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...In October, he spoke at the “Davos in the desert” conference in Riyadh and had lunch with Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador to the US....
...In oases scattered in the desert around the Salar de Atacama, the indigenous Atacameño people have lived for 13,000 years, sustained by creeks that trickle down from the Andes mountains, and by water drawn...
...It’s being tested at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone resorts this winter, with a full launch planned for next year....
...Oliver Roeder Stan Kroenke, for example, the owner of Arsenal Football Club and much else, owns a large ranch called Q Creek....
...This is just one of the storm of jokes to have poured on this year’s festival in the Nevada desert in the wake of rain, mud and fake news about an Ebola outbreak....
...Denver The Rockies’ reputation as a gastronomic desert could finally be redressed this month, with the publication of the first Michelin guide to Colorado....
...The arrangement was provided alongside a deal in which GAM’s funds lent more than $120mn to Greensill Capital, via a special-purpose vehicle called Laufer, named after a creek on the financier’s family watermelon...
...Xanterra controls everything in Furnace Creek except the Native American village....
...The railroads would sell their squares to fund arduous construction through mountains and deserts and snow....
...It’s been built right on the creek. I’m very drawn to colour, and here everything is terracotta with beautiful turquoise wooden doors. I like to go there and sit and have a coffee....
...From the eerie oceans of dunes on the Skeleton Coast to the otherworldly desert-scapes of Sossusvlei, it’s the kind of place that hammers home the need to protect the world’s empty places....
...It’s worth remembering that capitalism’s titans including Jamie Dimon, Stephen Schwarzman and David Solomon were back at Saudi Arabia’s “Davos in the Desert” conference last month....
...The proposal is due to be discussed at a board meeting of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...The experience is organised into men’s and women’s open-air bathhouses, both of which border a cool creek you can hop into after a warm soak....
...Here’s his take on the desert festival in Nevada. “Just back from Burning Man. Reminds me of Woodstock with better art (installations) and less good music....
...I left four years later with perma-tan lines and the calluses of a proper desert child....
...South from Nazca, on a desert coast near the mining town of Marcona, Punta San Juan has been protecting seabirds since the 1940s, building a seawall to create conditions not unlike an island, albeit one...
...Victory went to team Desert Storm, whose commodity market knowledge helped lift them to a mighty 38.5 points out of a possible 94 — 41 per cent!...
...Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder-turned-private space entrepreneur and philanthropist, reached the lower reaches of space over the West Texas desert early on Tuesday, fulfilling a boyhood dream and ending...
...McAdam’s background in selling prefab steel structures encouraged his belief that the inhospitable desert rocks offered an ideal environment to create what he calls a “lonely-planet experience”....
...All existing investors took part including Andreessen Horowitz, T Rowe Price, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Fidelity, Mubadala, Perry Creek Capital, Silver Lake, Temasek, plus auto supplier Magna...
...Asked by Bezos what she planned to say once the Blue Origin craft touches down in the west Texas desert, Funk replied: “I will say, ‘Honey, that’s the best thing that ever happened to me!’”...
...Rio has funded Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the joint venture company developing the project, through shareholder loans....
...Branson, 70, is scheduled to reach the edge of space over the New Mexico desert early on Sunday morning local time, riding on the VSS Unity....
...This year has seen only two deals between public companies worth more than $1bn: Cimarex Energy and Cabot Oil & Gas’s $9.3bn deal and the $1.4bn merger between Bonanza Creek Energy and Extraction Oil & Gas...
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