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...The US arm of accounting firm Grant Thornton has agreed to sell a majority stake to the investment group New Mountain Capital, in the largest of a wave of private equity deals that are reshaping the sector...
...Last week, Chicago-based Grant Thornton agreed to sell a majority stake to New Mountain Capital in the sector’s largest deal. Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February....
...Aspen Snowmass is opening a new lift that will whisk skiers to a high, north-facing portion of Aspen Mountain for the first time....
...The front of the property has floor-to-ceiling windows looking out towards the Slieve Mish mountains and Kerry Head....
...“It’s on the sponsor to defend their portfolio,” said John Kline, managing director of New Mountain Capital....
...It is a good story, unique in my experience, and the results are heavenly. Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on X or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...But for its Mountain View-based staff there is reportedly a “carrot” as well: dodge the commute by staying — for $99 a night — at Google’s own hotel....
...Raiatea is 12 miles long, with a spine of green mountains and a barrier reef extending all around it like a halo....
...Heavenly Moon, I'm dreaming of somebody soon, someone will spend a long afternoon close by me making me swoon....
...In early 2017, two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus, discussing a new idea for how to improve machine translation...
...As natural conditions worsen, I have regarded alpine gardeners as safe-spacers of these heavenly plants. However, their gardens too are changing. At lower altitudes alpines hate wet winters....
...Sarah Raven still has plants on offer, including Salvia sagittata x Blue Butterflies, a newish arrival in our gardens from parents in the Andes mountains....
...A white and infinite afterlife, perhaps, not quite heavenly, but not hellish, either....
...A bulbous silhouette takes the form of a mountain (in a Georgia O’Keeffe landscape) or an astrological event (in Cameron’s “Pluto Transiting the Twelfth House” from 1978-86)....
...The plain penne pasta served up at the halfway point tasted heavenly. Coca-Cola developed a new revitalising power....
...The supreme small plants are alpines from the high altitudes of the world’s mountains. They are having a tough time. In their mountain homes they are being unsettled by the changing climate....
...In Rome I have just found a placid sequel: in heavenly sunshine I have ridden down Rome’s ancient Via Appia, partly closed to cars and still surfaced with some of the original slabs....
...Beaches, mountains, parks....
...Under a heavenly blue sky there, I had my best acer moments this year. Many of you garden on acid soil and are ideally placed to plant acers for autumn....
...Li’s 1990 memoir, Moving the Mountain, describes the tumultuous events of his early life in China....
...These are the heights of Phnom Kulen, the “Mountain of Lychees”....
...I am not expecting a full heavenly view in the longer term, but I will settle for this preview: visit it and see why....
...The Mountain View search giant is therefore buying US specialist Mandiant for $5.4bn cash....
...In Jiangnan, floppy, semi-dried shoots (bianjian) make fine soups and salads, while Sichuanese smoked shoots are heavenly when stewed with beef or belly pork....
...The service is accompanied by a live band, and today’s theme for the homily is “Developing a Heavenly Mindset”....
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