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...Cowboys from Aspen and Santa Fe; high-heel boots from Max Mara and Armani for the evening; my mother’s vintage green satin pumps from Charles Jourdan; and my Alberta Ferretti flowered mules....
...Matt Rose, of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said that BNSF would expect to be involved in any such wave of consolidation....
...A series of mergers in the 1990s left just Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the western US; Norfolk Southern and CSX in the eastern US; CP and Canadian National in Canada; and Kansas City...
...A seventh — far smaller — Class I, Kansas City Southern, operates north-south from Canada down into Mexico....
...The industry’s current structure — with CSX and NS in the eastern US, Union Pacific and BNSF in the west, CP and Canadian National in Canada and Kansas City Southern operating north-south — is widely regarded...
...The beautiful redware pottery reminds me of the light on buildings in towns I visited there, like Santa Fe and Las Cruces....
...The decors and traffic directions came from the Santa Fe Opera, a plucky summertime company in the New Mexico desert. Its open stage offers a stunning view of the Sangre de Cristo mountains....
...Biggest Deal: The $26.6bn acquisition of US railway Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 2009....
...Grupo Lala, Mexico’s largest dairy, is reportedly planning a $700m offering while hotel company Grupo Hotelero Santa Fe is close to pricing its 4bn pesos ($304m) IPO....
...Fernandez won another four-year term by more than 40 percentage points over second-place finisher Hermes Binner, governor of Santa Fe province....
...However, the railroad, product of a 1995 merger between Burlington Northern and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads, was already well-known in the industry for running a highly efficient railroad...
...However, he expressed concern about the potential effects of legislation being debated to strengthen the powers of the Surface Transportation Board, the industry’s regulator....
...While improving conditions have helped fuel a spate of recent deals, including the acquisitions this week of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the US railroad, and Black & Decker, the iconic power-tool company...
...These besuited men are talent agents and their stomping ground is the stretch of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards that links Beverly Hills with the skyscrapers of nearby Century City, the business district...
...Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith, grew up as and remains a Catholic city, and the great cathedral soars in the city centre....
...Nowhere does this tale of two cities better illustrate the transformative potential of Mexico City’s economic culture than in the evolution of Santa Fe on the capital’s outskirts, which, until the late 1980s...
...including more than €1bn ($1.47bn) of Deutsche Börse, and a combined $1bn in Visa and Mastercard; and US rail, with $1bn of Union Pacific and another $1bn in Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern...
...A number of rail companies have given warnings that flooding in the Midwest of the US will dent earnings, most recently Burlington Northern Santa Fe, but analysts and investors remain positive over the long-term...
...My wife has always liked Santa Fe for the art and the culture....
...The Santa Fe, New Mexico-based company said it has received $1.15bn of the proceeds, and that the other $200m will be held in escrow until the completion of a tender offer for preferred stock....
...The seventh and smallest Class I – Kansas City Southern – operates mainly in a north-south corridor from the Canadian border through the Midwest into Mexico, where it owns one of the country’s two largest...
...Railroad stocks rallied when Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a 10.9 per cent stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe ....
...Station owns and runs casinos offering activities such as video poker, slot machines, bingo and sports wagering in Red Rock, Boulder, Santa Fe and Las Vegas, among other locations....
...While similar city minimum-wage laws exist in San Francisco, Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Washington DC, the Chicago law is the first to be aimed only at retailers, covering retailers those with annual sales...
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