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...Lift operators at leading Italian resorts such as Monte Cimone have spent big on snow-making facilities, churning out the “gun powder” that can save a day of skiing....
...CMB Monaco, which is owned by Italy’s Mediobanca, caters to the ultra-wealthy from its headquarters in Monte Carlo....
...In 2010, after buying Marina Abramović’s Casa Monte on the island of Stromboli, she, along with the Italian curator Milovan Farronato, informally founded the Volcano Extravaganza, an avant-garde festival...
...asked William Blake. QTWTAIN as they say....
...England Moro Dabron’s Downland scent (£96 for 50ml) was inspired by the Sussex Downs, in particular William Nicholson’s depictions of their undulating green serenity....
...And the best souvenir I’ve brought home was a Rolex Daytona watch that I was given when I won the Monte Carlo Grand Prix in 1971. That was a big deal for me. I still have it....
...In the early 1960s, William Somerset Maugham received a visit from the local mayor at his villa on the French Riviera....
...Perched on a rolling hillside populated by olive groves and oaks that overlooks Monte Cetona, the rustic stone edifice is surrounded by verdant grounds designed by the late British gardener Russell Page....
...Former military John Abizaid, the former head of US Central Command, and William McRaven, the head of US special operations when Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, will be her new coworkers....
...The controversy at Monte dei Paschi continues after executives at the world’s oldest bank were acquitted of helping hide more than €2bn in losses....
...The day we arrived, dramatic autumnal cloud banks were forming into fantastic transfigurations around the peak of Monte Erice, with the sun’s rays splayed out across the bay....
...(FT) News round-up Nvidia faces opposition from EU over $54bn Arm deal (FT) Italy, UniCredit to extend talks over Monte dei Paschi sale (Reuters) Online betting group 888 in talks to buy William Hill...
...So influential was the film in creating a popular concept of continental glamour, the views of Monte Carlo from the Corniche later became a cliché in car advertising....
...It’s also a joy to see The Wire’s Michael K Williams as Tic’s badass dad when the trio eventually make it to their destination, an eerily tranquil town dominated by the flaxen-haired, blue-eyed Braithwhite...
...“What we’ve seen is that its super important to have a terrace, and many of our customers are looking outside of the centre,” says Ana García Vizcaíno, team leader at the Keller Williams One estate agency...
...The fame of Raveneau and Dauvissat boosts their prices but other superior producers whose Chablis are not quite as expensive include Samuel Billaud, Billaud-Simon, William Fèvre and Verget, and the one name...
...Santander is close to naming William Vereker, the former business envoy of former British prime minister Theresa May, as its new UK chairman....
...The potential for the technology to revolutionise activities like risk management and trading are so great that banks need to start learning how to harness it now, said William Hartnett, a managing director...
...Legacy: One Family, A Cup of Tea and the Company that Took on the World, by Thomas Harding, William Heinemann, RRP£25, 592 pages Andrew Hill is the FT’s management editor and author of ‘Ruskinland’ (Pallas...
...The drag ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dance a Peter Anastos number called Yes, Virginia, Another Piano Ballet and you do rather see what they mean....
...He was a hypochondriac for the rest of his life, although that did not stop him smoking two or three Monte Cristo Havana cigars a day....
...Recognising that there are some things about both climate outcomes and economic consequences that we just don't know, they ran each model through what's called a Monte Carlo method — yes, named after the...
...“With the experience we have learnt in Macau, and in partnership with Monte Carlo, we can be very much part of it....
...Rosa, Zermatt, Switzerland On July 13 1865, Edward Whymper set out from the Monte Rosa to make the first ascent of the Matterhorn....
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