Word: yachts
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...wouldn't expect the head of Tata group, India's largest conglomerate, to say the rich are boring. But Ratan Tata comes close. Acting rich doesn't interest him. "I've never had the desire to own a yacht, to flaunt," he says. Nor does the Prada-wearing class excite him as a marketing opportunity. China and India, with their growing ranks of tycoons, should attract multinational[an error occurred while processing this directive] businesses, not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone...
...sweet memories of summer. Just a few weeks ago, Telecom Italia's dashing chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera boarded Rupert Murdoch's private yacht off the Greek island of Zakynthos, seeking to buy media content from the Aussie-born mogul for Telecom's broadband service. Even more enticing was the possibility that Murdoch might want a stake in the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Italian company's mobile-phone unit, which would help lift it out of its €41 billion debt. At the very least, said Tarak Ben Ammar, Murdoch's go-to guy in Italy: "The water...
...about “transcultural communication networks between antiquity and contemporary international art.”I was supposed to find a charming yet rugged Greek art student. We would fall madly in love over freddo cappuccino and cigarettes in the Agora. His father would preferably own a yacht, which he would sail to Cambridge. My friends would be impressed.I did not meet a single celebrity in my seven-week stay in Athens, unless you count overhearing Liza Minelli’s soundcheck at the Acropolis. Shipping heirs are not nearly as plentiful as Paris Hilton would have you believe...
...very name Monaco carries about it the whiff of tuxedos, fast boats and ruinous expense - and all three will be in evidence at the Monaco Yacht Show, monacoyachtshow.org, to be held in the principality from Sept. 20-23. If you command the kind of disposable income that puts you in the market for a Lürssen or a Sunseeker - the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce, respectively, of pleasure yachts - then any of the 520 exhibitors representing 77 shipyards, 29 yacht brokers and 54 naval architects would be delighted...
...command the kind of disposable income that puts you in the market for a Lürssen or a Sunseeker - the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce, respectively, of pleasure yachts - then any of the 520 exhibitors representing 77 shipyards, 29 yacht brokers and 54 naval architects would be delighted to see you. If your means are more constrained, no matter: you can still gawp at the stunning craft on display. More than 90 of the most luxurious yachts in the world - some as long as 90 m - will be moored in a "floating exhibition" at Port Hercule. But be warned...