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...The firm’s deal to buy UK wind farm operator Banks Renewables was one such example, giving Brookfield the chance to invest in what it believed was a strong business at a good valuation, but facing balance...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...These included a wind farm and a steel mill in India, a Singaporean energy company called Ultravolt, and an engineering group, Hangji Global....
...So I grew up in rural Indiana, and I feel really at home on the farm. But I do think that farming in America is changing. It's at a pivot point....
...The current tallest flagpole in the US stands at a measly 400ft. It’s in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, outside the headquarters of an insurance company located alongside an interstate highway....
...He works on the land, the same farm that’s been in his family, the land where he was born. And the pipeline is going to pass right through his front porch. So he’s going to lose his house....
...It provides a sort of insurance.”...
...Take home message: read the small print Brooke Masters, chief business commentator Back when I was a regulation reporter, I found myself covering a massive scandal in the US mutual fund industry....
...Vital Farms and Zymergen, a Californian synthetic biology company, also sought public listings as PBCs....
...mutual aid groups — many of which are still active....
...analysed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the industry lobbying group....
...The American Farm Bureau Federation, the biggest agricultural lobby in the country, has a 114-page book of policies that stake out its positions on everything from insulated wiring in farm machinery — it...
...If I had a dollar for every time someone said this is what Napa was like 25 years ago, I’d be a millionaire.”...
...A) The United Kingdom B) Cyprus C) Greece D) Iceland E) Japan D) Iceland 39....
...In this Vietnam-era story, a California family is imploded first by private tragedy, then by the war itself. Yet the author is a Brit writing about a time before she was born. You’d never know it....
...Finally, question 20: “Don’t Know” is a worthless option since it can’t be “wrong” in any logical sense. That leaves A, B, and C....
...He worked on the capital-markets and UK companies desks in London, then spent six months in the Washington, DC bureau, before moving to New York in September 2003 to cover mergers and acquisitions....
...Bordeaux’s extensive estates are increasingly owned by banks and insurance companies, and run by smooth executives....
...The Co-operative Group has agreed to sell its pharmacy business to cash-and-carry giant Bestway for £620m, as the UK mutual tries to draw a line under one of the most turbulent periods in its corporate history...
...Given the industrial difficulties the site has had, you’d expect more personal interaction from him.”...
...The biggest employers are two universities and the State Farm insurance firm. “This is as close to middle America as you can get,” says Tari Renner, mayor of Bloomington....
...“The economic burden of ever-growing medical spending is a serious problem for the young United States, not for old Japan,” Campbell says....
...Opposition from the 6.2m-member American Farm Bureau Federation helped defeat Congress’s last attempt at climate legislation....
...Some farm lobbyists want to boost crop insurance as a trade-off for the loss of direct payments....
...A similarly subdued mood enveloped last week’s annual Illinois meeting of pig farmers under contract to the Maschhoffs, a family-owned company that sells 4m pigs a year to slaughterhouse operators such as...
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