Hints and tips:
...I’ve seen countless puny bosses usher silverback colleagues into a private room to say: “You’re fired, no bonus.” They always emerge unscathed....
...But London’s “newest tech unicorn” has become the latest puny-corn....
...The BoJ is tightening on its own time The Bank of Japan doesn’t mind leaving investors dazed and confused....
...Total sales volume growth of 5 per cent may look rather puny against the previous year’s 26 per cent uplift, but investors must bear in mind that demand was significantly impacted in 2020 by lockdowns and...
...Nonetheless, the hive mind of stockpicking contestants has wagered that this time is different....
...(Mind you, part of the explanation may also be that vines are adapting to warmer, drier summers and managing to retain refreshing acidity levels in the grapes even in torrid conditions....
...Supermassives are thought to form in a completely different way from their puny stellar cousins, perhaps through gas collapse at the heart of galaxies....
...Banks and building societies have often jostled for cash Isa business by introducing new rate deals in the early part of the year, just as savers are turning their minds to April’s tax year end — the annual...
...When the teenage Nesrine finally visited the “seat of the Maliks” in northern Sudan, she found a property that was “puny, deserted and crumbling”....
...We have felt small and puny, and now somehow shrived, and tremendous....
...I’d love to pretend that I’m sucking up sonnets like a Hoover, but the effort involved in stuffing them permanently into my puny mind is colossal. It’s always worth it....
...Another problem is that, compared to Mr Macron’s ambitions, this investment budget would be puny....
...Art was the way to his heart and consolation to his nervous mind. His collection is a feast, telling of wealth and learning, love and inspiration, diplomacy and war....
...The earth consists of trillions of tons of matter — yet with a little spring in our puny legs we can (briefly) leave its surface whenever we like....
...Puny, but recall: most said stocks would crash and burn. Versus that, a slow grind is grand....
...Broadband operators may boast about superfast services, but minimum download rates are still set at a puny 128 kilobits per second....
...Many intimate scenes looked puny and lonely, however eloquent the dancers. But those performers, mainly in their early twenties, could be persuasive. Some were even magnificent....
...A few choice slides below, starting with one to keep in mind on the US stock market....
...Minecraft makes a profit, but the figures are puny compared with Microsoft’s overall revenues....
...There is a hyperactivity to Toews’ writing that at its best supercharges the prose, but which can also distract from a powerful portrait of a family, and a mind, in crisis....
...(It is heavily absorbed by water vapour, though, hence the appeal of the Atacama, with its puny rainfall.)...
...Europe Balkanised looks puny compared to the US, China, Russia, India, Brazil or even Nigeria.”...
...David Bowie’s fascinating recent list of 100 favourite books makes a good case for this, as several of them are quirky, half-forgotten titles no longer in print, never mind available as ebooks....
...Perhaps this is what Haruhiko Kuroda, Bank of Japan governor, had in mind when he said at the weekend there was no risk of Japanese bond yields spiking. More likely he was just wrong....
...While distributors in other industries eke out a living on puny margins, Hargreaves is wildly successful....
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