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...We have regularly been assured that the arrival of our latest weapons on the battlefield — Leopard tanks, cluster munitions, F-16s — would bring victory; and as regularly we have been disappointed....
...It has 62 F-18 fighter jets and recently finalised the purchase of 64 F-35s. It has a standing reserve of 900,000 men and women, with a capacity to raise wartime mobility to 280,000....
...Central bankers are not, as a source of the FT’s economics editor Chris Giles put it, the sort of people who get up in the morning and think “f*** it, I’m going to do something crazy today.”...
...I donated my net profits to Southern California Thoroughbred Rescue, which saves racehorses from slaughter and abuse....
...The subject is the assassination of John F Kennedy....
...“What the f*** are you doing?” the US president asks. “Are you f***ing taking notes?” Staff take this as a classic signal that he is about to ask his lawyers to do something unethical, says Anonymous....
...Germany are now expected to finish second in Group F, which sets up a Round of 16 match—and an early tournament exit—against Brazil ( GS forecast Brazil 1.70—1.37 Germany)....
...Anne-Marie Slaughter writes that vertical mergers, like AT&T and Comcast, are too 19th century. Companies should be aiming to be nimble, not big....
...After a mail-order Italian rifle was used to assassinate John F Kennedy, his successor, Lyndon B Johnson, proposed legislation to end “murder by mail order”....
...Bethell used his reputation to raise F & C’s profile and acted as a figurehead for the venture, according to Nigel Edward Morecroft’s The Origins of Asset Management from 1700 to 1960....
...(John F Kennedy, revered by many in retrospect, was narrowly elected thanks only to his father’s power to strong-arm machine politicians in big cities.)...
...Curtis F Jones Chapel Hill, NC, US...
...president of New America, a think-tank, and professor emerita of politics and international affairs at Princeton Letter in response to this article: Backsliders on the road to lasting peace / From Curtis F...
...I explained that I was referring to the first ill-fated effort that the British had made to conquer Afghanistan, in the 19th century, which ended in retreat — and brutal slaughter at the village of Gandamak...
...I’d Die For You: And Other Lost Stories, by F Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, RRP£12.99/$27 The last unpublished stories by the author of The Great Gatsby....
...He denied that gender inequality was a problem at all — “the f***ing debate is all over” — and accused British advertising consultant Cindy Gallop of lying about sexual harassment in the industry....
...In Hammersmith, the local MP Andy Slaughter, as well as London mayor Sadiq Khan and local councillors, expressed support for the Polish community....
...“[The Brazilian farmers] completely oversold,” says Kona Haque, head of research at agricultural commodity traders ED&F Man....
...William F. Kornegay, Jr. Senior vice-president, supply management, Hilton Worldwide 11. Ken Olisa Chairman, Restoration Partners 12....
...All we have to do is try not to f**k it up.” My husband whispered in my ear: “Here’s bloody hoping.”...
...Morrison Supermarkets* … Education Award Recognises those building sustainable partnerships with schools in the UK to raise aspirations of young people to enable them to build successful working lives • A.F....
...A senior US diplomat’s use of the crude phrase “F*** the EU” – secretly recorded and posted online – probably has not helped either. But there are more specific fears....
...Mr Coveney said legal action may be taken against B&F Meats, an Irish company found to be mislabelling horsemeat for export to the Czech Republic. B&F Meats claims it had no fraudulent intent....
...Salinger owes an equal debt to the tough talking of Ernest Hemingway, and his revelatory use of dialogue; and there is more than a little F Scott Fitzgerald there, too, a writer who is Holden Caulfield’s...
...The young John F. Kennedy felt bounced by US generals into approving the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba in 1961. After that he was more sceptical of military advice....
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