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...Al-Hajri, the brother-in-law of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, recently acquired the hotel from members of the wealthy Barclay family....
...“Bigger theatres, with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies is going to cost you 50 bucks, maybe 100.”...
...Ask IWC, Breitling, Montblanc, Bulgari, Gucci, Frédérique Constant et al why they have made “connected” watches this year and they will all say smartwatches are the next big thing....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...They have been going to the theatre a lot, and out to dinner....
...These include Marvel, bought by Disney for $4bn in 2009, and DC Comics, owned by Time Warner....
...It’s a view shared by 30-year-old Edwin Neo, a Singapore-based cobbler-turned-cordwainer who picked up the trade in Budapest and last July co-founded shoemaker Ed et Al: “It would have been a lot more difficult...
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...“We are having to run a lot faster to get to the same place....
...Big users of corn, such as meat processor Tyson Foods, worried it would lead to higher corn prices....
...Charles Kreidl, Chicago, Illinois, US Alex Frankel: There is no doubt that loyalty and turnover are huge issues in the front-line retail environments where I worked (Starbucks, Gap, et al.) as well as across...
...In an indication of the strategy’s potential, the black caucus on Chicago’s city council was evenly split on the move to set a minimum wage for workers in the city’s big stores – with opponents saying depressed...
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