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...Even though it is less than an arm-span wide, it is now an oasis with three ponds, edibles including cucumbers, melons and chillies, and ornamentals such as lupins, jasmine and roses....
...At Chelsea Physic Garden in London, its sheltered, south-facing location on the edge of the river Thames enables a rose called Rosa × odorata Bengal Crimson to bloom every day of the year, says Allison Napier...
...Trading operating profit improved by £170mn to £1bn at Waitrose, while at John Lewis it rose by £13mn to £689mn year on year....
...Creating green roofs is another way to deal with run-off says Simon Rose, head of experience development at WWT....
...Sharon Bell, a senior equity strategist at the bank, said the sectors “will be the obvious beneficiaries of a pick-up in consumption in Europe”....
...Although Morgan Stanley has its second female CFO in Sharon Yeshaya, all three candidates in last year’s race to replace James Gorman as CEO were men....
...The US National Retail Federation this week estimated that “shrinkage”, including theft by staff and customers, together with stuff getting lost, rose to $112bn last year....
...Shares in AstraZeneca rose 4 per cent to £111.54 in morning trading in London....
...Its headcount rose to 300,000 in the second quarter, an 8 per cent increase on the same period last year....
...They also play supporting roles, as with the roses and clematis entwining the Six Pillars of (Scientific) Wisdom that are topped by resin models that document significant moments in the history of biology...
...It kicked off a rash of planting, including peonies, hollyhocks, roses, hydrangeas, pachysandra and narcissi....
...“In the rose garden, the roses are only at 40 per cent of their potential because they’re tired with the soil [having depleted it of nutrients over time]....
...Consumer prices in the country rose 7.7 per cent year on year in October, the slowest increase since January....
...In August, Dame Sharon White, chair of John Lewis Partnership, urged retirees to go back to work to tackle labour shortages....
...New eurozone data today showed labour costs rose at a record rate of 5.7 per cent in the final quarter of 2022, underlining the scale of the challenge still ahead....
...Songs, declares, “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys”....
...question I had been eager to ask, given that so many leading international dancemakers — Akram Khan, Crystal Pite, Matthew Bourne, Sylvie Guillem, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nitin Sawhney, Russell Maliphant, Sharon...
...She’s expected to succeed Sharon Thorne, whose four-year term will complete at the end of May....
...“The ‘buy, borrow, die’ strategy still works,” says Sharon Winsmith, a New York-based tax adviser, “if you know what you’re doing.”...
...Shares in BAE Systems, which is expected to benefit from the increase in the sterling value of its US profits, rose more than 2 per cent....
...The shares rose 1 per cent in pre-market trading in New York....
...Stuart Rose, the former M&S boss and Conservative peer, warned that UK businesses needed to brace for a difficult period. “Most companies saw inflation coming....
...In the late 20th century, goth rose again with Emo. Now it spooks high streets in crowds of E-Kids....
...Morgan Stanley’s trading revenues rose 1 per cent to $6bn compared with the same quarter in 2021, beating forecasts for $4.84bn....
...Costs rose 5 per cent as the company continued investing it in operations to satisfy a regulatory consent order....
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