The city that the bigwigs forgot is now the city that the bigwigs poisoned.
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It turns out he ignores bigwigs in his own party.
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The bigwigs at CNN are surely reeling from this one.
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The EU has placed travel bans on seven other bigwigs.
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And many MPLA bigwigs would hate to see corruption curbed.
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Bigwigs still embezzle; soldiers mug peasants; public services barely exist.
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These are either regime bigwigs or people subservient to them.
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Thousands of policemen are allocated to guarding bigwigs and businessmen.
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Moreover, it will be embarrassing not to welcome foreign bigwigs.
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Bangkok bigwigs, hardly clean themselves, complained about corruption and cronyism.
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All of these bigwigs will be just fine, of course.
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Democrats can only hope that other Bolivarian bigwigs share her misgivings.
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GOP bigwigs are meeting in Cleveland ahead of next week's convention.
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Party bigwigs who had decided against challenging him may now reconsider.
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This month party bigwigs will make a fresh bid for relevance.
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Several PMDB bigwigs have already declared themselves in favour of impeachment.
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Some critics say the new system still favors traditional local bigwigs.
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So why in the world would GOP bigwigs float falling behind him?
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DJ Khaled's son Asahd is already rubbing elbows with some music bigwigs.
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Also worth noting: Silicon Valley bigwigs believe we are in the Matrix.
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Most of the KMT's bigwigs refused to run for president, fearing defeat.
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Almost everyone else, including bigwigs from his own Conservative Party, was scathing.
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Butina apparently had a knack for getting up close to NRA bigwigs.
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Around it are snapshots of Chinese and Cuban bigwigs past and present.
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Among the 18,000 signatories are a host of intellectuals and Florentine bigwigs.
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Twitter bigwigs are giving the company and its ailing stock some public support.
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The witnesses and their lawyers hope that some bigwigs will eventually be caught.
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Party bigwigs accept that the days of 40% support are gone for good.
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The backlash over Trump and West's meeting wasn't limited to music industry bigwigs.
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Meanwhile, bigwigs at the congress made encouraging noises about shrinking flabby state firms.
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But according to Vanity Fair, the two Republican bigwigs are no longer speaking.
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Global Witness, a watchdog, accuses ruling-party bigwigs of large-scale diamond looting.
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He'll offer to help make sure donors and party bigwigs are returning calls.
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You get to hobnob with the bigwigs and come back with cool stories.
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"The bigwigs are going to do what they want anyway," Mr. Cantrell said.
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Our cocoon of loving Vermont is [being hurt] by those bigwigs from Washington.
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Its initial funding round of $15 million included personal investments from tech bigwigs.
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Reminder: Superdelegates are Democratic bigwigs who are free to support any candidate they choose.
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Those bigwigs and big names vowed never to let themselves be the victims again.
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Real estate's bigwigs do not mess around when it comes to where they golf.
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Yes, I'm sure Trump would like the bigwigs of the party to support him.
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And maybe the Las Vegas bigwigs backing the stadium should have just said that.
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Reality check: Wall Street bigwigs still take home wayyy more than the average person.
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It quickly became clear, though, that bigwigs in Kazakhstan's capital Astana were pissed off.
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Amid the bad news, bigwigs are queuing up to declare common cause with the president.
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The city's chief executive is elected every five years by a committee of 400 bigwigs.
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That may include the secular opposition as well as some bigwigs in his own party.
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Along with his partner Kevin Mitchell, the bigwigs had tasked them with a singular purpose.
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The 5,000-strong audience, sprinkled with foreign heads of state and corporate bigwigs, applauded warmly.
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The rise of the private jet may be good news for bigwigs rushing to meetings.
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When reportedly asked to step down by party bigwigs at the weekend, he said no.
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The public payroll has expanded as bigwigs jostle to give jobs to their co-religionists.
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Was it fair that bigwigs of his ruling Zanu-PF party took several farms each?
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Even when national governments ban or discourage virginity tests, local bigwigs sometimes carry on regardless.
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After the launch, Silicon Valley bigwigs such as Google and Facebook also joined as sponsors.
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Silicon Valley bigwigs Mike Moritz (Sequoia) and John Doerr (KPCB) are both on Flipagram's board.
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There are also panels with Silicon Valley and Hollywood bigwigs, and countless opportunities for networking.
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Chaguan visited the temple on September 16th, hours before party bigwigs and other officials arrived.
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Other Democratic bigwigs are lining up to stump for her ahead of the primary, too.
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People close to Mr Hernández say that PN bigwigs paid for some of the protests.
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Pac Heights has been a hotspot for old-moneyed families and tech bigwigs ever since.
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The "five" refers to Security Council bigwigs the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia.
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Some of the more traditional party bigwigs seem to be waking up to Ellison's vision. Sen.
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The other, Donald Trump, has no experience in office and is disliked by many Republican bigwigs.
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Glenn took about ten up with him; the rest went to the president and other bigwigs.
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Among the 15 defendants are the current boss of Eni and some former bigwigs from Shell.
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Cracks are nevertheless starting to appear in the PD's apparent unity; two bigwigs have urged dialogue.
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They are also asked by officials to advance arguments that bigwigs prefer not to make aloud.
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The tech industry aside, mistrust of Democrats and their regulatory zeal remains widespread among business bigwigs.
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If Republican bigwigs have shame or sense enough, there is still time—just—to disown him.
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Bigwigs in government want more foreign trade to help balance an enormous trade deficit with Beijing.
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Republican Party bigwigs have to go through the children if they want access to Trump senior.
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Not bc more people are buying "dance music" but bigwigs cashing in on shit like this.
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In any case, Schwartz might have to thank some County bigwigs for the uninterrupted cash flow.
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Weinstein), actors (Kevin Spacey), studio bigwigs (John Lasseter), directors (Brett Ratner) and chief executives (Leslie Moonves).
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Foreign bigwigs planning to consult aides in such a meeting room are further out of luck.
