Hints and tips:
...Take for instance Rollins, the Atlanta, USA-based pest control company (no relation to ATL throwback Rollin’)....
...Farmers once relied on coca, the precursor to cocaine, but they now find gold more profitable....
...Natixis, a co-operative bank, had never been known for stringent risk controls and, though it owned a majority, wouldn’t interfere with Crastes’s day-to-day decision making....
...DSM shareholders will control two-thirds of the newly formed company’s equity. DSM leadership will take the chair and chief executive roles....
...While rivals strain for the sophistication of Manhattan or Europe, Dezer embraces his inner Miami — that of Crockett and Tubbs, gold chains, fast cars and big boats....
...It had to have been heartbreaking,” says Bryan Richards, emerging disease co-ordinator at the US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center....
...For most Americans, these images are indelibly, and exclusively, linked to the name of Tiffany & Co....
...The California Gold Rush, which began when gold was discovered in Coloma in 1848 by James W Marshall, transformed the state. News of Marshall’s discovery drew thousands of people to California....
...Other export controls: One idea being explored as part of a possible fifth package of sanctions would be to target elements of Russia’s non-energy trade with the EU, on top of the existing export control...
...But the International Gymnastics Federation, the governing body that controls the scoring system, has said that it sometimes marks down particularly dangerous feats....
...The controls, seals and life science equipment maker reported an operating profit for the half year to March of £66.6m, up 33 per cent, on revenue up 29 per cent to £365.2m....
...Former global co-head of Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking unit Sumit Rajpal has launched GrowthCurve Capital, a new control-oriented private equity firm focused on technology....
...Then comes the gold of riparian woodland before Africa’s immense savannah gives way to the chalky lunar scape of the Makgadikgadi salt pans....
...Rather than forging connections they are alienating: unable to cope with the noise and interruptions, workers seal themselves off with headphones. Worse still is hot-desking (everyone’s pet hate)....
...Zijin also resolved a dispute with the government of Papua New Guinea that will allow the Hong Kong and Shanghai-listed company to reopen the Porgera gold mine with its joint venture partner Barrick Gold...
...Worries that Russia’s government will increase its control over the country’s top tech company have sparked several sell-offs....
...The problem with romantically overgrown gardens is that they teeter on the fragile, before being overwhelmed by pest, weed, disease and chaos....
...Fourteen co-operating witnesses — including the engineer who set the cartel leader up with an encrypted phone system and a former mistress — provided enough testimony to seal Mr Guzmán’s conviction after...
...Lift the gold lid of a tub of Halo Top ice cream and you will be greeted with a cheery message printed on the seal, such as “Save the bowl”, “Stop when you hit the bottom” or “Guilt-free zone”....
...He recently tried ice diving in the Antarctic, and was thrilled to see leopard seals....
...Ecovec uses traps positioned by GPS to predict outbreaks so health authorities can target vector control....
...Jim Coulter, the co-founder and co-chief executive of TPG, said McAfee could sharpen its focus and respond faster to the “rapidly-evolving” cyber security sector as an independent company....
...Having previously been managing director of Birmingham City Football Club — a job she took at the age of just 23 — she followed owners David Sullivan and David Gold to east London when they bought West Ham...
...At Silent Circle, Mr Janke counts Phil Zimmermann, inventor of the global encryption gold standard PGP, among his co-founders....
...- More on the new seductiveness of capital controls. - Chart of the day, Microsoft-Nokia edition. - Outflows in gold ETFs surge as traders bolt. - Who will prosper in the new world?...
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