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...When then French president François Hollande threatened to increase taxes on carried interest a decade ago, several senior private equity executives moved from Paris to London....
...“This is what he can get done when he has razor-thin majorities to deal with,” says Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University....
...Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie, director of the US joint staff, described the mission, which saw US warships, a submarine and B1 bombers fire missiles, as “precise, overwhelming, and effective”....
...• JPMorgan Asset Management has hired Kenneth Tsang as head of real estate research and strategy for the Asia-Pacific region....
...The Curse of Cash, by Kenneth Rogoff, Princeton University Press £22.95/$29.95 Rogoff argues that we have the ability to dispense with physical cash....
...“Most analysts on the sell side expect a tapering from €60bn per month to zero by mid-next year,” said Kenneth Orchard, portfolio manager at T Rowe Price....
...And another Hollywood magnate, David Geffen, recently sold a work that would be on many lists — De Kooning’s “Interchange” (1955), which went to Chicago hedge-funder Kenneth Griffin....
...She has just been awarded a medal and hailed a Commander of the Legion of Honour by François Hollande at the Elysée Palace....
...US and French presidents Barack Obama and François Hollande pledged at the White House on Tuesday to expand air strikes against key Isis centres, but Mr Obama has largely ruled out any broader shift in strategy...
...James Lovegrove Young adult The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel, David Fickling Books, RRP£10.99/Simon & Schuster, RRP$16.99 A boy with potentially fatal allergies battles the gigantic wasp-queen of the hive in...
...He has run into hostility on the idea of treaty change among his fellow European leaders, especially François Hollande, French president....
...The Globalization of Inequality, by François Bourguignon, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/$27.95 Bourguignon’s focus is global, not local, and is more on what has...
...chancellor will deploy a somewhat surprising argument – that Britain’s 1 per cent fiscal contraction this year is smaller than that proposed by either the Obama administration or the socialist French president François...
...Olli Rehn, the commission’s top economic official, has frequently cited the central finding of the now-disputed study – co-authored by Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff – that economic...
...Picker collected works by Rodin, Lowry, Hepworth and Enzo Plazzotta, and, in 1966, he commissioned Kenneth Wood to build an angular, modernist house....
...Kenneth Thompson, representing Nafissatou Diallo, said DA Cyrus Vance “has denied the right of a woman to get justice in a rape case....
...Both aim to depict the sparkle of light on water: according to Kenneth Clark, “the riverside café of La Grenouillère is the birthplace of impressionism”. 1870s The folding-box easel is invented....
...There’s no Peter Behrens or Dieter Rams, no Raymond Loewy, no Kenneth Grange, no Wilhelm Wagenfeld or Richard Sapper; such big names in modern product design are all missing....
...Hulot, the early work of Francois Truffaut and Ingmar Bergman....
...Now take the position of a supporter of the centrist candidate, François Bayrou....
...was argued as far back as 700 BC, Kenneth Lapatin, an antiquities curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California, told me. The Etruscans wore gold, amber and engraved gemstones....
...In the same year François Pinault, the chief executive of PPR, the French group that owns Gucci, paid $10m for his “Coronation of Sesostris” and, in 2005, his “Untitled (New York City)” was sold for $8.7m...
...Former cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke’s decision to launch a third bid for the Conservative party leadership raises some intriguing questions....
...I seem to recall that Francois Mitterrand extracted revenge....
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