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...The Manchester United share price hit a high of more than $27 in February on expectations that the club would be bought in full by Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the son of one of Qatar’s richest men....
...Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster. Bunzl’s revenues, for example, have increased from £2.7bn to £11.8bn over the past 20 years....
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...exhibited globally, including at the V&A in London, and architecture biennials in Sharjah (2013), Venice (2010, 2016) and Chicago (2017)....
...So does Blackstone’s default on a €531mn loan backed by a Finnish office portfolio and Blackstone, KKR et al, limiting real estate investment trust redemptions....
...There was sniffiness in some quarters that they sounded too much like The Strokes, Television et al. Others were just grateful for the affinity. 3D Country is the follow-up album....
...HMZ House by Lucio Muniain et al; lmetal.com.mx...
...Elysian also offers a small selection of baked goods — muffins, scones, cookies et al — that are all made in house using butter or olive oil (rather than the mass-produced seed oils often found in commercial...
...At Wrightwood 659, Chicago, to July 15, wrightwood659.org, then at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi, from July 17, knma.in...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The vessel accommodates eight guests in four cabins and sets sail from Muscat’s Al Mouj Marina, heading north-west to the Ad Dimaniyat Islands....
...Moody’s has appointed global banking co-head Ana Arsov to the newly created role of global head of private credit as well as co-head of its financial institutions group....
...FT deputy editor Patrick Jenkins has argued that some of the accusations of profiteering were unfair and that undermining banks’ margins could erode their financial strength, weaken the City, and thus the...
...As well as the music, there was the rich seam of licensing: “I remember asking, ‘Why would you let Elvis’s face appear on toilet paper?’...
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...Aesthetically and intellectually it fits into a no-nonsense box with St John, Labour and Wait, Ercol, Jasper Morrison et al....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...Well, Robert, I'm glad you asked me that because the Labour party under Starmer with its ruthless dragging back to the centre, it's ruthless expulsion of the hard left, silencing of the Corbynites, et cetera...
...Whether your flavour is pop, EDM or hip-hop, there’ll be plenty of chances to cut shapes in Chicago’s Grant Park....
...Just south of Wisconsin’s state border in Illinois, Chicago voters chose the progressive Democrat Brandon Johnson to run the third largest city in the US....
...In an analysis of results from the European Working Conditions Surveys for 15 countries, Mariann Rigó of Düsseldorf University et al found “that work stress generally increased from 1995 to 2015, and that...
...concerns that December’s UN climate conference, COP28, is at risk of being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
...“Well, it’s obviously many years later,” she says when we speak over Zoom. “I fell in love with my job — and the city.”...
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