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...“It’s definitely more contemporary, in a sort of bleached-out veneer,” says Julia Ransom of the Arc Burl floor mirror (£2,695) and Livon chair (£1,895) in Ransom & Dunn’s Foundations collection....
...God knows a langoustine is worth, if not a whole king’s ransom, then at least a minor duke’s. And by happy coincidence, the best langos in the world are widely accepted to come from Scotland....
...Recently it has recommended Timothy D Snyder’s Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary and Roger L Martin’s When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency....
...The action has moved from the old claustrophobic small-town locale to New York, where the last film’s young survivors, headed by sisters Sam and Tara (Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega), have started a new life...
...It transpires that the ransom demanded is not money but “the truth” — a more difficult commodity for a businesswoman with possibly shady associations....
...Fans of Michael Symmons Roberts will have Ransom in March (Jonathan Cape), while Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition is based on themes of inheritance (Chatto & Windus, April)....
...It feels an age ago when our Venice-bound Orient Express sauntered like a countess out of Gare de l’Est. “I hear the right is still rampant,” he shivers....
...A king’s ransom, indeed....
...Tara Alhadeff from Permira told DD’s Kaye Wiggins it’s a bet on the “casualisation” of everyone’s wardrobes....
...Further inspiration comes in April with How To Save Your Planet One Object at a Time by Tara Shine (Simon & Schuster RRP£16.99), with suggestions for 100 items to swap for sustainable alternatives....
...Criminals might find ways to hack the databases of banks, diverting vast amounts of money towards themselves or even holding financial institutions to ransom....
...Naturally, there is an existential threat to be foiled, in the form of a mob of deplorables led by a shock-haired Samuel L Jackson....
...Novels such as A Dog’s Ransom, The Cry of the Owl, This Sweet Sickness and Deep Water are certitude-drowning thrillers in which the “hero” is the only person we care for, kill whom or however many he may...
...Dr Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and leadership coach, has developed a “brain food juice” to kick-start your day....
...A more useful test might see business-critical employees randomly told to stay away on a given day, in an effort to test resilience to so-called key-man risk....
...Pantene’s arch rival L’Oréal has encouraged a generation of women to buy its beauty projects teaching them to say: “Because I’m worth it.”...
...“This is what they tend to look like,” he says, holding up a piece of paper that resembles an extensive ransom note. He picks up a magnifying glass on his desk to demonstrate how he reads....
...Now the president, who has recently been increasingly distancing herself from Moyano (repeatedly warning unions publicly not to hold the country to ransom with strikes, for example) has dealt him a slap...
...The bad news is that Indian Ocean piracy is becoming an ordinary part of the shipping business; The International Maritime Bureau counts 350 attacks so far this year and ransoms now run about $4m an incident...
...The actual downgrade was just 1 notch, from A(L) to BBB(H). You should also note that our rating on Portugal of BBB(H) is at the same level as at least one other rating agency....
...“They pay in cash and some of it comes from ransoms.”...
...Lovely as she is, Tara can be a bit vague about money, as she revealed in an interview earlier this year with the Sunday Times Money section....
...The answer is to pay as little ransom as possible to the least ill-deserving people we can find.”...
...The American writer H.L. Mencken once said that for every problem there is a solution that is neat, plausible and wrong....
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