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...Gil Castello Branco, Open Accounts’ secretary-general, said this was equivalent to six times the size of Brazil’s environmental budget....
...Invited to join XL Recordings as an A&R man in 1989, he took over as owner in 1996 after the departure of his Kicks Like a Mule partner Halkes and another founder, Tim Palmer....
...Yet David Sanborn’s soulful mix of blues holler and angular modernism has defined the sound of sax in pop and R&B for more than two decades....
...“The entrepreneurs from cyber companies in Israel today are not just coming from the IDF, they are also serial entrepreneurs, those who trained and learned in the foreign R&D centres,” said Koby Simana,...
...Northeastern musicians include bossa nova singer João Gilberto and his daughter, the contemporary Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto; and Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, known for the Tropicália cultural movement...
...Even traditional industrial companies that once relied on their own R&D centres see the benefits of this approach....
...Last year, GE invested some $1.8bn in ecomagination R&D, and the company plans a total cumulative investment in this area of $10bn between 2010 and 2015....
...At one moment Lovano is cruising over the supple stabs of R&B, the next closely harmonised vocals conjure Manhattan Transfer....
...It is extremely common when buying household appliances, computers, or other relatively expensive items to pay in instalments: a refrigerator, for example, could be paid for in 18 monthly parcels of R$100...
...The eight charcoal drawings by Gil Vicente, priced at R$300,000 (about US$170,000), show world leaders – including the Pope, the British Queen and George Bush – on the point of being executed by the artist...
...Her first album, 1993’s Plantation Lullabies, gave a jazzy gloss to rootsy R&B – the single “If That’s Your Boyfriend (He Wasn’t Last Night)” was a minor hit – and ushered in the upmarket aesthetic of the...
...Gil Castello Branco of Contas Abertas, a consultancy that analyses public spending, says the government has struggled to kickstart investment after years of neglect....
...São Paulo software giant TOTVS has 5,000 employees, a turnover in the last 12 months of R$1.05bn (US$610m) and a presence in 26 markets....
...fund is about R$300m, down from R$1.6bn in November 2007....
...Gil Shwed, the founder and chief executive of Check Point, in New York to meet investors, said the company expected to set up the Belarus R&D facility shortly following the success of a recent project undertaken...
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