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...Next door at the W, Once Upon a Kitchen lays out a multi-course tasting menu designed by a celebrity chef for $2,500 a seat who personally walks around pouring wine from limited edition magnums....
...“[W]e believe the same approach we applied in those first 20 years — with improvements and additional perspective from new battle scars — will recover losses and generate the long-term, superior performance...
...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....
...Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen....
...A listing of Fenway Sports Group LLC, the holding company for the reigning English Premier League football champions and the 2018 World Series baseball champions, would be one of the most high-profile sports...
...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...They hold N shares, but Naspers also has an A class. These grant 1,000 votes per share, many times more than even the famous Facebook class B shares....
...[W]e move our valuation one step forward along the cycle from a 50%/50% weighting for a midcycle/trough cycle valuation to a 100% mid-cycle weighting....
...[W]e think there are some attractive opportunities in both semis and even in telecom equipment....
...East won A♦ and led 7♦ , ensuring North’s cross-ruffing potential was limited, holding him to 8 tricks. This is still a good result for N/S as E/W can make 2S....
...Only hurricane Katrina, which submerged New Orleans and the presidency of George W Bush in 2005, caused greater monetary damage....
...These agencies are the most profitable parts of holding groups, buying space on behalf of the big advertisers across various media....
...But none of the other record companies would touch him: controversies stoked by N.W.A and its hits, such as “F**k tha Police”, had not died down. Iovine was undeterred....
...The private equity firm he founded but no longer owns, W L Ross & Co, is teaming up with a Chinese steel producer to invest in the sector in China....
...Now FSG, controlled by John W Henry and Tom Werner, is being advised by boutique investment bank Allen & Co after an unsolicited approach for Liverpool by a consortium involving Chinese investment group...
...The six-month lock-up period for investors holding more than 5 per cent of a listed company was due to expire on Friday....
...In contrast, the George W Bush administration blocked just one large deal — the $27bn takeover of Hughes Electronic by EchoStar, the satellite TV group....
...N’Djamena, the largest city in Chad, where the CFA franc is pegged to the euro, dropped from second to 10th place....
...The administration of President Barack Obama is holding a three-day summit this week with ministers from 60 countries to discuss violent extremism, which Ms Harf was previewing....
...E.W. Scripps, another local US newspaper owner, followed with a similar plan....
...What More UK Willmott Dixon Holdings...
...Again, the stuff that worked came in two stages and the first stage Hank Paulson [Geithner’s predecessor] and George W Bush made possible …They acted exceptionally bravely and sensibly....
...Earnings ConAgra Foods Q3 $0.60 ($0.55) Deutsche Bank FY €3.70 (€3.40) Hermes Intl Q4 n/a (n/a) Li & Fung FY $0.07 ($0.07) Munich Re FY n/a (n/a) Next FY 347.32p (289.90p) Nike Q3 $0.72 ($0.73)...
...In 2001, Mr Barber was invited to brief George W. Bush on European affairs ahead of the president’s inaugural mission to Europe....
...Among the remaining regional groups is TPS Eastern Africa, the Nairobi-listed group that owns the Serena brand with 32 hotels, and Tsogo Sun Holdings, the Johannesburg-listed group which runs a portfolio...
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