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...In Cook County, Illinois, nicknamed “Crook County” because it’s so mired in federal corruption, three former salespeople at a Rolex authorised dealer had blown the whistle on what they alleged was a racketeering...
...A clearer picture has emerged in East Lothian, the county that includes North Berwick....
...Chinsky points out that the property developer of the warehouse received a tax break from local officials in Cook County, which has resulted in big savings for Amazon....
...The value of a property depends as much on the ability of people to pay for it, ie on the health of the economy, as in the actions of the property owner....
...One of the attendees was Ransom Cook, the chairman of Wells Fargo, at the time a venerable but sleepy regional bank of little consequence....
...Many of the unions had agreed to the plans, but those which did not challenged the plans in Cook County Court, where they were first ruled unconstitutional....
...The sales have been fuelled by bumper broadcast revenues, competition at the top and new managers urging owners to spend....
...“Our productivity is high because people want to get out of bed and go to work every day. They are valued and rewarded. They are like owner-managers of their own business.”...
...Mondelez, which makes Oreos, pointed out the errors in his claims that its Chicago bakery was shutting, that it was instead building a plant in Salinas, Mexico, and that by implication there would be no...
...Another involves analysing judgments of the local Cook County court. A judge who may see 300 people in three hours has to make snap decisions about who is granted bail....
...Julie Ruhlen works in one of the wealthiest counties of the US, but she says the idea of living there is out of her reach....
...For the owners of such homes, the punishing hours spent putting in the back garden come without the distractions of autograph hunters and paparazzi....
...County courthouse....
...If, like me, you’re tired of collections of recipes you’ll never cook, then let’s hope we see more of this kind of thing....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...A judge in Regina v....
...In Beijing in the mid-1980s, you needed a permit just to enter the building of China Central Television. Visitors had to queue outside....
...A three-year think advertising campaign was launched by the Newspaper Association of America, with the help of Jerry Della Femina and his team at Jerry & Ketchum....
...In the 1968 case of Shlensky v Wrigley, the Illinois Court of Appeals considered the case of a minority shareholder who sued the company that controlled the Chicago Cubs baseball club for refusing to install...
...He pointed to the Credit Life building, a company that moved into the squat black glass tower in the centre of town and was then bought by a big business and relocated to Chicago....
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