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...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...The fact of having built, whether in marble or steel, is a victory for the builder. “The people that developed that ended up with the last laugh,” Mike says....
...Ancient building techniques are also used in Morocco where modern builders are increasingly returning to traditional materials such as kabash and adobe (mud bricks) because they are naturally fire resistant...
...Extracts from his discussion with Alix Steel and Guy Johnson: AS: Were you aware of this risk when using the platform?...
...Leysen told me that like others — including American Express and KBC Bank (which also operated in Congo) — the company had no say in its content....
...Beneath the construction racket was the beat of salsa from a builder’s portable radio....
...But Gary LaBarbera, the politically astute head of New York’s builders’ union, delighted in portraying Stern as a sort of unscrupulous developer, exploiting non-union workers....
...“This is why we have 50 per cent of steel measures affecting China and why in the last two years all steel investigations have concerned China,” the note said....
...The profitability of making steel fell by four-fifths between 2008 and 2016, although steel prices have since doubled as Chinese imports have been curbed....
...Aside from Sinopec, Chinese companies buying assets in Brazil range from China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), the builder of the dam of the same name, and energy transmission specialist State Grid Corp...
...First-term presidents often give such addresses instead of a formal annual State of the Union speech, which usually begin after they’ve served a full year in office....
...Britain will be stronger, safer and better off inside a reformed European Union....
...Few have been hit as hard as Gary – once a thriving hub of steel production, and birthplace of the late Michael Jackson, one of the most successful pop stars in history....
...In 2002, he founded International Steel Group, a vehicle to consolidate the troubled US Steel industry which he sold to Indian-born magnate Lakshmi Mittal two years later for a big profit....
...Steel groups suffered after BHP Billiton warned that a global surplus of steel would hit near-term demand for commodities....
...Rail company Union Pacific rose 0.7 per cent to $55.45....
...Overnight, American Express reported second-quarter earnings that missed estimates and withdrew its full-year earnings forecast....
...In the private sector, companies such as Petrobras (oil), Vale (mining) and CSN (steel) have become global leaders....
...Official gay unions did not exist in Mexico City....
...The S&P steel index fell 4.9 per cent, trimming its gain in 2007 to 27.9 per cent as consolidation talk cooled....
...The latter – the sick man of US capitalism, squeezed between soaring social security costs and the decline of American carmakers – is occupying a lot of Mr Ross’s thinking....
...British American Tobacco added 0.3 per cent to 923p while Gallaher rose 0.7 per cent to 754.5p....
...“I’m the Brit in London,” he jokes in idiomatic, American-accented English, the product of two decades of schooling and work in the US....
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