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...The start-up’s headquarters are at Moffett airfield in the San Francisco Bay Area, a Nasa-owned facility a short drive from Google’s headquarters that the US space agency began leasing to the tech company...
...Brian Reissaus, former head of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has joined Freshfields as a senior adviser on national security. Smart reads Crime . . ....
...Competitors have echoed that concern, with Mike Parra, chief executive of DHL’s Americas business, saying that other parcel delivery services would not be able to pick up the slack....
...Uber will list New York City taxis on its ride-hailing app in a deal that promises to end years of rancour between the tech company and drivers of the iconic yellow cabs in the biggest US city....
...Leasing them can be complicated since many tenants are early-stage companies....
...cab, I might momentarily imagine that I’ve never lived anywhere else....
...the Vanderbilts and Astors, the wealthiest families in America, as well as to a community of artists and writers that included Edith Wharton and Henry James....
...They are regulated at state level, not city. San Francisco’s response is to give taxi drivers who paid a vast price for medallions priority over other taxis at the airport....
...Three-generation households are more common in Asia and Africa than the rest of the world, according to the United Nations....
...through to gain basic rights. 19.65 per cent of the profits from the sales of Classic Duet Hoops (priced at $380 for sterling silver and $1,965 for 14-carat yellow gold) are used to fund female entrepreneurs...
...Like a singer delivering an old jazz standard, great films set in the city each take the same essential melody — yellow cabs and brownstones, the skyline and the mayhem below — and make it their own....
...After all, those bright yellow cabs are a symbol of the city, and its taxi services have long been run in an idiosyncratic manner, using rules first devised in the 1930s....
...The classic: Central Park loop Cycling around Central Park is like hopping in a yellow cab or eating a bagel: something every visitor (and local) should do at least once....
...If Uber and Lyft suspend operations in the state, it will be a painful moment to put people out of work....
...red and yellow gleam of a street food stall’s umbrella; the cinched-in poise of a 1950 Oblique coat as Karen Elson struts through the crowds....
...Coinciding with the European discovery of the Americas, the war between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires traversed the globe....
...at the yellow-gowned star. Based on a true story of strippers swindling Wall Street bankers after the financial crisis, the film has also impressed critics and is now showing in cinemas....
...Dr Leana Wen, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said her group would challenge the bill in court if it was signed. “We have no choice....
...I have the option of taking air-conditioned cabs or even, if I choose, moving to a less polluted area....
...In 2016 he and his team jumped to Cushman, a perennial laggard in the New York market but blessed with a big international network as well as leasing agents and investment advisers who could provide market...
...Beyond Meat’s burger, which accounted for 70 per cent of its revenue last year, is made primarily out of yellow peas and uses beet juice to mimic the “bleeding” of a meat burger....
...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...The majority of its loans appear to have been backed by taxi medallions, licences issued by the authorities to allow metered Yellow Cabs — the only cabs that can be hailed on the street — to operate....
...That compares with about 13,500 yellow cabs and roughly 40,000 other for-hire vehicles dispatched by livery and black car services....
...“We see that Lyft and Uber have struggled in the United States,” he said. “Both of them are not really becoming profitable. We have the same situation with Didi in China....
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