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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....
...It’s like a really long line in the desert that is like hundreds of kilometres long, and it’s like a really tall, thin building....
...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....
...A hybrid working uniform of chinos, Patagonia gilet and desert boots? Perfected. After-hours pizzazz? Not so much....
...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”....
...In reaction to a couple of years of sweatpants and wacky Zoom backgrounds, there seems to be some nostalgia for the slick Mad Men office of mid-century Madison Avenue, sharp suits, slim ties, martini hours...
...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....
...Her husband is Jack (Styles), the backdrop all gleaming Chevrolets, chain-smoking and martinis. A twist with that?...
...And I think you should always have a good vodka in the freezer for Martinis – I use Belvedere. The last thing I bought and loved was a sculpture by Ugo Rondinone....
...Its house vermouth speciality is called Manuela and served in a triangle-shaped martini glass with an olive on a toothpick and an orange peel....
...The delicate martini glasses are part of the Calypso collection, which was created during lockdown: “I wanted to give the idea of drinking from exotic flowers, as if we were on a beautiful desert island...
...Sometimes I crave the drama of an unspoilt vista and getting back to nature, sometimes I want to sink martinis in a five-star hotel bar. Happy holidays – no matter where you pitch up....
...The proposal is due to be discussed at a board meeting of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Three puddings arrived at my table and I drank a martini, lolling back in my chair....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...“We were young and hyper-competitive analysts competing against people [in other firms] who worked seven-hour days and were used to two-martini lunches,” said Lee Ainslie, founder of Maverick Capital....
...TRQ in turns owns 66 per cent of Oyu Tolgoi LLC, with the rest controlled by the government of Mongolia....
...Instead it owns 50.8 per cent of TRQ, which in turn owns 66 per cent of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Forwarded from Sifted — the European start-up week French entrepreneur Barbara Belvisi is building sustainable habitats, starting in the Mojave Desert in California....
...John Martinis, a professor of experimental physics who led the scientific work behind the company’s recent quantum advances, compared it with other breakthrough moments in Google’s past, such as the launch...
...Led by John Martinis, an experimental physicist from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Google first predicted it would reach quantum supremacy by the end of 2017....
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