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...The massive holding wall in our secret garden is a marvel of pre-modern engineering....
...Koenigsberger added that investors in emerging markets should emulate allocators in developed markets and build up their private market holdings....
...Tiny, jewel-like and finely depicted, she sits in a gorgeous olive-green dress, avidly absorbed in an illuminated text....
...These are perfect for holding olives, almonds or slugs of wasabi-saturated soy sauce....
...“For everything — postcards, liturgy, chanting, candles, garden, peacock, everything.” He refilled our glasses....
...You can also grow your own fruit with a special terracotta forcer (usually found at good garden centres)....
...“In Israel, anything newly built has to take account of existing landmarks,” says Aby Rosen, co-founder and principal of RFR Holding LLC, which was responsible for converting a 19th-century French hospital...
...Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants is also due to report before the market opens....
...If you mix za’atar with lots of olive oil, you’ve got the taste of Lebanon....
...Holding the flower by the stem, dip the head into the oil for a few seconds to set the batter before releasing. Fry in batches until golden brown and crisp....
...He uses 20 acres of his 240-acre holding to grow 20,000 or so yuccas, almost entirely the rostrata variety — its leaves, he says, are softer and less knifelike, making them better suited to domestic gardens...
...The “Estate to Plate” option is a garden tour followed by a wine tasting and lunch....
...As Alex got back into the car, Domenico noticed he was holding something in his hand. It was a small, dark pistol. “Where is Francesco?” “I killed him,” Alex said, without emotion....
...But there was activity in one of the two permaculture vegetable gardens where we encountered three gardeners sharing a melon. The veg is apparently used by the food truck....
...At the same time, investors have marked down their public stock holdings drastically and at a far faster rate than their private portfolios, making them more overexposed to buyouts than ever....
...Everywhere, tables heave with bread, dips and bowls with olives and raw vegetables....
...Darden Restaurants came under fire on this issue earlier this week, after Popular Information criticised the parent company of Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse for failing to provide its restaurant employees...
...A significant proportion of Grosvenor’s holdings lies in listed buildings in Mayfair and Belgravia, and retrofitting period properties, with their leaky windows and thin insulation, is particularly problematic...
...been a handful of charitable initiatives and a few speeches here and there, while the former PM is also trying to write his memoirs — it’s not clear who will read them — from the warmth of his £25,000 garden...
...The 1969 Knights of Columbus HQ in New Haven is almost medieval in its scale, four cylindrical towers holding up a mass of rusting, industrial steel, while the 1974 College Life Insurance Company building...
...Investors are optimistic, applying a punchy price-to-earnings multiple of 22, higher than peers such as Cracker Barrel or Olive Garden (Darden). But BK has stumbled overseas before....
...Google has been recently holding its annual three-day “Camp” at Rocco Forte’s Verdura Resort, near Sciacca, much to the excitement of the local press....
...It is, in a sense, a walled garden. To really get the most out of an environment like that, as a publisher, you really need a business relationship with them,” Mr Gingras says....
...Until July 15, the British Museum is holding a very good exhibition entitled Charmed Lives in Greece. Admission is free....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include BHP Billiton, Henderson Land, Country Garden, Want Want China, Amcor, CSPC Pharmaceutical, Kunlun Energy and Oil Search....
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