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...The businessman is the youngest son of the late Onsi Sawiris, who founded a construction company in the 1950s and built it over decades into a large multinational corporation now called Orascom Construction...
...After spending the early part of his career defending corporations from sexual harassment lawsuits, Wigdor began displaying the same distaste for hierarchy that drove Black....
...Like thinking about building the Empire State Building out of children's blocks. Each block is quite small and quite inexpensive and mass-produced....
...The FT reported on Sunday that PWP was in advanced discussions to merge with FinTech Acquisition Corporation IV, a Spac sponsored by Pennsylvania banking tycoon Betsy Cohen....
...The Thatcher-Reagan era of deregulation and globalisation — the free movement of goods, capital, labour and services — unleashed the global corporation....
...The decision in the case, Fisher v University of Texas, “was really significant in that it was really unexpected....
...She was appointed as the first cyber security counsel for a major corporation, at IBM....
...Only after his mysterious death at sea in 1991 did his fraudulent empire unravel....
...It was good to have an empire. But you know what? All empires flounder....
...John Burton, director, Westfield, the shopping centre operator. Kate Caithness, president, World Curling Federation. Mike Denness, president, Kent County Cricket Club....
...These arid lands rich in tin, zinc and silver bankrolled Spain’s empire and then fuelled the birth of the Bolivian republic....
...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...
...Karim Fatehi, managing director, United Corporation, procurement provider for energy industry. Omar Lye Fook, soul singer and songwriter....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Chief of New Look until the chain was taken private in 2005, Mr Sunnucks’ 30-year retail career includes Marks and Spencer, J Sainsbury and the Burton Group (now Arcadia)....
...To some extent this is a historical legacy, deriving from the Empire-building Victorians who saw in the Tudor years the rise of a proud, self-governing, and above all Protestant England....
...ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE OBE: Graham King, film producer. MBE: Jason Roberts, footballer....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...And we can now judge the government’s fundamental assertion in US v Microsoft....
...● Sandy Weill built two financial services empires, securing his legacy on Wall Street along the way, by finding value in troubled or out-of-favour businesses....
...One is that “corporations willing to kill people do better than those which are not”....
...While Mr Thaksin transferred his shareholdings in his empire to his wife, children, and other close relatives – legally separating himself from the corporation – his tenure as prime minister has been dogged...
...So the conquistadors massacred the uncomprehending Aztecs and Incas; European traders threw Africans into slavery; American pioneers wiped out native people’s; and empire-builders grabbed half the world....
...Within a relatively short time he had an empire ranging from oil companies to pig farms and he had become part of Boris Yeltsin’s inner circle....
...The problem is that the agreement that was to be signed symbolically on Wednesday in Cuzco, Peru--capital of the old Inca empire--is so loose, so long-term and so tangential to most intra-regional trade...
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