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...A cool $50mn has been spent transforming its 68 rooms, now an essay in white oak and woven textiles in homage to the town’s Bauhaus associations....
...Being more casual can be a way to get along and also remove some of the negative associations of people from the financial industries.”...
...Executives at Vail Resorts Inc may be rubbing their hands....
...“We no longer look at ourselves as a [tennis] federation, we look at ourselves as a large entertainment company....
...Of India’s 1.2 billion population, more than 300 million (mainly urban, and upper or middle class) are internet users, according to the Internet and Mobile Association of India....
...In some cases geological formations give the clue; but in others something more metaphysical is at play. What made this scrubby patch of land a devil’s playground? Who drowned in Satan Creek?...
...It has delayed by years a new 80,000 b/d in situ project at Carmon Creek, near Peace river, Alberta....
...Americans who commute by car spend about 50 minutes a day at the wheel, says Ragunathan Rajkumar, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University....
...The writers are, respectively: a professor at Iese Business School; professor at the University of Piura; and a researcher at Iese...
...Polo Tang, UBS analyst, said: “The [music] market may be reaching an inflection point after a decade of decline.”...
...Projects moving ahead include a joint venture, known as Sunrise, between Husky Energy and BP; further phases of Suncor Energy’s Firebag expansion; and expansions at Foster Creek and Christina Lake, jointly...
...There is no chance of this now, so absolute is the political control of the National Rifle Association and the known sentiments of the final arbiter, the US Supreme Court....
...Burberry had come through a difficult time, having been co-opted, and hence devalued, by an association with British “chav” culture....
...The China National Horse Industry Association expects horse imports to double this year over last....
...“‘Bespoke’ is in fashion, whether it’s the true handcrafted fit that we on Savile Row mean or the made-to-measure kind,” acknowledges Mark Henderson, head of the Savile Row Bespoke Association....
...Polo Ralph Lauren dropped 2.6 per cent to $80.34 as Ralph Lauren, its chairman and chief executive, sold a portion of his shareholding in the fashion clothing company he founded in 1967....
...at about 26 per cent....
...Consolidation is in the air – and so it should be in an industry the International Air Transport Association expects to lose $2.8bn this year....
...The performance of the prestige stores fits with recent comments from Polo Ralph Lauren , the clothing brand company, and from Estée Lauder , the cosmetics maker, which have both reported stronger demand...
...I found a handful of young men dressed in polo shirts, lounging in the courtyard of a whitewashed stucco house in the mid-afternoon heat and chewing khat, a stimulant drug consumed religiously by the pirates...
...Polo Ralph Lauren’s earnings plunged 57 per cent for its fiscal fourth quarter as a result of $69m in write-downs and restructuring charges....
...It is a tiny business, so small that the biggest fishing industry trade association, the American Sportfishing Association (ASA), doesn’t even collect data on it....
...From Bloomberg, again: Recovery swaps aren’t traded heavily because bid-offer spreads “remain wide,” Tim Backshall, chief strategist at Credit Derivatives Research LLC in Walnut Creek, California said in...
...On the right, a handful of men in polo shirts playing the 14th hole of the Shadow Valley Country Club golf course. “A master planned community”, says the sign....
...Uptown, at the 555 West 23rd Street project, a courtyard designed by Howard Abel, featuring evergreen plantings, a fountain and an illuminated waterfall, is also a key part of the project’s marketing campaign...
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