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...The sun begins to sink, leaving shining streamers suspended over the Langkloof valley....
...GTCR’s private equity rise Venture capitalists help founders fight burnout GTCR: Chicago-style private equity Chicago is where Michael Jordan turned the Bulls into a global sporting sensation and pan pizza...
...Then, in the early afternoon, you turn left again, into the desert....
...A boom is under way in this dusty, sun-bleached desert town: joblessness is plunging, wages are soaring and new tax receipts are flowing to state coffers....
...It can feel hostile, a flat desert with relentless sun that tans you through your shirt. The plants all seem to have thorns....
...The local burger bars and pizza joints offer a “very limited local wine selection”, says Bostock, “probably zero in most of them”....
...In the morning, a fat sun shimmers up over the impossibly distant flat horizon, where the sprawl of roads and buildings gives way to open dun-coloured desert land, a few puddles of green marking the palaces...
...Backpackers’ hostels, Pizza Huts and Kentucky Fried Chickens had replaced the tailors and tea shops....
...Mr Osmond’s firm Sun Capital Partners is yet to decide whether to participate in the Strada sale process....
...Within its 25,000 square kilometres microclimates range from desert-like conditions that favour the cultivated prickly pear cactus (fichi d’india), to the mushrooms, nuts and cheeses of the mountains, peaking...
...Roads are packed and hotels are full of sun-seekers from Russia, India and, increasingly, China....
...Mr Osmond made his name with investments in companies such as Pizza Express and Punch Taverns....
...The relisting comes three months after the fast-growing business was bought by Horizon Acquisitions, the investment vehicle sponsored by Sun Capital, in which Hugh Osmond, the former Pizza Express entrepreneur...
...Sun Capital, the investment firm in which he is a partner, is expected to invest in the new cash shell....
...Off to the right stood a KFC and Pizza Hut – more symbols of Saudi America, I thought....
...On the sun-bleached heights of the Asmara plateau, July is beles season, a few weeks of wild cactus fruit and ostentatious metropolitan chic....
...As Johnny Depp said as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, while marooned on a desert island, “Rum, sun and sand, it’s the Caribbean!”...
...Nor the valleys of bones where slain antelope bleach in the sun. Ten minutes into the movie, we hardly care where fact ends and fiction begins....
...The US went through that process in the 1980s and settled on a plan to bury its radioactive waste under Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert. Following years of challenges, President George W....
...He knows a thing or two about pizza....
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