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...“An entire snow scene complete with pines and ski lift could not conceal the banality of a tartan-meets-sheepskin ‘Rocky Mountain High collection’,” ran the FT verdict on last season’s catwalk show....
...Mr Malone, Liberty’s chairman and America’s largest landowner, owns much of the land between the statue and the Rocky Mountains in the distance....
...The all-cash offer from MidAmerican Holdings, a Berkshire subsidiary that provides power in the midwest and Rocky Mountain regions, values NV at $10bn, including debt.”...
...In 2009, when the financial crisis proved the last straw for the Rocky Mountain News, most analysts predicted a far bigger toll. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer went online-only....
...Gas in the Rocky Mountains producing region of the western US sold for as little as $1.73....
...Warnings of newspapers’ demise were common three years ago, after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s decision to end its print edition, but few large newspapers have...
...Bresnan, which is majority owned by Providence Equity Partners, operates in the Rocky Mountain states, areas where it faces little direct competition. Providence bought Bresnan for $525m in 2003....
...The economic downturn has laid waste to a string of US local newspapers, from the Rocky Mountain News to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and has forced larger papers such as The New York Times to rekindle...
...A procession of publishers, including the Rocky Mountain News, Cincinnati Post and the Seattle Post Intelligencer, have either shut or ceased print publication....
...Colorado’s oldest paper, the Rocky Mountain News, closed having failed to attract a buyer. Hearst, meanwhile, said that without rapid cost cutting it must sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle....
...Rick Boehne, chief executive of EW Scripps, admitted last week that it “would have been unthinkable until very recently” for the company to sell the Rocky Mountain News, but it is now seeking buyers for...
...Such restricted areas run from the Rocky Mountains to Alaska....
...Several private equity groups have kicked off the $15bn auction for the oil and gas assets of Dominion Resources by seeking to acquire most of the properties, stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf...
...The deep-water Gulf has yielded significant oil discoveries in recent years, while the Rockies are a big gas source....
...Burlington gets about 84 per cent of its production and 89 per cent of its reserves from North America, with most of that located in the Rocky Mountain region and Canada....
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