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...(FT) Operation Warp Speed Otherwise known as the US government’s mission to fast-track a Covid-19 vaccine, it is a programme awarding billions of dollars to private companies to produce a cure that takes...
...as a pandemic without a sky-high valuation....
...It also communicates status to those in the know, showing that you have something rare and have probably parted with a few hundred for it....
...Following Michael Jordan’s retirement from basketball, Air Jordans — as well as other Nike shoes — had become popular collector’s items....
...Last year, Jollibee took a majority stake in Super Foods, a Vietnamese company that operates Pho24 restaurants, the Highlands Coffee chain and Hard Rock Cafes mainly in south-east Asia, Hong Kong and Macau...
...holds of tea and coffee ships....
...As Isis officials announced a religious tithe known as zakat last summer, Mansour, a 26-year-old grocery storekeeper in eastern Syria, stalled payment while he tried to cook his books....
...In a dark classroom off an open courtyard, boys and girls in maroon uniforms sit on the carpet in a room known as the digital “lab”, which has one computer and one projector....
...At the same time, it is also still a global corporation, with shareholders, profit targets, bureaucracy and meetings across multiple timezones....
...Mr Pritzker sits at a choice table in the wood-panelled Back Room restaurant and greets staff as if Hyatt were still a family business rather than a listed corporation....
...The place is sparsely decorated, with a glass coffee table and a large stuffed teddy bear on the sofa....
...Aby Rosen, the New York property titan and art collector who co-owns the office tower, has referred to the piece as a rug and a carpet in conversations with the New York Landmarks Conservancy....
...Artworks held in collections can also appeal to a wider audience, says Constantine Frangos, head of the corporate art services business at Sotheby’s, as they are “well documented and have very good provenance...
...Tax collectors are also going after start-ups for a piece of their financial success....
...It comes as a US tax break for alternative asset management partnerships, known as “carried interest”, may be eliminated this year as part of congressional budget wrangling....
...At the time, it was known as Hell’s Hundred Acres. What was SoHo known for at that time? It was zoned for light manufacturing....
...This deserves to be up there with the River Café, Moro and Ottolenghi cookbooks as a culinary game-changer....
...A sort of cross between a wiki, a microfilm library and Blackwell’s Espresso Book Machine, it formed an important theoretical model as electronic books developed but looks decreasingly likely to be the way...
...A sure sign that the Swiss watch industry is becoming ever more efficient, and that a big name, history and horological pyrotechnics are not enough to woo collectors....
...To demonstrate how profoundly trade influences our lives try to imagine Italian cuisine without the tomato, or a cafe anywhere in the world beyond coffee’s birthplace in Yemen....
...As the Ortons show me their art-filled, 3,600 sq ft home in Interfin’s Montebello tower, Kathy points to a wine shop and café in the retail centre 16 floors below....
...In the best known of these deals, Mr Heyman acquired GAF Corporation, a building products company, after a protracted takeover battle....
...- business sale” for US corporations....
...Just think about Pottery Barn, Starbucks, Niketown, and theme stores and restaurants (such as Coca-Cola Disney, Warner Brothers, NFL, Planet Hollywood, Harley-Davidson Cafe), as well as numerous designer...
...I sit down with Adam Cohen, a collector and gallerist for the Gagosian gallery, and ask what I should do with my £500. The best bet, he says, is a limited edition print by someone well known....
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