Hints and tips:
...I’ve also got a Landseer of Sir Walter Scott, which is a very big picture. It’s worth more than all the others put together. I couldn’t do without my dogs....
...Letter in response to this article: Franz Joseph’s warning applies to Moscow today / From Cyril E Arney, Houston, TX, US...
...Boehly is leading a £4.25bn takeover backed by Clearlake Capital, Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and Guggenheim Partners chief executive Mark Walter....
...Another savvy move was declining Elvis Presley’s request to record “I Will Always Love You” when he demanded half of the publishing rights — a decision that paid off handsomely when Whitney Houston’s 1992...
...The Best store in Houston, built in 1975 is, perhaps, the worst kind of building: stuck on the edge of the suburbs, accessible only by car, in a sea of steaming tarmac....
...During an attempt to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012, he was out-bid by an investor group including basketball legend Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners executive Mark Walter, which paid around $2bn...
...His 13 years at the Houston Rockets were eventful....
...The search for new investment comes as Mr Walter’s Guggenheim Partners has been in turmoil....
...The Covid-19 vaccines benefit from groundwork done for the Sars and Mers coronaviruses even if they were never approved, says Walter Orenstein, a professor at the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta....
...The Houston-based company has made a cash-and-shares offer worth $76 per Anadarko share, a premium of roughly 22 per cent over the value of the bid from Chevron. Why the hostility?...
...Houlihan Lokey has hired Victor Barcot, who has joined the firm as a managing director in its oil and gas group based in Houston. He joins from Deutsche Bank....
...David Blackstock • Houston, Texas How are you spending the summer? I am escaping the oppressive Texas heat with my annual holiday on the Maine coast....
...They are the kind of Americans who inspired historian Walter McDougall’s description of the US as a nation of “hustlers”, by which he meant “builders, doers, go-getters, dreamers, hard workers, inventors...
...The Houston-based company reported a net loss of $179m, or 15 cents a share, below analysts estimates for earnings of 6 cents a share....
...In New York, Cruzvillegas recalls, Walter De Maria’s “Earth Room” covered an entire floor of a building with earth in 1977....
...Petersen’s research led her to many other such curiosities, including the following letter written to the US astronomer Walter Scott Houston by a man in Missouri, who spotted a meteorite while out fox-hunting...
...She also gives ample space to Walter Benjamin, the polymath critic, translator and journalist, who, unable to escape the Gestapo, committed suicide on the French border with Spain in 1940....
...The eldest is Walter Kasper, a German, who squeezed under the wire by turning 80 last Tuesday....
...Mary Schapiro, the SEC chairman and former head of the NASD, which became Finra, and Elisse Walter, a former top NASD official, did not vote with respect to Mr Young....
...Horowitz has created red and blue zones in museums in New York, St Louis, Houston, Raleigh, Savannah, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, in which he hopes politics can be discussed by art-goers....
...More than thirty years later, I found a copy in the Houston Public Library....
...Like rivals Michael Page, Hays and Robert Walters, the company has been expanding internationally, with new offices opening in Perth, Delhi, Houston and San Francisco....
...His writings shape our perception of Victorian London; even his detractor Walter Bagehot conceded that in his evocation of London life he was “like a special correspondent for posterity”....
...It opened offices in Delhi and San Francisco this year, and plans to open in Houston and Qatar by year-end....
...Walter Chapman, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas, said: “If the slick can be burned, the fire will remove the lighter components, but the heavier components...
International Edition