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...Many of the pieces are by Charles and Ray Eames and also by the Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld, who broke the mould of what furniture was supposed to look like....
...“You can’t undo your history,” said Charles Kantor, a senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, one of Brookfield’s largest outside shareholders with over $500mn in shares....
...You might remember this rather computer-generated image Tesla released as part of its press kit a while back, showing a futuristic factory powered by solar powers and a nearby wind-farm: Beautiful ain't...
...congressman (New Jersey), New York, July 14 1976 Second row: Joseph Califano, attorney, Washington, DC, June 8 1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm...
...Among more affluent and health conscious meat and dairy eaters, there is a craze for traceability — knowing from exactly which farm your cheese or sausages came....
...There were still farms on Manhattan then. Photography was new and difficult....
...Access has been boosted by the patronage of Prince Charles, a keen watercolourist himself, and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall....
...He grew up on a farm amid the isolating expanse of the Appalachian mountains and says seeing Polseno live a successful creative life allowed him to imagine his own....
...Seed company Monsanto dropped after US antitrust regulators sued to block Deere, the farm equipment maker, from buying its precision planting unit....
...For that reason Mr Ibach says the tough-on-trade message of candidates like Mr Trump is appealing to many in farm country....
...I met a farm boy who, by being away from home and being subjected to the strict, heartless discipline of military life, had cracked under the strain....
...The subsidiary is Diandian Interactive; it owns a collection of popular games such as Family Farm, which claims 4m users a day....
...Pirie had got his hands on the top copy, which included annotations prepared for Charles I, her successor but one....
...1970, cautioned the assembled owners of the 137-year-old bourse, which plays a pivotal role setting prices that affect producers and consumers from smelters in China to the copper wires used in US wind farms...
...Overall, US equity markets struggled for direction after the month’s non-farm payrolls report showed payrolls expanded by 192,000 in March. The figures were marginally below Wall Street forecasts....
...“We are optimistic for the future,” Juan Luciano, president of Archer Daniels Midland, an ethanol refinery operator, told the BMO Farm to Market conference in New York last month....
...That would leave the Wall Street barometer on course to secure another record close, though first traders must navigate the US non-farm payrolls data, due at 1330 BST....
...Chart of the week: EM currencies and non-interventionChina-Ukraine: no massive farm deal… yetRussia adds pressure to Ukraine with predictions of defaultContainer shipping: it’s all about ChinaCar?...
...Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with archive shots – Beatrix Potter at Hill Top Farm, for example....
...Strickler grew up on a farm in Virginia, to “a lower-middle-class family, who didn’t graduate from college but who were educated”....
...Bernard had trained thoroughbreds for the Queen and so Hugh came to know Charles – seven years his junior – from an early age....
...But I prefer the bread they sell up the road at Jacob’s Ladder Farms, where customers are given a lecture on the art of bread-making and then charged £8 for a loaf....
...Charles Clover is the FT’s Moscow bureau chief …………………………………………………………….....
...Retail brokerage Charles Schwab fell 4.9 per cent to $10.97 as weak equity trading volumes led the company to slash its guidance for fourth-quarter earnings by 25 per cent....
...Still, the mood was brighter after a better than expected US non-farm payrolls report raised investors’ hopes about the outlook for the world’s biggest economy at the start of 2012....
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