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...Investors, said Ball, recognised that there was a “benefit to be had from having a technology that is licensed by the UK”....
...Reporting by Jim Pickard, Sylvia Pfeifer, Demetri Sevastopulo, John Paul Rathbone...
...And The best gift I’ve received is a letter from Sylvia Plath to Ted Hughes that Kim Jones gave me....
...The cool, clean lines of box balls and low hedges, the whimsy of peacock topiary or the stark, dark backdrop of a yew hedge around a border are all classics for a reason....
...“Celluloid was the first major domestic plastic,” says Sylvia Katz, whose book Classic Plastics, published in 1984, was one of the first appreciations of the materials....
...Will creditors play ball? Despite his best efforts, Gupta’s biggest challenge remains convincing his creditors to agree to any refinancing deals. Standing in the way in the UK is Credit Suisse....
...Wide gold bangles from the likes of Bottega Veneta, Sylvia Toledano and Completedworks, oversized clip-on earrings from Saint Laurent, and heavy chains and medallions have all been highlights.”...
...Considerably more fun is Sylvia Bishop’s The Midnight Thief (Scholastic, £6.99). This is an old-school (in every sense) yarn....
...Two exceptions are Sylvia Plath’s annotated first edition of The Great Gatsby, and her widower Ted Hughes’s enduring twitchiness over her legacy....
...On honeymoon in the south of Spain with Ted Hughes, Bostonian Sylvia Plath fantasised about ice boxes, refrigerators, pasteurised milk and drinkable tap water....
...Nigel Coe of Wolfe Research added the “principal concern is that management has a lot of balls in the air”, adding that “there is quite a mixture of cultures within the pro forma company and here we note...
...“Sylvia [Young] called and said, ‘I’ve got an audition for you if you want it,’ by which time I was 18,” she recalls. “It was undoubtedly down to Sylvia....
...No balls, but hundreds of white lights. No paperchains nor cards are on display....
...No number can sum up the amazing experience of being a full-time undergraduate in my late fifties, scaling the generational divide like a college ball gatecrasher....
...The 110m-high structure on the Cumbrian coast is the signature image of Britain’s troubled nuclear past, along with the decommissioned golf ball-shaped advanced gas reactor....
...She had already begun writing poems as a girl, while bouncing a tennis ball in the road....
...It wants to build a similar facility in Grangemouth, Scotland, the site of its oil refinery and petrochemicals plant – if the government and the unions play ball....
...All that remains is a bulbous building known as the “golf ball”....
...Additional reporting by Sylvia Pfeifer and Ajay Makan...
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com BP: sylvia.pfeifer@ft.com...
...One is that George Osborne and Ed Balls are both right about the fiscal deficit....
...“The ball is now firmly in BP’s court but the company’s options are limited,” said one long-term Russia watcher....
...“These guys have balls of steel,” says a senior banker in Moscow....
...“Putting the Gulf of Mexico aside …the results show that the company has not taken its eye off the ball.”...
...Even Spalding basketballs – the official ball of the NBA – are not truly “American”, since they are stitched offshore. Unsurprisingly, this makes many Americans very nervous....
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