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...Formula One owner Liberty Media is in exclusive talks to buy the company that owns MotoGP for more than €4bn, in a deal that would unite the elite car and motorcycle racing series, according to people familiar...
...Guo Huiqin, an engineer at China’s largest chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, said she hoped to focus “on breakthroughs” in technological areas where the west had a chokehold on China...
...Liberty Media is hoping to repeat its Formula One success by expanding the US audience for MotoGP after agreeing a €4.2bn takeover of the elite motorcycle series....
...Khamenei controls the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and has helped transform them into Iran’s most formidable institution....
...However, Murdoch also railed rail against “elites” and the media. “Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class....
...At the top level, through self-acknowledged management complacency and design blunders, its shoes were losing their status as the default choice of elite distance runners and the most serious amateurs....
...EU are preparing fresh sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone programme in response to the Islamic republic’s attack on Israel, but the UK and European governments are resisting pressure to designate the elite...
...However, analysts also point out the mismatch between Xiaomi’s existing value-conscious customer base and the SU7’s targeted buyers, whom Lei has described as a tech-savvy “elite” with selective tastes....
...“Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class. Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth....
...A military adviser identified as Saeed Alidadi was killed “in an Israeli air strike south of Damascus”, according to the Tasnim news agency that is close to the elite Guards unit....
...But while Murdoch may disdain those elites, there is no question he and his second wife, Anna, chose to raise their children in an elite environment....
...chair Wu Yansheng and China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp executive Wang Changqing, according to state media....
...Last summer, a steady drip of elite ballet dancers made their way to Zürich. A handful had left comfortable positions with British ballet companies; others came from Germany, Portugal, the US and Cuba....
...But the grandly named Snapdragon X Elite that Qualcomm showed off last week suggests it’s time to revise that view....
...Their latest case involves a kidnapping and a series of curious bank robberies; the clues point to corruption in the ranks of the elite, quasi-military class of engineers known as the Brunel Corps....
...The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps feature as his praetorian guard....
...“We are not seeking war, but we are not afraid of it,” Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Wednesday....
...The attraction was the first theatre production financed by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards — a lavish performance of The Seven Quests of Esfandiyar, in which the eponymous hero is presented as a role...
...He raised his own to behave in the opposite way: educated at elite schools, hard working and held to high standards. Then he apprenticed them at LVMH....
...Wachtell Lipton, an elite Wall Street firm, had helped Twitter’s then-board to close the $44bn deal after Musk had attempted to walk away last year....
...Elon Musk has sued Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover a $90mn fee that Twitter paid to the elite law firm, which had successfully represented the social media company in litigation over the billionaire...
...If we finish the year at 4½% inflation, we will be pleased by this usually benign denouement following a dangerous inflationary surge, but most of the investment community, media, and political elite will...
...One director was at least initially startled, though: Of course, $90mn does seem like a lot, even for a case that required the attention of dozens of elite lawyers for 5 months....
...All manner of explanations have been put forward, including Russian misinformation campaigns, rising racism, growing inequality and popular anger against elites....
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