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...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...He says Rivian didn’t have the “bandwidth” or the “resources” to develop products for Ford....
...“They have the resources to take steps [ahead of the government], and it would reflect so well on them.”...
...In China, Cargill is distributing its Sun Valley chicken brand using marketplaces such as Alibaba and Tencent, according to its 2017 annual report....
...“A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed were now allowed to preview the market and trade on what they had seen,” he wrote. The book led to congressional hearings....
...On the Oregon coast, where the total eclipse first touched down, one couple prepared to say their vows....
...Malone and Maffei rubbed elbows with Haim Saban and Jonathan Nelson of Providence Equity Partners — both backers of Univision — in Sun Valley earlier this month....
...Richard Waters is West Coast editor of the Financial Times Illustration by Eric Chow. Portraits by Talia Herman...
...A coast-to-coast solar Wall would generate about 8 per cent of this requirement....
...This underlines an advantage for renewables: unlike coal, oil or gas, every country has wind and sun....
...“It’s saying to the world: ‘Be happy, have fun, have sun’.”...
...The concentrated brine that is produced is then driven west in small trucks to processing plants on Chile’s coast....
...What happens next is an extended disaster — an antidote to the usual run of escape-to-the-sun memoirs....
...The 17th-century essayist François de La Rochefoucauld wrote that death was like the sun, neither to be looked at steadily....
...A bizarre and moving sight, with the big pink sun, sinking towards the ocean, silhouetting the players. Two hours down the coast was a gentler world....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...Best-known for sun, sea and sand, the Mediterranean has suddenly become a playground for the global oil industry....
...The rise of North American oil production, which has driven down the price of oil in the US Midwest, has made it hard for east coast refiners buying more expensive internationally traded oil to compete....
...Twilight, Romney v Obama....
...The US has enough refining capacity, particularly along the Gulf of Mexico coast, to meet shortages on the east coast, but pipeline constraints and seaborne shipping rules crimp the flow of petrol in that...
...The west coast is isolated from the rest of the country, while the east coast has historically relied on imported fuel....
...With the US east coast closures, fuel suppliers may be forced to import more petrol from Europe, while Europe may need to buy more diesel from plants on the US Gulf of Mexico coast....
...Weak demand and high crude prices have already prompted Sunoco and ConocoPhillips to idle three refineries that represent more than half the capacity on the US east coast, which includes large metropolitan...
...“US east coast refining has been under severe market pressure for several years....
...Constant sun and negligible rainfall give cane growers on the north coast a year-round season, leading to yields of about 150 tonnes of cane per hectare, compared with about 80 tonnes in Brazil....
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