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...proper way to review a car is to push it to its limits, flooring the accelerator and screeching round hairpin bends to discover its strengths and weaknesses. In much the same way, it is the duty of every travel writer to subject the hotels they visit to really robust test drives. So Maurizio Romani, the general manager at L'Andana, a deluxe establishment in Tuscany, may remember me as the Guest from Hell: high maintenance, capricious and, quite frankly, badly behaved. But I was only doing my job - with assistance from my husband Andy and in spontaneous cooperation with...
...about one in five wealthy Asians uses private-banking services, which run the gamut from investing in stocks, hedge funds and private equity to providing tailored advice on everything from estate planning to buying the right Learjet or yacht for your family. At the same time, the region's robust economic expansion is creating a population explosion in the champagne-swilling classes. Most private banks sell their services only to those who are, in the industry jargon, "high-net-worth individuals" (HNWIs)?people with fortunes of at least $1 million. The number of Asians who attained that status...
...delivered and automatically refunds the payment. Cyber-monitoring also lets vendors save money by better managing inventory. And it provides security, sending out instant alerts of any tampering or theft attempts. Still, given that Vodafone's machines are crammed with a range of cool mobiles, they also have robust alarm systems. Just in case...
...second-quarter [an error occurred while processing this directive] figures published by the E.U.'s statistics office last week showed that the 12 euro-zone countries, led by a resurgent Germany and France, enjoyed their strongest growth in six years, catching up with Britain, which continues to perform more robustly than even the prudent government anticipated. The 0.9% quarterly rise in the euro zone was fueled by a sequence straight out of the textbook: firms enjoying robust exports have been increasing their investment at home, which is creating jobs. Jobs, in turn, are giving a vital boost to consumption...
...Laffey is all adrenaline, the metabolic opposite of Chafee. And despite espousing the usual grab bag of social and economic conservative positions, he seems to most enjoy populist tirades against corporate special interests (especially the oil companies: he favors a robust alternative-energy plan for national-security reasons) and also against federal spending. "If you want big checks like the $150 million Chafee brought back from the $27 billion highway bill, vote for him. Rhode Island gets the short end of the stick when it comes to earmarks. I mean, the bridge to nowhere alone was $223 million," he says...