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...There are scandalous tales of wealthy Americans buying stately homes and flogging off the interiors — such as when developer George Ferdinando sold off the dining room of Basildon Park to be re-erected in...
...Eleven spirited portraits in “Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard” (1627) form a dance of gestures, glances, hands outstretched to welcome us into the painting....
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to New York It’s called the city that never sleeps for a reason: New York’s cultural calendar is jam-packed this year, so we’ve narrowed down some of 2024’s...
...And they ended President Bush Sr.'s career. Few things terrify an elected official of either party more than spiking retail pump prices. A president doesn't have really good options....
...He turns out to be a receptionist and his table is room2’s version of a reception desk....
...Walgreens Boots Alliance, which recently became the only company in the S&P 500 to be run by a black woman after the drugstore group appointed Starbucks’s Roz Brewer, is also reporting this week....
...The full impact of 2022’s tightening of monetary policy is still to be seen, and we expect another 50bp of rate hikes in early-2023....
...After a white Minneapolis police officer killed a black man, George Floyd, in May, the legal team at US Bank, which is based in the city, launched an equity and racial justice committee....
...In July 1989, George Bush Sr promised: “For the new century, back to the Moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay!”...
...Carlsberg, advised by Lehman (where Dodgson worked at the time) eventually bought S&N with Heineken....
...Primark has been well-received here, according to CEO George Weston, a shrewd dynast. However the unit’s operating profits dropped 3 per cent to £313m under the impact of exchange rates....
...The same year he appeared on Channel 4’s The F-Word, teaching Gordon Ramsay how to make beer. Turnover in 2015 is forecast to be around £15m....
...41: A Portrait of My Father, by George W Bush, WH Allen, RRP£20/Crown, RRP$28, 304 pages When the grapevine reported that George W Bush was writing the memoir 41, I imagined a small animal creeping out...
...This piece was cited on Radio 4’s “Today” programme....
...Guests at Sagard have included former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former US President George H.W. Bush....
...US equities initially extended early gains, with the S&P 500 touching 1,698 – within a whisker of its record intraday high – but then ran out of steam and closed a fraction lower.”...
...Blue-rinse matrons off buses – “Lee”’s former fans – moved about the place gurgling, sighing, near-swooning. The place was awesome, with a side order of scary....
...The FTSE All-World equity index is up 0.1 per cent as US index futures suggest the S&P 500 will advance by 4 points to 1,502....
...Green Mountain Coffee Roasters of the US, which sells the single cup brewers that use – among others – Starbucks’ coffee capsules, has seen growth decelerate sharply in the past year....
...(Wall Street Journal) COMMENT AND CURIOS - George Magnus: The ECB’s new bond-buying plan is economically unsound. (Financial Times) - Gordon Brown: Europe could go the way of Japan....
...That is more than half the 6.5m brewers sold in the entire of last fiscal year....
...The deal follows a visit to China this week by chancellor George Osborne, who has been urging Chinese investors to inject money into British infrastructure projects....
...US President George Bush Sr was renowned for his dislike of broccoli, but Beneforté has already gone on sale over the summer on the health conscious US west coast in a number of retail outlets....
...The brewer, which makes Coors Light and Blue Moon beers, rose 3.9 per cent to $49.08....
...It helped push the S&P 500 healthcare index up 0.3 per cent....
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