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...Last year, commuters were consulted on two options for improving Penn Station following the 1963 demolition of the grand beaux-arts building at ground level....
...Car-less streets work well as enclaves. Let them set the tone of a city, and the effect is inert. Don’t be Houston, a place of depth (and bold cooking) let down by its war on walkers....
...“So I doubt very much the USA can offer anything, all the more so in the dying days of an administration....
...Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...Fox has other reasons to want Tribune, says Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business....
...On Monday, Gannett Co, the publisher of USA Today and dozens of local newspapers in the US and UK, announced an unsolicited cash bid for Tribune Publishing at a premium of 63 per cent, for a total transaction...
...After Amoco, the oil company, combined with BP in 1998, it adopted the name and logo of the UK energy group across its petrol stations....
...In a sign of how SpaceX is trying to undercut the incumbent space industry, Boeing was awarded a similar contract to take astronauts to the space station but at the much higher cost of $4.2bn....
...Murphy Oil, a diversified oil and gas company based in Arkansas, will spin off its US downstream business into a new publicly traded company that will operate more than 1,000 gas stations, most of them at...
...It may be the defining London sight: people walking up escalators at Tube stations. In this city only tourists stand goggling blankly into space....
...The company, which has access to 59 MHz of spectrum, has said its network would consist of about 40,000 cellular base stations covering 92 per cent of the US population by 2015....
...There are newspaper cuttings on the wall – including the interview Jennifer did for USA Today when she first met Smith 13 years ago. Was it love at first sight?...
...The new network will consist of 40,000 base stations that will cover 92 per cent of the US population by 2015....
...“I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there is a final rush to get converter boxes and this is the trigger to call the cable guys,” he said....
...Mr Martin’s decision to move ahead with a vote comes at a difficult time....
...In a statement, Mr Martin said it was not acceptable as “a policy matter or as a legal matter” that cable companies “believe that it is appropriate for them to choose which stations analogue customers should...
...It also owns 23 television stations and the Chicago Cubs baseball team....
...Debra Schwartz, an analyst at Credit Suisse, says that despite tepid growth in the market for local television, big companies such as Gannett do want to expand. A ?significant?...
...At the centre of the ownership limits debacle lies a contentious ruling introduced by the FCC in June 2003, which among other things made it easier for television companies to buy more stations....
...The matter is complicated by the imminent change in leadership at the FCC....
...Insurgents in Mosul had attacked nine police stations in preceding days, killing at least one US soldier and five Iraqi National Guardsmen....
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