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PROBLEM: Tesco CEO Dave Lewis  says EU exit won’t affect choice or quality but says prices are being squeezed.
 Lewis  says: “A no deal scenario  if there were to be tariffs  then actually that could impact the price of food.”
However  Tesco boss Dave Lewis admitted that the Brexit-driven collapse in the pound is pushing up prices and warned that failure to secure a deal with the EU by the March 2019 Brexit deadline could lead to higher food prices across the UK.
 Lewis  was speaking at a press conference following the release of Tesco’s half-year results  which showed sales up by 3.3% and operating profit up 27.4%. Prices rose in the period but  Lewis  was quick to point out that price rises were around 1% lower than competitors.
However  while  Lewis  disagreed with King’s assessment of Brexit   he  admitted that price rises could get worse if Britain fails to reach a deal with the EU on trading terms before the March 2019 leaving deadline.

SOLUTION: Dave Lewis

PROBLEM: What happens when the one and only Bill Murray recites American literature and flexes his pipes on songs from the great American songbook  backed by three accomplished classical musicians at a packed Orchestra Hall?
âNew Worlds:  Bill Murray   Jan Vogler and Friendsâ was the name of the show the famed Wilmette-raised actor and comedian  along with cellist Jan Vogler  violinist Mira Wang and pianist Vanessa Perez  brought to Symphony Center on Tuesday night as part of a national tour in support of their new Decca Gold album of the same name.
 Murray  sang a little  danced a little  cracked a couple of jokes. The inveterate Cubs fan traded his tuxedo jacket for a Cubs windbreaker at the end  prompting a roar from audience members  one of whom had draped a Wrigley victory flag over the side of the platform that was put up on stage to accommodate extra seats.
The tone shifted from light to serious and back again.  Murray  sometimes recited over musical accompaniment; sometimes  his  recitations stood on their own. One selection merged into the next in a seamless  two-hour flow of spoken word  song and instrumental music. Like all highly skilled actors   Murray  is a virtuoso of tone and timing.  His  typically laid-back manner fools no one  for thereâs always a finely honed theatrical sensibility and command of craft peeking through.
Who could resist James Fenimore Cooperâs evocation of a pristine early 19th-century American woodland (from âThe Deerslayerâ)  as recited with all due wonderment by  Murray  over a movement from a Schubert piano trio?
Or  Murray âs thoughtful rendition  half-sung  half-spoken  of âJeanie with the Light-Brown Hair â a nostalgic slice of early America I have never heard so poignantly done as here?  Murray  may not have classically trained vocal technique  but  his  baritone is pleasant and musical and absolutely true to the words and the deep emotions they convey  and that was all that mattered.
There was so much else to savor all evening long. You havenât heard âIt Ainât Necessarily Soâ until youâve heard  Murray âs sassy  jazzy transformation of that beloved Gershwin classic. Nor are you likely to forget the gutsy intensity of feeling he brought to Van Morrisonâs soul standard âWhen Will I Ever Learn to Live in God.â
After that number   Murray  flung long-stemmed roses to the fans  who were up on their feet  loudly cheering the hometown favorite. âThanks for coming â itâs nice to be home â he told them  as he  Vogler  Wang and Perez waved their goodbyes.
If this is what it takes to sell light classical music and renew interest in neglected classics of American literature to a mass concert public  maybe  Murray  and friends are on to something. Long may their team flourish.
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SOLUTION: Bill Murray

PROBLEM: The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan spending bill Friday morning  but not before the federal government shut down when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delayed the vote past midnight to complain about the budget deficit. It was the second government shutdown in less than three weeks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Feb. 8 spoke on the Senate floor against a bipartisan budget deal and delayed a vote on the measure. (U.S. Senate)
Then  as an expected vote approached in the Senate   Paul  began to throw up roadblocks  demanding a vote on  his  amendment that would demonstrate how the two-year budget deal breaks past pledges to rein in federal spending.
GOP leaders refused to allow  him  to offer the amendment  arguing that if  Paul  got an amendment vote  many other senators might want one  too.  Paul   in turn  refused to allow the vote to go forward  making use of Senate rules that allow individual senators to slow down proceedings that require the consent of all.
“I can’t in all good honesty  in all good faith  just look the other way because my party is now complicit in the deficits ”  Paul  said on the Senate floor as evening pushed into night.
 Paul  objected after a visibly irritated McConnell tried to move to a vote. Then  Paul  launched into a lengthy floor speech deriding bipartisan complicity on deficit spending while the country goes “on and on and on  finding new wars to fight that make no sense.” The senator direly predicted a “day of reckoning ” possibly in the form of the collapse of the stock market.
As the hours ticked on   Paul  repeatedly refused to consent to allowing the vote to happen  as lawmakers and aides of both parties grew increasingly annoyed at  him . Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.)  leaving the floor after an unsuccessful attempt to curtail  Paul ’s standoff  called the gambit “grossly irresponsible” and said that leaders would not entertain  his  demand for a vote.
Senators of both parties were left fuming  with most of their ire directed toward  Paul .
“ He  has mastered the art of ticking off  his  colleagues ” said Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.).
“It’s a colossal waste of everybody’s time ” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Of  Paul   Thune said  “He never gets a result.”
 Paul himself  made no apologies as  he  delivered one floor speech after another  casting  himself  as a lone defender of fiscal austerity  despite having voted in December for a tax bill that added at least $1 trillion to the debt.

SOLUTION:
Rand Paul