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...Koch had established himself in a cavernous shed, and his team was busy marketing an improved pod design....
...Further light has been shed on the deep ties Epstein had to JPMorgan Chase and its former top executive Jes Staley who would later lead Barclays....
...The US junk bond market has shed roughly $100bn in value over the past year, dropping from $1.48tn to $1.37tn, according to Ice Data Services....
...It was March when we visited: snow marbled the upper valleys, and clouds scudding over the sun swept the landscape with shadows. I stretched out, star-like, and watched the ever-changing sky....
...Forget about nabbing a fixer-upper on 15 acres for $159,000, as some friends had five years ago....
...That is why they had hired the finest architect and builder. He has also offered to pay for a new elevator....
...In winter, views over the bright water open up as the trees shed their leaves, revealing the snow settled on the serrated summit of Astraka....
...Many words are close to identical: beck (stream), bairn/barn (child), kirk (church), fell/fjell (mountain), dale/dal (valley)....
...(FT) Plight of the underdog Spain’s Santander Bank is raring to break into the upper echelons of European investment banking. It won’t be an easy journey....
...Silicon Valley dominates our list of companies whose market value grew the most in dollar terms since January 1 2020, headed by Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft....
...Morbegno lies in the Valtellina Valley east of Lake Como and is celebrated for bitto, an aged Alpine cheese made from cow’s (sometimes goat’s) milk....
...(New York Times) Private equity is watching Silicon Valley buyout group Francisco Partners has poured billions into surveillance technology companies in exchange for eye-watering returns....
...It was renamed after Rex Whistler, the son of a village builder, in 1953. Large sums were spent on renovating it in 2012....
...In the 15th century, Castilian envoy Ruy González de Clavijo was granted an audience with the empire builder and “conqueror of the world” Tamerlane in Samarkand....
...Initially iTunes wouldn’t list the series on account of the title, though now it’s been in the upper reaches of the podcast charts for years....
...Netflix’s strategy of borrowing billions is starting to look shaky as it sheds subscribers....
...incorporate en suite cabins and a broad upper deck that is much longer than tradition dictates....
...Its builders crafted 90-tonne columns to support the weight. They also devised a custom cooling system for the soil within the platform so that tree roots would not overheat....
...After my hike, I return to the house and sit with a beer on the sun terrace where a decrepit pig shed once stood....
...Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, serialised in a publication edited by Dickens, had shed light on the suffering of industrial workers....
...Although he began his career in the Royal Air Force, he quit the military in 2007 to become a builder....
...Metal casting has forged some wondrous terminology: their two-part mould comprises the lower half called the “cope” and the upper half, the “drag”....
...He has “learnt to love” his parents, speaking frankly of their incompetence and the difficulties of supporting a large family on his father’s builder’s wage. Would he move back to Notting Hill?...
...Price rises are particularly acute at the upper end of the market....
...In Hammerson’s Highcross shopping centre in Leicester, builders knocked through an upper wall of a former House of Fraser to expand a multi storey car park into what was once a brightly lit selling floor...
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