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...In roughly chronological order, William Cobbett, Woodward and Bernstein, Sir Harold Evans and Ryszard Kapuściński....
...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Send any thoughts to trade.secrets@ft.com, or email me at aime.williams@ft.com....
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...“We do not have time or funds to build unique, one-of-a-kind systems,” William Gerstenmaier, a senior Nasa official, said recently....
...Liberals also worry that a more conservative court will mean more protections for corporations and fewer for minorities....
...She now has a new initiative, Bias Interrupters, to encourage corporations to hire and promote more women, minorities and WWC people....
...Since a 1984 Supreme Court ruling in Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council, the court has bowed to bureaucrats in deciding whether their actions are justified....
...“The very first time I heard about the postmodern choreographer William Forsythe, and the first time I was encouraged to go to the Opera House, was from one of these 80-year-old ladies,” he says....
...If he would do them the honour of opening the borough corporation’s new town hall, paying for a statue of William Shakespeare and arranging some accompanying festivities, they would give him the freedom...
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...Serena v Venus....
...ULA’s Atlas V rocket – used for many of the US’s most sensitive military launches – relies on a Russian-supplied RD180 engine....
...The motors are used in the Atlas V rocket that the United Launch Alliance uses to lift the US’s most sensitive spy satellites into space....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...To mark his 70th, Paul McCartney put in a guest appearance, as did comedian Robin Williams....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...she says, as a V-shaped crack in the island’s cliffs reveals the settlement of Jamestown. “And it’s British!”...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Dudley’s rival William Cecil spread rumours that Dudley had Amy murdered so he could wed the queen, and Elizabeth herself was said to be implicated....
...William Hynett, chief executive, B-N, the aviation group. Stephen Jones, milliner. Nigel Kershaw, chairman, The Big Issue. Simon King, TV wildlife presenter....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Trevor Williams, Lloyds TSB UK growth will be underway in 2010, but it is likely to be a sub par recovery due to the severity of the global economic and financial market crisis....
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