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...Originally called The Towers, it was owned by the railroad magnate Robert Young and his wife Anita O’Keeffe (sister of artist Georgia O’Keeffe)....
...Our Big Read offers some lessons on corporate ethics embodied in the battle between Ben & Jerry’s and its parent Unilever over Israel....
...Hedge funds overall have shed 5.6 per cent, far less than the S&P 500’s 20 per cent drop, bolstered by strong performing quant and macro funds....
...This hardly does justice to the richness and phenomenal detail that drive The Boundless Sea: from lost commercial kingdoms in Sumatra to the rise of P&O and the victims of all these bravura maritime encounters...
...“There is potential for increased ownership because the additional red tape and costs under a partnership structure is prohibitive for some investors,” says Jerry O’Hara, a private equity analyst at Jefferies...
...“We want to become a large, independent E&P company with international scale and geographical diversity,” he told the FT....
...Others named are: Geraldo A Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 Juan P....
...Helen Deeble, chief executive, P&O Ferries Division and president, UK Chamber of Shipping. Tracey Emin, artist. John Fenwick, deputy chairman, Fenwick stores group....
...O ne of the advantages of having a supermodel for a wife, as Nicolas Sarkozy recently discovered, is that she knows about style....
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...O’Reilly, is commendable, even if the net effect is that Dearborn is due to become less urban....
...Henry Tang, chief secretary for administration and former financial secretary, Hong Kong government • The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith • On the Wealth of Nations, by P J O’Rourke The three main concepts...
...You were spurred into action by the bid from Dubai Ports for P&O of the UK, whose assets included five American ports eventually earmarked for disposal to assuage preposterous security jitters....
...Homeland insecurity Emergency US legislation to block the bid by Dubai Ports for P&O, owner of five US ports, does not go far enough....
...How do you view the P&O situation? Would you hold or sell stock in light of the takeover talk?...
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