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...Kyle shone a light towards the bank, picking up the glowing red eyes of dozens of crocodiles watching us drift past....
...“[The buildings] are also symbols of a particular time, these colonial people coming in and lording over them....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Low wooden beams give an air of half colonial Williamsburg, half the private members’ club it used to be. Beside the bar, dining areas roll out over several luxurious rooms....
...About 20 per cent of the world’s mined gold comes from artisanal and small-scale gold mines, according to World Bank estimates....
...France has a colonial past, and we have to acknowledge that. We have to face all the dark spots of our history.”...
...(FT) — The making of ‘bad gentry’ after the abolition of the civil service exam in China, 1902-1911 (The Journal of Economic History, v Phenomenal World) — Zach Carter with a post on the real student debt...
...Luxor, the legendary Winter Palace – intact, rundown, but as lavish as ever – still echoes with British-colonial influences: the silverware, the untouched furniture, the maîtres d’hôtel and the abundant...
...Prometheon, which owed about £231m to its lenders including Indian banks, had only £1,900 in its bank account....
...That he probably doesn't have any foreign assets, you know You mean there's not a bank account saying V Putin, the Kremlin. Yeah. But nonetheless, I suppose......
...Bonham Carter wasn’t a fan. “She didn’t particularly like pleats, and this became such a big issue....
...In Spain we are downgrading Colonial to Equal-weight, a highly levered play on a market for which the risk premium will likely rise....
...Top markets stories Hong Kong v Shanghai: the battle over China’s capital markets China’s central bank continues to load up on gold US has fewer listed public companies than China Markets Briefing is...
...Less than a week ago, the stage was set for Donald Trump to follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and have his own Camp David moment....
...It has even taken out ads in US newspapers, promising a vision of a bank transformed. But changing a company’s culture is gruelling work, says Ben....
...(Among the palace hotels of the Right Bank, the Crillon became the headquarters of the military command for greater Paris; the top brass installed themselves at the Georges V; and the Continental was home...
...(FT) What Trump owes Deutsche Bank While other banks shied away from litigation-prone Donald Trump, Deutsche Bank became Mr Trump’s go-to lender for several projects....
...Sony’s Walkman had hit the streets, Toyota was crushing Detroit, and president Jimmy Carter was warning of a malaise that threatened to “destroy the social and political fabric of America”....
...This operation is almost colonial.” Most Italian economists, government officials and business executives have been staunch advocates of the euro....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...The rain-stained concrete of the South Bank is now appreciated as a modernist masterpiece, a reminder of an era when architecture was utopian and came with acres of public space....
...Unlike the European colonial powers, the Americans had no colonial archives of their own for this part of the world....
...In a country where most major galleries sit behind colonial gables or neoclassical pillars, the industrial dockscape of the V&A Waterfront’s Silo district is envisaged by its promoters as a more open, accessible...
...This has been the historic mission of Swiss private banks. However, there is a subtler theme here: of a colonial legacy that is both a blessing and a curse to the UK’s largest bank....
...When we were playing the Roses matches [Lancashire v Yorkshire] we’re talking 30,000. In those days people would arrange their holidays to watch county cricket.”...
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