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...Other issuers have included state-owned entities in top oil-producing nations such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, sparking debate about how far this sort of debt is really driving progress...
...This year the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation announced a $25mn commitment to five cancer centres across America. ralphlauren.co.uk Q is for McQueenThe British luxury brand is a longtime supporter of...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Smart Reads If you want to get another glimpse of the shifting zeitgeist around green initiatives, take note of this: last week the US conducted its biggest offshore auction of wind...
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
...If you are looking to predict the shape of the US economic recovery — be it V, W, L or even K — don’t look at the markets....
...I asked Kors why America has not yet produced his successor — and if it ever would. He smiled....
...Before accounting rules changed and forced companies to put equity compensation in the GAAP P&L, the underlying shares still appeared in the sections of securities filings that listed the details of stock...
...The sedentary may prefer the United States Botanic Garden, where there are reading benches dripping with orchids, overhung by the cacao pods of chocolate plants. My personal nirvana....
...The chairman of her board was Donald L Lucas, the venture capitalist who had groomed billionaire software entrepreneur Larry Ellison and helped him take Oracle Corporation public in the mid-1980s....
...The United States has more than three million truck drivers, many of whom drive long-haul, or “over the road” as it’s known in the business....
...of smart TVs....
...In the United States, Big Data is becoming an increasingly important part of the economy, but the Bureau of Economic Analysis doesn’t count spending on it as part of GDP (under investment)....
...Beenz said the funding included $39.5 million from investors such as Gruppo l’Espresso, the Italian media group, ING Barings and venture capitalists....
...in “a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund (I suggest Vanguard’s)”....
...per cent within three years, in a move set to prompt a spate of divestments in state-backed entities that could raise more than $9bn....
...The high concentration of “smart people” who shared his belief in the value of life-long learning also appealed....
...century while trying to stop the creation of the First Bank of the United States....
...cannabis / From Mr Jonathan P Kahn...
...In January it paid $3.2bn for Nest Labs, maker of nifty “smart home” appliances that allow users to turn up their heating or switch off a smoke alarm from anywhere with a smartphone app....
...American political journalism (Financial Times, Jurek Martin) Robert Gates: “I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities, (such as timely appropriations...
...The fact that you haven’t touched a tomato for a year gives you the pleasure of rediscovery.” Grébaut has taken this on board: “When I was at L’Arpège, I worked above all on the vegetable post....
...But what about that subtitle – “State of Britain”? The words, he insists, were intended ironically, as a counterpoint to the old “state of England” literary genre, by the likes of C.P....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...For an hour or two, guests and hosts seemed united, without the need for guilt, apology, or the other complex reactions of privilege meeting poverty....
...“I used to come here all the time as a child,” she explains after finding me in a forest green leatherette booth, sitting in front of a pink formica table....
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