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...It was once nicknamed the ex-presidents club, because it had counted George H.W Bush and John Major as advisers....
...Lee sought to close the gap by pushing the firm into credit, real estate and insurance-based investments, mimicking a strategy that had proved successful for competitors....
...His home is owned by the Barclay estate, but it is surrounded by property that needs renovation. Time & Tide is closed....
...A graduate of the prestigious West Point military academy, he served in the first Gulf war and eventually earned a prominent Treasury role under George W Bush....
...Over coffee at Wild Beets, Rupert Baird-Murray, one of northern Ibiza’s newer British contingent and a partner at boutique estate agent Domus Nova, helps me out....
...Among the issues that spurred calls for accountability was the CIA’s use of torture during the George W Bush administration....
...“It’s worth around £12,000,” says gallery founder William Ling....
...The villages around Surrey Hills (pace William Blake) have a long association with paganism and the ritual sacrifice of fleeing cityfolk....
...“One of the criticisms of the estate was that it was a mature estate. We are keen to introduce features for young people,” says Stephen Martelli, garden and estates manager....
...And of course, there is the story of the time Wu tried to buy W Hotels-owner Starwood....
...Letter in response to this article: New York is the loser from Amazon’s change of mind / From Roger W Kirby, Millbrook, NY, US...
...He competed hard but lost early against George W Bush in 2000. Then he came back for more against the Democratic upstart Barack Obama....
...But William Moser, principal deputy director of the Bureau of US Overseas Buildings Operations, confirmed last month that the new building “was entirely funded from the proceeds of real estate sales”....
...Love is Blind, by William Boyd, Viking A young Scotsman discovers a new life in Paris in the popular Boyd’s latest....
...And William Jackson is probably the man most sentimentally attached to the business....
...The library has been designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and has raised a few eyebrows....
...Mr Carter used his monthly editor’s letter to criticise President George W Bush and highlight the human cost of his administration’s military adventures....
...Another big winner: the real estate industry, including Donald Trump....
...Founders David Rubenstein and William Conway, both 68, will remain involved as executive chairmen. Daniel D’Aniello, 71, a third co-founder, will become chairman emeritus....
...Their embrace of reforms, including an estate tax repeal that will benefit a few thousand wealthy families, has prompted Democrats to oppose the bill....
...Roberton Williams, senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, a left-leaning think-tank, says: “People having to worry about where their next meal comes from are not affected by the estate tax.”...
...said Robert W Baird analysts....
...Like the conservative writer William F Buckley in the 1950s, Mr Trump’s supporters stand athwart economic change yelling, “Stop!”...
...Letter in response to this article: Time to stop begrudging workers a decent wage / From William W Chip...
...Where once there was general uniformity across the states — most coupled their schemes to the federal estate tax — reforms contained in President George W Bush’s 2001 tax cuts sparked competition among states...
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