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...Walter Malfatto, 59, lays back on his chair at his ranch, arms crossed as he stares out of the window....
...Myers, who won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for his novel The Gallows Pole, excels at conjuring rural England....
...Early designs by Arts and Crafts luminaries William Morris, Walter Crane and Edward Burne-Jones made their debut at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition in 1876....
...Romance, ever since Walter Scott created his Gothic home at Abbotsford, has never ceased to bewitch an addicted nation of country-house prowlers. And what of the future?...
...Matta-Clark cut into buildings, Agnes Denes made a wheat field in New York City, Smithson created new landforms, Donald Judd began the move out to Marfa, Texas, and Walter De Maria built “The Lightning Field...
...But that smile, famously associated with the “Mona Lisa”, also attracted more troubling analyses from figures such as Walter Pater and Sigmund Freud....
...Scott rightly stresses the critical role of domesticated grains — wheat, barley, millet, maize and rice — in sustaining political power: grown above ground, ripening on a predictable schedule and eminently...
...Well, thank you very much there to Leonora Walters, personal finance editor of the Investors Chronicle....
...– Nickels in the urinal (with notes on wheat prices). – Shkreli ordered to stop discussing trial around courthouse. – Are deferred bonuses legal?...
...The scenery was classic Borders, a blend of the comfortable and the harsh: valleys with lush wheat fields, woods and picturesque villages interspersed by thin-soiled, craggy uplands....
...The obituary pages and magazines were suddenly peppered with arresting images of aircraft carriers in wheat fields and hypertrophied spark-plugs inserted like sinister communication towers in rolling rural...
...Mr Tschentscher of Schultze & Braun says once the wheat has been sorted from the chaff “there is a good chance that the previous boom may — after a short dip — continue”....
...He has had to stop processing milk, which increased his margin, but can now grow his own wheat and maize to feed his cattle, saving on the rising cost of feed. “Farmland is a safe haven....
...It consisted of stylised, erect fern fronds with heads of wheat hanging down between them from an acanthus-leaf border....
...The question is, how to sort the wheat from the chaff?...
...CBOT December corn touched a fresh two-year high of $5.9075 a bushel, while CBOT December wheat traded at $7.28 before slipping back below $7.10....
...But soft commodities are back in sharp focus as wheat prices soar and hedge fund company Armajaro cornered the cocoa market....
...Elsewhere, agricultural commodities piggybacked on surging wheat prices....
...“I’ll go for the scrambled eggs on wheat toast with some grilled tomatoes and Tabasco sauce.” I choose scrambled eggs as well, with bacon rather than tomatoes....
...Separately, Walter Robb, co-president of Whole Foods Market, said its more than 270 natural and organic supermarkets were seeing a similar slowdown in sales growth for its private label products....
...In the eighteenth century, New York passed Boston to become the English colonies’ most important port; it specialized in shipping wheat and flour south to feed the sugar and tobacco colonies....
...CBOT July wheat added 7 cents to $5.48½ a bushel but CBOT July corn dipped 2 cents to $4.15¼ a bushel....
...CBOT May soyabeans rose 11 cents to $10.17 a bushel while CBOT May corn traded 1½ cents higher at $3.98½ a bushel but CBOT May wheat lost 3 cents at $5.29 a bushel....
...CBOT May wheat lost 10 cents at $5.22 a bushel, down 7.4 per cent over the week....
...Jimmy Carter probably was but had problems sorting wheat from chaff. Mr Truman and Mr Reagan were proudly not, but both were smart enough on the big issues....
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