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...“We’re just using an enormous amount of information, that’s what we do in the pari-mutuel business,” said Bernsen....
...“I don’t want to speak of something that you’re reading off of your iPad.” He relights his Cuban cigar. I do the same, having come to enjoy its thick, bosky taste....
...He smoked his beloved Cuban cigars almost ceaselessly; they were like an extra digit....
...One particularly striking orange shirt is constructed from pieces of silks originally used to bundle cigars, imitating an intricate Victorian-style quilt, while coats are hewn from equine blankets....
...“That’s really very dangerous,” he replies, a playful look on this face, as we take up our position at his favourite corner spot at the counter of Bocca di Lupo, a superb Italian tapas bar in Soho....
...Eventually, as economic conditions worsened, he bowed to circumstance. In doing so, he overturned some of the fundamental tenets of his first 30 years in power....
...It is also important, he says, that as the purveyor of a large number of sporting goods, he does not come across as a “cigar-chomping chief exec”....
...Parent changed that, buying a string of hot scripts and doing deals with big stars....
...As the corporate world detoxed, his office was sealed off in about 1975; but not so tightly that the cigar fumes and the sound of champagne corks didn’t escape – to the wonderment of the young people at...
...“What we are not good at, as technologists, is doing that low-cost, throw-away innovation,” he says. Yet financial services firms need to experiment with products as consumer technology changes....
...Some Miami Cubans aren’t even waiting for the end of the embargo. Herzfeld says: “Young Cuban-Americans will tell you off the record they’re already doing business there.”...
...CSI and its spin-offs, such as CSI: Miami, have been sold globally, generating an estimated $2bn dollars....
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