Month: December 2020

Virgin Australia’s newly installed CEO has said it will be “irresistible” to fly again, as the airline aims to regain market share under new ownership. Jayne Hrdlicka told CNBC Wednesday that the company was well-placed to take a third of the domestic market, reinstating it to pre-Covid levels as travel within the country resumes. “We’re
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St. Regis Aspen Dec. 9th, 2020 California might be under stay-at-home orders for the remainder of the month, but there’s still time to plan a festive getaway over the holidays. Whether it’s hitting the slopes and getting cozy around the fire for après-ski in the mountains or sunning yourself somewhere tropical like the Maldives or
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The Independent Cinema Alliance, a volunteer alliance of independent cinemas operating in North America, has responded to WarnerMedia’s theatrical-HBO Max 2021 slate day and date release strategy and they’re not pleased. They’re calling on studio of Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood and Harry Potter to recommit to theatrical exclusivity, for that is what drives value to movies, not
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) at the State Department in Washington, U.S. June 23, 2015. Yuri Gripas | Reuters BEIJING — Hope is fading for a significant change in U.S.-China relations under President-elect Joe Biden, Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Natixis’ chief economist for Asia-Pacific, said on Thursday. Relations
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It’s safe to say there’s really nothing about 2020 that we’re not over at this point, and that includes basically everything we wore Fashion will never be the defining aspect of this year, but the trends that were definitely capture the zeitgeist of lockdown, an unprecedented period in history that we’re all ready to move
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In 2018, he and Schiller set up a “management committee,” consisting of Gravante, Dunn, Isaacson, and Phil Korologos, “with the hope that they would sort of be the future of leadership in the firm,” Boies says. But that structure didn’t really work, especially since both Boies and Schiller were still the comanaging partners of the
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Reading was one of my first true loves. I can’t really remember a time when I wasn’t reading. Some of my earliest memories involve curling up with my parents and “reading” to them from my favorite children’s books that I had memorized from repeated retellings. My relatives were always impressed by my dedication to reading,
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(CNN) — A Royal Caribbean cruise ship has returned to port in Singapore after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19. The Quantum of the Seas ship was hosting a three-night, four-day “cruise to nowhere” itinerary around Singapore. The cruise was part of a much-vaunted program to reinvigorate domestic travel in Singapore amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for the Defense Department’s Project Warp Speed, speaks during an Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. officials said the federal government plans to start distributing 2.9 million Covid-19 vaccine
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The sanitation charity WaterAid International has appointed Andrew McCracken as its next global director. McCracken, who has spent the past six years as chief executive of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, was previously global fundraising director at the development charity Tearfund. He succeeds Ken Caldwell, who retired in April. McCracken is a board member
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“I cried all day today,” says Tiffany Boone, calling from Australia, where she’s shooting her newest project, Nine Perfect Strangers, a limited series based on Liane Moriarty’s 2018 novel of the same name. “I texted another Black woman who works on set and told her, ‘Look, I’m a mess and I might start crying during
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It’s no exaggeration to say that 2020 has been one of the toughest years in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating medical impact, and a knock-on economic impact that the world will be feeling for a while to come. Many people have lost their day jobs as a result of the crisis
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