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...His father built bridges and railway lines for the city of San Diego, where the family settled down. Samii remembers his father poring over architectural plans to work out engineering failures....
...Weekly highlights The SEC crackdown on crypto continues: late on Thursday evening the regulator announced that Bittrex Inc. and the platform’s co-founder and former chief executive William Shihara agreed...
...If you had a million dollars, what would you buy? The sprawling empire of arrested fashion criminal Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot more than that, and pumped a lot of money into a lot of companies....
...The Walton family donated the land it sits on and Alice, Sam’s 73-year-old daughter, donated much of its collection....
...The running total of the New York evening sales of fine art — and a dinosaur skeleton — was $1.9bn at the time of writing, within estimates and potentially with another half a billion dollars to come....
...I wandered through the rose garden and among the abundant dahlias, past waterfalls and bridges, and took a seat with my book, overlooking the vast greens where families were picnicking and playing....
...From Belle Isle you can walk to shops (there’s an embarrassment of high-end grocery stores nearby), restaurants and Pilates....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...But last August, New York-based fund Dorilton Capital bought Williams Racing, ending decades of family ownership....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 14 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...(FT) No longer trendy America’s department stores were once world famous....
...JAYSSE LOPEZ: There's some shoes I love so much, I got 41 pairs of the same exact shoes. WILLIAM DEBORD: Resell's all about product allocation....
...But Rupesh Parikh, analyst at Oppenheimer, says the company’s real problem is the poor state of Family Dollar stores and points to the risks of a different pricing strategy....
...Doing so would cause hardship for millions of families, and would also contract the economy as low income families cut back on spending....
...Missouri Democrats, largely acting through black non-profit, have turned up to register voters at venues as disparate as the Family Dollar — a discount store chain which is a fixture in many black communities...
...The Trump administration plans to loosen rules on short-term, small-dollar lending, paving the way for US banks to go after the business of tens of millions of American families struggling to make ends meet...
...of dollars....
...Yet some campaigners want to see Silicon Valley companies, which together have hundreds of billions of dollars in cash at their disposal, to go further....
...Flipkart did not bite on that billion-dollar valuation, making a bid of around $850m earlier this month, and then another one north of $900m that was put to shareholders last week....
...“The CEO of Goldman wanted to meet with me because, of course, ‘Goldman Sachs would love to represent you. If you guys are going to be sold, we’d love to make one hundred million dollars doing that....
...New York Times sports columnist William C Rhoden wrote a book on the rise and fall of the black athlete in 2006 titled Forty Million Dollar Slaves....
...Contemporary restaurants and boutique stores share retail space with decades-old pubs and taverns along Thames Street, the popular thoroughfare in the centre of town....
...The veteran investor has reduced the equities exposure of RIT Capital Partners, his family’s £2.5bn London-quoted vehicle, from 55 to 44 per cent....
...The big screen glamorises — its stars are the stuff of myth; the small screen is more like a member of the family....
...A 30km sea bridge and tunnel is being built to connect Hong Kong with the casino centre of Macau and the mainland city of Zhuhai and is also beset by cost overruns and delays....
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