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...Letter in response to this article: Beloved in LA, the Dodgers have few fans elsewhere / From Lou Panelli, Seattle, WA, US...
...January has kicked off with the merger of two US auction houses, Chicago’s Hindman (which made $100mn sales last year) and Philadelphia’s Freeman’s ($32mn)....
...Critics have been less enthusiastic, often accusing them of being formulaic and faceless, but the band are good-natured (and mega-successful) enough to shrug off the haters....
...Black later admitted that Apollo had “stumbled” and paid too much for the Las Vegas company....
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...He’s graduated from being a mega dealmaker to philanthropist, back channel in US-China relations and “Trump whisperer”....
...“I hired a psychiatrist as a mediator,” he says — probably not something that anyone outside of La La Land would ever contemplate. The sessions seemed to do the trick....
...(FT) Alumni club Mega donations to Harvard are compensating for weak endowment returns....
...With a television audience of more than 100m Americans as its target, and with a reckless disregard for the voting preference of countless Budweiser drinkers, the mega-brewer Anheuser-Busch has produced...
...Mega-deals involving kit supply remain the preserve of a select handful of clubs with global cachet....
...belief the anger “reflects the rise of a larger, richer and more sophisticated middle class, which in turn is demanding better public services, lower prices and cleaner politicians”.Vincent Bevins in the LA...
...Maiden Lane II LLC (MLII) and Maiden Lane III LLC (ML III)....
...Not quite what you might expect from an FT Alphaville post, but the following report from the LA Times on the imminent closure of Philadelphia’s libraries illustrates some of the oft-overlooked human consequences...
...Bankruptcy filings from the Journal Register and Philadelphia Newspapers brought the number of newspaper owners seeking creditor protection since December to four....
...The number of publishers in or near default on their debt has lengthened to include Journal Register, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Philadelphia Media News, which publishes the Philadelphia Inquirer....
...The last big wave of consolidation in the mutual fund industry occurred in 2005 with mega-mergers between Citigroup and Legg Mason; and BlackRock and Merrill Lynch....
...We do not have that strong tradition of philanthropy that you have in older cities, whether it’s New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Chicago, and so on. But it’s happening....
...But experts say Philadelphia never became as overheated as Miami, say, or Las Vegas. And in Center City, at least, prices have continued to rise....
...Greater Phoenix currently has a quarter of Greater LA’s population in half the acreage. But Woods insists that things are changing....
...At the time, Lord Browne was putting together his most ambitious deal since the mega-mergers of the late 1990s – a 50/50 Russian partnership that would become known as TNK-BP....
...When it did so, 11 of its 32 daily papers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer and Akron Beacon Journal, ended up in local private hands....
...in new mega-resorts....
...The Philadelphia Inquirer separately reported that the US was paying some Iraqi journalists $200 a month to produce positive stories for the US-led coalition....
...Currently, the market allows betting on 18 US cities with the most volatile temperature patterns — including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Des Moines and Las Vegas – as well as world cities such...
...field, and KTLA in turn promotes the newspaper by keeping a camera in the LA Times newsroom....
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