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...Willis-Davis has seen a lot of interest in Sintra, north of Lisbon, where there is a popular Portuguese Steiner Waldorf school, Escola da Terra, and the Hypha Learning Hub, a new forest school with an English...
...“Boreal forests could be a time bomb of carbon and the recent increases in wildfire emissions make me worry that the clock is ticking,” said Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine and co-author...
...Guy Hands, the Guernsey-based founder of private equity firm Terra Firma said a “people’s vote” was “the only democratic way out” if parliament rejected the deal....
...This intellectual conversion is embodied in the person of David Davis....
...Norton Rose Fulbright has hired William Davis as a partner in its Houston office. He joins from Baker McKenzie....
...Stripped of emotion and back to formal basics: here, with apologies to Miles Davis, was the true birth of the cool. Here, too, was one of the first attempts to codify “Americanism” in art....
...Ms Prior was also deputy chief financial officer at Worldpay, chief financial officer of EMI and worked for the private equity firm Terra Firma....
...In November 2011, EMI was seized by Citi and Terra Firma lost its £1.75bn investment. But last May the verdict was overturned on appeal, setting the stage for a retrial....
...(Bloomberg) Terra Firma eyes Odeon sale revival: “Terra Firma, the private equity fund founded by Guy Hands, is planning to sell assets this year that are likely to include Odeon & UCI group, the European...
...Tex points the plane in the direction of the airport and gently guides us back to terra firma....
...Blackstone, the world’s biggest private equity group, in 2008 announced a €1bn investment in a wind farm off Germany’s North Sea coast, while last year Terra Firma, the UK buy-out group, invested $350m in...
...Mark Martyrossian of Tiburon Terra, a renewable energy hedge fund, has torn a page from Buffet’s portfolio to tap into China’s rich reserves of lithium, though he is not backing BYD....
...Many, including northern hemisphere editors, share the Captain Cook view that Australia is terra nullius – effectively empty....
...Guy Hands’ threat to banks that his Terra Firma group would bypass banks and raise debt directly from pension funds looks more than ever like wishful thinking than a genuine possibility....
...Genoa is the new home for Colin Firth (right) and his two daughters, numbed by the death of wife/mother Hope Davis in a car crash....
...Sony BMG this month picked Barry Weiss, 49, to replace the 76-year-old Clive Davis at the helm of the BMG label group....
...Science: The Definitive Visual Guide Edited by Adam Hart-Davis Dorling Kindersley, £30 Hart-Davis and the DK team have produced the ultimate coffee-table – sorry, highly illustrated – book about science...
...As Mr Davis told his guests, the opera’s not as good in Rio. Probably not a dealbreaker....
...His distinguished mentors have included Charles Bruck, James Levine and Colin Davis....
...Ebullient EMI chief Eric Nicoli might have felt his personal drought had broken, however, after yesterday getting an offer from Guy Hands’ Terra Firma to block rival Warner’s approach....
...Terra Firma is not the first bidder to have been denied the right to change its mind....
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