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Instead, several nominees and industry bigwigs will help announce awards and keep the show moving along.
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With that record of effectiveness, DNC bigwigs shouldn't expect a check in the mail anytime soon.
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Two of his screenplays have already caught the eyes of some entertainment bigwigs, according to Rohrabacher.
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Soviet bigwigs entered the area with high-tech dosimeters they didn't know how to turn on.
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But Brown seemed to have won over the bigwigs with things like her honest talk about acne.
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Before the first debate, the Democratic Party's lawmakers and bigwigs had overwhelmingly pledged their loyalty to Clinton.
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Ruling-party bigwigs dole out contracts to each other and demand slices of businesses built by others.
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They looked suspiciously like the delighted crowds that appear in mainland China when bigwigs meet the public.
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So in the past few weeks, Republican Party bigwigs have heavily lobbied Rubio to change his mind.
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Yet the logic of the demolitions was often opaque: buildings belonging to bigwigs were allegedly left standing.
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Mr Peters has also feuded with bigwigs in the Nationals such as Steven Joyce, the finance minister.
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The import of cheap fuel from Iran seems to benefit only bigwigs who oversee or approve shipments.
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Axe has Boyd call up some bigwigs (including our man Krakow) to help him with the short.
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Buddhist bigwigs say they are investigating whether monks who bless dolls are breaking religious codes of conduct.
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But still, other expectations were being set by those bigwigs who didn't want to publicly appear parental.
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"Well, let's take St. Petersburg Economic Forum, for instance," Putin said, referencing an annual event for bigwigs.
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To utility bigwigs, spending the money to patch up dilapidated coal plants is not worth the effort.
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Her remarks, delivered at a conference for central bankers and other business bigwigs in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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"I made a bet," Rodriguez told a meeting of financial sector bigwigs in the state capital Monterrey.
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CANDIDATES IN MARGINAL seats such as Wrexham find themselves inundated with endorsements from bigwigs during an election.
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And they might relish another chance to show Republican bigwigs in Washington just what they think of them.
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Without Mr Gordhan's vigilance, they fear that it will be easier for bigwigs to hand contracts to chums.
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He favours the advice of cronies, as well as of an unelected council of bigwigs selected by himself.
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The president will struggle to build a clean state when so many bigwigs prefer it dirty, critics say.
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Twitter executives can console themselves with one thing: Silicon Valley bigwigs are still using it to embarrass themselves.
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From the cells of the narco bigwigs, you would hear the incessant racket of narco-corrido banda music.
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The California-style restaurant is the place where OG New York publishing and media bigwigs (like Deutsch) schmooze.
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The bigwigs see trouble in their target markets, and so they placate the markets by removing the offenders.
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Party bigwigs can have a privileged place at the national convention, but they should not have privileged votes.
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A number of other consumer electronics bigwigs have entered the fray, along with a number of notable startups.
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Bigwigs from BP and Italy's Eni are expected to attend discussions about their efforts to lower carbon emissions.
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He first released work on YouTube in 2013 in an effort to get the attention of comedy bigwigs.
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Republican Party organizations could not get behind a particular candidate, and local GOP bigwigs quickly scattered their endorsements.
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Yet, despite breaking record annual revenues this year, the bigwigs in the music industry are still not happy.
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It was not clear if the accounts of any ministers, spy chiefs or military bigwigs had been breached.
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The pay gap between company bigwigs and ordinary working stiffs is narrowing, but there's still a major chasm.
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Trump was holding a rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday when the state's political bigwigs, Paul Ryan and Gov.
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The bigwigs "settled into a comfortable routine", writes Mr Vertin in one of several new books about the country.
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Past leniency towards badly-behaved bigwigs means South Koreans have often been oblivious to the seriousness of their infractions.
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Many more were grabbed by bigwigs who won permits for projects and let their foreign partners do the work.
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Karen Catlin: As important as he was to Silicon Valley bigwigs, Bill Campbell also made time for everyday people.
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Trump has met with other GOP foreign policy bigwigs, including former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and James Baker.
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Separately, the shift to IHL also meant that commanders could go after foot-soldiers, not just al-Shabab bigwigs.
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Abiy Ahmed (pictured) won the backing of 108 party bigwigs, while 59 went for Shiferaw Shigute, his closest rival.
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For instance, they've hosted NRA bigwigs in Moscow, and Butina was a conspicuous fixture on the conservative conference circuit.
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Hence Mr Trump's thumping loss on April 1723th in Wisconsin, after the state's conservative bigwigs rallied behind Mr Cruz.
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In practice much of the money is stolen, by federal or local bigwigs, before it reaches schools or clinics.
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We're told Chyna's lined up several meetings with record labels in L.A., and already met bigwigs at Capital Records.
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For many years, Barrett was the bane of New York bigwigs like Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump.
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But it sounds as if the meal between the two political bigwigs may have been more work than play.
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In this case, you can thank a group of Fifth Avenue bigwigs who didn't want to update their letterhead.
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Public servants who do not serve the public need to be fired; pampered industries, unpampered; crooked bigwigs, locked up.
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He's a knight in toxic armor — and certainly not the Manchin-slaying hero that party bigwigs had in mind.
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The grumbling of thousands of uprooted officials will add to that of bigwigs miffed by Mr Cai's queue-jumping career.
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Before the ceremony, Game Of Thrones bigwigs Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner shared a sweet exchange on the red carpet.
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And Trump's actions have created an at-best uncomfortable and at-worst adversarial relationship between tech bigwigs and his administration.
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The Telephone Pioneers of America was a group founded by various employees and bigwigs at telecom companies back in 1911.
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At NATO headquarters in Brussels, bigwigs are working to craft arguments that might appeal to Mr Trump's interest-based worldview.
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Every summer industry bigwigs and their families gather in Traverse City, a pleasant town on the shores of Lake Michigan.
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Several holiday-makers nervously insisted that they were "unsure" whether President Xi Jinping or any other bigwigs were in town.
