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...Maya Al Sid Cheikh, the study leader, said the team made nanoparticles of plastic in laboratories and “incorporated a [radioactive] label so that we could trace the particles in the body of the scallop at...
...The pay-off line to potential investors, ‘If you see Sid, tell him’, remains familiar to an entire older generation....
...Kitty Whateley and Timothy Nelson are excellent as Nancy and Sid, and Richard Pinkstone, at once truculent and downtrodden, makes a nicely unsentimental Albert, who celebrates his emancipation at the end...
...Whether they’re elevated to a new level (Jeff Buckley with “Hallelujah”) or sneered through a curled lip (Sid Vicious, “My Way”), they take on lives of their own....
...The Treasury is considering a “Tell Sid” privatisation campaign, involving members of the public, a plan that would allow voters to share in the upside of a future recovery in the share price....
...The Treasury, which has never given an indicative price at which it would start to sell its stake, is considering a privatisation similar to the “Tell Sid” sell-off of British Gas in the 1980s....
...Mr Osborne’s aides said the chancellor was not looking at plans for a “Tell Sid” privatisation of RBS, following the highly popular Thatcherite sales in the 1980s of companies such as BT and British Airways...
...Running a big “tell Sid” privatisation or giving the shares away to the public both have political appeal, involving or rewarding the taxpayers who bailed out the banks and spreading the gospel of share...
...The UK prime minister, speaking on a three-day visit to India, said the idea of a “Tell Sid” privatisation of RBS – echoing the Thatcherite privatisations of the 1980s – was one of a number of “interesting...
...There is also a long-winded chase-about involving the girl and her mother (Emma Thompson), who has turned into a bear....
...We got Mel Smith to direct and we got Emma Thompson and Jeff Goldblum to be in it....
...When the histrionic heavy mob is needed, enter Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon as Lord and Lady Marchmain, alias mom and pop Flyte....
...Comedian-biography is an unambitious literary genre (a highpoint, rarely emulated, is the late Harry Thompson’s 1998 Peter Cook: A Biography)....
...I had been playing the latest incarnation of Sid Meier’s celebrated Civilisation series, a rite of passage for all computer gamers....
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