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...Agricultural machinery company John Deere and Diageo make up the rest of the top five, while further down we find Canada’s national railway system; car seller AutoNation; Spanish construction company FCC...
...Similarly, Marcus and his wife, Billi, were among the first signatories to the Giving Pledge, set up by Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, under which billionaires promise to donate at...
...It is an engineering feat 20 times the length of the Golden Gate Bridge that stretches across the mouth of the Pearl River....
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...The gate can be lowered in less than two minutes to prevent water from entering....
...construction of staggering engineering complexity and expense....
...Law firm K&L Gates hired Patrick Richards as a partner in its IP procurement and portfolio management practice. He joins from Richards Patent Law, the IP practice he founded in 2009....
...The probe into bribes paid by construction group Odebrecht led to the imprisonment of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and implicated four former or current presidents of Peru — one shot...
...Boarding gates will more than triple to 157 from 51 now....
...It’s not easy to gather a fair impression of life inside a prison from outside the gate....
...“It has massive potential,” says Mr Boyd, standing on his spartan shop floor near two emerald-green robots that are producing the skeleton of a 42-foot-wide structure....
...The biggest is Bill Gates, who gave $210m for scholarships in 2000. The new Cavendish will be the lab’s third home....
...The city sits on Ha Long Bay, a World Heritage site known for its limestone islands, rainforests and emerald waters....
...A new road sign pointing to the “great dam” set up near the strictly guarded gates leading to the dam site is written in Cambodian Khmer and Chinese....
...More prosaically, Ant Financial, the online payments affiliate of ecommerce group Alibaba, lets its 450m users log in to their online wallets by taking a selfie, while China Construction Bank allows customers...
...Another huge complex is under construction in London. Amazon, long housed in downtown Seattle, occupies between 15 and 20 per cent of that city’s office space....
...The box office there has defied the slowing economy with multiplex construction continuing to add screens to a cinema market that will surpass the US and become the world’s largest by 2017, according to...
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...Artur Fischer dead at 96 The German inventor came up with the camera flash bulb, the plastic wall plug and the Fischertechnik construction toys that inspired generations of engineers....
...A symptom of this structural over-capacity is that factory gate prices are currently falling at an annualised double digit rate....
...John Deere, the maker of agricultural and construction machinery, has moved its Russian office from central Moscow to the industrial park....
...Gates vs Wolf edition – FT Alphaville...
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Sika shareholders do not enjoy the same protection, but we know our rights, and — led by Bill Gates, another long-term shareholder — we are standing up for them....
...● Ever since listening devices were found at Democratic Party HQ in Washington’s Watergate building, the suffix “gate” has been appended to high-level scandals....
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