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...Private equity is accelerating its pursuit of consultancies, talent agencies and accounting firms, as it targets professional partnerships in one of the buyout industry’s last unconquered territories....
...Yet the authorities now risk undermining a corporate governance regime regarded as the gold standard in their pursuit of international competitiveness....
...But Jefferson’s vision of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in his homeland did not include people who were not white men....
...People of a literary or artistic bent began to gravitate, once again, towards pursuits such as calligraphy, traditional music and stone collecting....
...Living on the tip of Africa in Cape Town, Table Mountain is literally on my doorstep. If I’m pushed for time, I go cycling on the mountain....
...Some would be invited to stay with Benko at his chalet in the mountains nearby, or else at the Chalet N luxury hotel Signa owned in Lech, one of the most expensive ski resorts in the Alps....
...For centuries, ancient Silk Roads wove past its mountain ranges, lakes, deserts and valleys....
...“For me, it’s almost a sensual experience,” says Mountain. “Most people understand the value of art or music....
...The essential – the sheer – relationship is between the climber and the cliff or mountain. Who cares if Alex Honnold climbs whichever rock it is faster than someone else?...
...whose father Henry popularised winter holidays in the Alps at the turn of the last century and created the company that would eventually become British travel agency Lunn Poly, had no time for the Nordic pursuits...
...The drive to complete the table is surely as explicable as the compulsion by explorers and navigators to map the lands, seas and mountains of the physical world....
...O’Brien has since scaled the tallest mountain on every continent. It can be a difficult habit to stop....
...The dead stems of last year’s crops poked through receding snow, and the mountain ranges were marked with white streaks....
...As acting president in 1998, he launched an invasion of Lesotho, the tiny mountain kingdom surrounded by South Africa, to crush a rebellion....
...The ruling was handed down just days before a case brought by New York attorney-general Letitia James is due to go to trial and adds to the mountain of legal woes facing the former president....
...Ayurveda and meditation feature, but also jungle gyms, mountain biking and wild swimming....
...Most of us will have visited in pursuit of practical clobber that doesn’t break the bank....
...Occupying a 27km circular tunnel that runs from the outskirts of the Swiss city to the edge of the Jura mountains in France, it tries to find out precisely how matter and energy work and how they originated...
...with luxuriant fur and an oversized, feather-duster tail — roams the stark mountainside above the tree line, slinking largely unseen between rock chutes and snow patches, springing from crag to boulder in pursuit...
...Abercairny, the estate that hosts our party, is a place for peering over glens, thinking pure thoughts and making mincemeat of small mountains. It is also a little humbling....
...From the oceans, to the mountains, to polar ice sheets, to active volcanoes — and now the vast expanse of space — people are increasingly prepared to pay small fortunes in pursuit of big, sometimes dangerous...
...While her poems appear in the form of hymns and invocations, she wields sweet words in the pursuit of lost power, and — remarkably — recognises the astonishing nature of creativity itself: “The weaver of...
...It’s also a positive and joyful pursuit: “A lot of the climate debate is about stopping things happening [but] rewilding, in contrast, is about working towards making an ecosystem better right in front of...
...In the distance, the fields are punctuated by the woolly silhouettes of the estate’s 70-strong flock of Black Welsh Mountain sheep....
...This salt flat formed over hundreds of thousands of years, as rainwater flowed down from the nearby mountains, collecting minerals, including lithium, along the way....
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