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...Hyatt acted faster and gone pubic in 2007 or even mid-2008, before the bubble burst, valuations would likely be much higher, says Butler. "The hotel world fell off a cliff on Labor Day 2008 - the world truly changed in terms of values, liquidity, banking - all of the factors that are critical to valuation," he says...
...loss of Arctic sea ice, or the release of methane from the melting permafrost of Siberia. But that knowledge is still incomplete, even as the world comes together to try, finally, to address the threat collectively. "Managing the environment is like driving a foggy road at night by a cliff," says Carpenter. "You know it's there, but you don't know where exactly." The warning signs give us an idea of where that cliff might be - but we'll need to pay attention...
...brothers. The most interesting photo depicts the incorporation of a full-grown tree into the stone terrace of one of their creations. There is mention of some of their more unique structures—the granite house of D.L. James which seems to grow from the granite cliff on which it sits, the use of landscape and flow in general—but there is a disappointing lack of emphasis on their larger triumphs beyond a few isolated blueprints and photos. Still, the Greene brothers’ attention to detail offers a credit to the more mundane face of American...
...Biden's comments caused a stir precisely because U.S. officials have scrupulously avoided making comments that Iran might interpret as a green light from Washington for an Israeli strike. "That leads me to infer that [Biden's] was a planned statement," says Cliff Kupchan, director of Europe and Eurasia at the Eurasia Group, a risk consultancy in Washington. "It is very rare for any U.S. official, [much] less the Vice President, to make concrete comments on the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities." Kupchan warned in a note on Tuesday that Iran could interpret Biden...
...Have Ben Bernanke's green shoots magically turned into tropical forests overnight? Hardly. There may be some justification for how stock-market indexes in the U.S. and Hong Kong have soared from their lows in March, when it seemed the global economy was sliding off a cliff. But this incipient IPO mania is a different story. Investors are bidding up the stocks of Chinese companies not because their shares had been unfairly pummeled, but because of expectations for future growth that...