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...The company has described the breakdown as a “one in 15mn event”, which was caused by a flight plan that included two identically named but separate waypoint markers....
...In that sense, his motivating force brings to mind another travel book of recent years: Waypoints by Robert Martineau....
...A few of us got involved with planning the route, setting out waypoints on a digital chart....
...I mention this because they are particularly evident in northern European homes and gardens right now. For spider fanciers like me, this is a welcome waypoint in the switch from summer to autumn....
...It included guidance to work from home where possible, masks for all indoor settings and vaccine passports for mass events....
...Back home, I’d scrawled notes in the margins of the desert books I cherished, accounts of Saharan journeys by Saint-Exupéry, Isabelle Eberhardt, Paul Bowles....
...Along with being a currency that is actually used for transactions inside Japan among Japanese, the yen-dollar market is an important waypoint for dollars being borrowed in China....
...The divisional simplification is another waypoint in a longer process: the transformation of a postcolonial federation into a centralised lender catering to wealthy, empowered Asians....
...Blackstone Group’s Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint Homes announced a plan to merge in an all stock deal on Thursday....
...The wooden-planked church at Ringebu, 180km north of Oslo, is a key waypoint on the pilgrims’ route. Once Norway had more than a thousand of these stave churches but today only 28 survive....
...Two of the most prominent, listed single family landlords, Invitation Homes (backed by Blackstone) and Starwood Waypoint (Starwood Capital, Colony Capital) joined forces on Thursday in an all-stock merger...
...Blackstone’s Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint will together have a portfolio of 82,000 single-family homes in 17 markets across the US....
...logistical difficulties of transporting goods through central Asia to Europe, illustrate the shaky ground beneath China’s ambitious plans to boost its global influence and bolster slowing economic growth at home...
...Two of the most prominent, listed single family landlords, Invitation Homes (backed by Blackstone) and Starwood Waypoint (Starwood Capital, Colony Capital), joined forces on Thursday in an all-stock merger...
...The merging of Blackstone's Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint will not only create a $20bn giant but it will mark the culmination of a huge private equity bet on the US housing market....
...The combined company will own 30,000 homes and have a net asset value of $3.4bn. Starwood Waypoint is one of four listed single-family home landlords....
...“It’s tempting for a new leader to try to cover all the bases but Paddy Ashdown’s Hong Kong campaign was an important waypoint in establishing his reputation inside and outside of the party....
...A former French colony that became independent only in 1977, Djibouti sits at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, en route to the Suez Canal — a waypoint between Africa, India and the Middle East....
...Oi’s Gualtieri adds that 25 to 30 per cent of his transactions involve French buyers, many looking to avoid high tax rates at home....
...For individuals, the price drop has made Barcelona an attractive place to set up home....
...Here, the investment bank was an important waypoint. Profits before tax at the business formerly known as Barcap tumbled 37 per cent to £2.5bn....
...Colony American Homes withdrew plans for an IPO in June citing market conditions and Waypoint Homes Realty Trust has also pushed back its public offering....
...Others looking at a listing include units of investment fund Ellington Management; Fundamental REO, whose fund received a large investment from Goldman Sachs; Waypoint Homes Realty Trust; American Homes...
...Citigroup extended a $245m credit line in October to Waypoint Homes, a California-based firm that owns 3,500 rental homes and expects to have 10,000 by the end of 2013....
...Birmingham is probably regarded more favourably overseas than at home, to the modest extent that foreigners are aware of the second cities of other countries....
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