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...Industry figures said the so-called big four supermarkets — Tesco, J Sainsbury, Asda and Wm Morrison — had become less price-competitive at the pump because they faced increased competition selling groceries...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...It seems a fair bet that the philosophical revivalists of American conservatism in the 1950s and ’60s — political theorist and social critic Russell Kirk and William F Buckley Jr, the National Review editor...
...As was the case with smaller rival Wm Morrison, the surge in petrol and diesel prices helped sales. Including fuel, same-store sales were up 2.9 per cent in the period....
...In contrast, shares in J Sainsbury have gained almost 30 per cent....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...The FCA’s announcement pushes climate considerations further to the fore for UK board directors, said Vanessa Havard-Williams, a partner at Linklaters....
...As Martin Luther King Jr said: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”...
...The first concession message by a defeated candidate was in 1896, when William Jennings Bryan wired congratulations to William McKinley two days after the vote....
...The 27-year-old curator William J....
...Miller Jr, attorney, Washington, DC, August 10 1976; James Angleton, former chief of counter-intelligence, CIA, Arlington, Virginia, July 8 1976; Lady Bird Johnson, former US First Lady, McLean, Virginia...
...The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life, by Charles J Shields, University of Texas Press, RRP£23.99/$29.95 The book of 2013 was Stoner, a 1965 novel by US writer...
...Trevor Williams, visiting professor at the University of Derby: No, and the UK’s recovery will be significantly weaker than its peers....
...Tesco sales fell 0.6 per cent on a slightly improved market share, while J Sainsbury’s sales fell 0.2 per cent with a 5 basis point share gain....
...J Sainsbury tumbled to a 10-month low after provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority on its Asda merger were seen to make the proposed deal unworkable....
...The bank was restricted on J Sainsbury because it was acting as adviser on its proposed merger with Asda....
...There was Adam Finkel of Annjoy, Arizona-based supplier of paper shopping bags used by high-end retailers such as J Crew and Godiva....
...Towards the end we get a glimpse of the kind of person William Ford Jr had the potential to become....
...The president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. duly laid all dictatorial parallels to rest by saying they had made “a great call” on Twitter....
...In 1996, John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president, chose Cumberland Island as the location for his wedding to Carolyn Bessette....
...William Gribbon is farm manager at Heygate Farms, and supplies Tesco with his Norfolk Peer potatoes. “They’ve been very good to little old me....
...As she explains her thinking, she pays homage to James Baldwin and Homi Bhabha, Jill Stauffer and Robin DiAngelo, Toni Morrison and Lauren Berlant, who gave her the “language to talk about this”....
...The Atlanta-based company, the third largest US homebuilder by revenue, said Mr Dugas’s decision was driven in part by pressure from founder William J Pulte, his grandson Bill Pulte, and Jim Grosfeld, who...
...Faced with declining sales in their edge-of-town superstores, chains including Tesco, J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison have rapidly expanded their small-store formats such as Tesco Express and Sainsbury’s Local...
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