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Comenz? su carrera como el constructor m?s importante de viviendas econ?micas en La Florida pero en los ?ltimos 26 a?os, el urbanizador Jorge P?rez se ha convertido en el Donald Trump del tr?pico, con casi 50 edificios de condominios en diferentes etapas de construcci?n en el sur de la Florida, Fort Myers y Las Vegas. Su compa??a, Related Group of Florida, report? $2.1 mil millones en ganancias en el 2004, colocando a P?rez en el tope mismo de la lista de los 500 hispanos m?s relevantes del mundo de los negocios. En algunas de sus lujosas torres, se han vendido...
...months since, CNOOC's $18.5 billion bid for Unocal?which threatens to trump a rival $16.5 billion offer by Chevron?has created a storm of opposition in Washington. To CNOOC's surprise and dismay, its bid has become a locus for all the angst some Americans feel about China's rising economy, adding further tension to already strained trade ties between the U.S. and China. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on June 30 warning that the proposed acquisition poses a threat to national security and urging the Bush Administration to block any deal...
...editor Moffitt said that “the data availability issue for that paper has arisen only because Professor Rothstein has attempted to replicate Professor Hoxby’s work.” He said that AER has granted exemptions to its policy in the past if confidentiality restrictions trump an author’s ability to release data. In those cases, Moffit said, AER asks the author to “assist other researchers in obtaining the data directly from the data provider...
...voted in 2000 to step into Florida's disputed presidential balloting and stop the recount, giving the election to George W. Bush. But she also wrote a scathing dissent in this term's medical-marijuana case, in which a majority of the Justices said that federal antidrug laws trump state efforts to let doctors prescribe marijuana...
...match of developer and designer is apt. Jahn's work tends to be glossy, imposing and a little martial, the architectural equivalent of Wagner played on a synthesizer at full blast. He is the Donald Trump of his field, a showman enthralled by sheer size. "We are doing the tallest building in Houston," says Jahn, "the tallest building in Philadelphia, the tallest building in Europe." He arrived from West Germany 19 years ago, at age 26; at 33 he was partner and design director of C.F. Murphy Associates in Chicago; at 43 he was owner and chief executive officer...