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...Her rationale was that the US forces were doing terrible things in Iraq, such as killing the wrong people because of clerical errors over Baghdad street addresses....
...(She did this in the same breath as asking me if I thought I wanted potato salad.)...
...Belben and chef David Eyre were hoping to tempt customers from a raft of creative businesses that were starting to open nearby, as well as journalists from The Guardian’s offices down the street and from...
...It doesn’t match the English upper classes’ approach to food, which is to treat anything exotic as an inherently amusing novelty....
...When I’m doing the collection, I think about the street. I think about women.”...
...“We were ultra-competitive and we were in a service business but my thesis was that we weren’t selling a product....
...“I can’t tell you the cost. It would be very bad.” (His company, Aaya Ltd, does not disclose turnover; it belongs to a parent company incorporated in Singapore.)...
...But there is worry in the US about the elusiveness of the American dream, the inequality of incomes, with the top 1 per cent — usually represented by a Wall Street baron such as Gorman — doing rather well...
...He picked up his street smarts while founding two companies in his native Venezuela, he explains. “Compared to doing business in Venezuela, this is easy.”...
...We don’t sell three pork chops for the price of two but if someone wants a nice bit of beef for a family meal, that’s us.”...
...Four Seasons 99 East 52nd Street, New York 10022 Asparagus Salad $27.00 Artichoke Salad $24.00 Tuna Carpaccio x 2 $48.00 Espresso $7.50 Cappuccino $7.50 Total (incl tax) $124.12...
...The Four Seasons 99 East 52nd Street, Manhattan Soda/water x3 $13.50 Crudités $10.00 Tuna carpaccio x2 $50.00 Consommé $16.00 Dover sole $65.00 Coffee $6.00 Cappuccino $6.00 Total (with tax and...
...Hasn’t it been damaging to his business interests, I ask, not to be able to travel freely to America?...
...“I only see people as people,” he said. “They all need something. Life isn’t just what they are doing, their professions, their likes and dislikes. People everywhere need love and peace.”...
...Many of the funding problems biotech companies encounter, he believes, are self-imposed because they adopt unrealistic business models. “Over here [business models] leave a lot to be desired....
...“American Express, for example, didn’t want to be associated with a book where the card was used to buy prostitutes and chop out lines of cocaine.”...
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