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...Opposition parties claimed the new proposals did not go far enough and some protesters want ‘Act V’ of the demonstrations to take place on Saturday throughout France....
...Their Mortal Remains, like the V&A’s exhibitions on David Bowie and the late 1960s, forces us to judge our own time....
...“We have a very strong survival instinct,” Gerald Grosvenor told the FT. “We have been pursued by every single government and, prior to that, Cromwell had a damn good go at us....
...Sir, Your Person in the News column on the Queen (“Long has she reigned over us”, April 23) begins with a statement that the FT in 1926 published a brief notice on the birth of King George V and Queen Mary...
...The latter are The Durrells (ITV 8pm), the family that contained future authors Lawrence and Gerald, besides another firearms-mad son and a romantically pining daughter....
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...V: Now let us join together in singing that fine old hymn Jesus Wants Me For a Low-Energy Lightbulb....
...v single-breasted; button-down collar v spread?...
...from entering the US....
...… Grounded in US The various jabs on Tuesday night by BA chairman Sir Martin Broughton on his favourite topic of overbearing US airport security checks included the story of a woman at O’Hare airport...
...My colleague Steven Spurrier was spurned by the French wine establishment for years after he organised the famous California v France tasting in Paris in 1976....
...News analysis: US Treasury buyers move the goalposts The dealers that dominate the US Treasury market had rarely seen anything like it....
...“The effect of this Fed buying should not be underestimated; nor should it be ignored when it is scheduled to end,” says Gerald Lucas, senior investment adviser at Deutsche Bank....
...“The [US] equity market is priced for a V-shaped earnings recovery but there is concern about the unemployment rate rising further.”...
...Bonhams runs two sales a year focusing on postwar silversmiths, in which work by contemporary smiths like Stuart Devlin, Leslie Durbin and Gerald Benney has been selling particularly well....
...While some equity research touts a V-shaped recovery for the economy, bond investors believe the economy will only derive a short-term boost from the replenishment of inventories....
...Gerald Ford is a supporting character. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan might never have been born....
...And what do you tell the young who ask about his “girlfriend”, a hooker lookalike called Ms V. Aggra, whom he paws?...
...Last week, in Hamdan v Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr Bush did not have the right to hold military commissions to try terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay....
...As Gerald V....
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