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...“In the US, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (the ‘G.I. Bill’) upskilled millions of World War II veterans to address postwar labour needs....
...The mill certificates waiver followed multiple meetings and roundtables, according to the BCC’s head of trade policy William Bain....
...I was amazed because it’s got such fantastic memories and such people in it: Queen Elizabeth II, Sir William Purves, who was the chairman of HSBC, Jim Clark and Graham Hill....
...This disc looks to the high watermark of the genre, the coronation of George II in 1727....
...dan.stewart@ft.com...
...Stanley Stewart Pata Lodge, Patagonia, Chile You arrive through enchanted woods....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...On the balcony of Buckingham Palace, her signature style was in full form, with a vibrant green coat by Stewart Parvin and matching hat from Rachel Trevor Morgan....
...Formal society portraits of the great and the good are still thriving, but recent examples, such as the first official painting of William, the Prince of Wales, and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, by Jamie...
...France’s Atlantic coast in August, passing my days going up in one of those zero-gravity airliners astronauts once called “vomit comets”, being thrown around in an aerobatic plane to experience launch g-forces...
...Seen from the mainland, loyalist celebrations marking the Protestant William of Orange’s victory over the Catholic King James II several centuries ago look at best rather eccentric....
...And last year, Prince William appeared at the 50th anniversary of Centrepoint, a charity his mother championed, wearing a dark emerald tuxedo jacket....
...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...And on Article 8, War Crimes, Article 2A goes on for pages giving instances, including Article 8.2(a)(ii) Torture or Inhuman Treatment....
...(ii) For the average citizen, I expect them to feel the same as today....
...British climber William Cecil Slingsby, the first man to the top of most of the surrounding eminences, called the view from up there “the proudest in Europe”....
...(ii) Margin upside with our analysis of WPP’s cost structure relative to peers indicating over £520mn potential savings over 2021-25 (4.8 % of 2019 continuing net sales)....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...The table was amended on August 8 2017 to reflect a corrected value for Stewart Investors’ AUM ($30.5bn)....
...“The broking world hasn’t collapsed post-Mifid, but some are clinging on,” said Mark Brown, chairman of broker Stockdale Securities and the former chief executive of Collins Stewart....
...There are four main options: i) May’s deal, ii) another deal (eg. Norway for now), iii) no deal or iv) remain....
...Alastair Winter, chief economist, Daniel Stewart & Company More optimistic than 12 months ago....
...As it did last year with Christopher Williams, MoMA has handed its curatorial reins over to a conceptual artist....
...When William Dodson was a boy, thatchers were not always found up ladders....
...However, this is so good from William Porter and team at Credit Suisse, it’s time to reconsider: One fundamental thesis is that “r>g”; the returns to capital are greater than the growth rate....
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