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...Tina No, I did not. Lauren Fedor Why not? Tina Because I think that Trump can continue to pick up where he left off and take us back where we need to be....
...Tina Smith, a Democratic senator from Minnesota who sits on the Senate banking committee, applauded the solution brokered by the Biden administration....
...Tina is toast. It used to be that you had to buy stocks because the risk-free alternative, Treasuries, yielded nothing; hence “There Is No Alternative”. That, too, is all over now....
...Our sibling podcast, Payne’s Politics is also looking at The Crown this week with an episode on how British society has changed during the Queen’s reign....
...Additional reporting by Sebastian Payne...
...Political correspondents Jim Pickard and Sebastian Payne explain who’s who in the new “unity cabinet”....
...H’Angus, the local football team’s mascot, was unexpectedly elected in three elections on a pledge to deliver free bananas to all school children. The mayoralty was subsequently abolished in 2013....
...Meanwhile on the high street, Arcadia’s brands were undercut on price by the likes of Primark and faced an onslaught of competition as H&M and Zara expanded in the UK....
...Rival mid-market operators such as Primark, H&M and Zara have undercut Arcadia’s prices, while its relatively under-developed online offering has been outclassed by operators such as Asos and Boohoo....
...The Babcock consortium includes Thales, as well as H&W and Ferguson. Under the original proposal, the plan was to assemble the vessels at Rosyth using “blocks” built by H&W and Ferguson....
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...Sebastian Payne weighs in on the standouts. Simon Usborne reflects on the virtues of virtual cycling....
...Juerg Steffen, H&P chief executive, said the payment should nonetheless not have been taken, since his company had previously rejected Mr Low as a client following due diligence checks....
...former Revolutionary Communist party member, James Glancy, a former soldier and conservationist, Matthew Patten, a business and charity director, Lance Forman, the owner and chairman of the smokehouse H...
...One angry Brexiter was seen repeatedly yelling: “Theresa May is a treacherous b***h. I hate that cow.” The atmosphere in the Ukip demonstration was much more febrile....
...Robert Zoellick pays tribute to George H W Bush’s presidency, which he thinks transformed global relations by promoting a new era of co-operation and respect....
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...Apprenticeships in service sector matter in Germany: letter from Bernard H Casey, London, UK and Frankfurt, Germany Further to “Germans show how to tackle the puzzle of productivity”: there are good apprenticeship...
...H&M’s UK store estate doubled between 2005 and 2012. Primark’s sales almost quadrupled in that period, to more than £3bn....
...It is difficult to articulate how C+H will successfully defend share, but a stepped-up shift to a food offering with a stronger USP will make MKS a better business....
...“The 90-day truce in the Sino-US trade war is a welcome development in reducing tension,” said Nick Payne, head of global EM equities at Merian Global Investors....
...The Macron government’s decision to reduce speed limits on secondary roads to 80km/h down from 90km/h has enraged the country’s drivers....
...Primark, the clothing retailer owned by Associated British Foods, now has revenues more than three times those of Arcadia, while global fashion retailers such as Inditex and H&M are much bigger....
...Public sector must protect communities — letter from Benjamin H Bradlow “The urgent question is not about what Amazon can do voluntarily to be seen as a more “socially responsible” corporate actor....
...Basel Hong Kong, where Willem de Kooning’s “Untitled XII” (1975) was sold for $35m by Lévy Gorvy gallery, while Zao Wou-ki’s oil “12.89-02.90” (1989-90) went to an Asian private collection for $24m through Tina...
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