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...Bridges have suffered from a mix of intensifying use, the increasing age of assets constructed during the US’s mid-20th century economic boom, and lack of funding for repairs....
...I picked the February 2020 date for the regime change only for lack of an obvious alternative....
...But third-quarter buybacks appear to be happening at the weakest pace in two years, notes Bank of America....
...It is no error that the film includes the line, “Stratton Oakmont is America.”...
...The key problem for investors trying to get to grips with companies’ use of supply-chain finance has been the lack of disclosure....
...Dan Mead, head of the investment-grade syndicate at Bank of America — a lead bookrunner on the Pfizer bond sale — said it was “not uncommon to see that for financings”....
...This is a guest post by Robert McCauley, non-resident senior fellow at the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University and an associate member of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford...
...Those he came to represent professionally included Hans Hofmann, Louise Nevelson and Robert Motherwell....
...They have taken this next step with the new vaccines despite a lack of clinical evidence about how they will work in an attempt to head off a huge spike in infections this winter....
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...Skadden Arps has hired Robert Chaplin as a partner in its corporate practice, based in London....
...By the lack of population nearby to visit the park, let alone staff it. By the cost and logistics and supposed purity of vision to justify it all....
...American Airlines announced Robert Isom, its longtime president, would replace him on March 31....
...It was also marked down for its “[lack of] low carbon strategy”....
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...“Despite the lack of marketing spend, we have seen a 30 per cent increase in new bookings since the beginning of the year when compared to November and December,” Jason Liberty, Royal Caribbean’s chief financial...
...As a result, even if it successfully relists, Luckin could be delisted again by US regulators in the future purely because of a lack of access to its audit files....
...“We have laws that require that dredging be done by ships that are made in America by American companies. The ports are also owned by the cities that they’re in....
...Smart reads Front-page dealmaking Axel Springer’s purchase of Politico made Robert Allbritton one of the most successful media investors of this century....
...Today, Chewy Inc — an online retailer of pet food and accessories — is capitalised at $32bn....
...The deal also reflects Stankey’s lack of sentimentality in offloading the legacy of his predecessor, Randall Stephenson....
...And then America’s furious pace of vaccinations buoyed hopes for the travel industry, allowing cruise companies and airliners to raise billions of cheap capital from flush institutional investors....
...Disney’s four cruise ships were docked. Work on new film and television production was halted, leaving the ABC and ESPN TV networks as the only major business units still operating in North America....
...“The deep-V recovery we saw in the second half of 2020 has continued into 2021, with sales activity continuing to strengthen across all territories,” said Simon Cleaver, CloudCall CEO....
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