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...A: Solana Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed their first software business while in high school. What did the software do?...
...But, in addition to adding races in Miami and Las Vegas, Liberty has signed up new events in Saudi Arabia and Qatar....
...The Chinese territory has overtaken Las Vegas to regain its status as the world’s casino capital....
...Miami joined the calendar for the first time this season and Vegas will follow in November next year, adding to its usual US race in Austin....
...That hasn’t kept potential bidders from speculating about where such expansion franchises might arise: Seattle and Las Vegas are considered contenders....
...Oliver Allen of Capital Economics provides this graph of the difference between the S&P 500 earnings yields (that is, the earnings/price ratio) and 10-year Treasury yields, which shows this measure is still...
...Allen & Overy has hired Dario de Martino as an M&A partner in New York. He joins from Morrison & Foerster....
...“I remember him knee-deep in drawings in his room while he worked on the illustrations for Hunter S Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Hers was a unique kind of literary bohemia....
...This is a man who once happily spent $3m firing the ashes of Hunter S Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, out of a cannon....
...The billionaire behind Landy’s Restaurants (owner of Morton’s steakhouses and the Rainforest Cafe chain) approached the Vegas operator in recent days with a view to combining Caesars with his Golden...
...The S&P 500 rose 0.4 per cent to 2,796.14, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.6 per cent to 25,962.29, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.5 per cent to 7,295.67....
...Mr Ecclestone has moved to an honorary position as F1’s “chairman emeritus”....
...Additional reporting by James Allen...
...California: Desert city divided over plant plan Somewhere around Barstow was where “the drugs began to take hold” in Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas....
...Shares of Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts slipped roughly 1 per cent to $67.85 and $199.28, respectively. Shares in Pinnacle Entertainment and MGM Resorts were relatively flat....
...Bloomberg Chief risk & compliance officer 30 Angela Darlington Aviva Chief risk officer, UK Life 31 Justin D’Agostino Herbert Smith Freehills Global head of practice, dispute resolution 32 Louis Vega...
...S Thompson, inventor of the “gonzo” style of journalism....
...The Goldfinch introduces us to Theo Decker, a modern-day Dickensian hero, and his suitably picaresque adventures in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam....
...This was sadly not the case last month when, at an IndyCar race in Las Vegas, the British driver Dan Wheldon was killed when his car flipped over the back of another and slammed into a fence, cockpit first...
...(I liked the typewriter expert called in by the Stasi, a nervously pedantic swot quite literally obsessed with his “p”s and “q”s.) Unlike a great film, it never leaps out and bites our throats....
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