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...“I’m in a big questioning phase,” the 54-year-old architect and developer Issa Diabaté tells me from the contemporary office he shares with his associate Guillaume Koffi, 64, and their staff in Abidjan,...
...The IMF itself, not an institution you associate with being easily intimidated, became an uncomfortable battleground for the currency wars of the 2000s and 2010s between the US and China....
...Danilo Orlando, Savills associate in Rome, agrees: “Many customers who previously wanted a penthouse in the centre are considering villas, as long as it is near the amenities.”...
...The 74-year-old Jean-Luc Brunel, a former French model agency boss and associate of the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, was detained last month and is being investigated for “rape of a minor...
...Duhamel’s associate Élisabeth Guigou resigned as president of France’s Commission on Incest....
...The original building was in fact designed by Philip Johnson’s former associates, Gene Aubry and Howard Barnstone....
...If the private equity group sold its whole stake at a £4bn valuation it would add £545m to the pool of “carry” available, according to an analysis by Peter Morris, an associate scholar at Oxford university...
...defence minister François Léotard; Thierry Gaubert, a budget ministry official at the time; and Dominique Castellan, then boss of defence group DCN-I....
...Dominique Carrel-Billiard, global head of institutional at Amundi, has made a name for himself as a ruthlessly efficient operator....
...Jean-Dominique Senard, left, chairman of the French carmaker since January, tried in vain to woo his alliance partner, Hiroto Saikawa, right, chief executive of Japan’s Nissan....
...Many officials inside Nissan favoured a Japanese leader, while Renault’s chairman Jean-Dominique Senard pushed for Mr Gupta to be part of the mix, according to people with knowledge of the discussions....
...Painters like Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres were attracted by the complex patterns because they offered artists a chance to show off their skills....
...Financial advisers allocate about a third of their portfolio to US equities, with just 10 per cent going into global stocks, according to Cerulli Associates....
...of female hires Goldman Sachs has rolled out new policies aimed at increasing the proportion of women at the company, including extending a 50/50 recruitment goal to cover all analysts and entry-level associates...
...The canopies — exquisite, origami wings that seem to float, barely touching the structure — circumscribe a quiet, slightly Japanese-looking garden (designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates) leading...
...More importantly, according to Mr Ghosn and his associates, the Japanese executives were also worried about losing their jobs....
...“The amount of money that has changed hands in five or six days is staggering,” said Dominique Lévy, a partner and founder of New York gallery Lévy Gorvy....
...Its authors, Dominique Estival, a qualified commercial pilot, flight instructor and academic linguist, Candace Farris, an academic researcher with industry experience, and Brett Molesworth, a pilot and associate...
...Housing need is different to housing demand — letter from Martin Hewes, Managing Director, Hewes & Associates, Surrey, UK “Sir, John Kay’s article, “Building blocks” (House & Home, FT Weekend, November...
...But the whole idea of artifice, and questioning reality, is no longer something you associate only with artists, when you have governments doing it,” says Rugoff....
...“I truly believe that the current model where a few countries decide on the rules for the rest of the world is simply wrong,” said Vladimir Yakunin, Rhodes’ founder and close associate of Russian president...
...Dominique Dolman, an associate solicitor at Irwin Mitchell, said anyone targeted in the government’s counter-avoidance push should consider legal action sooner rather than later....
...Demand for certification is very important in Asia, says Guy Saunders, associate dean for executive education at Melbourne Business School in Australia....
...Dominique Andre, Aylesford International’s affiliate in the south of France, also claims to have seen the mass exodus of Russian and Ukrainian buyers from the coast....
...Associates of Mr Strauss-Kahn began to market the fund in China on Wednesday in advance of its official opening....
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