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...The soundtrack rages in sympathy — punk musician Gina Birch’s “3 Minute Scream”, piercing yells from Robina Rose’s “Birth Rites”. It made me want to scream....
...He called error correction “a necessary rite of passage that any quantum computing technology has to go through”....
...Many start-ups have taken advantage of the ready availability of private financing to delay rites of passage such as initial public offerings, which Koenig noted are often moments where founders are told...
...“It gave me answers to go full blast into my artistic self,” Chuck says of this mind-expanding rite. That was the beginning of his return to drawing....
...He says: “You also want to offer digital services that don’t have anything to do with the tractor and can help a farmer plan when to spray or harvest — and create a benefit for him....
...Albertsons then attempted to merge with Rite Aid a year later but was also forced to call off the transaction after it failed to win support from the pharmacy chain’s shareholders....
...But it seems Tiger Global’s “pay and spray” approach does have its disadvantages....
...I was introduced to a Filipino pub quiz in Mount Pleasant; an Irish bar by Union Station favoured by congressional staffers; and graffiti artists who spray-paint pink rabbits with ice-cream along the H St...
...In Signal chats, Twitter threads and comments on FT articles, a debate is unfolding: gruelling hours have been a rite of passage for fresh-faced financiers since the dawn of time, but does it always have...
...If that sounds like hiding your light under a bushel of nanotubes, BMW shocked gadget bling lovers even more when it spray-painted its latest X6 coupe with a version of Vantablack....
...Partly thanks to a push to distribute Narcan, a spray that can reverse narcotic overdoses, the number fell in 2018 — but there have been no sustainable solutions for treating the vast number of patients...
...Rite Aid shares rose 2.3 per cent in pre-market trading....
...Shares in Rite Aid also tumbled 10 per cent. As a standalone company, Rite Aid was “highly leveraged”, said Andrew Wolf, analyst at Loop Capital....
...The rites of spring have turned to a heatwave Bacchanal....
...Rite Aid’s proposed merger with Albertsons may be dead. But that isn’t stopping rival drugstore and supermarket chains from pursuing their own tie-ups....
...The note pointed out that “bondholders may have leverage to push this point” ahead of Albertsons' proposed acquisition of Rite Aid, which will face a shareholder vote on August 9....
...On the Valentino runway, simple flats were customised with sprays of feather. They recalled the winged sandals of Hermes, the messenger god....
...The deal offers Rite Aid stockholders the option of one share of Albertsons and $1.83 in cash for every 10 shares of Rite Aid they hold, or 1.079 shares of Albertsons stock for each 10 Rite Aid shares they...
...Rite Aid shares surged on the news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, with shares up as much as 31 per cent in pre market trading in New York....
...Algorithms stuffed with millions of pictures of cabbages can figure out which ones to spray with fertiliser and which to blast with herbicide....
...For a moment, early on in Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring, I wondered if its effect was diminishing....
...At other times Budapest has stood in for London (Atomic Blonde, in which it also played Berlin), Rome (exorcism horror The Rite), and Nasa’s headquarters (The Martian)....
...As we sped along, sending out a muddy spray, the most obvious feature of the river was its crocodiles. Hundreds of them. They were obsessively active. As the boat passed, many slithered into the water....
...At lunchtimes we watched whole families of elephants trundle out of the bush to drink and spray themselves at a waterhole barely 100 yards away....
...Acconci appears in almost all the films, a spray of work that covers eight years when he aimed a camera at himself virtually every day....
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