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...Measured in dollars, a lawyer named Douglas Wigdor would be the undisputed legal leader of the #MeToo movement....
...He didn't really want to be extradited to the United States, but I think after a short period in jail in the Bahamas that idea became a little bit more appealing to him. He was flown to the US....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...After all, the United States has about 66 per cent, I believe, of the world’s liquidity, and our capital markets are, roughly speaking, the size of the rest of the worlds combined....
...No other container port in the United States can go above 12. We need taller cranes, newer cranes. Unions have been highly opposed to automating in the United States,” he says....
...The median price of a home in Austin hit an all-time high in February, according to the Austin Board of Realtors, rising 24 per cent over 12 months to $491,000....
...Ecuador’s national currency, the sucre, was replaced with the dollar in January 2000 in a bid to regulate runaway inflation and stabilise the country’s economy....
...Having worked or shown in Europe in recent years, many of America’s top designers are back on their home turf and have returned to find their brands and businesses diminished, their market share ceded to...
...Iranian businessmen tell apocryphal tales of middlemen traversing the region with suitcases packed with hundreds of thousands of dollars; of developing a complex web of trading routes; and setting up offshore...
...Four hundred and twenty years after its founding, with a corporate mogul sitting in the White House, attempting to use his dollars to buy whole nations, and with a former chief executive of ExxonMobil recently...
...“How much money we spend on emergency-room care but somehow we can’t have affordable medicine in the United States.”...
...Regional currencies lost ground as the US dollar was firmer and oil edged lower....
...Infuriated by its perceived abuse of the US postal service the flaxen-haired, SEC-settling President of the United States has launched a string of attacks on Bezos' Seattle-based empire over the past fortnight...
...Ocado has been increasing the grocery picking capacity at its state-of-the-art customer fulfilment centre in Andover, and has increased the number of orders processed there by 50 per cent in 14 weeks....
...The US dollar held at a five-week high after Donald Trump announced plans to slash the US corporate tax rate.The dollar index, a measure of the currency against a basket of its peers, was 0.2 per cent higher...
...Best known for founding the first 24/7 cable news channel in 1980, Turner has also won the America’s Cup, owned the Atlanta Braves and donated a billion dollars to the UN....
...“They need to build thousands of kilometres of rail network to make it work.” Wage costs in China are spiralling by 20 per cent a year, says DP World, which has four joint ventures in the country....
...It would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in snowy places like Nebraska and probably require an extra garage to house all the batteries, the CLSA brokerage calculated last year....
...Westad puts it well: “The question often asked — why was there a cold war when the United States and the USSR could be allies in World War II? — is the wrong question....
...The weakness of M4 money supply growth does not bode well for growth. As such, the conditions for a slide in the currency towards $1.20 against the US dollar is very possible....
...in the southern states....
...of state as sufficiently progressive....
...Twenty-four hours a day, every day of the year, a salty solution rich in lithium is pumped from deep beneath the desert into evaporation pools....
...), together with the high costs of products in the dollar stores (at the exchange rate of around 26 pesos for $1.00 of imported products plus a high sales tax of 140%), in the farmers markets, self-employment...
...The United Nations has since confirmed that thousands of Yazidi men have been executed, and 7,000 women and girls sold into sexual slavery....
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