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...Nathan McMullen’s rueful Chrissie, likewise, carries a defeated expression, deflated tones and drooping body....
...Kroger chair and chief executive Rodney McMullen will continue in those roles at the combined company....
...Rodney McMullen, Kroger chief executive, addressed the tough climate for grocers as he spoke to investors on Wednesday. “It’s important for you to understand we are facing reality....
...An oil painting of James Levy Hart, his great-grandfather painted by English portrait and subject painter Charles Baxter, hangs in the hallway. “I treasure the artworks,” Hart says....
...Reporting by Lucy Warwick-Ching, Claer Barrett, James Pickford, Josephine Cumbo, Aime Williams, Vanessa Houlder and Hugo Greenhalgh...
...The home, which measures 5,300 sq ft, was built in about 1910 for wood manufacturing executive James Pierce....
...“The condominium market is the biggest target for Americans,” says James Upton, an estate agent at RE/MAX Crest Realty Westside....
...After several years of slow growth following the crash, home prices began stabilising in 2012, says James Burdess, head of the Caribbean desk at Savills....
...Mr McMullen adds: “If you want to change them, you gotta say, ‘you know what, you’re now Christian’....
...In 1817, for example, when James Monroe and his wife, Elizabeth, moved in, they installed more than 50 pieces of carved and gilded French Empire furniture by Parisian cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellangé...
...Henry James rather wickedly described it as “a delicate French château mirrored in a Massachusetts pond”. But for Wharton it was a place, at first, of pleasure and inspiration....
...James Zemaitis, senior vice president of Sotheby’s 20th-century design department, says that because architecture has elements of both art and fashion there’s often little agreement in cultural circles...
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