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...Two days later, in a letter sent by STDC chief executive Julie Gilhespie, PDT was told that the board of the regeneration body had rejected PDT’s proposal. A six-week trial followed in October....
...Lustig, whose clients included Nat King Cole, Julie Felix, Jethro Tull and Nico, clearly had an eye for talent, but he had picked the wrong man....
...“Susan is a master networker, organiser and connector – this is her superpower,” says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation....
...Lacombe takes a much more natural approach to Walker, who poses in front of a wall festooned with drawings-in-progress....
...The gallery is on the corner of Broadway and Walker Street in Tribeca but is named after the original location of Pace, which Glimcher opened in Boston back in 1960....
...“There are a lot of internal politics going on,” a banking executive close to the UBS hierarchy told the FT’s Owen Walker. “The market is closely watching how the dynamic will play out.”...
...Walker believes the heyday of the traditional triangle sandwich is over, but for a different reason....
...The bogeyman menacing Frankie, the schoolgirl protagonist of Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew (Walker Books, RRP£7.99), is a virtual one but no less terrifying....
...Ms Walker stresses that rigour at the hiring stage is an essential component of retention. “Excellence in a prospect’s area of law is the baseline,” she says....
...Gap Julie GruberExecutive vice-president, global general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer After more than two decades at the clothes retailer, Julie Gruber is leading a bold initiative...
...The 630-mile South West Coast Path runs along the borders of the farm, which is criss-crossed by other tracks for walkers....
...With 300 to 400 artworks by roughly 100 artists, among them contemporary masters Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Mark Bradford and Kara Walker, the collection is the subject of a new book, Four Generations:...
...During this period, a penthouse inside Walker Tower fetched $45m. The art deco condo conversion has a 7,000 sq ft penthouse on sale for $42m through Compass....
...Robert Ward, chartered wealth manager at Walker Crips, the wealth manager, adds: “One would hope that a good degree of common sense and maturity is applied when negotiations turn to things such as access...
...Marmite, Walkers crisps and Birds Eye frozen foods — staples of a patriotic pubgoer’s diet, one would think — have all become more expensive in recent months....
...But the price gap is narrowing in this field: Julie Mehretu’s auction record stands at $4.6m while Mark Bradford’s is at $5.8m (both artists are African American)....
...Some were, of course, familiar to him — Paul, Doig, Chris Ofili, Kara Walker — but there were others he knew next to nothing about. “In fact, I hadn’t heard of a lot of the people.”...
...A growing number of retirees are also boosting the real estate market, says Walker....
...My Bond Street David Walker-Smith Managing director, Fenwick My first experience of Bond Street was when I was about 15, with a great-aunt who was recently widowed and wanted to buy a diamond....
...This is not a hard sell; the walkers are enraged by tax avoidance....
...“Holding small businesses and suppliers at gunpoint is a sure way to catch the attention of policy makers and regulators,” Mr Walker said....
...Julie Palmer, partner and retail expert at Begbies Traynor, the insolvency specialist, questioned whether this was enough: “It’s a small department dealing with a large problem.”...
...Frieze New York, May 9-12, friezenewyork.com; ‘Oscar Murillo: a Mercantile Novel’, until June 14, David Zwirner, davidzwirner.com; ‘Kara Walker: a Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby’, Domino Sugar Factory...
...Despite its beautiful setting on the Gulf of Messenia, the village has been largely overlooked by package holiday crowds, attracting instead a mix of walkers, artists and writers, including the British travel...
...If Benjamin Walker gives us a solid Brick awash in whisky, Johansson delivers a Maggie with a whisky voice....
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