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...Hacking Inc....
...I remember a bold painting of Matthew’s based on the Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello’s The Battle of San Romano....
...“The past year has shown people they can do their jobs just as well from here as from anywhere else,” concludes Elizabeth Hanley, president of Windsor Real Estate Inc....
...(FT) On the upswing Severe market volatility has fuelled an unexpected renaissance for macro hedge funds, whose brash bets on economic trends pair well in an age of unfettered economic chaos....
...A broken elevator meant residents on the second floor could not be taken to hospital appointments....
...Like him I have discovered Croatia’s food renaissance and it feels like this is a story that is still in the making. I’ll be back to see what happens next....
...He helped retail chief Angela Ahrendts overhaul its stores, from fixtures such as its tree-lined “Genius Groves”, down to simplifying product packaging....
...A drama series needed to be a string of self-contained narratives that could be watched in any order (hence the prevalence of shows set in police stations and hospitals — a crime can be solved, a patient...
...He made philanthropy a part of Salesforce’s operating principles when he founded the company in his home town of San Francisco in 1999 and his name adorns the city’s UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital....
...Lemon trees give way to fields of sunflowers, then groves of olives. When we reach the motorway to Seville, the central reservation is a riot of pink and red oleander bushes....
...Mr Tan cites Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO and his book Only the Paranoid Survive....
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...Florence Biennale November 30-December 8 Contemporary art exhibited in a Renaissance fortress....
...After working as a lawyer, he soon switched to banking at Renaissance Capital after realising this would allow him to make “more than four times the money”....
...… The Medici Boy, by John L’Heureux, Astor & Blue, RRP£14.99/$24.95 A tremendous historical tale evoking the creative fervour of Renaissance Florence....
...The chefs Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Gordon Ramsay on Royal Hospital Road has three Michelin stars and Ramsay also runs the Savoy Grill on the Strand and the Bread Street Kitchen in One New Change....
...HCA, the US hospital group taken private in one of the largest leveraged buy-outs ever in 2006, is planning on raising as much as $4.3bn in an initial public offering next week....
...A $4.2bn IPO of HCA, the hospital chain, is also expected in the first quarter. The Kinder deal is also the largest IPO of a US energy group since Conoco sold $4.4bn worth of shares in 1998....
...At least nine companies are expected to go public this week, which would be the most in one week since December 2007, according to Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm....
...But by the time he began his two-year term as CBI president in 1984, the mood had softened and he talked of a “renaissance in business: it is thinking for itself”....
...Rumoured potential-$1bn deals include hospital chain HCA and retailer Toys R Us. “We are very confident we’ll see at least one $1bn deal happen this year,” said Mr Gehsmann....
...But I always find it hard not to be hit by the irony in this Bentonville Renaissance....
...It’s a tranquil place, shaded by remarkable trees (a sequoia, a grove of maples, an orchard of mandarin trees) and dotted with fountains and follies that serve as a lesson in the Greek orders of architecture...
...Advertising: A powerful “sense” advertising campaign is paving the way for the renaissance of a once-popular brand: Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo....
...Edinburgh, whose renaissance has been driven by financial services, employs 56,000....
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