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...Several Taiwanese chemicals suppliers to TSMC, including Chang Chun Petrochemical, Kanto PPC and Topco, bought land in Casa Grande south of Phoenix with the intention of building plants and warehouses....
...But lack of government funding is a problem, he says, as is poor co-ordination between different departments....
...A good place to start the day is Isetan, the legendary department store....
...Soon the Sonesta Ocean Grande Resort became the Trump Ocean Grande Resort. It sold out....
...(Check out the cut-up fire escape, reused as industrial decoration, in the lobby.)...
...The restaurant, formerly the much-loved Café Boulud, will be replaced by an outpost of the also very fine but flashier Miami institution Casa Tua....
...the department....
...“Cuellar recognises he is in a dogfight, and he could potentially lose this thing,” says Jon Taylor, chair of the political-science department at the University of Texas at San Antonio....
...The Home Depot Sector: retail / HQ: Atlanta, US Key stat: Like-for-like sales rose in 11 of The Home Depot’s 14 departments in the first quarter....
...At a mere €169 for lunch à deux with Arnault, I think the FT’s expenses department has got off lightly....
...Moreover, perhaps being knocked back from an elite school is the sort of life shaping disappointment that puts some fire in your belly . . ....
...New York’s Frick Collection is hosting an exhibition built around his plaster model for the marble sculpture, destroyed in a fire, of George Washington....
...Vikings hauled barrels of fire. Pirates bore burning crosses and banners of flame....
...Touch War and Peace and you play with fire....
...Mosquée The restaurant of the Grande Mosquée de Paris is the ideal hang-out on a hot day....
...What are the obligations entailed in letting a casa vacanze?...
...A private jet carrying Campos, of the centre-left PSB party, crashed in bad weather in the coastal city of Santos on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, according to São Paulo’s fire department...
...The college art department hated the upstart. “They felt threatened....
...Where to stay: The Hernán Cortés (Calle Fernández Vallín 5, www.hotelhernancortes.es; doubles from €59) is the grande dame of Gijón hotels....
...On Sunday soldiers opened fire on a peaceful, unarmed crowd gathered at the capital’s airport to welcome the deposed Mr Zelaya as he tried – and failed – to return in a private jet....
...Even the cautious US State Department noted last June that “violence has continued to decrease markedly in most urban areas, including Cartagena”....
...And Latin Americans, Europeans and other foreign buyers will be lured by the chance to buy while the dollar is at fire-sale prices....
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