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...Pedro Luiz Cortês, professor of environmental science at the University of São Paulo, blamed climate change for the disaster....
...Its menu is oozing with the island’s best dishes, from arancini al ragù and carciofi (artichokes) alla Siciliana to paccheri al pistacchio....
...Robert Denham Oakland, CA, US Letter in response to this letter: Still time for Democrats to draft in John Kerry / From Dick Kidd, Corte Madera, CA, US...
...Good for drinking without food. 13% Telmo Rodríguez, Al Muvedre 2018 Alicante £11.95 Berry Bros & Rudd A powerful southern Spanish Monastrell (the same grape as Bandol) from low-yielding bush vines....
...He helped bring in foreign capital in the form of Qatari Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani. He also wanted to introduce more independent board members, say his allies....
...In Corte, a new development in the north of the neighbourhood, a $1.395m, two-bedroom apartment was listed on Zillow on November 18, five days after the HQ2 decision was announced....
...Corte Madera Avenue, Marin County, California, US, $25m Where In Corte Madera, on the edge of Camino Alto nature preserve and 10 miles from San Francisco....
...One in four Spaniards are thought to hold an El Corte Inglés store card and 2m people enter its shops each day....
...Another warning sign — at least to outsiders — was the deal struck by the group last year with Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, a former Qatari prime minister and one-time head of the Qatar Investment...
...Success at the fair caps off a fine year for Coll and Nicolas Cortés, the Spanish dealers who have injected new life into one of the UK’s oldest galleries....
...Minority shareholders have hit out at the sale of a 10 per cent stake to Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, a former Qatari prime minister and former head of the Qatar Investment Authority....
...The investor buying into El Corte Inglés is Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, a former Qatari prime minister and previous head of the Qatar Investment Authority....
...El Corte Inglés announced last month that it was selling a 10 per cent stake in the group to Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, a former Qatari prime minister and high-profile dealmaker....
...Sheikh Hamad returned to private investing after his ally, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the former Qatari emir, abdicated in favour of his son, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in June 2013....
...The Spanish group confirmed the sale of the stake to Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, a former Qatari prime minister, late on Monday....
...I’d spent my first night cosseted in the Grand Hotel Savoia in Cortina d’Ampezzo, and then trudged through fresh, welly deep snow to reach Ristorante al Camin for ravioli stuffed with beetroot, mopped up...
...Located on the rooftop of the Corte Inglés department store in Calle Serrano, you can either sit at tables outside or at the bar that surrounds the hyperactive open kitchen....
...The result, with emphasis mine: Recent papers by Smith (2013), Cortes et al. (2014), and Foote and Ryan (2014) find that declining employment in routine task-intensive jobs has led middle-skill workers—both...
...It’s called the Chihuahua al Pacífico (or “Chepe”), and took more than 60 years to build. The railway starts in Topolobampo, on the Sea of Cortés, but we boarded 40 miles inland at El Fuerte....
...Before it opened, many tourists came to Malaga from the beach resorts of the Costa del Sol but only stayed for the day (often spending much of that at El Corte Inglés department store)....
...Richard Kidd, Corte Madera, CA, US...
...Del carbon al ratón (From coal to the [computer] mouse) is the region’s economic slogan. The starting point for this transformation was far from ideal....
...Where to stay: The Hernán Cortés (Calle Fernández Vallín 5, www.hotelhernancortes.es; doubles from €59) is the grande dame of Gijón hotels....
...prime time of the year for indulging in wines that are strong and/or sweet, the treats we tend to deny ourselves the rest of the year, to the chagrin of producers in Jerez, Porto, Funchal, Sauternes et al...
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