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...Long before Twitter was a twinkle in anyone’s eye, Kruger was employing far fewer than 280 characters to make her points about the social realities of power and gender, race and capital....
...He promised with a twinkle this week to be “here for a while yet” as LVMH disclosed record results amid a luxury industry downturn....
...There’s also the Hawaiian-themed fast-food joint Big Kahuna Burger in Reservoir Dogs, From Dusk Til Dawn and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, and Big Jerry Cab Co., which Butch Coolidge uses to escape the...
...Enter Paul Draper, fresh from some experimental winemaking in Chile, where he’d done a stint in the Peace Corps....
...Ask for the cosy corner table by the back window — you’ll catch the butterscotch twinkle of string lights wrapped around the pretty ivy trellis outside....
...The first group wows with what it can do; the second demands forgiveness for what it cannot yet, but with a twinkle that says, “I will be worthy one day, master.”...
...You can’t go back to any of those jobs with cognitive dysfunction,” says Diana Berrent, founder of Survivor Corps, a long Covid support group in the US....
...In the evenings, lights from Aqaba, in Jordan, and from Taba, in Egypt, twinkle below the night-sky....
...The son of a Lithuanian Jewish cab driver and a Welsh seamstress, Adelson grew up sharing a tenement bedroom with his immigrant parents and three siblings....
...Bahrani twinkles slightly: “Absolutely.” Aside from his friendship with Adiga, Bahrani felt another connection with India....
...Donald Trump was barely a twinkle in Ailes’s eye back then, but now that the media-obsessed president has reshaped the Republican party in his image, who works for whom?...
...A twinkle in his cornflower-blue eyes and the soft light of candles glinting off his full head of startlingly blond hair?”...
...If the supply of taxi medallions (or, in London, black cabs) had not been as constrained as it was, there would have been less of an opening for Uber and Lyft....
...So this is somewhere they can go, drop a bag, get something typed, call a cab, have a shower, a coffee and a sandwich, and meet other people.”...
...The male corps were on top form, and Gavin Sutherland and the ENB Philharmonic gave a decent account of the patchwork Massenet score — but the revival is visually underwhelming....
Joint venture bids to crack $15bn market despite cab industry’s resistance
...Advised by bankers, cab drivers and other sages, the US cable group has trumped Fox with an offer at £12.50 per share. “Gee, golly gosh!”...
...left-leaning political views have deep roots in his childhood in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up in housing projects and his father worked as a truck driver, factory worker and cab...
...Brian Roberts, the deadpan boss, jokingly attributed Comcast’s interest to a conversation with a cab driver. Comcast is almost purely a US company so the direct cost savings are limited....
...The Mercedes-Benz carmaker will join three Japanese banks — MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and the sovereign wealth fund of Bahrain to fill the last $7bn...
...One London cabbie has just earned the right to bore passengers as follows: “I had this American geezer in the back of the cab. Took him to the shops to have a look at getting Sky....
...Credit unions carved out a lucrative niche financing cab operators, who need to borrow to buy licences, known as medallions, issued by the authorities to collect passengers....
...“Hardly anyone hails a cab on the side of the road these days, only elderly people who don’t use smartphones,” he says. Didi has established a dominant position in China....
...But he said he had been convinced of the merits of acquiring the company in November on a trip to London when a cab driver told him in great detail about the differences between Sky and its rival, Virgin...
...The London cab driver asked by an American passenger what he thought of the UK pay-television market could not have known that his answer might potentially sway a set of takeover deals worth tens of billions...
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