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...Cio-Cio-San will be sung alternately by sopranos Karah Son (who studied under the late Mirella Freni) and Gisela Stille; countertenors Evan LeRoy Johnson and Thomas Atkins play the caddish Pinkerton....
...Into this void comes Ros Atkins, BBC analysis editor and presenter of the brilliant explainer videos that are all over your social media feeds....
...B, wages are better working at a shop or a call centre. And, C, it takes ages to do....
...The onslaught of parliamentary and departmental stationery addressed to Mr B Johnson (still) of 10 Downing Street revealed a hitherto under-examined role in the UK’s notoriously unwritten constitution for...
...If an attraction is not perfect when it opens, he says, he will shut it down and fix it: “If it’s a B, you don’t keep it, because if something’s a B, that B will quickly become a C in a couple of years.”...
...William Atkins is the author of ‘The Immeasurable World’ (Faber & Faber, £10.99)....
...And it is thanks to Hollis Frampton’s pioneering work in this field that we now know how a cabbage gets from A to B....
...We were also struck by the resilience of the triple-B investment-grade bond rating floor....
...[B]anks are a port in the storm this time. First of all, they’re all very well capitalized. They all have very healthy earnings streams. They all are more diversified....
...In response, the Swiss government put in place a “Plan B” in case equivalence was not extended further....
...The new treatment was authorised for use on patients up to 25 years old with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), as well as for use in adults with a type of lymphoma....
...However, Ueli Maurer, Swiss finance minister, said the proposals were meant only as a “plan B” in case agreement could not be reached with Brussels....
...Gilbert is a founder of B-Lab, which in 2007 began certifying a new type of company called a B Corporation, with a mandate to benefit all stakeholders and a commitment to submit to regular tests of its social...
...Focus is centred on the ballooning value of triple B rated bonds, the lowest investment grade category....
...I’m not optimistic about any plan B coming soon.” Bern now faces the task of re-thinking how to reform a system largely unchanged for two decades....
...Although the deal price was not disclosed, ABB said B&R had been valued “in line with” industrial peers....
...Although the price for B&R, which will be funded with cash, was not disclosed, ABB said B&R had been valued “in line with” industrial peers such as US-listed automation group Rockwell, which analysts said...
...Credit Suisse, said: “Switzerland has promised to abolish the special status [of many multinationals], so we think retaliation is unlikely in the short term, if the government comes up soon with a Plan B....
...German media identified the driver of the truck as “Naved B”, a 23-year-old Pakistani man....
...And, finally, RBS has said the EU is willing to listen to its plan B for meeting European state aid rules, after it admitted that plan A – selling off its Williams & Glyn branches – was not going to happen...
...Eva CEO Gideon Yu says B&W’s chief Joe Atkins will become CEO of the combined company....
...Marshall offers a virtual Atkins diet of geopolitics: there is plenty of the red meat of geographical and military analysis with little lighter fare, in terms of other voices or on-the-ground reporting....
...Separate data showed Saudi Arabia, Opec’s biggest producer, had raised production by just over 100,000 b/d to 9.7m/d barrels in September....
...The difference, or “spread”, between yields on bonds issued by Spanish and Italian triple-B rated companies over ultra-safe German Bunds has fallen below the “spread” between triple-B rated US corporate...
...Fitch said on Friday it was upgrading Greece from B- to B, based on improvements in the country’s fiscal position and reduced concern about its funding plans....
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