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...Restoration Hardware’s Gary Friedman put up a good fight this year, matching O’Leary’s number of transcripts with some cussing....
...conservationist and hunter, Mr Bacon has over the years snapped up several big tracts of wilderness across the US, putting some into conservation easements to protect them from any future development, and funding a restoration...
...Restoration Hardware, the $2.8bn home furnishing company who recently completed a $1bn buyback, was another idea, but its share price has not risen 10 times in the past five years....
...Within Japan over recent years the focus of the nuclear sector has been on the restoration of confidence necessary to reopen the internal nuclear plants which were closed after the Fukushima disaster in...
...Allard is best known for his restoration of the Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris....
...In 2013, the club underwent a $60m facelift, which included work to the spa, marina and golf facilities, and a restoration of the Vanderbilt mansion....
...“The restoration of relative calm in European financial markets deprives the Greek side of a key leverage it had hoped to achieve vis-à-vis the lenders in this stage by setting off a market turmoil in the...
...For more in that vein, click for the full letter: May truth, justice (and not vengeance), restoration and redemption prevail. Indeed....
...Mr Loeb had characterised Sotheby’s as an “old master painting in desperate need of restoration”....
...Third Point announced a truce with Sotheby’s on Monday, after a seven-month campaign against the auction house, which Mr Loeb characterised as “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration”....
...He called it “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration”, saying it has not fully grasped the importance of contemporary and modern art to its future and failed to develop a successful online...
...Mr Loeb built a 9.6 per cent stake last year, calling the auction house “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration” and demanding the resignation of chief executive William Ruprecht....
...The two sides have been embroiled in a bitter public battle since October, when Mr Loeb wrote a scathing “poison pen” letter calling the auction house “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration...
...“Sotheby’s is an Old Master painting in desperate need of restoration,” said Mr Loeb, whose hedge fund Third Point holds a 9.3 per cent stake....
...“Sotheby’s is like an old master painting in desperate need of restoration,” said Mr Loeb, adding that he was willing to join the Sotheby’s board and that his team had already started to meet potential candidates...
...The short-sellers who thought education provider ITT, Beazer Homes or Restoration Hardware were bound to fall have been hit by rises of more than 40 per cent in three weeks....
...David Ader, head of government-bond strategy, CRT Capital LLC “Treasury yields have dropped sharply on the prospect of the fiscal cliff battle assuming centre stage....
...The total rise of 19.4 per cent was also supported by the restoration of BP’s dividend payments, with Capita estimating that underlying dividend growth was 12.8 per cent....
...Forman’s restoration took two years and ran to $400,000, requiring the couple to rent while they waited....
...Pernod Ricard, the maker of Absolut vodka and Perrier-Jouet champagne, exports more from Europe than it imports into the continent....
...“What we are seeing is the restoration of the pre-9/11 status quo, and more,” said Robert Lacey, author of Inside the Kingdom....
...Analysts said it was the first time Verizon Communications, the US telecoms group with a controlling stake in Verizon Wireless, had spelt out a potential date for the restoration of payments....
...He pointedly added that the “default thing” was a restoration of dividend payments by Verizon Wireless to Vodafone....
...The fall in Grey Goose sales reflects the experience of other well-known vodkas, including Pernod Ricard’s Absolut brand and Diageo’s unflavoured Smirnoff brand. They are also losing market share....
...With a stable of brands that includes Zhuravli, a more upmarket vodka, Russian Alcohol is the world’s third-largest vodka producer behind Smirnoff and Absolut, which was sold last month by the Swedish government...
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