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...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...The powerful earthquakes that shook south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6 reduced entire streets and city blocks to rubble....
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...When they shook hands at their first meeting, the older activist felt in Li’s grip the rough hands of a manual labourer, not a scholar....
...Swiss National Bank’s shocking removal of the upper limit on its currency in January 2015 — a step that sent the franc rocketing, wiped out traders from hedge fund managers to have-a-go retail punters, and shook...
...Asked once if the Queen would like to inspect some machinery, Prince Philip shook his head: “Unless it eats grass and farts, the Queen isn’t interested.”...
...As always, reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to share your feedback on today’s newsletter. Happy reading!...
...“We shook hands and I said, ‘I’m going to go back to Germany and do it.’” In Munich, he scouted for co-founders by gathering all the PhDs in his department....
...Jakob Fugger of Augsburg, who financed the election of Charles V to emperor, was in his own day the richest man alive....
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...“This is the moment in time in which a V-shaped shock can morph into a U and then an L, and this is what we above all have to avoid.”...
...Intel tries to get its mojo backDays after revealing that it had fallen 12 months behind in its leading-edge manufacturing technology, Intel’s top engineer left and the company shook up its technical and...
...To my eyes the Shackleton looked like the Airfix Lancaster, whereas the V Bombers shook the whole base when they took off....
...[But in Madrid] I shook things up.”...
...Then we walked one by one to the podium, where Laura shook our hands and gave us our certificates and our Space Academy wings lapel pins....
...Today, Mr Modi is one of India’s most wanted men: the central figure in an alleged $2bn bank fraud that shook the state-owned Punjab National Bank last year....
...He has also dismissed the negative effects of the November 2016 cash ban, a radical experiment that shook India’s economy, battered the property market and sparked the closure of many small enterprises....
...On February 27, the US Supreme Court shook them out of this complacency by ruling in Jam v International Finance Corporation that they have only the same limited immunity as states....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...Unlike Siemens, which shook up its management, clawed back money from former executives and initiated a vast governance reform programme following a slush-fund scandal, Volkswagen has faltered in its response...
...In football-mad Brazil, the loss shook the national psyche....
...insiders from advantaging their friends and relatives at the expense of the trading public,” said Preet Bharara, US attorney in Manhattan, who has led a multiyear campaign against insider trading that shook...
...Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X, then outlawed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, at the Diet of Worms....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
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