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The family believes he was murdered, perhaps because he did not let ruling-party bigwigs muscle in on his business.
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He was cheered by an audience of business bigwigs in New York when he spoke on the theme in September.
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In part, the opposition is down to bureaucratic inertia and the safeguarding by Vatican bigwigs of their powers and privileges.
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Even then, bigwigs did not have too much to fear: studies show that high-powered defendants can expect shorter sentences.
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Its target is 2063, a date well past the likely retirement date of all the bigwigs who signed the plan.
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That's the collective question coming from GOP bigwigs, reportedly stunned at their nominee's behavior over the past couple of days.
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British bigwigs have visited Amritsar to pay their respects, but despite many promptings there has never been an official apology.
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Democracy flourished between 1994 and 2015 because the bigwigs in CCM saw the benefits of a more open, pluralistic economy.
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Zuckerberg's comments reflect those of other Silicon Valley bigwigs, including Sam Altman, the president of venture capital firm Y Combinator.
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With $1.6 billion in assets under management, Madrona is known for investments in Seattle bigwigs like Smartsheet, Rover and Redfin.
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Peter King channeled many Republican bigwigs when he took Moore's loss as a chance to go after Bannon: GOP Rep.
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President Obama and other government officials occasionally hold similar off the record sessions with reporters, anchors and other media bigwigs.
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Beyond Zuckerberg, other tech bigwigs were in attendance — including Google cofounder Sergey Brin (who appeared alongside actress/model Tyra Banks):
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You'll have access to all of the bigwigs, then choose various subscription tiers for how many niche services you want.
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For some, the ideal scenario would be the coronation of a successor by party bigwigs, without a bloody leadership contest.
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It also strengthens the company's hand in an industry dominated by bigwigs like the China Vanke Group and Country Garden.
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Many party bigwigs believe the president's voice is needed to make the case that a tax overhaul will help Americans.
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This is where old money families and tech bigwigs made rich off of the tech boom have hung their hats.
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When it comes to corruption, a number of bigwigs have been arrested and bags of seized money paraded before the media.
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Few members of the ruling party, Frelimo, want to shine too much light on those loans since bigwigs may be implicated.
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They draw comfort from the array of conservative bigwigs, pillars of Congress and retired generals he has summoned for job interviews.
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WHEN African National Congress (ANC) bigwigs met last weekend, the debate was reportedly so heated that it almost came to blows.
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On paper Nigeria has about 300,000 police, but perhaps half of them guard the homes, offices and convoys of political bigwigs.
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"It's two bigwigs going against each other, arguably the two best quarterbacks in their era," Broncos defensive end Antonio Smith said.
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Some terms describe tactics to challenge bigwigs: for instance, toyi toyi, a dance used in South Africa to protest against apartheid.
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IN NOVEMBER 2500, 2000 of biology's bigwigs met up at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, to plot a grandiose scheme.
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His arrest on drug-trafficking charges may discourage other bigwigs from abandoning Mr Maduro, thus impeding America's goal of removing him.
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The foundation had recently run a series of PSAs under the slogan "Real men don't buy girls," featuring various Hollywood bigwigs.
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The governor even found himself in the White House, gazing longingly at Beltway bigwigs in an office he once campaigned for.
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She's dragged the by the bigwigs over at the FBI, who seem certain that she'll be able to figure him out.
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On Monday night the German car company gave journalists, dealers, and assorted bigwigs a preview of its new halo electric car.
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The total cost of the project, which is partly funded by donations from local bigwigs, is 1.2 billion Swedish krona ($140m).
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The 16 person team, brought together about a month ago, is comprised of CEOs bigwigs pulled from across the United States.
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Moreover, he is hobbled by party bigwigs and generals who fiddle the foreign-exchange rates and continue to plunder the treasury.
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A handful of former AK bigwigs have since broken with Mr Erdogan, confirming they would launch one or more rival parties.
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Some opposition politicians criticised Ms Tintori for thanking regime bigwigs who were in the caravan of vehicles that brought her husband home.
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Sandberg was part of a meeting between top government officials and Silicon Valley bigwigs earlier this month to discuss this very issue.
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Bigwigs in Pheu Thai, the Thaksinite party, remain confident that they can win enough votes to control the government after an election.
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In time-honoured southern tradition, local bigwigs are encouraged to finance religious processions and festivities, however ill-gotten their gains may be.
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The Congolese state receives no taxes from this trade but bigwigs on both sides of the border have grown fat on it.
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It happened when CBS panned to the commissioner's booth to reveal Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos schmoozing with Goodell and some other bigwigs.
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Bigwigs in Ho Chi Minh City talk of narrowing pavements to widen roads; Hanoi insists more and better buses are revving up.
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There is one more explanation for all the bigwigs and pundits rationalising Trump-support, while considering themselves good people who deplore racism.
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Is it really plausible that the Republican bigwigs you have denouncing "Trump" just fold and accept him once he seals the nomination?
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Australian bigwigs bent over backwards last year to keep the UN from listing the reef, a World Heritage Site, as "in danger".
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When threatened with sanctions from footballing authorities, they responded with assassination attempts on UEFA bigwigs, as was the case at FK Obilić.
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Ministers still mouth calls for diversification (away from oil) and private investment, but many bigwigs seem nervous of undermining the government's business empire.
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During the stay in California, in an apartment dorm for UC Santa Barbara in Isla Vista, Dad brought various bigwigs home for dinner.
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While some of the featured stars' revelations focus on their big parts, others share hilarious anecdotes about their relationships with other Hollywood bigwigs.
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But for Jacob Zuma, the president (pictured), the bill is a handy way to empower the rural bigwigs whose electoral support he craves.
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Local bigwigs had every incentive to lowball the figures to avoid the wrath of NIMBYs, says Neal Hudson of Residential Analysts, a consultancy.
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She also follows New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Katie Couric, Arianna Huffington, and women's magazine bigwigs like Joanna Coles and Anne Fulenwider.
