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...Meanwhile government spending and investment, notably in R&D, have added to headline GDP for five quarters running. Underlying trend growth is arguably closer to 3 per cent than 2 per cent....
...In George R Stewart’s Earth Abides (1949), a measles-like disease causes the collapse of civilisation and ushers in a simpler, more bucolic way of life....
...A long-time fan of knitting, the American artist Sterling Ruby launched a selection of sweaters earlier this year as part of his fashion line S.R. Studio. LA....
...Czech playwright Karel Čapek wrote about a factory that manufactured artificial workers in R.U.R., popularising the word “robot” after his play was staged in America in 1922....
...Elsewhere on Monday, - Talent versus luck - About that “ unplugging” - Softbank is hiring - Mary Shelly is lit - The consumer benefits of trade agreements - Farewell Toys R Us?...
...His papers are among the Bodleian’s most precious possessions, kept in a strongroom two floors beneath street level, along with Shelley’s death mask and papyri from Herculaneum that survived the eruption...
...Sir, Nicholas Stanley-Price (Letters, August 31) rightly describes the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome as being the last resting place of Shelley and Keats....
...And has the Bank’s Court of Directors (or whichever venerable committee is entrusted with these decisions) really given due weight to the likes of, say, Mary Shelley (Frankenstein); Mrs Gaskell (Cranford...
...R and I try to keep ourselves out of trouble. Cliveden is now a hotel. Spring Cottage is its secluded outpost and our home for the evening....
...In Your Creative Brain, Shelley Carson, a Harvard psychologist, explains why some people are bold connectors of ideas and others are not....
...I couldn’t wait to board the night sleeper (and wake up in the magic land of porridge, shortbread and rolled “r”s); to see again the familiar terrains and landmarks; the huge undulating public putting course...
...– leads to the extraordinarily modern thought that “I’m truly sorry man’s dominion/ Has broken nature’s social union” – a pantheistic-cum-communitarian sentiment well ahead of Wordsworth and Shelley....
...CONGRESSMAN PENCE: Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia. CONGRESSWOMAN CAPITO: Thank you, Mr. President, for joining us here today....
...In June, the board of Sondex said first-quarter cumulative order intake was 20 per cent up on the previous year with strong demand from China and Russia, and R&D spend was being increased....
...Shelley Maton As a young Asian Muslim, born and bred here in the UK, I am still absolutely disgusted and horrified by the bloodshed and carnage caused by last week’s attacks....
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