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...For the ANC to avoid this and retain a majority in South Africa’s proportional-representation system, it is vital that it shores up its vote in areas such as Meadowlands....
...charter — to seize Jamaica from Spain and gain an imperial foothold in the Caribbean....
...He may ultimately control the Knicks and Rangers, but warring with public officials with so much of MSG’s business on the line could be storing up trouble for the future....
...to sue countries for climate action and scrap the Energy Charter Treaty....
...Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the FT This article is based on an episode of a new podcast, Cautionary Tales, from Tim Harford and Pushkin Industries....
...“This [restructuring] is the final bullet,” a top regulatory official says, adding that there is widespread optimism among supervisors that the plan can succeed....
...the 1MDB proceeds into payments including bribery of officials....
...But the room was full of elephants. Perhaps the presence of the great and the good curbed tongues of those in the technical sessions, even of those now out of official roles....
...But for many in the townships and informal shack settlements that house just under a quarter of Cape Town’s population, such conditions would be seen as a luxury....
...As the sun blazed across the private beach and glistening pools at his family’s packed Mediterranean resort, Osman Ayik glanced across at his tanned guests and breathed a sigh of relief....
...He explained that quit rates were rising among his supervisors as a consequence. I think this is precisely the type of anecdote that one would expect to hear at the onset of an inflationary episode....
...himself and his wife as the Russians closed in....
...Simon Schama Author of The Face of Britain and FT contributing editor “Gigantic above all in the capacity for joy” is the way Primo Levi characterises Rabelais — an unlikely choice of literary hero for...
...To ensure our continued focus on employment policies, the Chair of the Pittsburgh Summit has asked his Secretary of Labor to invite our Employment and Labor Ministers to meet as a group in early 2010 consulting...
...The resolution calls on the RGS to honour its obligations as set out in its Royal Charter of 1859: in a word, to explore....
...As recently as last autumn, the Asian Development Bank and others were projecting growth for this year of 7 per cent or above. Those rosy forecasts proved flawed in two main respects....
...His comments point to a broader complication in designing and implementing stress tests: the problem of free riders....
...This effort has been and will be guided by principles the President set forth earlier this year and in his speech as a candidate at Cooper Union in March 2008....
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