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The following Sunday in France, Le Parisien, a newspaper, published an open letter from 2000 bigwigs denouncing a "new anti-Semitism" among Muslims.
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If you hack the computers of Democratic bigwigs, as the Russians did, you have a network of bots ready to dish the dirt.
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THE RUSSIAN Investment Forum, a yearly pow-wow for business bigwigs, bills itself as a platform for "presenting Russia's investment and economic potential".
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Bigwigs in the Brussels bureaucracy dread the prospect that the post-Brexit British will cleave to a Swiss rather than a Norwegian model.
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Nor did the SPD's bigwigs see it as a way to mobilise support for the coalition deal they were pressing on their members.
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In a marquee in the grounds of a swanky hotel in Kampala, about 150 smartly dressed bigwigs were treated to a buffet breakfast.
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Tyrie was head of the committee for seven years, during which time he gained a reputation for his ferocious questioning of financial bigwigs.
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Party bigwigs bought it—if endorsements were convention delegates, Mr Rubio would have long been home and dry—but voters were less impressed.
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Bowing to off-stage pressure from Republican bigwigs, he backed away from his earlier, unconstitutional talk of banning Muslims from entry to America.
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Jasper's books, his annotated scripts, his correspondence with theatre bigwigs (Brustein, Foreman, Grotowski) were to be boxed up and sent to Rice University.
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They claimed, without basis, that she was a prostitute soliciting male bigwigs from the CIA and NATO, who fed her lies about Russia.
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The expo floor was chockablock with buyers from grocers, distributors, food company bigwigs and investors on the prowl for the next big thing.
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Ottman was reportedly so impressed by the script that he helped with a rewrite and brought the thing to the bigwigs at Fox.
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ADT bigwigs are aware of the concerns, and tell us they've been reminding homeowners how important their security systems are in these times.
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"We think there's something very unseemly about allowing Europe to become a resort" for the country's bigwigs and their families, the official said.
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The same applies to Democratic bigwigs; this is finally a moment where conservatives can be glad they're outnumbered 10-to-1 in Hollywood.
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Fillmore Street runs north to south through San Francisco&aposs Pacific Heights, a neighborhood known for housing tech bigwigs and old-moneyed families.
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Another reason is that Ossoff's campaign took off on its own, before any party bigwigs decided to hitch their fortunes to his bandwagon.
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Drawing more than 4,500 airline bigwigs, lessors and bankers, such gatherings are usually preoccupied by issues such as aeroplane prices and the aviation cycle.
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To ingratiate themselves with the victors after the war, Italian bigwigs exalted the role of the Jews' defenders while minimising that of their persecutors.
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As the Guardian reported earlier today, Bogue is one of several tech bigwigs who donated to Housing Not Tents, a pro-Proposition Q campaign.
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Photo: GettyMilitary bigwigs gathered in Orlando this week for the annual AirWarfare Symposium to discuss big plans for big weapons that do big damage.
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Since rejoining, Indonesia has made several deals on crude imports, overseas upstream investments and refining partnerships, including with OPEC bigwigs Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Zetsche's optimistic outlook, rather than one filled with fear of Apple and Google eating its lunch overnight, mirrors recent thoughts from other automotive bigwigs.
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We had partied in the hotels before; it was something of a ritual, but we never really partied with the heavy dudes, the bigwigs.
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Although Sir John insisted that Britain must remain at the "heart of Europe", in 1996 party bigwigs chided him for being insufficiently pro-European.
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Nervous laughter rippled through the room of GOP bigwigs huddled around the Roosevelt Room table, though House Speaker Paul Ryan barely managed a smirk.
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Other than housing bigwigs, hotels create employment (more than two direct jobs for every room, one World Bank study reckoned) and support local industries.
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At the World Cargo Symposium, a meeting of industry bigwigs in Berlin this week, there were grumbles that their business has seen better days.
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Desperate to heal their feuding party, and turn its fire on Mr Trump, Democratic bigwigs have for weeks implored Mr Sanders to bow out.
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Several bigwigs from Abiy's ethnic group, the Oromo, snubbed the inauguration and instead visited a memorial to Oromo victims of the emperor's military campaigns.
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Corporate bigwigs and federal bureaucrats gathered at a luxury hotel fit for the 1%—to discuss how to enrich themselves at the taxpayer's expense.
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When we visited on a recent Tuesday around lunchtime, the restaurant was bustling with bigwigs dining on the fine Italian and French-inspired cuisine.
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Yeah, while Clinton was secretary of state the Clinton Foundation took money from foreign bigwigs to help fund its work with impoverished people overseas.
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They stayed a few days, gripped by stories of ton-sized drug deals and cartel bigwigs knocking back mezcal in a remote mountain hideaway.
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The most obvious problem for him: this field is full of bigwigs, so folks with minimal name recognition will have some difficulty standing out.
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It was a showroom for clients and bigwigs, displaying all the finest products available for purchase, and lavishly appointed to make the best impression.
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To save face, UEFA bigwigs threatened the team with expulsion, prompting Arkan to officially quit his role at the club on 22003 July 211.
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Nothing's been set in stone yet, but surely those network bigwigs wouldn't be so cruel as to cut off our Westeros supply after season 8.
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For every Pizza Rat there is a Pizzagate, the conspiracy theory that held that DC bigwigs were holding satanic pedophilic rituals in a pizza place.
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Among the more peculiar recurring motifs in the exhibition are television and film — not portraits of starlets and Hollywood bigwigs, but actual photographs of screens.
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Four years ago, Mr Tambuwal was one of a number of bigwigs who deserted the PDP and helped propel Mr Buhari (pictured above) to victory.
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These are only the latest bigwigs to go in a line of departures linked to "personal misconduct", a term that covers a multitude of sins.
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There is some ominous talk of creating "golden shares" which could help the party's bigwigs retain influence over firms even when their stakes are depleted.
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Under previous governments, crooked bigwigs would typically build, say, a road and take a cut, explains Armando Santacruz of Mexico United Against Crime, an NGO.
