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...“HVDC [high-voltage direct current] becomes economic at about the 60km mark” for subsea systems, says Ian Douglas, chief executive of cable company XLCC....
...A brass band entertained a merry after-work crowd while a mime in rainbow tights wandered around with a hula hoop. We felt further away than three miles from home....
...My personal style signifiers are hoop earrings – I wear a pair of bamboo door knockers that have my name engraved on them – and a red lip....
...As we discuss the Booker winner, Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain, his grin is replaced with a look of pain. “Why didn’t I invite Shuggie Bain? Oh well, he has enough gigs going on right now.”...
...Closeted, effervescent Ritchie (Olly Alexander) yearns to escape the tedium of the Isle of Wight; brittle, flamboyant Roscoe (Omari Douglas) is on the run, outed by his evangelical Nigerian parents; sensible...
...“We need to take Scotland forward and recover from this crisis together, not go back to the divisions of the past,” Douglas Ross, the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said....
...Ron Cook’s sleek, clenched Douglas talks ominously of achieving a “cast iron peace”....
...Even when local authority arts departments can attract private investment, they must jump through daunting bureaucratic hoops to win approval from their purse-holders....
...(Gabby Douglas, part of the US’s gold medal-winning gymnastics team in Rio, took the individual gold in London in 2012)....
...The Homeless World Cup takes place in Glasgow from July 10-16; streetsoccerscotland.org Photograph: Caroline Douglas...
...(Tom Edsall, NYT) A full scale rejection of the political establishment (Douglas E....
...He said the existing rules meant young people, organisations such as church groups and people with connections to certain countries had to go through “all kinds of hoops to open a bank account”....
...BNY Mellon has appointed Douglas Shulman as global head of client service delivery....
...“The tables are starting to turn,” sang Mr Murphy at one point, joining in a local singer’s impromptu rendition of Tracy Chapman’s Talkin Bout A Revolution....
...Photograph: Tracy Baim/Windy City Times Slideshow photographs: Mark Brown; Marc F Henning/Jon Roemer; Imaginechina/Rex Shutterstock; The Independent/Rex Shutterstock...
...Douglas Hodge, who succeeded Mr El-Erian as CEO, said: “Over the course of this year it became increasingly clear that the firm’s leadership and Bill have fundamental differences about how to take Pimco...
...Oscar Wilde’s former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed a conspiracy which took in Winston Churchill, the battle of Jutland and a worldwide network of Jews (Churchill successfully sued Douglas for criminal...
...Douglas Taylor of Burton-Taylor International, a financial data consultancy, said Bloomberg had trodden “a fine line” but that the story “might be no more than a speed bump”....
...“They are intelligent people,” says Douglas Landy, head of the US financial services regulatory practice at law firm Allen & Overy....
...“Volcker acts like a giant set of handcuffs on foreign banks,” said Douglas Landy, partner at law firm Allen & Overy, which is representing Canadian banks....
...Additional reporting by Tracy Alloway...
...Last week, HSBC chairman Douglas Flint said at least 80 financial institutions should be deemed systemically important and potentially require higher capital levels, as reported by Reuters at the time....
...Douglas Holtz-Eakin: A conservative plan for the US debt limit American conservatives have been unfairly painted as a threat to global financial stability, with critics on the left suggesting that the US...
...- Douglas to lead Abu Dhabi’s new megaport. - Prudential shareholders to discuss fate of chairman. - Swiss hedge fund, SwissDirekt, fires manager after losses....
...The boy is one of about 5,000 people who have come to a Peterborough exhibition centre on a snowy November weekend, to watch a dog display team jump through hoops, buy the colourful paraphernalia that goes...
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