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...The tech giant’s intent to buy the James R Thompson Center building, designed by Germany-born architect Helmut Jahn, from the state of Illinois came as the Chicago business community takes on a momentous...
...James Gorman was the highest-paid CEO on Wall Street last year, making more than $20m....
...Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman has also indicated a desire to remain at the helm of the bank he has led since 2010 for at least another three years....
...Its arguments range from suspicion that CRRC will eventually move on from passenger rail cars and dominate the US freight rail sector to worries about the state support it enjoys....
...Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democratic senator, was more lenient, saying that the allegations needed to be taken “seriously and with respect” but one accusation was not “disqualifying”....
...Cuomo and the state’s Democratic party leadership....
...Marc Daniels, a Jewish peace activist from Springfield, Illinois, said he had flown to Washington the night before to hand out what he was calling “judiciary yarmulkes”....
...North Korea was expected to top the agenda when secretary of state Rex Tillerson and defence secretary James Mattis host Yang Jiechi, China’s top foreign policy official, and General Fang Fenghui, the chief...
...At least in the case of Mrs Clinton’s emails, James Comey, FBI director, has already said “no prosecutor” would bring charges against her. “His noise on the campaign trail is just that....
...It tilts the balance in favour of strongmen with access to state coffers....
...The company last year sought to buy CSX, Norfolk’s bigger rival in the eastern third of the United States but abandoned the effort....
...For example, Illinois-based fertiliser maker CF Industries acquired assets from Dutch rival OCI for $8bn including debt. Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan in New York...
...James Scott Brady was born in Centralia, Illinois, on August 29 1940, the son of a railroad yardmaster, and graduated from two universities in his home state, where he was active in college Young Republican...
...His secretary of state was James Baker. Their lieutenants held the key posts in the country’s diplomatic corps. But it stopped being their building as soon as the Mandelas walked inside....
...Proceedings in Chicago have been watched closely in India, where the three-day Mumbai attacks shocked the public, both for the audacity of the assault and the seeming incompetence of the state in its response...
...“The institutional investors cut back and are more on the sidelines now,” said James Steel, head of precious metals strategy at HSBC in New York....
...He notes that only 19 of the 84 Republicans joined the Tea Party caucus, and most of them are in safe districts; only two, Allen West in Florida and Joe Walsh in Illinois, face highly competitive challenges...
...Opinion polls in key swing states showed a slight edge for Mr Obama over his Republican challenger ahead of Tuesday’s vote....
...In corn belt states such as Iowa and Illinois, average temperatures had for decades been creeping higher in winter and spring amid year-to-year variations, said Deke Arndt of the climate monitoring branch...
...By studying six heavily populated states – California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia – the group identified six “major fiscal threats”....
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...The bombings in Aleppo last week and other attacks on Syrian government and intelligence targets in Damascus bear “all the earmarks of an al-Qaeda-like attack”, said James Clapper, director of national intelligence...
...House Republicans unveiled their budget proposal (Financial Times), and Republican voters in Illinois go to the polls in the latest state primary (Wall Street Journal). Up next - It’s UK budget day!...
...James Giddens, the MF Global bankruptcy trustee, is seeking court approval to transfer 60 per cent of this cash for more than 20,000 MF Global futures customers, totalling $520m....
...Pondering pensions is a long way from her initial start in the music business at the University of Illinois, where she booked bands from Smashing Pumpkins to They Might Be Giants....
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