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This includes cutting spending and easing the "indigenisation laws" that currently force companies to hand over 51% stakes to black Zimbabweans (read: politically connected bigwigs).
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I was new in my position and a conference I put on with all the bigwigs from higher ed didn't go so well — just inexperience.
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A procession of Chinese and British bigwigs took to the stage, trying to outbid each other in their proffers of praise for Mr Xi's book.
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IN 22007 Nina Jacobson—formerly president of a Walt Disney studio, by then an independent film producer—was pitching a new franchise to Hollywood bigwigs.
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The untitled project will be an original and, although plot details remain scarce, Aniston and Witherspoon aren't the only industry bigwigs attached to the series.
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The unanticipated effects of this are likely to be that the contest drags on for a long time, something that party bigwigs hoped to avoid.
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This time, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested dozens of bigwigs, including a former national security chief accused of diverting $2.2 billion.
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The barrage, which went unanswered by party bigwigs, subsided when Mr Rajan declared earlier this month that he would not seek another term of office.
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The Cambodian opposition leader did meet politely with foreign bigwigs who were at last free to call on him, but declined to address waiting reporters.
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For just as long as these scandals have been happening, so have keynote meetings (like this upcoming one) that convene bigwigs from large technology companies.
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Our bodies are the next big candidate for technological optimization, so it's no wonder that tech industry bigwigs have recently begun expressing interest in them.
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At least eight Democratic candidates will not attend this year's confab of pro-Israel activists and political bigwigs, including top-tier contenders such as Sens.
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If you knew -- or had heard whispers -- that bigwigs up the food chain didn't want certain words in your budget proposal, what would you do?
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In the waiting room Congress party bigwigs lined up before Ms. Gandhi's mustachioed private secretary, Vincent George, begging for permission to enter her inner sanctum.
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The conference's attendees and exhibitors—from scientific researchers to industry bigwigs—need superfast, reliable connections to stream in the results of their simulations and data analysis.
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Some party bigwigs find Ms Le Pen's economics a little dirigiste for their taste, and were uneasy to see Ms Petry share a stage with her.
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State assets could be transferred cheaply and opaquely to ANC bigwigs claiming to promote "black economic empowerment", just as private assets have been in the past.
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Other ruling-party bigwigs are weighing up whether to defect, bide their time until the next election in 2023, or challenge Mr Buhari in a primary.
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Anthony just returned from Vancouver, where he was covering the TED2019 conference — a much-parodied gathering where VCs, executives and other bigwigs gather to exchange ideas.
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More serious still was the Constitutional Court ruling, which has prompted some ANC bigwigs who worry about the rule of law to turn against Mr Zuma.
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Based on this research, many journalists concluded that party bigwigs had so fully wrested control away from the public that true "outsider" candidates had no shot.
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Before the primaries the Associated Press estimated that she had secured enough support from superdelegates—party politicians and bigwigs—to push her over the finishing line.
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Quavo's got a message for Jeff Bezos and the rest of Amazon's bigwigs deciding where to put their second headquarters -- come to Atlanta and get cultured!
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Current and former professional soccer players, lawmakers and other Beltway bigwigs convened at Washington's RFK Stadium to play in the U.S. Soccer Foundation's Capital Soccer Classic.
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The exodus of Starling bigwigs comes just as the company confirmed it had opened a million accounts, following an advertising blitz over the past few months.
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While the Americans were playing with their trucks, most automotive bigwigs were were in Switzerland for the Geneva Motor Show, the industry's most reliably glitzy gathering.
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The latest finds name bigwigs such as Xanthippus, father of Pericles, as well as a man called Habron about whom little besides his unpopularity is known.
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Against the backdrop of Harlem Renaissance bigwigs calling for positive depictions of high-achieving Negroes, Hurston unpacked the lives of everyday black people doing everyday things.
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For her part, Warren often makes headlines for her broadsides against CEOs and other corporate bigwigs at the head of fossil fuel companies, drugmakers and banks.
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The skinny rowhouses that brought together two European members of the Comintern, 212 future party bigwigs and a 257-year-old Mao have been preserved intact.
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As Warren has risen in the polls in the Democratic primary, so has the number of Wall Street bigwigs and corporate executives speaking out against her.
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Local bigwigs are thought to be behind some of the attacks, perhaps to drive away the NGOs that made it too hard to embezzle aid dollars.
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Production sources tell TMZ ... the bigwigs have changed the policy of limiting alcohol consumption ... the spigot is wide open and the cast is taking full advantage.
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It's also a weirdly mesmerizing look at the forks and consider these bigwigs' common humanity — even if Rupert Murdoch seems like a robot, he still eats.
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This dichotomy was on display at the annual "Rencontres Economiques" gathering of French officials, economics nerds and business bigwigs in Aix-en-Provence over the weekend.
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Whereas smog-fighters in Beijing have begun closing factories and restricting car usage, bigwigs in Hanoi still struggle to prevent scooter-riders from parking on the pavements.
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He poured scorn on evidence that the Kremlin was behind the hacking of Democratic bigwigs' e-mails during the election campaign, preferring to denigrate America's intelligence agencies.
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Proving that Harley Quinn is not the squad's only kick-ass female, Delevingne's mild-mannered Moone transforms into the ghastly Enchantress while government bigwigs watch in horror.
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The daughter of a bear-tamer, she went on to become an erotic dancer, and then used her charms to attract the attention of the city's bigwigs.
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For years it was rumoured that after King Bhumibol's death bigwigs might decide to delay the succession in the hope of elevating a better-loved royal instead.
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Having witnessed violence as recently as 2006, when competing political factions engaged in lethal skirmishes, Timorese are generally happy that the bigwigs appear to be getting along.
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British bigwigs, including some intelligence officers, put the document to opportunistic use; some of those who made political capital out of it probably knew it was dodgy.
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That cash is one of the incentives Netflix uses to lure Hollywood bigwigs like Lost creator J.J. Abrams and Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón away from established studios.
