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...“Holding a funeral has become much more expensive nowadays,” Mr Ng said, adding that the cost of renting a room at funeral homes has risen the most....
...The best meals I’ve enjoyed, from Tibet to Easter Island, have come in down-home, unpretentious restaurants that offer warmth and a cheery welcome....
...With Time Warner and its rivals slimming down, is this the end of the “big media” era? Mr Bewkes demurs. “Big media is us,” he says....
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...+0.15% at 5,905 RTS up +0.38% at 1,500 Warsaw Wig up +0.24% at 43,864 FTSE 300 Eurotop up +0.15% at 1,114 Americas DJIA down -1.52% at 13,344 S&P 500 down -1.66% at 1,433 Bovespa down -1.36% at 58,922...
...On December 19, he decamped with his family to their vacation home in Vail, Colorado, where they would spend the holidays....
...They reacted to yesterday’s news that Europe’s biggest bookmaker is to make an extra £45m in operating profit from telephone betting by marking the shares down in morning trading....
...Casinos do this by laying on extras, right down to the private jets that spirit big spenders to and from the gaming tables....
...This ground floor was sometimes partitioned to provide discrete spaces for dining rooms, warming kitchens and storage of food, wine and carriages....
...This Asian guy got on and walked down the carriage. He sat down just past me on the other side of the screen.”...
...Hollinger Inc, once a lynchpin in the Black empire, has told Black's private holding company, The Ravelston Corporation, to move out of its joint headquarters by the end of May....
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