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...The islanders speak in a ripe, invented dialect — an egg becomes a “h’egg” — and with a rolling accent....
...LC Joint highest climber: Maryland: SmithThe Robert H Smith School of Business in the US is one of two equal highest climbers, up 28 places to 57th....
...It was once nicknamed the ex-presidents club, because it had counted George H.W Bush and John Major as advisers....
...We look forward to working with him as our new chair and to his continued contributions,” said Thomas H. Glocer, Merck’s independent lead director....
...One good read My colleague Ed Luce on the implications of the election for Virginia governor: “It turns out that in practice, Democrats are bad at fighting culture wars when Trump is not on the ballot.”...
...Reeling from disappointing election results in New Jersey and Virginia, President Joe Biden should heed the proverb himself and reappoint the current Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell for a second term....
...One good read Great interview from Politico with the Jeff Roe and Kristin Davison, who ran the successful Youngkin campaign for Virginia Governor....
...Powell, who was tapped by Donald Trump in early November 2017 to lead the Fed and previously served as a top Treasury official under George H W Bush, has already won the backing of a number of Republican...
...For Bangladesh, cutting and sewing clothes for the likes of Primark, Walmart and H&M has certainly been profitable....
...Reversal will allow the debate to work its way throughout the nation, state by state — H. R. Piet, Lewes, Delaware, US....
.../ From Bernard H Casey, Frankfurt, Germany...
...Virginia-based Petroleum Marketing Group has only 26 of the 74 drivers it needs, LeBlanc said. “We’re out there recruiting and we’re not getting any bites, not even a nibble....
...Nudge: The Final Editionby Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein, Allen Lane $18 Nudge, originally published in 2008, was an immensely influential and important best-seller about how to influence people...
...The architect did a great job, said H_ZC “It seems strange now to wander back through memory to where 7 WTC was the first new building in Downtown, and every additional tenant represented a not-so-little...
...The proposal, led by Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat, and Susan Collins, the Maine Republican, reflects the growing anxiety in Washington over the state of the economy....
...Arizona has gone from red to blue without much of a transition phase, just as Virginia did in 2008....
...Any analysis of future political climates and deepening economic inequality must factor in this 800-pound gorilla that is, surprisingly, off most people’s radar screen.” — Michael H, Chicago, Illinois...
...The 24 cases of Covid-19 in the whole country of Georgia, where a friend who had a fever and cough got tested readily, are fewer than the 28 cases in my home region of Virginia, Maryland and the District...
...“I am gravely concerned that we need to get that out and we need to be very aggressive with it,” Mark Warner, the Democratic senator from Virginia, told Mr Mnuchin, who was testifying alongside Jay Powell...
...The writer was opposition research counsel for George H W Bush’s 1988 campaign So much for the Republicans as the party of Abraham Lincoln....
...Candidates such as George H W Bush and George W Bush actively courted the community’s vote. But the arrival in 2015 of the unconventional Trump threatened to disrupt this relationship....
...For Mr Moore, these included his past criticisms of pay equality between men and women, and a Virginia court’s decision to hold him in contempt for failing to make spousal and child support payments....
...Scott Beardsley, dean since 2015 at Virginia’s Darden School of Business, joined after a 26-year career at McKinsey , the consultancy....
...“[H]e wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. We fell in love,” he told a rally in West Virginia on Saturday....
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