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...I was on the cusp of turning 40 and I wondered if it was one of those weird mid-life impulses, like getting a hand tattoo or heading to the Amazon to take ayahuasca....
...Hacking Inc....
...Fraser has mountains left to move. Given this, the temptation is to write Citi off....
...And the kinds of projects contractors are working on “are changing from large-scale remodels to smaller projects”....
...They're usually Chinese youths in their mid-20s to early 30s, and that basically reflects the target market segment that they're going for....
...Uber’s ride-hailing business returned to pre-pandemic levels in the UK in mid-May, as the easing of lockdown restrictions spurred users to get back on the road faster than the company expected....
...But having made sweeping cuts during the depths of the pandemic in mid-2020, in which about 2,000 full-time employees and about 1,000 contractors were let go, Chesky said he had no concerns about Airbnb’...
...Some past instances of worker unrest occurred in accommodation on the factory campus but managed by outside contractors....
...“I am a contractor,” she says, “who they can throw out on to the street at any moment.”...
...However you measure it, something like half of Japan Inc trades under 1 p/b....
...Public areas are spatially diverse; intimate corridors and low-ceilinged bars give way to vaulted courtyards and roomy balconies, with panoramic views of the mountains that envelop Taipei....
...Sunrun, for example, a provider of residential solar panels, was down 40 per cent for 2022 in mid-May....
...Hein is one of several contemporary artists who have been lending their design skills to playgrounds, a pattern of collaboration that stretches back to the mid-20th century....
...It was Dezer’s idea, and built with contributions from Mid-American Elevator in Chicago and Germany’s Palis....
...The company, which was founded in 2012 by two Stanford professors and offers a vast range of courses from short programmes to masters degrees and MBAs, closed its Mountain View offices in March 2020 as a...
...this season — and since mid-April is usually the time Europe’s ski resorts are abuzz with end-of-season parties — come join us to discuss how the European winter sports industry handled the near-total shutdown...
...It expects that organic sales will climb 6 per cent, compared with earlier guidance for a rise in the mid-single digits....
...In the mid-2010s, Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Slack Technologies, insisted on raising far more venture capital than his young software company needed....
...After losing out to Nikkei in the race to buy the FT in 2015, Axel Springer acquired Insider Inc, the publisher of Business Insider, and now owns a host of other digital news and classified sites....
...Today, Chewy Inc — an online retailer of pet food and accessories — is capitalised at $32bn....
...An Amazon spokesperson said that the numbers refer to Amazon and Whole Foods warehouse and cashier staff, not delivery drivers, who are contractors....
...Uber’s share price rose more than 6 per cent on the news, while Lyft’s was up by the same amount, having reversed a mid-day dip after the company prematurely and incorrectly told drivers and riders the suspension...
...Now in her mid-sixties, she decided a decade ago to start taking less work....
...The men engage in fly-fishing, wine-tasting and economic debate amid the mountains’ pristine beauty....
...Despite efforts to reduce leverage, Denbury has been unable to shake its heavy debt load, which stood at $2.3bn at the end of last year — half of which was due to mature by mid-2022....
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