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...They question how long the hallmarks of Hong Kong’s system — low taxes, a transparent legal system, independent judiciary and dollar-pegged currency — can endure....
...between gang crime and government corruption as part of a nationwide probe, was shot dead in his car in the city of Guayaquil by unidentified assailants on Wednesday in a killing that police said had the hallmarks...
...The amalgam of ancient and modern has left an unusually stately interior, but it is the Six Senses hotel with its 21,500 sq ft spa – which opens next year – that will provide the hallmark of the project...
...In a private dining room of a hotel in Soho, London, Emily Weiss, founder of cult US beauty brand Glossier, is hosting a lunch for a new pop‑up shop....
...For Gaëlle Drevet, whose The Frankie Shop has stocked the label since 2020, it’s Bevza’s refined aesthetic and craftsmanship that sets the brand apart....
...The ecommerce firm’s “shop like a billionaire” ad campaign to promote its online flea market was ubiquitous....
...Until 2019, the lower floors of Handel’s house were occupied by a shop. Following a meticulous £3mn restoration programme, the entire house has recently reopened to the public....
...Crastes and Chailley did not know it yet, but another consummate survivor had recently set up shop barely 150 metres around the corner....
...In 1899, Cartier opened a shop on the prestigious rue de la Paix — still the Cartier flagship today....
...A former Safra Group employee describes that institution as “one of the jewels in the crown . . . it’s like a shop window for Safra”....
...The pieces were a technical tour de force that consisted of large metal chains created from smaller ones, some embellished with oversized hallmarks....
...I ask the ceiling of the Hästens shop in Stockholm, sprawled across a blue-chequered pillowtop. “Some save a lifetime to buy a bed,” the salesman says. “And some buy 20 in one go....
...Gift paper itself has mostly been manufactured since 1917, when the Hall brothers, Hallmark’s founders, started selling French decorative envelope lining as wrapping paper at their store in Kansas City,...
...This is in part because the paint shop in the Bentley factory in Crewe is already running at full capacity, including through the night and at weekends....
...It is easy to picture the designer and founder of the Conran Shop walking its long corridors, pausing to tweak a shelf display before retiring indoors with a sketchbook and his hallmark, smouldering Montecristo...
...And then now that people can go back to the shops and maybe want to go to cheaper shops, that’s seen a lot of the wind taken out. Algy Hall Absolute- . . ....
...At first blandly courteous and self-effacing, this pound-shop King Lear quickly ditches his veneer of civility and goads his five sons towards a climactic street fight....
...They look like grandparents plucked from a Hallmark movie. Green is a stickler for facts....
...Azagury-Partridge raves about Hereford Road in Notting Hill, a converted Victorian butcher’s shop. Lanchester favours The Canton Arms in Stockwell and Clapham haunts Trinity and Minnow....
...Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank VIC 3004 Good for: Acoustic quality, Brutalist architecture, one-stop shop for culture Not so good for: Latecomers FYI: Booking essential for major touring acts...
...Reason, hard work and technology were their hallmarks. They were not at all into wilding. They strove to improve nature, not to reinstate a Paradise lost....
...A media asset would give the tycoon a platform to promote his fast-expanding commercial empire, stretching from real estate to coffee shops....
...A void open to the sky allows sunlight to beam down through the windows in a spectacle of light and shadow — another Ando hallmark....
...Then to keep all those shops going, you need to have balance and Priya will do the same....
...Large-scale growth has been a hallmark of the tech boom of recent years, a phenomenon that was supercharged during the pandemic....
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