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That question is the subject of a report published today by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an independent group of 26 former presidents and other bigwigs.
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A succession of bigwigs from the African Union, UN and ECOWAS, a club of countries in the region, have flown in to mediate and call for calm.
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In the 2014 report "Risky Business," bigwigs like billionaire Michael Bloomberg and former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson warn of dire economic consequences if warming isn't tackled.
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With the stadium's more spacious seating, technologically advanced viewing experiences, and over-the-top luxury suites, the Bay Area's tech bigwigs should be thrilled with their investment.
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Surely media men are no more deviants or sexually abusive than, say, male corporate bigwigs, yet we are not hearing much about the latter being publicly accused.
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You just sent out a vital work email visible to all the bigwigs at your company, but as soon as you hit 'send,' you notice a glaring typo.
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"Fewer candidates and bigwigs around really did help us to hear and focus on the issues at hand in our movement," said digital trainer and strategist Beth Becker.
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Over breakfast in Washington clubs, or in Capitol Hill chats, bigwigs say that European socialism is very bad, of course, and that neo-Nazis are to be shunned.
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There's something about the whiff of gender-neutral maximalism now sweeping fashion, from bigwigs like Gucci to upstarts like Area, that makes Bowie's pioneering style feel newly relevant.
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The alternative is that a post-Castro Cuba would become more like Vladimir Putin's Russia, with a few political and military bigwigs looting their way to untold riches.
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This may help a few real dollars trickle into the pockets of Zanu-PF bigwigs, but is unlikely to improve the lot of the rest of the country.
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The firm's fans include many car-industry bigwigs, who presumably relish the raw driving experience of yesteryear to take their mind off running companies facing so many problems.
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After eight days of unusually fierce politicking, party bigwigs forced the charismatic and pro-business prime minister to leave government after his term expires in a few months.
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Wan Saiful Wan Jan, of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs in Kuala Lumpur, says that some UMNO bigwigs are backing the prime minister through gritted teeth.
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The position lasted until 2011, putting her in contact with political bigwigs like Vice President Joe Biden and Clinton herself, when she was serving as Secretary of State.
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The stylistic contrast is clear: Warren is a brainy senator with a mastery of policy detail, as displayed in hearings where she's grilled bankers and other corporate bigwigs.
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The night before the union hall rally in Pittsburgh, Biden was raising big bucks from labor-busting bigwigs at a fundraiser hosted by former Comcast President David Cohen.
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In that case, the Republicans have a "break in case of emergency" contingency plan that would force a few hundred party bigwigs into an extraordinary and unprecedented position.
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Managed by bigwigs who used to work at the World Bank, KAUST has however struggled to get into other investment vehicles, such as Benchmark Capital, the people say.
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Before 1965, leaders of the Conservative Party were not elected by anyone at all, but emerged after discussion among a so-called magic circle of the party's bigwigs.
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" Or, at a party of provincial bigwigs, men in black tie bustle about "as flies dart about a gleaming white sugar loaf in the hot summertime of July.
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China's anti-corruption indictments, which have taken out Party and government leaders, have also brought down private-sector bigwigs that pose political nuisances to Xi and Xi-ism.
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Harvey Weinstein reportedly sent a letter to Hollywood bigwigs pleading for their support, just hours before being fired from his eponymous film studio over allegations of sexual misconduct.
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This Republican operative and lobbyist pleaded guilty to not registering as a foreign agent with his work for Ukrainian political bigwigs, and agreed to cooperate with the government.
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Both Republicans and Democrats have roughly similar "break in case of emergency" contingency plans that would force a few hundred party bigwigs into an extraordinary and unprecedented position.
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They are an occasion on which earthly bigwigs, mayors and national politicians among them, can pay their respect to the dead, regardless of what faith if any they profess.
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As police were hauling the protesters into police vans, President Vladimir Putin was striding on stage at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia's yearly gathering of economic bigwigs.
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Business GM's judgment day: How two Venezuelan car dealers seized an auto factory Breakingviews podcast: Why didn't any Wall Street bigwigs go to jail over the 2008 financial crisis?
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Over the past few days, Minor has been meeting with reporters as well as bigwigs in the content creation business, including reality TV producers, ad agencies and production companies.
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Coming from a country that gets only a few hours of sunlight a day during wintertime, they will need intense lobbying to convince EU bigwigs that every second counts.
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The bigger picture: The election has reminded tech bigwigs they don't see eye to eye with all Americans, even if a good chunk of those people use their products.
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For a decade, convoys of up to 50 of the syndicate's vehicles have rattled into Kano without obstruction, because bigwigs in the capital were paid to let them pass.
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These are especially important to the PMDB, which is more a coalition of regional bigwigs than a grouping of politicians with similar ideas about how to run a country.
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Ms Lam spent Saturday afternoon hobnobbing with bigwigs from China, including the head of its Hong Kong liaison office, at a summer camp organised by the People's Liberation Army.
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"We propose 21 small steps forward for Italy, 2000 small, concrete measures, achievable goals," Renzi said in the northern city of Bologna in a hall packed with party bigwigs.
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And he wants to use his nonprofit to convene political and technology bigwigs to generate ideas on how to get younger and disengaged voters interested in the political process.
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"The architectural board is filled with a variety of people: architects, designers, just local bigwigs, and they were all sitting there," Ms. Eyles said of a meeting she attended.
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No doubt his mentor, a sheikh who had been invited to the institute along with other Egyptian bigwigs the previous year, had sought to put the young man off.
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"According to Farnsworth, rumors of the company's impending demise are driven by theater industry bigwigs who are "trying to put us out of business" because they've "become a serious threat.
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You've got all these bigwigs all doing it, but I think if you're earning your money in the UK, you shouldn't be able to send it here, there, and everywhere.
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Mr Ossoff was variously portrayed as a stooge of Democratic bigwigs, an associate of terrorists (his company has worked for Al Jazeera) and wearing a Han Solo costume at college.
