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...On the Monday after Maria made landfall, devastating the US territory of Puerto Rico including its electricity network, cash orders from the island were up more than 800 per cent....
...In a room in the United States this summer, a paragraph of text was changed that heralded a remarkable shift....
...The division employs more than 100,000 workers in its stores across the US and Puerto Rico....
...The number of Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin now living in the state more than doubled between 2000 and 2014, when it surpassed 1m for the first time, according to Census Bureau data....
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...Most models focus either on leveraging networks of existing resources, capital and volunteers then charging rents for platform use or on forging platform monopolies that lock-in users so that their data...
...Four fifths of all journeys in this country are by road, yet we rank behind Puerto Rico and Namibia in the quality of our network....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...benefits the poor: that is this book’s theme....
...For seven years now, a growing number of General Mills workers have been practising meditation, yoga and so-called “mindfulness” in the workplace....
...Under pressure from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft this year disclosed that it produces and distributes its software through regional centres in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico to ease...
...In keeping with the nameless spirit of their movement and to guard against lawsuits, they picked a uniform disguise – Guy Fawkes masks like those used in the movie V for Vendetta....
...Because hospitals are forced by law to treat emergencies, he says, they have become the de facto “insurers for the uninsured”....
...Countrywide Financial Corporation, et al is ostensibly brought on behalf of purchasers of such CWALT, Inc. mortgage pass-through certificates, as well as various other mortgage-backed securities registered...
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...And it remains hard for futurists to get the message out because they are often so far down the pecking order in the big corporations....
...“Everyone is going to talk about this issue . . . about where you stand on corporations that make $11bn a year in profits and say they can’t afford to pay for healthcare for their workers.”...
...“Mayors take the idea of the so-called creative city index very seriously. [They] now realise the value of the creative sector and see the economic benefit of investing in it....
...To provide for them, Saleh Al-Rajhi has the second-largest shareholding in the family’s Al-Rajhi Bank and, over the past year, the group’s share price has shot up by 89 per cent....
...It had to create a Spanish “voice” that would appeal to immigrants from places as diverse as Mexico, Puerto Rico and Ecuador....
...After 9/11 a major division took place between Saudi Arabia and United States, west and east, and Christianity and Islam....
...The 53-year-old former Worker’s Daily journalist also uses her bi-weekly column to press the government to pursue market reforms....
...This flood of immigrants, both legal and illegal, is feeding demand for workers in the economically vibrant parts of the US....
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