Hints and tips:
...We follow Jack Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), a formerly light-fingered London urchin who has grown up to become a steady-handed surgeon in 1850s Australia....
...“Gambling has been an obvious avenue for crooks to launder their funds quite effectively,” he said....
...“The notion that I would need or listen to financial advice from a dumb crook is absurd.” JPMorgan declined to comment....
...Hinkley Point C’s managing director, Stuart Crooks, said this week he was “confident” there would be no further slippage beyond the guidance given in May....
...In a note sent to Hinkley Point C workers on Thursday, the project’s managing director Stuart Crooks blamed lockdowns during the pandemic, during which it had to reduce the number of staff who could safely...
...“We’ll be there, by hook or by crook!” One grey day in April I travel to Llanwrtyd Wells to meet the Green Events team as they prepare for a new season....
...He told the committee that it had been “happy days if you were a crook” in the first few months of the pandemic given the lack of checks on the money being lent by banks....
...The Daily Racing Form, that august periodical in the crook of the racegoer’s arm, has itself entered the technological age....
...“I would feel like a bit of a crook trying to charge someone 50 quid retail for a bottle of Thelema Cab when I think 30 quid is a fairer price.”...
...Nick Thomas-Symonds, Labour’s shadow home secretary, called them “rehashed policies” that would not make streets safer....
...Cyber crooks have been making out like pirates since the pandemic forced life further online....
...Fifty years ago the incoming head of the Metropolitan police, Robert Mark, defined a good police force as “one that catches more crooks than it employs”....
...Angelika Loderer suspends thin ribbons of metal from the ceiling, with coloured sand packed into their curves and crooks....
...“Remember, not many people knew who Thomas Heatherwick was when that cauldron popped up,” says Green, referring to the architect who lit up the Olympic ceremony. “Now he’s a superstar.”...
...Mr Crooks added that “a longer construction period also adds some cost — as does the reduced efficiency of operating a site for a long period under Covid-19 conditions”....
...They look much more interesting to an intelligence agency than a bunch of crooks....
...Andrew Crook restarted his fish and chip shop in Chorley, Lancashire, earlier this month after a coronavirus-induced lockdown, but his till remained closed....
...Last week the managing director of Hinkley Point C, Stuart Crooks, said the UK government “needs to decide if it wants nuclear or not.”...
...It probably helps that the region feels like the Europe of our great-grandparents — horse-drawn wagons, unfenced pastures, shepherds with long crooks, virgin forests where bears still prowl, dangerous geese...
...“Social distancing is very difficult between employees but with certain working practices you can minimise risk,” said Mr Crook, who is also president of the National Federation of Fish Friers....
...Stuart Crooks, managing director of Hinkley Point C, told staff in a memo on Wednesday that adapting EDF’s reactor design, known as the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), to UK conditions and regulations...
Energy sector under pressure to align lobbying with green goals
...And finally: The rivalry that pitted Thomas Edison against George Westinghouse and his ally Nikolai Tesla was one of the most dramatic in the history of business, and one of the most momentous for our world...
...Thomas DiNapoli, New York State’s comptroller, who has responsibility for its pension funds, said: “Exxon would ignore this level of support for an independent board chair at its own risk.”...
...Gregory Hayes, chairman and chief executive of United Technologies, is expected to become the chief executive of the new company, while Thomas Kennedy of Raytheon would take on the chairmanship, said a person...
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