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An array of interview subjects, from Malaysian bigwigs with faded clothes to Javanese taxi drivers who believe in royal magic, provide small glimpses of humanity amid a landscape darkly portrayed.
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When 50 foreign policy and national security bigwigs from your own party sign a letter denouncing your candidacy, and basically say you're too reckless to be president -- that's a smackdown.
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Many ZANU bigwigs fought in a bush war against white-minority rule in what was then Rhodesia and saw the 52-year-old Mrs Mugabe as a power-hungry interloper.
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One proposal discussed this month by Labour bigwigs involves souping up the Bank of England, giving it a target to boost productivity and allowing it to comment on fiscal policy.
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These are the bigwigs who profited from the Zuma years, and did not mind the race-baiting that the Zuma camp used to distract public attention from its own misdeeds.
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Given the magnitude of the fissures in the GOP, getting its bigwigs to rally around a single favourite during future "invisible primaries" before election years may be a tall order.
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Instead, Mr Trump is giving Republican bigwigs an excuse to embrace him, and to pretend that he is a standard-bearer for the principles that they claim to hold dear.
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The most intriguing used to be the Moutai club, a secretive outfit catering to political bigwigs that decorated its walls with pictures of Deng Xiaoping and other luminaries quaffing firewater.
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Cohen is the cofounder and CEO of TripActions, a corporate travel startup backed by Silicon Valley bigwigs Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners to a valuation tune of $4 billion.
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The President's tweet came as he spent the weekend at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, with current and former Fox bigwigs, including Sean Hannity and former executive Bill Shine.
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When asked about whether they were preparing in any way for a Trump victory, bigwigs at many of the industry's leading tech and financial firms were bemused by the notion.
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Although Afghan and American commanders say they have tried to crack down on corruption, the use of air force aircraft as personal taxis by Afghan political bigwigs remains a problem.
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The notion that Cruz is unlikable stems from the fact that he is virtually friendless in the Senate, and that he inspires deep-seated annoyance in Republican bigwigs like Bob Dole.
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Sure, the grey-haired bigwigs have started to catch on to the big trends—electricity, automation, connectedness—but if this week's news is any indication, it's the youth leading the charge.
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Capex estimates for global bigwigs Shell, Exxon Mobile, Chevron, Total, BP, Statoil and Eni total $144.8 billion for 2016, down from $211.5 billion in 2013, according to data collected by Reuters.
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But researchers digging through thousands of such trades have shown that they consistently outperform the broader market, suggesting biotech bigwigs might be gaming the system at the expense of everyday investors.
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Republican party bigwigs later rallied behind Fillon at a meeting, unanimously supporting him and ruling out the possibility of coming up with a plan B, conservative Senate leader Gerard Larcher said.
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"I think it's common sense to accept the idea of holding a Congress before a national vote," Renzi told PD bigwigs, referring to the assembly where the party leader is elected.
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Consider: Didi has investments from China bigwigs Alibaba and Tencent and also has a partnership with Uber's U.S. rival Lyft, as well as with Grab in Southeast Asia, another Uber competitor.
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Two months later the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, held on the Dead Sea in Jordan, also failed to attract the desired audience of global bigwigs.
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Ms Thunberg's activism has been applauded at the UN and she was invited to Davos in January, where she blasted bigwigs for not facing up to the realities of climate change.
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After Mr Bush pulled out Marco Rubio picked up more endorsements from party bigwigs as the candidate best placed to beat Donald Trump, who chalked up another handsome victory, in Nevada.
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K-Live is owned by Korea's largest phone company, KT Corporation, and competes with other bigwigs like media giant S.M. Entertainment, for exclusive rights to artists and content for the shows.
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Just ask Elon Musk about how many data-wielding bigwigs told him his electric-car car company Tesla would fail, or Mark Zuckerberg that social network Facebook would never make money.
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It does not help that Mr Mugabe destroyed the country's main source of foreign revenue when he chased mainly white farmers off their land and handed it to ruling-party bigwigs.
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Probably some bigwigs at Marvel Studios who might dig up Jericho Drumm, the sorcerer whose brother was killed by Kaecilius and therefore has a built-in revenge kick ripe for mining.
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Republican bigwigs in Congress sounded more like angry callers to a talk-radio show, declaring themselves "mystified" by the FBI's conclusions, without explaining precisely how the bureau had misapplied the law.
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Aside from the official party events, the conventions typically feature a slew of parties, panels and concerts that give guests additional face time with party bigwigs and companies another branding opportunity.
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The parsing and postmortem-ing will go on long after the bigwigs leave town—those who didn't fly out right after C.J. Anderson punched in the last Denver touchdown, that is.
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Straddling two worlds is never easy, and perturbed by what they saw as a lack marketability, the band entered into a contractual dispute with bigwigs at EMI in the late 80s.
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The chosen few will receive coaching and counseling from the bigwigs and visits from DJ Khaled, Meek Mill and Bangladesh while navigating elimination challenges for the chance at a recording contract.
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The 1MDB affair, involving the alleged theft of $4.5bn from the Malaysian state development fund of that name, has felled a Malaysian prime minister, ensnared Goldman Sachs and embarrassed Hollywood bigwigs.
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It re-centralised some decision-making over land use (in part to restrain corrupt provincial officials) and required party bigwigs to use stricter tests when evaluating projects that would require mass displacements.
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Not long ago, when bigwigs met Team Trump, they heard alarming talk of grand bargains with Russia, perhaps exchanging concessions over Ukraine for help containing Iran and battling Islamic extremists in Syria.
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The list of bigwigs appointed to a major new Saudi advisory board includes (for the time being) venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Uber founder Travis Kalanick and Dow Chemical's former CEO Andrew Liveris.
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You'll get insights from his experience working with some business bigwigs — including Warren Buffett and Bill Gates — plus master everything from management to how to navigate the murky waters of corporate politics.
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Bigwigs in government feel bounced into their friendship with America by virulent anti-Chinese sentiment among ordinary Vietnamese, some of whom accuse the cadres of going soft on Vietnam's overbearing northern neighbour.
