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...Meanwhile, the colourful oversized rubber rand gave me the proudly weather-resistant appearance of a blue-footed booby....
...“When I told Tom, he said, ‘Why would you leave a lucrative job like the bank and take up this job that is unknown territory to you?’...
...And that our priorities lie elsewhere,” says Tom Donilon, the former US national security adviser under Barack Obama....
...“Physical distancing has been a way of life in Namibia for millennia, and the wide-open spaces of the Namib Rand and Etosha [national parks] are the perfect antidote to the current situation,” says Jarrod...
...He was replaced on a temporary basis by the senior independent director, Tom Colraine, while the company looked for a permanent successor....
...But Lex reckons high wages mean many tech workers are more inspired by ultra-libertarian Ayn Rand than Karl Marx....
...Some people have even suggested that it could be a trillion rand.” The R500bn ($34bn) sum is about a tenth of South Africa’s gross domestic product....
...Tom Braithwaite, our Companies Editor, recaps a bruising first quarter for global business....
...“He went to Kentucky with Matt Bevin and [Kentucky senator] Rand Paul at his side to campaign for Matt Bevin . . ....
...His job was to make sure that what Trump wanted done got done,” says Tom Wright, of the Brookings Institution. “The big question: why was he involved in Ukraine?”...
...“The president is playing a negotiating battle with the Chinese and I think he feels that at this point they can’t really back out,” Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky, told ABC News on Sunday...
...Lawmakers — including Democrats Tom Udall and Tim Kaine and Republicans Rand Paul and Mike Lee — introduced an amendment to a must-pass defence spending bill in a bid to force Mr Trump to seek approval from...
...Mr Paul was joined by Tom Udall, a Democratic senator from New Mexico, who also raised concerns about the impact of the bill on US allies....
...Tom Barkin, McKinsey’s global chief risk officer, said at the time: “There are things we wish we had done differently and will do differently in the future....
...Whistleblowers were also said to have identified Tom Barrack, chief executive of Colony Capital and a close Trump ally, as another significant figure in the proposed sales....
...They were designed in a way that “lone parents are very strongly incentivised to work at least 16 hours a week”, says Tom Waters, an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies....
...“This is not the right approach,” said Tom Donohue, Chamber of Commerce president....
...Mr Ramaphosa suspended Tom Moyane as commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) with immediate effect on Monday, a spokesperson for the president said....
...The Turkish lira is a close second, sliding almost 40 per cent, while the Brazilian real, South African rand and Russian ruble have all suffered too....
...Republicans headed into the weekend knowing that two lawmakers — John McCain and Rand Paul — were already against the bill, which meant losing one more of their 52 senators would doom the bill in the chamber...
...But South Africa’s growth slowed after 2007 and several returned traders blamed the falling value of the rand against China’s renminbi for biting into margins....
...(FT, Nikkei Asian Review) In the news US government shuts down again The US government shut down for the second time in three weeks after Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator, blocked congress from approving...
...“The plan in its entirety will absolutely bring premiums down,” Tom Price told CNN. “We would not have individuals lose coverage that they want for themselves and for their family.”...
...A Reuters poll of 25 economists predicts the central bank will hold rates at 6.5% after a bout of volatility in the rand....
...Trillian has been accused by civil society groups of siphoning hundreds of millions of rand from Eskom and of acting as gatekeeper for international companies to access state groups....
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