the The Gambian Echo & Tribune, a newspaper for the Gambian diaspora in the US, describes him as “a very quiet and serious fellow with a very sharp intellect, unassuming...
...Akke has Swedish good looks, immaculate hair and a sharp-edged black jacket with an array of Velcro panels so that sponsors’ logos can be stuck on and peeled off as the occasion demands....
...In the dusty ruins of what was once a backstage rehearsal room, Duncan lurches into a shaft of sunlight, dragging the wounded Sergeant with him....
...Many of these examples fall outside banks’ traditional ways of thinking about risk, says Ms Sergeant, and need new approaches....
...Haram, the northern Islamist terrorists linked to al-Qaeda who have proved more than a match for the security forces, the corruption of the state and the lack of economic opportunity serve as recruiting sergeants...
...News reporters do a fine job under the stress of sharp deadlines. Politicians – some of them – are articulate, but inevitably compromised by circumstance. It is artists who hint at deeper truths....
...after he summoned Chuck Hagel, defence secretary, and Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, along with the heads of each of the armed services to the White House on Thursday to discuss a sharp...
...However, military leaders have warned that a faster pullout of US or other Nato forces could lead to a sharp increase in instability in the country....
...It helps that Fox is surrounded by colourful characters, notably hard-drinking, wisecracking sergeant Tony Kaye, whom I suspect has been cloned from DNA found on the fag butts Rebus has left in Lothian and...
...A sharp rise in pension contributions for nurses, teachers and other public sector staff in the spending review on October 20 – possibly of 2-4 per cent of pay or more – is likely to provide an early test...
...We read about a skinny, rodeo-obsessed sergeant who saved his battalion in Iraq and an eccentric psychiatrist who trained a group of financial traders to become the best in the world (yikes, is this how...
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