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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....
...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”....
...Job moves Goldman Sachs has named 80 new partners. Here’s the full list....
...Hopkinson says the international funding of productions – where most big shows are made with global partners “who expect a high level of production” has seen drama raise its standards....
...Its owners should be treated as business partners, not as puppets or pawns.”...
...Both were previously partners at Latham & Watkins. Robin Spigel has joined Baker Botts as a partner in the law firm’s financial restructuring practice in New York....
...A short hop from Srirangapatna, I enjoyed staying at the Maharaja of Mysore’s magnificent former guest house, now the Royal Orchid Metropole....
...It has raised concerns about due process in the kingdom at a time when executives were studying proposals to invest in some of the heir-apparent’s grandiose projects, not least a $500bn city in the desert...
...Eventually, the minivans are intended to cover the entire Phoenix metropolitan area, a region the size of Greater London but far easier for a robot vehicle to navigate thanks to the desert climate and regular...
...In the early 1980s, Sharif travelled deep into the Hatta desert outside Dubai where he presented startling live art works — sometimes jumping in the sand or tying rocks together — to a handful of friends...
...On the outskirts of Phoenix, where fairways and greens cover the desert landscape, the fortunes of golf and the housing market are closely linked....
...Gas-rich Qatar is investing heavily overseas as the desert Gulf state seeks to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons....
...conferences, one idea had started to coalesce in his inner circle – a project that would take advantage of his close connections with a deep pool of capital far from the arrondissements of Paris in the deserts...
...“There is an inherent assumption that America is very like Britain, with a slightly different accent,” says Allyson Stewart-Allen, head of consultant International Marketing Partners....
...Last year, GI, which has offices in London and in Menlo Park, California, put the Orchid pubs group though a pre-packaged administration to cut its rental bill....
...On Hawaii’s big island, Westbrook Partners LLC, Farallon Capital Management LLC and Lodging Capital Partners LLC bought the 540-room Fairmont Orchid Hawaii in 2005 for $250 million....
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