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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
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...The threat of a slowdown has already rocked the junk bond market, a critical source of funding for buyouts....
...In a statement published on Friday, the GAO said: “Nasa’s announcement provided that the number of awards the agency would make was subject to the amount of funding available for the programme....
...In June, the Senate passed the Endless Frontier Act, which included $10bn of funding for the Human Landing System programme, explicitly with the purpose of increasing competition....
...Others to be used include the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and possibly Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
...But activists have taken a run at Danone before — Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners in 2012, and a brief foray by Corvex in 2017....
...Seed Beauty, coincidentally founded by another sibling duo, Laura and John Nelson, is calling those deals into question....
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...“We wanted a package directed towards Americans and funnelled through airlines,” said Sarah Nelson the president of the Association of Flight Attendants....
...The Financial Times verified Chinese users’ findings and found with its own examination that Redcore was using components from the v. 49 version of Google Chrome....
...Airbnb, Uber and other technology innovators have avoided the cost and scrutiny of public ownership thanks to a surge in the availability of private funding....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...Blue Origin — a private company funded by Mr Bezos, the founder of Amazon — has not needed to seek outside funding....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It reminds us of Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH) in 2011....
...It has recently won funding from Atomico, the international venture capital firm formed by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype....
...In a bold vote of confidence for young talent, Nicolas Achten and Timothy Nelson’s Dido and Aeneas opened the festival....
...For example, its $17.4bn TPG V fund was valued at less than 100 cents on the dollar at the end of 2010....
...Arts sponsorship is falling – a recent survey by Arts & Business reported that 70 per cent of arts institutions had seen a drop in funding from business sources in 2009....
...Barbara Boxer, a California liberal, last week said that supporters of stronger restrictions on abortion funding would not be able to muster 60 votes....
...Because a different resolution strategy of postponing and extending those terms and a funding source doesn’t exist....
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