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...Benko also had a personal relationship with Thomas Schmid, the head of Öbag at the time of the Postsparkasse deal....
...Marlin Naidoo, global head of capital introduction at BNP Paribas, said: “A key driver in the reduction of new launches is the growth we have seen in the multi-manager space.”...
...Crestview Partners co-founder Thomas Murphy Jr has joined Berkshire Hathaway’s board of directors....
...I eat four “timbales” that taste exactly the same, while out by the pool a man with a double-necked guitar shreds some Santana....
...His opponent was Spain’s Manolo Santana, the 1966 Wimbledon champion and one of the first tennis players to take up what claims to be Europe’s fastest growing sport....
...She reinstates the words to the hymn, written in 1792 by English clergyman Thomas Haweis; it’s haunting....
...“Honeysuckle Rose” was jolly in a surreal kind of way and “Too Much in Love to Stay Awake” was sung straight by trumpeter Leron Thomas....
...He points out that this was a “tough thing to do” given the failures of previous attempts by Santana and ESPN. “Before, they were essentially one-trick ponies,” he says....
...NSN on Monday said that it had agreed to sell its optical networks business to Marlin Equity Partners, which would involve the transfer of about 1,900 employees....
...Many believe Karl-Thomas Neumann, head of VW’s China operations, could succeed Mr Winterkorn as group chief executive, if he succeeds....
...“Josephine” is Josephine Marlin Tychson (1855-1939), a well-bred Philadelphian who journeyed west to Napa Valley with her new husband in the 1880s, bore several children and, in the wake of his suicide,...
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
...Thomas Niles is vice chairman of the United States Council for International Business and was US ambassador to Canada, Greece and the European Union....
...Bertelsmann supporters say BMG has a stronger schedule of releases for the fourth quarter, from artists such as Rod Stewart and Santana....
...Yet Reader’s Digest, where Thomas Ryder shed the chief executive’s role this month, finally looks poised to deliver more stable growth....
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