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...will on Thursday begin the controversial release of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a move furiously opposed by some regional neighbours and fishing...
...Meanwhile, fishing for attention turned out to have diminishing economic returns: “Traffic wasn’t quite like oil — a limited commodity that would hold its value,” Smith writes....
...Mariann Oye greets us on the pier, and points to a blue sky above. “The mountains mean we have no direct sunshine here between October and March” she says. “So today is a special day.”...
...Locals picked up buckets of langoustines from passing fishing boats, and kale and turnips from a community garden....
...gear such as knives, rifle scopes, and fishing equipment....
...That’s unlikely to change over the next quarter or two,” says Simon Smith, head of research & consultancy at Savills in Asia....
...Both fairs have the same owner, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc....
...The hedge fund’s founder, Randall Smith, is a godfather of investing in distressed assets who has trained legions of portfolio managers....
...That may be a big mistake, warns CLSA’s Nicholas Smith, prodding at the stability of the current euphoria in a recent note....
...The pier is dotted with Pakistani naval and coast guard ships. Armed boats and pick-up trucks patrol the area, while wooden fishing boats float in the distance....
...Pier 1 also announced that its chief executive Alex Smith would leave at the end of the year....
...He said: ‘You’re going to be a checker down the pier. It’s a great job and you can wear nice clothes.’ I didn’t want to do that.” Music was calling instead....
...And finally Zadie Smith pens a lively Brexit diary in the New York Review of Books....
...He remembers “like it were yesterday” his first experience of US-style craft beer, a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale bought to wash down a fish-and-chip supper on the pier in the fishing town of Stonehaven....
...Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s president, handed him a games controller called a wand and guided his hand to cast a virtual fishing line....
...“Now we’re getting two Easter Sundays a week at some terminals,” Mr Smith says....
...On Wednesday, Stryker, the medical device maker, said it did not intend to make an offer for Smith & Nephew....
...“The company can’t simply go fishing off the end of the pier for directors,” she said. Margaret Hayne is president and chief creative officer of the Free People chain....
...Until I left at 17, Anstruther harbour was full of fishing boats, sometimes two or three deep, wooden fishboxes with flapping fish winched up on the encircling piers....
...What Apple must now do is persuade consumers that tapping their mobile to pay is easier than fishing in a handbag for a card....
...At Pier 1, a homewares retailer, Alex Smith, chief executive, said he was “extremely disappointed” with a 5.7 per cent decline in like-for-like December sales, which he blamed mainly on “wintry weather”...
...FURTHER FURTHER READING - Miles Kimball and Noah Smith on the battle for the soul of macroeconomics. - The (non)politics of stagnation. - Peter Orszag on activist investors....
...Cameron Smith, a Bentonville headhunter who works with Walmart and its suppliers, says Mr McMillon is one of the few genuine “keepers of the culture”....
...Jonathan Lucas, a 34-year-old trader, has a different objection: “A check jacket would be great for the weekend, but checks feel too ‘hunting, shooting, fishing set’ for the office.”...
...“That’s how much our logistics infrastructure has to deal with today,” says Pier Luigi Sigismondi, chief supply chain officer....
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