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...More than $2.4bn more — held in condominiums, paintings and landholdings — is under litigation....
...However, it has hit opposition in the Texas House of Representatives, whose Republican speaker Dade Phelan called it an “extraordinary government intervention into the free market”....
...“The past year has shown people they can do their jobs just as well from here as from anywhere else,” concludes Elizabeth Hanley, president of Windsor Real Estate Inc....
...It also uses over-the-air software updates to constantly improve its cars, including an update this year that brought autonomous driving features like landholding on highways to its existing fleet....
...Chinese bidders are reportedly interested in purchasing Australia’s biggest private landholding, which is on the block. The trend towards higher meat consumption worldwide is clear....
...at a time when tracts of Patagonia were being sold to celebrities such as Luciano Benetton, Ted Turner and Sylvester Stallone, he too attracted suspicion and criticism from groups opposed to big foreign landholdings...
...Nelson Diaz, a Cuban-American who chairs the Republican party in Florida’s Miami-Dade county, said Mr Trump would “take the Republicans over a cliff” if he became the nominee....
...moved for Probe after the junior company, chaired by Jamie Sokalsky, who stepped down last year as Barrick Gold’s chief executive, struck its own deal last month to consolidate 100 per cent ownership of landholdings...
...His landholdings included a grouse moor in the Yorkshire dales....
...“The digital divide has created a chasm between those who are truly empowered and those who aren’t,” said Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of Miami-Dade schools in Florida....
...The deal would be Siemens largest since its €5bn acquisition of Dade Behring, a clinical laboratory diagnostics company in 2007....
...The consortium, set up by the Carbon War Room, an environmental group, has signed deals with two US counties – Miami-Dade, Florida and Sacramento, California – that will deliver an estimated $650m of investment...
...“Determining mineral ownership may sound easy but it can get quite complex, particularly in a place such as Appalachia where landholdings have been subdivided for many generations,’’ said Raoul LeBlanc,...
...speech-bubbled pictures of hard-hatted staff in the field grappling with realistic questions (Q: “I believe our offer to fund the minister’s favourite environmental project will help ensure we gain access to this landholding...
...to the growth ambitions of east coast ports and to companies like Shepherd Offshore on the Tyne, Teesside Cast Products on the Tees and Able UK on the Humber, all of whom have big industrial riverside landholdings...
...The reason is fruit, grown for the domestic and international markets on irrigated farms that were previously large, dusty landholdings....
...Agriculture accounts for about 16 per cent of India’s gross domestic product and involves about 150m families, most of which struggle with small landholdings, limited resources for investment, lack of education...
...The Miami project is aimed at helping consumers in both the city and neighbouring Miami-Dade County to conserve energy by upgrading the electricity grid....
...Siemens’ shares dropped sharply in July when it offered more than a 38 per cent premium for Dade Behring....
...Other E&Y transactions she allegedly traded on with inside information include last year’s acquisition by Siemens, the engineering company, of Dade Behring Holdings and Vivendi’s acquisition of Activision...
...Both now say they will write down the value of those landholdings. It is common, and often prudent, for companies to shuttle rainy-day cash into short-and long-term financial investments....
...The company expects to take between $150-$300m in writedowns on landholdings in the quarter. Shares in Toll were flat at midday....
...Siemens has agreed to sell VDO, its car-parts maker, to Germany’s Continental and bought Dade Behring, a US medical equipment supplier....
...But many were more critical of the $7bn agreed offer to buy Dade Behring....
...Siemens simultaneously said it had agreed to buy Dade Behring for about $7bn (€5.06bn) in cash....
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