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...As we looked down from the hills around Ostuni, through frames of cupola-topped campaniles and avenues of slender cypress, the silver of the olives gave way in the coastal plain to the gold of ripe wheat...
...Christmas tree candelabra from Montes and Clark, £38 Handmade in Oaxaca from embossed tin. montesandclark.com Aria glass by Laguna~B for The Conran Shop, £99 Made in Murano, in a range of colours. conranshop.co.uk...
...Moonlight silvers the fields, the mountains are masses of dark and there are few evening travellers boarding the cableway at Mörel....
...For example, the court papers show the Dubai-based metals trader offered to pay Trafigura using financing from Silver Bank, a small lender in Mauritius that has recently come under scrutiny for its ties...
...Some attribute Argentario’s name to the silver colour of the water surrounding it; others claim it derives from an ancient Roman aristocratic family, the Domizi Enobarbi, who were argentarii, or money lenders...
...Because they believe they can put out the fire,” says Paulo Fernandes, associate professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro....
...In Dell and Silver Lake, which own a combined 50 per cent of VMware, Tan has powerful and highly-supportive backers....
...His first order of business to orchestrate a takeover of Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena crumbled in October....
...However... the smart silver battery-powered two-wheeler may have been made with 21st-century methods, material and preoccupations, but still has enough of the midcentury magic in its profile and detailing...
...He also advised on the staging of the equestrian events at the 2012 Olympics where Zara Tindall won a silver medal with the British eventing team....
...On top of Padoan’s to-do list is considering a UniCredit takeover of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world’s oldest bank, which has been state-owned since it was bailed out in 2016....
...As these Russian collectors often travel to Monaco, Hu now plans to expand her European clientele to their friends — by setting up a salon in the principality’s fabled Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo this year...
...I spent late spring mixing Silver Bullets laced with kummel, and Negronis spiked with Fernet-Branca....
...Piano is all smiles under silver-rimmed glasses and a sweep of white hair....
...In his signet-style Profile rings, a 3rd-century BC silver drachma is set under a brushed gold disc, its centre cut out to reveal the profile head, so the coin remains intact....
...The day we arrived, dramatic autumnal cloud banks were forming into fantastic transfigurations around the peak of Monte Erice, with the sun’s rays splayed out across the bay....
...“The problem is, the way the law is worded treats every American citizen and green card holder in the world [operating through a foreign corporation] the same as Google,” said Monte Silver, a US tax attorney...
...During the war of independence, Mexico’s previously lucrative silver mines fell into ruin and were flooded. They needed expertise from Europe to rescue the industry....
...“We have bought time,” said Monte Silver, a US tax attorney with Silver & Co in Israel, who had warned in an International Tax Review article that the tax was “a growing concern for expats who may be driven...
...She was nearly 40 when she made the fragile masterpiece “Ancient Writing” (1936) in response to excavations at Monte Albán encountered on her first trip to Mexico....
...It was partly this nostalgia for a golden age of travel that was behind the decision by shipping entrepreneur James Sherwood to buy two old Orient Express carriages at auction in Monte Carlo in 1977....
...It was, I knew, always a long-shot that I’d be able make a third attempt at the Ultra Tour Monte Rosa this year. But there’s a silver lining....
...It will see a series of bankers promoted into new roles including Jasper Tans, Juan Monte, Christian Lesueur, Alberto Palombi, Nestor Paz-Galindo and Stefanos Papapanagiotou....
...She meets new clients, including mega collectors en route to Art Basel, at Design Miami Basel; and existing clients at Art Monte Carlo....
.... €396; rotewand.com 6 — Monte Rosa, Zermatt, Switzerland On July 13 1865, Edward Whymper set out from the Monte Rosa to make the first ascent of the Matterhorn....
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