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...Among watercolours based on Alesworth’s photographs are surreally clinical images of “exotic” flora in Milton Keynes....
...Anne Gunning (1929-90) is sometimes referred to as one of the first “supermodels”; the Briton was a staple of Life magazine and Vogue, photographed by Norman Parkinson or Milton H Greene....
...When Lily Jones, aka Lily Vanilli, was thinking how to mark 15 years of her East London bakery – which has made cakes for everyone from Elton John and Madonna to the V&A and 10 Downing Street – she knew...
...Nikita Khrushchev’s trip to the American Midwest in 1959 inspired an abundance of wheat and corn sheaves....
...This weekend, the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes opens Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now (7 October to 28 January), while in November, London’s Artist Room will present...
...And on the more cheerful side, Norman Borlaug’s starvation-fighting dwarf wheat, and an interactive display showing how long a person has to work to afford an hour’s worth of good light, from the oil lamp...
...New Zealand was missed out and Canada was represented by five ounces of minced apple, despite the tons of wheat it was pouring into Britain....
...Yet Russia’s own bureaucracy appears to make the wheat’s origins clear....
...Below it are terraces planted with wheat and rye, oranges and olives, beans and maize....
...Photosynthesis, parallelograms, Greek myths, the wheat yield of the prairie farms; sadly they have dimmed a bit....
...V.Group offers services, operational management and maintenance to shipowners around the world, supplying them with its pool of more than 46,000 seafarers....
...Others, like Philip Rees in Milton Keynes, may stick for the time being with their familiar models of farming, given demand for his output....
...But developers in some parts of China have in recent weeks promised to accept stocks of garlic — as well as watermelons, wheat and barley — as down payments from farmers on new apartments....
...Guedes said the country had entered a “V-shaped” recovery and would grow as much as 2.1 per cent next year, aided by investment commitments from the private sector of more than $100bn....
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
...Cat Rutter PooleyThe trade off isn’t necessarily growth v fairness. Everyone agrees that we need to get Britain growing. The problem is that you need the broadest ability to be able to do it....
...In 2006, the political scientists Charles Taber and Milton Lodge looked at motivated reasoning about gun control and affirmative action....
...The prevailing view was that inflation, as Milton Friedman put it, was “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”....
...ANNE MILTON: Pitting parliament against people is saying, we're happy for you to lose trust in Parliament....
...We though, in the birthplace of Milton and Shakespeare, have had to nick “Bon appétit” from the French. Perhaps, pace Pooh, we still just don’t get how important these moments are....
...Ultimately, I too believe that massive monetary and fiscal stimulus will begin to drive CPIs higher, but as Milton Friedman said, monetary policy works with long and variable lags....
...Milton Friedman has had a tough year. The Chicago economist died in 2006, but his legacy lived on in corporate boardrooms....
...They have already swung net long on CBT wheat futures and CBT soybean meal futures. Some more about that earnings pain only beginning? Okay....
...Kelton is to modern monetary theory what Milton Friedman was to American conservatives for a half century — conversational, fierce, relentless....
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