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...Labour, by contrast, only received £3mn of donations, including £500,000 from former Autoglass boss Gary Lubner and £362,625 from Unite the Union....
...Rupert Murdoch’s dilemma The media baron is known for his anti-elite, low-tax, defence-heavy conservatism, but his political endorsements have proven much more chameleon-like in their pragmatism....
...“Downtown was terrible — downright scary at the time,” Gary Saul, another Greenberg lawyer who leads the firm’s condo practice, recalls. “He saw it. No one else saw it — and he made it happen.”...
...It’s an unintentional history of capital, philanthropy and robber barons; it shows you the underworld of America’s elite....
...Gary Mazzotti, chief executive of EP Infrastructure, whose assets include Křetínský’s Slovak gas business, said the businessman’s decisions were based on pragmatism....
...position and influence normally associated with traditional press barons....
...Another portrait, from the court of James I, depicts Dudley, 3rd Baron North in an all-black outfit featuring a doublet and breeches that billow out....
...Gary Ng, of French investment bank Natixis, points to a shift in trade patterns since the pandemic, with less Chinese trade being re-exported via Hong Kong....
...Fast forward to more recent times and the manor was bought in the late 1950s by the American oil baron John Paul Getty, who sold it to the art collector Stanley J....
...Other nominees who could miss out on their moment in the spotlight include Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat 2; The Trial of the Chicago 7), Anthony Hopkins (The Father), Vanessa...
...Hearings Gary Gensler, chair of the Security and Exchange Commission, is expected to be questioned on crypto exchanges when he testifies before the Senate banking committee....
...How do the electoral maths look for Mank, the gnarly new film from David Fincher, starring Gary Oldman?...
..., Pieces of a Woman Frances McDormand, Nomadland Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman Best Actor Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Anthony Hopkins, The Father Gary...
...“The world has changed,” said Gary Hersham, a London property agent who is regarded as one of the kings of the Russian trade....
...Mr Trump’s final campaign video scorned the robber barons of the global elite as it displayed an image of Mr Blankfein....
...For many years, a man identifying himself as John Barron — or sometimes Baron, with a single “r” — of the Trump Organization would talk with reporters on the phone about the business and its swashbuckling...
...(Lewis imagines the movie version staring Sacha Baron Cohen as Danny and either Michael Fassbender or Christian Bale as Amos)....
...But it might have been the opposition of a media industry that felt squeezed by its growing power — and, in particular, the enmity of rightwing press barons such as Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel...
...In one particularly curious moment in 1990, he acknowledged using the alias “John Baron” while making phone calls on behalf of his company. (Mr Trump would name one of his sons Barron.)...
...As grimy layers of admin accrete on the original bright ideals of their founders, incumbent companies become prone to inertia and what Gary Hamel, the management thinker, has called “bureausclerosis”....
...“His passion for the environment is real,” says Gary Knell, president and chief executive of the National Geographic Society....
...Geneva National Golf Club includes courses designed by Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino....
...gary.silverman@ft.com...
...The BBC’s total budget for all its presenters, actors and performers — from Gary Lineker to the extras on EastEnders — is £188m a year....
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