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...The endeavour has come at a cost to the company of “an extra $1.5mn above what we’d normally pay for the cotton”, according to Williams....
...That opportunity was another that presented itself without Motion pursuing it when the poet Mary Jo Salter, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, “took me to supper and asked whether I’d...
...Locally caught seafood arrives from artisan fish merchant Mike Warner (his store, A Passion for Seafood, is at Grange Farm, Hasketon) and meat from craft butcher Gerard King of Salter & King, who works with...
...Transfer Market Tim Williams, former chief financial officer of Inter Milan, is back in football....
...Wimbledon’s organisers will be cheering the return of Serena Williams (14.9mn followers) even though few expect her to mount much of a challenge to the utterly dominant young star of women’s tennis: Iga...
...“I think we’re in a pretty tough place right now,” said former New York Federal Reserve president William Dudley during the FT’s Global Boardroom event last week....
...Salter’s secret ingredient was a splash of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, which he claimed added the “faint, unidentifiable touch of greatness”....
...There’s a nippy reading of Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” featuring twiddles, riffs and a clearly stated theme, and a reworking of the 1975 arrangement of Ralph McDonald and William Salter’s “Mister...
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: Recession is capitalism’s fundamental driver / From William Payne, Monaco...
...On my bedside table among a pile of other books — Mary Gaitskill, James Baldwin, William Burroughs (yikes!)...
...William Lam, Asian equities fund manager at Invesco Perpetual, argues that “the main reason the market has gone nowhere in 10 years” is that in 2007 it was “very overvalued”, with a price-to-book ratio of...
...Joy Williams is regularly hailed as one of America’s greatest living writers, praised — by admirers including Don DeLillo, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver and James Salter — in the same terms as giants...
...A key driver of the stock market rally has been the slide in the rouble in 2014-15, which increased the value of Russian companies’ foreign earnings in rouble terms, says William Jackson, senior emerging...
...James Salter, Joy Williams, Deborah Eisenberg, Javier Marías, Edward St Aubyn, Bernard MacLaverty, Don DeLillo, Muriel Spark. Where is your favourite place in the world?...
...Wellington hosted his Waterloo banquets in this gallery, and one was painted atmospherically by William Salter: “The Waterloo Banquet” (1836) — the old duke with silver hair, flanked by his officers — hangs...
...But Christine Williams, professor of nutrition at Reading University said that low-fat foods were often “loaded up with sugar to compensate for the lack of palatability”....
...When I read this week of Salter’s death, I wished I had met him, for all that he was....
...John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing....
...(The other winners included the veteran American novelist James Salter, who is 87.) “I was so astonished and lucky to get it....
...As William Jackson of Capital Economics put it: If anything, the country’s stock market could actually benefit from the move....
...All That Is , by James Salter, Picador, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 The first Salter novel for more than 30 years is a rare treat for fans of his distinctive prose....
...“We are exploring tangible suggestions for making a significant difference to Chinese visitor numbers,” said Guy Salter, deputy chairman of Walpole, the British consortium of luxury brands....
...All That Is, by James Salter, Picador, RRP£18.99, 304 pages The celebrated American writer James Salter is now 88, and his first new novel in more than 30 years is a big event....
...It was in a spirit of irony and disappointment that John Carey called his recent biography William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies....
...A trial with a Robbie Williams album last year, which put the CD in outlets that had given up selling music, had increased Tesco’s share of the album’s UK sales by 40 per cent from its typical market share...
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