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...government does not break down its hotel count by ownership, but M.N. Javed, deputy director general in charge of hotels at the Ministry of Tourism in Delhi, estimates that some 25% of the country's 121 luxury hotels and about half the 141 five-star properties are independently...
Toward the end of each calendar year, Ian Robertson puts his small arsenal of expensive fountain pens into overdrive. That's when Rolls-Royce motor cars sends an annual yearbook to customers who have purchased a Rolls since Jan. 1, 2003, when production began under the ownership of German automaker BMW. As head of Rolls-Royce, Robertson personally signs each of the book's accompanying cover letters. The bespoke touch is appreciated by the company's superrich clientele - which numbered 2,800 when Robertson performed the task last year. "With that many customers," he says, "I could just about...
...over a share in the popular social networking site. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money and dropped out of Harvard his junior year to run the company full-time. He currently maintains 20 percent ownership of the company, giving him an estimated net worth of $3 billion. After founding Facebook, Zuckerberg strove to maintain the site’s independence, saying he was not looking for outside investors. “I would just rather be dependent on ourselves,” Zuckerberg told The Crimson...
Indeed, the high-altitude, low-achieving franchise had finished an average of 18 games out of first place each season since its National League debut in 1993. Awful field play, lousy free-agent signings, stupid trades and ownership bumbling had sapped the lifeblood of an organization that had launched with so much promise...
...very bleak period. We should hit the press over the head with ‘Freedom of the Press’ so that they can be a counter to the government.”Faludi attributed recent attitudes in the press to the growing trend of newspaper ownership by large corporations and the decline in investigative reporting at major newspapers.For Faludi, England’s more measured reactions to the July 2005 bombings in London provided a stark contrast to the post-9/11 American response, which convinced Faludi that the anti-feminism reaction was something distinctive to the U.S.She...