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...He estimates that the rate of return on investment needed to equate the present value of liabilities to the value of assets is a mere 0.7 per cent, in real terms....
...The UK worker’s 1,681 annual hours each produce a mere $48.30, making him or her slightly poorer than their German counterpart....
...He met Olivier Messiaen as a boy, and later studied with Yvonne Loriod, the composer’s second wife, at the Paris Conservatoire, before forging important collaborative relationships with other modernists:...
...A mere five minutes into the meeting and the animal psychic (an extremely personable, no-nonsense kind of woman by the name of Yvonne) had sharply observed that I was “excessively stressed” about the dogs...
...Boesmans has produced a very accessible opera based on Gombrowicz’s surreal play about the unappealing, practically mute princess whose mere presence at court undermines the social order and exacerbates...
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