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...Becker grew up in rural north-east Indiana, where his family had a 300-acre farm. He joined Comerica, then a Detroit-based lender, after graduating from Indiana University with a business degree....
...But the ominous background elements — Christine’s nasty letters, the threat of debt and a declining farm — are revealed to be a sort of bluff....
...The group’s share price also slumped last decade when Spain’s then centre-right government cut subsidies on renewables, hitting the profitability of Iberdrola’s wind farms....
...They live on a farm. But Ms Engelbrecht was awakened by the 2008 election of Barack Obama, and a palpable feeling, as she put it, that “everywhere you turned, government was spreading”....
...One wrinkle remains the position of the Food and Drug Administration, noted Gail Javitt of the law firm, Epstein Becker & Green in Washington, DC....
...Charles de Gaulle’s “empty chair” crisis of the 1960s arose from a dispute over farm payments....
...of the sea, the peace and quiet, eating local food – sometimes on the yacht, sometimes in the resort’s Asian-inspired Seagrass restaurant or its Plantation House, which has a chef from Australia with a farm-to-table...
...Pico Iyer Discovery: a burger in Bhutan Just inside Cloud 9 in Thimphu was a blackboard describing salads made of tofu, eggplant and other goodies straight from the farm....
...For the Russian avant-gardist, Rousseau’s dystopic farm was the ideal image for a brochure advertising his new Blaue Reiter movement....
...Mr Becker outlined further opportunities in Mexico and China....
...“Nuclear should be part of the UK energy mix,” said Volcker Beckers, chief executive of RWE Npower....
...plucked from the farm’s environs....
...The answer is that I cannot, but it definitely gives the right indications,” said Mr Beckers....
...A central aim is to expand offshore wind farms in order to generate 30 per cent of the UK’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020....
...“China’s wind farm development was the strongest investment feature of last year by far,” says GWEC. China has an official target of 100GW of wind capacity by 2020....
...Another diner is leaning towards the Becker Lane pork with cannellini beans, artichokes, fennel and spring onion salsa because he’s heard the pork from this organic farm is unequalled....
...He is survived by his second wife, Esther Becker Simplot, and two sons and a daughter from his first marriage....
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