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...Preventing wildfires requires rethinking urban planning and land use, say Dave Winnacker and Donnie Hasseltine, two fellows at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where they have studied wildfire...
...US presidents from Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama have sojourned at New York’s opulent Waldorf Astoria....
...For Lee Daniels, seeing the Billie Holiday biopic Lady Sings the Blues in 1972 was a life-changing experience that set him on the path to becoming a film-maker....
...Lee Daniels’ last project as a director was called Lee Daniels’ The Butler....
...“When companies begin to dominate, people get afraid of their power,” said Lee Spelman, head of US equity for JPMorgan Asset Management....
...Cannae Holdings and funds affiliated with private equity group Thomas H Lee Partners will invest alongside CC Capital in the deal, which will see the owner of the D&B Hoover corporate database taken private...
...The numbers come from a 1997 paper by Lee Ohanian for the American Economic Review....
...The Hoover Dam hems in the mirror-still waters of Lake Mead as the setting sun paints the cliffs on the horizon with a honey-gold stripe....
...But the real scandal here is the way Uber has been allowed to hoover up the London taxi market....
...“Bayo” Ogunlesi, Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, and CEO, IBM Kevin Warsh, Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics, Hoover...
...critique of counterterrorism policy by Arun Kundnani, the west’s “domestic war on terror” at times resembles a Greene novel populated by a cast of counterterrorism warriors even unlikelier than a hawker of Hoovers...
...Lee Friedlander’s landscapes through his car window get better every time I see them....
...Li & Fung, the biggest supplier to Wal-Mart, rose 1.6 per cent to HK$45.40 while Techtronic Industries, the maker of Hoover vacuum cleaners, jumped 5.7 per cent to HK$10.46....
...Tim Berners-Lee, the man responsible more than any other for the initiation of the world wide web, is a classic example of this attitude....
...As befits the Jazz Age, Kreuger was a crook with vision, ambition and a taste for the good life – cavorting with Greta Garbo, counselling President Herbert Hoover on world affairs and discussing high finance...
...Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 in the depths of the Depression, while Jimmy Carter’s Iran hostage problem helped his defeat by Mr Reagan in 1980....
...There is little querulous special pleading about American racism, as Lee cynics expected....
...an hostile offer worth $19.6bn for Unocal, the oil group, while Haier, a maker of domestic appliances, is leading a $1.28bn approach for Maytag, thesmaller, but iconic US appliance maker known for its Hoover...
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