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...But now they’re coming back and there’s a good energy: they’re creating companies, restaurants and galleries....
...Younger audiences have flocked to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). But Frank Warren, the promoter, says boxing is “on a high”....
...What of the railroad bubble of the 1870s or the periodic booms and busts of capitalism’s gilded age?...
...Many are favouring a sleeker style by retaining a few grand elements, such as an inherited chandelier or trunk, alongside new technological gadgets....
...When the Money Runs Out : The End of Western Affluence, by Stephen King, Yale, RRP£20, 304 pages For many, the financial crisis is a temporary interruption in the rise of western prosperity that is due...
...In his father’s absence, he assumes the role of head of the house, playing husband to his mother and father to his younger brother and older sister....
...The theatre’s elegant foyer is pretty well impassable: vast trunks of sound gear and lighting rig cram the space where audiences will soon gather for the first preview....
...How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins Random House Business Books, £15.99 The author who told us how companies can go “from good to great” now explains how they can sink...
.... $20,000-$25,000 www.ragoarts.com iii Wallbench Italian Made around 1785, this carved-giltwood, blue-silk-upholstered bench is in the grand, elegant neo-classical style first fashionable in the palaces...
...But then came the grand finale....
...He has continued Alabama’s successful push for foreign investment, with EADS, the European parent company of Airbus, the latest company to plan a manufacturing facility in the state after Mercedes, Honda...
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