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...In recent months, both State Farm and Allstate have announced plans to stop writing new policies in fire-prone California....
...Ukraine’s national identity has hardened itself amid the fires of invasion; the state has consolidated its authority; and Kyiv last month received the green light to start EU entry talks, although full membership...
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...“How do we communicate that, but also present it in such a way people don’t see us as nanny state?”...
...But Vadatursky says he still seeks to “pay people their salaries, not to fire them, and save the team”. Around 80 per cent of Ukrainian companies say the same, according to central bank surveys....
...SKW Piesteritz became one of the most high-profile casualties of the surge in gas prices when it shut down completely in August....
...Photographs posted on social media showed a damaged farm vehicle lying on its side next to a large crater. Local media reported the casualties were farm workers....
...Gold told Mack he was investigating the wrong person and should fire Gilbert. “I said give us the proof, and we’ll investigate it....
...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...People were eking out 2021’s last rays lakeside as I got tipsy on sunshine at Panholzer, a chichi, almost Californian farm-to-table restaurant nearby....
...You use private companies that are there to make money, but then you use them to promote your strategic goals.”...
...In a report last year, Greenpeace, the environmental pressure group, said seven out of 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were affected by haze generated by fires in Indonesia...
...There are other clues that Compass does not see that elusive V-shaped recovery....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...With companies such as Coca-Cola and Amazon banging at its door, the state government relented a week later on bottles of drinking water over 200ml, medical packaging, wrapping materials thicker than 50...
...Of the 22 states my Model T spluttered and creaked through, this was the only one it didn’t break down in....
...Some farmers, like Home Farm’s Brian and Jennifer Aldridge, have set up family investment companies to control when assets are received, and by whom....
...to this article Charter for companies to impose their preferences / From Helen Sutch...
...“There is a lack of trust in Chinese state companies, and the Chinese state in general [in Australia],” says Kerry Brown, professor of Chinese studies at Kings College London, who previously worked at Sydney...
...Kinlochhourn Farm (kinlochhourn.com) in Kinloch Hourn has a cottage for up to five, from £150 per night....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Italy V Ireland....
...Dalian is home to part of China’s strategic petroleum reserves and at one point the fire threatened a tank farm in the port, a possible reason for such high-level concern....
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