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...Laurence Ball at Johns Hopkins University argues a more realistic estimate is upwards of 7 per cent....
...Anna learned diplomacy from her father, who was the British ambassador to Yugoslavia before becoming Queen Elizabeth’s deputy private secretary in 1985....
...“[DeSantis] was relatively unknown to a big portion of Florida, and Trump just said, ‘This is it.’”...
...Ribadeau-Dumas, a former chief of staff to France’s prime minister, most recently served as deputy chief of French reinsurer Scor....
...The great unknown this time is whether the US might just veto all the candidates and create stasis, which could easily stretch into next year....
...He should also consider delegating more responsibility in policy matters to his deputies....
...Matthew Whittaker, deputy director, Resolution Foundation The big unknown! Much will of course rest on what Brexit means come March 29....
...He claims there was an attempt to poison him last year when he was injected with an unknown substance. His opponents accuse him of hiring mercenaries to plot a coup....
...Charlie Ball, deputy director of research at the Higher Education Career Services Unit, however, says a degree remains the best means of acquiring the breadth of skills needed to cope with rapid changes...
...Labour MPs have coalesced around Angela Eagle, a relatively unknown figure, to take on their leader and his base in the party membership....
...What I’m waiting for is the rolling ball of snow to pick up speed because the momentum is there.” The writer is the FT Johannesburg bureau chief...
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford More pessimistic than 12 months ago (I note the question is premised on Brexit.)...
...Traditionally the pangolins rolled up in a ball but poachers just pick up the balls and sell the animals to traditional healers or restaurants....
...I don’t recall a single person at the last election saying, “Vote for me, and I’ll make sure Nick Clegg becomes deputy prime minister.” No one. The system is stuttering. And the prizes seem so puny....
...The latest version is a pack of 10 small cheerleading robots that balance on balls to move around and dance....
...Sir John Gieve, former bank deputy governor, said he thought policy makers should “begin to raise rates at the start of the year, unless the Russian crisis or some other world event knocks us off the growth...
...“Few prisoners commit crimes while out on a pass, because they don’t want to lose that privilege,” says Zenica’s deputy warden, Josip Bojovnik....
...It must be that Number 10 has a large celebrity name generator, like the big ball machine that chooses the numbers in the National Lottery....
...Please share your thoughts on this question.Charles Ball, Radnor, PA, USA William Kooser: There really is no guarantee of a particular ROI with any educational investment....
...Cern scientists hope fervently that the flight patterns will reveal the existence of previously unknown particles and forces, maybe even dimensions....
...Serghini spent the evening by a desk covered with literature on Wal-Mart’s charitable giving and other policy issues, beside a pile of yellow Wal-Mart smiley-face squeeze-balls....
...“That’s unknown,” he says. John Thornhill is editor of the FT’s Europe edition....
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