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...“The raw material issue might well be the final nail in lots of people’s coffins,” Kerr said as his business, Storm Yachts, faces severe strain....
...His business occupied a Manhattan skyscraper, and he bought a penthouse and 56-foot yacht named “Bull”. He attributed his results to a mysterious “split strike” strategy....
...Recently, I flipped through a copy of Take Ivy, Japan’s 1965 ode to the dress and manners of students at elite New England universities....
...Anticipating swings in returns available across the many dozens of less obvious and unfashionable urban destinations is also part of the task faced by an elite group of global fund managers....
...The first part of the question is predicated on the empirical fact that a disproportionate number of students from elite colleges end up on Wall Street....
...Chinese buyers still prefer wide-body jets, in part for the prestigious image, as jets, like private yachts, are seen as platforms for entertaining clients and business partners....
...Sir Philip Green has all the trappings of a billionaire: the house in Monaco, the yacht, the supermodel-strewn parties – and a decade-old Nokia 6310....
...Early adopters of sharing economy services, many of whom hail from the Silicon Valley elite, still want to be driven around in a black limousine, sail a yacht or sleep in a Gulfstream private jet at $10,000...
...The elite from Democratic Republic of Congo are also big spenders abroad....
...A generation ago, he explains, “what you had was a very lazy managerial elite”....
...On Wednesday, in booming Jakarta, the London head of property developer Jones Lang Lasalle will market high-end apartments to Indonesia’s elite....
...Yet this familiarity has far from dispelled the aura of mystery and menace that surrounds some of the new Russian elite....
...Nantucket has many fine restaurants – one’s staff needs the occasional night off, after all – but none epitomises the island’s discreet, elite scene as much as 21 Federal, in a Greek revival townhouse in...
...Days after the bank bosses tore up their cheques, I was asked to join the “private jet-set elite” at an aircraft marketing event....
...Sam Davies, the leading Briton in the current Vendée, has built her own experience sailing with the French elite squad....
...The roadsides are littered with posters for forthcoming local elections; around here, a $50,000 salary as county clerk makes a person part of the economic elite....
...Born on October 9 1938, Rocky did not grow up poor but he was a rebel in a conformist society, thrown out of high school and elite Keio University for fighting....
...For about £72,000, you can buy an eighth of a share in an 18-metre yacht which sleeps six....
...An orphan from a poverty-stricken background builds a business empire, becomes one of the richest men in the world, marries a beautiful woman, collects yachts, real estate and football clubs....
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