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...Mark Hoplamazian, chief executive of US hospitality group Hyatt, said building new hotels had become harder due to “very tough” markets for raising capital, causing the company to turn instead to converting...
...Until February 16; further information and tickets here ‘Manon’, Royal Opera House The Royal Ballet’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s gorgeous 1974 classic, with a score drawn from across Massenet’s work...
...The incumbent, Democrat JB Pritzker, is an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune who has self-funded his campaign to the amount of $125mn....
...So too, as Richard V Reeves notes in Of Boys and Men, his new study of the pressures facing males in the schoolyard and the workplace, do the Ivy League universities in America....
...By 1988, at still only 27, he was directing Dench in his film of Henry V. It won him Oscar nominations as Best Actor and Best Director....
...When I arrive at Washington’s sleek Park Hyatt hotel, the somewhat jittery manager steers me to a discreet side door to await her arrival....
...In Civilisation, Kenneth Clark declared that “the discovery of the individual was made in early 15th-century Florence”....
...In January, Oaktree Capital, the US investment firm, seized one of its Hong Kong projects, as the world’s most indebted property developer embarks on the largest restructuring in Chinese history....
...Mr Griffin, 50, already owns an extensive portfolio of properties in the US....
...Job moves Gambling group GVC’s long serving boss Kenneth Alexander is leaving after 13 years....
...Already the Four Seasons George V, which had also planned to reopen on September 1, has delayed the big day for another three weeks....
...Some, such as Jim Leaviss of Bond Vigilantes, and Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (see page 114), believe it did....
...The widespread support was also reflected in a 2017 letter to Congress signed by 810 companies including Accenture, Adobe, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Hyatt Hotels, Lyft and Microsoft....
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Over the past three decades, Kenneth Branagh has hopped from genre to genre, both as film actor and director....
...But the protracted nature of the leave-taking, which began in the US last year, signposts a showman’s reluctance to quit the scene....
...*This article has been amended to correct the date of the Roe v Wade ruling...
...At stake are many of the social reforms of the previous generation, including Roe v Wade....
...Mr Trump has made a broadcast event of his nominations to the nation’s highest court like no US president before....
...Only posterity can give us an answer....
...He is likely to have a bruising confirmation process ahead of him, with Democrats poring over his 12-year record as a judge, and his roles in the George W Bush administration and Kenneth Starr’s investigation...
...Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM), which carries the name of the Texan televangelist who founded it, is a proud owner of a Gulfstream V private jet....
...This, in one sense, was a big improvement on what came before, and it is no accident that classics of the period continue to loom over us, endlessly reimagined in film....
...Kenneth Glueck, Oracle senior vice-president, wrote to the lawmakers: “Your legislation does not, as suggested by the bill’s opponents, usher the end of the internet....
...When Kenneth Branagh started his Renaissance Theatre Company in the 1980s, one of his early successes was in John Osborne’s Look Back In Anger....
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