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...The revival of old-world glamourNew York was home to the world’s first branded residence: the five-star Sherry Netherland hotel kick-started the concept by offering butlers and cocktails to its long-term...
...The couple’s house, Casa Butler, was built in 2009 on the flank of a hill a short walk from the Lodge at Valle Chacabuco, the hub of the national park with a 10-bedroom hotel, restaurant and visitor centre...
...by Judith Butler (Allen Lane/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux)An argument for how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world from one of the leading authorities on the subject....
...Phil Urban, chief executive at Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed pub group, said the group’s drinks-led pubs, such as Ember Inns, expected to do “really well” during the World Cup but that big...
...Peel Hunt’s Douglas Jack says this summer “could be a Goldilocks trading scenario” for the big operators, and not just in the sense of being third time lucky....
...Who Knight Frank, Douglas Elliman Estate, Ponchatoula, Louisiana, $3.495m Where Ponchatoula is a small city 50 miles north-west of New Orleans....
...Britain today gets a critical reception from Oliver Bullough in Butler to the World (Profile, March), in which the investigative journalist details how London has become a global centre for all manner of...
...Douglas Jack, an analyst at Peel Hunt, noted that the company’s pubs could break even at between 40 and 60 per cent of last year’s sales, depending on whether they were drinks or food-focused and therefore...
...“We’re looking at record levels of polarisation in the space,” said Douglas Jack, an equity analyst at broker Peel Hunt. “Some of the sector is doing incredibly well.”...
...Douglas Jack, an analyst at stockbroker Peel Hunt who follows the leisure sector, said Revolution was certainly “not doing as well” as other listed pub groups such as Greene King and Mitchells & Butlers....
...Why The villa affords the tenant effortless living, with a driver, chef and butler all available on request....
...Like many high-achieving Oxbridge graduates, Watts was recruited to the Treasury, where he spent seven years, eventually becoming private secretary to the permanent secretary, the late Douglas Wass....
...“Lower Manhattan is getting a facelift,” says Frances Katzen, of agents Douglas Elliman Real Estate. And it’s an expensive one....
...He used his time in hospital to prevent Rab Butler succeeding him, and to usher Sir Alec Douglas-Home into Downing Street. David Cameron must hope for a smoother handover. John Doherty Vienna, Austria...
...Brent Central (Lab gain) Sarah Teather, once a young Lib Dem star, stood down, and Labour’s Dawn Butler, needing to overturn the majority of 1,345, won by a margin of 19,649....
...But Numis analyst Douglas Jack was unimpressed with M&B’s claim of a recent trading pick-up, saying “there had been many false dawns”....
...Mitchells & Butlers has entered into exclusive talks to acquire the bulk of pubs owned by upmarket group Orchid in a £250m deal as part of the All Bar One owner’s attempt to accelerate profit growth....
...After it grew to more than 4m accounts and over $60m in deposits, Douglas Jackson, its founder and an oncologist from Florida, pleaded guilty in 2008 to running an illegal money transmitting business....
...The main house has seven bedrooms, an orangery, a butler’s pantry and staff flat. In 12.4 acres of land, there are gardens, stables, a lodge, pool, paddock and woodland....
...A strong festive period coupled with the miserable weather at the start of last year has left the start of 2014 looking strong for the sector, according to Douglas Jack, an analyst at Numis....
...Douglas Coupland is the author of ‘Generation X’. His latest novel, ‘Worst. Person. Ever.’, is published by Heinemann...
...Mitchells & Butlers is still struggling with a £250m pension deficit and an underperforming operating business....
...Sean Davoren, the black-suited head butler at the Savoy hotel in London, has served the world’s rich and famous for more than 30 years....
...Douglas Harned, analyst at Bernstein, is expecting Boeing to report revenue of $23bn for the final three months of 2013, and adjusted earnings per share of $1.53....
...Morgan & Co – weeks before it merged with Chase Manhattan Bank to become the financial behemoth JPMorganChase & Co – Douglas A....
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