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...I think it gave us all a jolt when the spire fell.” Firefighters said the blaze was under control on Tuesday afternoon but would take several hours to put out....
...Danish authorities have yet to establish what caused the fire, which broke out Tuesday morning and was still smouldering on Thursday, having reduced the spire to ashes and destroyed half the building....
...He cited the social researcher, Richard Titmuss, who in 1967 warned that “separate discriminatory services for poor people have always tended to be poor quality services”. ...
...The bank’s retail lending arm provides loans for Spire Healthcare and Circle Health Group, two of the UK’s largest hospital groups....
...And then I thought, it’s like a spire. It was Paddy’s idea to put steps inside it so you could go up it.” When asked if the space will be consecrated, they look at one another for thoughts....
...Shares in Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit tumbled more than 30 per cent on Friday after the rocket launch company said it was axing 85 per cent of its workforce having “ceased operations for the foreseeable...
...Its bluffs are sprinkled with castles and abbeys, its slopes adorned with small villages, each marked by a church spire and a cluster of pastel-coloured houses....
...It’s the last day of September and we’re standing in the gravel garden, among elegantly swaying spires of verbascum seedpods, tufts of marjoram and soft Nassella tenuissima grass....
...Virgin Orbit, Sir Richard Branson’s second space company to reach the stock market, started trading publicly on Thursday after raising less than half of its target of almost $500m....
...His examples include Spire Healthcare, acquirer of Bupa hospitals, “wiping out its taxable profits by paying interest offshore at 10 per cent.”...
...Today, there are two types of space company: legacy ones such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, and so-called “New Space” companies such as Rocket Lab, Virgin Galactic and Spire....
...Boeing will become an investor in Richard Branson’s satellite launch company Virgin Orbit when it goes public in a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in a deal that values it at more than...
...That would squeeze the margins of Spire Healthcare and peers. Coronavirus will benefit private hospitals in the longer term. Delivering babies is among their services....
...A century later, Richard Rogers designed the nearby Lloyd’s Building with all its innards (vents, cables, ducts) on the outside to leave more space inside for employees....
...Shares in Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space tourism company, have almost doubled since last September to give it a $9bn valuation, even as the group reported a $273m loss in 2020....
...Richard Branson’s satellite launch start-up Virgin Orbit is no exception....
...TED Conference founder Richard Saul Wurman bought (and sold) The Orchard, a eucalyptus-green-gated property on Narragansett Avenue....
...There is a mini-Stonehenge tomb, and among the local sights is St Nicholas’s Church with its weather-worn copper spire turned green, known for that reason as the “Green Church”....
...“With the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson having invested heavily in their own space companies, Space Tech has to date largely been the preserve of private investors....
...The 235-metre “Spire London”, touted to become western Europe’s tallest residential tower by Chinese property developer Greenland Group, has yet to materialise near London’s Canary Wharf....
...The Environmental Defense Fund argued that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) had failed to establish necessary market demand for the Spire STL gas pipeline in the Midwest, as the company had...
...Known for its church spire principle — under which a branch manager should be able to see all their customers from the top of a tower — Handelsbanken has long resisted the move by the other three large banks...
...the parish church is framed and enhanced by Montevetro (which continues the line of the pediment and pitch of the church), and this collective harmony continues with the strong verticals of the church spire...
...The crowning glory is the backdrop of the spire of St Giles’ Camberwell, which ramps up the ancient mood. “I can’t take any responsibility for that – it was a gift from God,” he says....
...Luke Ward is investment manager at Baillie Gifford, a fund manager with holdings in SpaceX, Spire Global and Reaction Engines...
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