Hints and tips:
...This industry practice brings wry amusement to cynics who believe fees might conceivably influence advice....
...The bar was busy with locals, families, dogs and even the Copenhagen art crowd, who were here for a show opening. It’s an eclectic and warm place to hang out....
...Discovering the secrets to productivity . . . at Legoland: On a visit to the amusement park with his son, Tim Harford assesses the attraction with economist’s eyes....
...“Their big attraction is they approach a school district and say ‘you don’t have time to do this, we’ll do it for you’,” said Alex Molnar, research lead of the NEPC study....
...Colder months bring Winter Wonderland, a raucous mix of festive markets, amusement-park rides and performances....
...Its attractions survive the winter months intact....
...It involves a relatively affluent family paying an often ludicrous amount of money to fly to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, California or Florida to visit one of the Mouse Empire’s amusement parks to ride attractions...
...To attract customers, its owners invested in thrills, throwing in an amusement park, a water park, a helipad, a zoo and a 16-storey ski slope, among other amped-up attractions....
...In this case the government is that of Japan, the film the eerily fascinating Family Romance, LLC, which dramatises the real-life activities of a Tokyo agency that hires out performers to assume the roles...
...Hence the attraction of using proxy advisers to handle “an enormous volume of information in a short period of time”, to give “investors a meaningful voice in corporate governance,” as ISS says....
...Redstone was less of a revolutionary than an imperialist; National Amusements, the Redstone family’s theatre chain, bought its way into Hollywood by acquiring film and cable television assets, just as film...
...One is that family-controlled companies require special handling. Both Viacom and CBS are controlled by the Redstone family’s National Amusements....
...Tip: Coney Island’s 50-odd attractions. Berlin Berlin has Germany’s worst-performing schools and a dysfunctional local government....
...; where families meet families, and friends meet friends, as upon a neutral ground.”...
...It sits in a quiet corner of Alton Towers, the UK’s largest amusement park, which in 2014 augmented its array of terrifying rollercoasters with CBeebies Land, an area of gentler rides and activities based...
...Bankers also say Hong Kong’s political stability may be an attraction, and technical requirements are unlikely to be an issue....
...His guests included family members, a fellow estate owner, business people, a chartered surveyor and former UK foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind — underlining the social attractions of a day on the moors...
...Third, it wants to tilt the tourist trade back towards family holidays, purchasing two key tourist attractions: the Winter Gardens and the Tower....
...Mr Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management already has a computer-driven unit, Cubist Systematic Strategies, and a “big data” group called Aperio, but the capital Quantopian will manage gives the family office...
...Merlin had just opened the “Enchanted Village”, 120 new lodges at Alton Towers built to accommodate families over the peak season....
...Although billed as a family theme park, Dismaland’s website warns of “uneven floor surfaces, extensive use of strobe lighting, imagery unsuitable for small children and swearing”....
...He says trading volumes since 2008 for the five largest bond ETFs have risen much faster than their asset growth, supporting the view that the intraday liquidity offered by ETFs is an important attraction...
...She does so with some amusement. He once asked her in to get the gas to work: notoriously unworldly, he had never heard of a pilot light....
...Similarly, in the US, Milton S Hershey built his eponymous company town in Pennsylvania, combining a factory, amusement park and family homes, as well as a school for orphans, to which he bequeathed almost...
...So it’s perhaps not altogether surprising to see a French investor hobnobbing with Vladimir Putin on the Black Sea peninsular this week and offering to build a tourist attraction in the region....
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