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...“The integration of Vivint is well under way, and as a differentiated company at the intersection of energy and smart home technology, NRG has clear upside value creation opportunities,” said Lawrence Coben...
...Former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers has also been drafted in to provide experience. Adam D’Angelo, chief executive of question-and-answer platform Quora, will remain a board member....
...Houston-native Simone Biles is once again atop the gymnastics world after a two-year career pause....
...Others including Rice, in Houston, are actively considering doing the same....
...A recent report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found it took a median of five years for an energy project to be connected to the grid last year....
...Welcome back to Energy Source — coming to you again from Houston, with a bumper edition as the CERAWeek energy jamboree enters day four....
...“I always quote my favourite line in The Bodyguard, where Whitney Houston, on first meeting Kevin Costner, says: ‘You don’t look like a bodyguard.’ He replies: ‘This is my disguise.’...
...Nearly 17 per cent of shareholders in Aston Martin rebelled against the re-election of executive chair Lawrence Stroll, the billionaire Canadian who rescued the luxury carmaker last year....
...I and a colleague went to New York, Boston, Louisville, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston....
...Fortunes have yo-yoed so much with the cost of crude that one Houston restaurant, Ouisie’s, even adjusts the price of its rib-eye steaks to the market rate of Texas light sweet....
...The US bank has also hired Lawrence Steyn from Morgan Stanley as vice-chairman of investment banking, according to Business Insider....
...The decline in home sales in the South was partly attributed to the impact that Hurricane Harvey had to the greater Houston area....
...Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker ran through the history of the oil industry in Texas, telling a familiar tale but with a few nice colourful details....
...On Tuesday night I spoke in Houston at a forum sponsored by the Dallas Federal Reserve. Inevitably, given that I was at the Fed, the topic turned to monetary policy....
...Prominent names this year include Jeff Gillette at Lawrence Alkin Gallery, whose 2010 series “Dismayland” is said to have inspired Banksy’s “Dismaland” theme park....
...A role model here is the Cyrus One data centre in Houston, says Mr Garvin, “which is harder to penetrate than airport security”....
...Louis Adler, Houston, TX, US...
...Heather Headley takes on the Whitney Houston role of Rachel and does so with real style: she turns in a witty, stellar performance, delivers the big numbers with zest and, most importantly, makes the film...
...Tony Welsh, Houston, TX, US...
...Lawrence Eagles, head of oil research at JPMorgan in New York, said the increase in Middle East crude premiums reflected “a tight market”....
...Experts say cities with growing technology and energy industries that generate new jobs are performing best, including tech centres San Francisco, Seattle and San José and energy hubs Dallas, Houston and...
...Lawrence Eagles, JPMorgan head of oil research, says: “This kind of uncertainty raises demand for inventories.”...
...“There is far greater scrutiny by regulators before restarting pipelines after unplanned outages,’’ potentially adding a week to the process of restarting the pipeline, said Lawrence Eagles, oil analyst...
...“To me it’s a bubble,” says Amy Myers Jaffe of Rice University in Houston, who has studied the relationship between oil prices and speculation....
...That will add to existing bases in Robert and Houma in Louisiana, a new centre planned for New Orleans, and the BP base in Houston....
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