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...Domaine Chandon, Opus One and Dominus are long-standing Napa wineries with French owners or co-owners, respectively Moët-Hennessy, Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Christian Moueix....
...Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is for South Carolina senator Tim Scott....
...American tech barons, by contrast, generally built their platforms before their government even grasped what they were up to....
...Here the mood is poignant and bassists Larry Grenadier and Thomas Morgan knit together perfectly underneath. In contrast, “Drum Music” is guttural and raw....
...Elon Musk has raised $7.14bn of funding for his $44bn buyout of Twitter from investors including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, crypto exchange Binance and asset management groups Fidelity, Brookfield...
...Now, this could just be that public producers are simply more disciplined on capital than old-skool oil barons who whisper “drill baby drill” in their sleep....
...Investors in the carmaker have more than just its fickle chief executive and his dabblings as a social media baron....
...Examples include Larry Ellison’s superyacht one-upmanship and Elon Musk’s Twitter spats, which have culminated in him buying the microblogging platform....
...Fund manager Ron Baron, whose Baron Capital Management has made more than $7bn since first backing the carmaker in 2014, is investing $100mn in Musk’s Twitter deal....
...Fund manager Ron Baron, whose Baron Capital Management has made more than $7bn since first backing Tesla in 2014, is putting forward $100mn....
...“The prince [Fink] needed all the barons to commit to total loyalty, and basically killed off all the barons that wouldn’t do so.”...
...Later that morning Larry Smith — the unrivalled star of the Schoodic documentary and expert teller of its juiciest stories — comes over to Bob’s for a chat....
...Fast forward to more recent times and the manor was bought in the late 1950s by the American oil baron John Paul Getty, who sold it to the art collector Stanley J....
...The rules of engagement Despite the apparent momentum behind divestment, Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, decided this year to make a vocal case for engagement....
...round-up Goldman slashes Solomon’s pay over 1MDB scandal (FT) EQT to buy Exeter Property Group in $1.9bn deal (FT) Chinese stocks fall as central bank adviser warns of asset bubble (FT + Lex) GE’s Larry...
...Private equity barons have cashed in despite their funds performing no better than basic trackers....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Larry Kudlow, the White House economic adviser, said the administration opposed extending federal unemployment payments beyond July because the measure created to respond to Covid...
...A century ago, institutions across the US were deciding whether or not to accept gifts from the Rockefellers and the robber barons of the Gilded Age....
...But, as played by Bertie Carvel (the only holdover from the London cast), the thrusting young press baron is not quite Mephistopheles....
...But for the newly-minted press baron, there are pressing problems of the world to solve....
...his private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have occupied what is arguably Manhattan’s most sought-after business address, 9 West 57th Street, a mythical tower of hedge fund titans, private equity barons...
...The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Quest to Colonise the Cosmos, by Christian Davenport The Space Barons is a pacy, smartly reported book on the new generation of entrepreneurs who are transforming...
...It has hosted 19th-century “sugar barons”, presidents, princes and half the cast of Hollywood’s golden age....
...Dallas: A thuggish Texas oil baron, the character of JR Ewing is an ideal turncoat for climate change campaigners. Sadly the actor who played JR, Larry Hagman, died in 2012....
...Or, as the science fiction writer Larry Niven expressed it, “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space programme.”...
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