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But it will do nothing to tackle the root causes of the country's tensions—a history of antiquated and over-centralised governance which allows bigwigs in Bangkok to hog influence and resources.
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The complex also has a cafe, an indoor children's play area, a research library and a terrace restaurant popular with local bigwigs in natty business suits, which makes for excellent people watching.
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Medina, located on a peninsula just across Lake Washington from Seattle, is an exclusive suburb that's also home to Bill Gates, as well as other Microsoft bigwigs, tech entrepreneurs, and telecom magnates.
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"Against the backdrop of Harlem Renaissance bigwigs calling for positive depictions of high-achieving Negroes, Hurston unpacked the lives of everyday black people doing everyday things," Jabari Asim writes in his review.
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In case you haven't heard ... Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, along with a bunch of other bigwigs are launching a mobile-first media technology platform in the first part of next year.
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The suit accused Singer of participating in what essentially amounted to a sex ring, in which older, successful Hollywood bigwigs lured young, aspiring gay actors into sex with prospects of career advancement.
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Eyewitnesses tell us about 300 people attended -- folks like Lindsey Graham, Steve Wynn, Jared Kushner and other GOP bigwigs -- and some of the food served included steak, fish, chicken, salad and dessert.
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According to CNBC, emails between company bigwigs showed Amazon planned to pull hoverboards from its site on December 11, 2015, and send a "non-alarmist" email to customers who already purchased the product.
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But, says Wayne Flynt, author of an illuminating new book on southern religion, while puritanical in the private sphere, in politics evangelical bigwigs "increasingly defined morality in terms of policy instead of character".
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Early last year, the Vision Fund raided the technology banking sector's top talent, landing bigwigs like Michael Ronen of Goldman Sachs and Colin Fan from Deutsche Bank — presumably for a lot of cash.
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Many hoped Mr Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC), a coalition of regional bigwigs whose party symbol is a broom, would sweep away the corruption and dysfunction that flourished under the PDP.
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A few times while talking to tech bigwigs, I'd mentioned Jason Ho's company, explaining how I found it a smart and admirable business, a perfect example of an entrepreneur nailing an unmet need.
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But it also trivialized the technology industry's lobbying effort against Proposition C. The "No on Prop C" campaign, led by San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce, received a windfall of donations from technology bigwigs.
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"Unfortunately, so far chaos organizes the presidency right now," he said, speaking at the annual SALT hedge fund conference, which is headlined by bigwigs from the world of politics, finance, sports and entertainment.
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Republican bigwigs insist that Mr Trump can be kept in check by Congress, and will allow them to pursue conservative goals, such as corporate tax reform or slashing back environmental and financial regulations.
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Falcone, the founder of the hedge fund Harbinger Capital, was facing two SEC fraud suits at a time when the commission was under intense pressure to hold financial bigwigs accountable for the recession.
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Nevertheless, it was the Dow, currently featuring a complement of 30 U.S. multinational companies from a variety of industries, that grew into the index widely followed by retail investors and Wall Street bigwigs.
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Even conservative bigwigs like Newt Gingrich have come to embrace the need for treatment, previously seen as just replacing one addiction with another in traditional abstinence-focused recovery circles exemplified by Alcoholics Anonymous.
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No one is promised anything and if voters don't believe that candidates or officials or party bigwigs have their back in a fundamental way, the facade of deference will fall away -- and fast. 27.
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For all of its waste and corruption, the Shinawatra style of clientilistic mass politics helped to spread spending power to the poorer regions, where local bigwigs doled out funds disbursed from the central government.
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In one particularly stomach-turning section he reports on a luxury cruise, Summit at Sea, where various bigwigs discuss ways to improve the world while sitting in the well of the Bliss Ultra Lounge.
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After 25 years in office the ANC has become a magnet for anyone who wants to enter politics to get rich, so many party bigwigs do not want the president to clean things up.
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Until an embarrassingly recent time (and still in this moment, if we're being realistic), Hollywood bigwigs hesitated to bet on women and people of color, especially in tentpole franchises like the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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As I wrote on the one-year anniversary of The Dress thing, all the bigwigs in philosophy have taken a crack at this problem, from Aristotle to CL Hardin, with Isaac Newton in between.
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They claim they were singled out by Questlove, the band leader, who protected a black NBC employee who also received the text message, but allegedly told NBC bigwigs to fire the 2 white cameramen.
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It all feels like a coming of age moment for Snapchat, punctuated by the glitzy press event where media bigwigs noshed on Chinese steak buns and played with AR art installations in West Hollywood.
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But as Hampton Creek—backed by bigwigs like Bill Gates and Peter Thiel—marketed its plant-based alternatives to the masses, it encountered a torrent of resistance from the egg industry and government agencies.
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He was probably welcomed along his route by hospitable colleagues and Romanized locals, just as his British successor very often met people he was at school with or native bigwigs of properly Anglophile tendencies.
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It was on a record of government accountability that Haley announced her bid for the governor's mansion in 2010, challenging party bigwigs including a US representative, the state's lieutenant governor, and the attorney general.
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Meanwhile, Moscow has convinced some Orthodox bigwigs (virtually all the Slavic ones and even some Greek ones) to see Ukraine from its point of view—that only the Moscow-aligned church there has legitimacy.
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Between slurps of rosé and shows by Jon Bon Jovi, bigwigs of the marketing and media worlds last week considered something more serious at their annual meet-up in the South of France: ethics.
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Featuring interviews with art-world bigwigs such as Ed Moses, Ed Ruscha, and Frank Gehry, the film explores Burden's ability to create art that was beyond the realms of his discipline at the time.
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In a report for BuzzFeed on Monday, reporter McKay Coppins reveals that Trump aggressively courted top Republican donors for their contributions, sending them personal messages and signed photos as direct appeals to the financial bigwigs.
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Members of the group include entertainment bigwigs Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, and more, and their #MuteRKelly movement is supported by multiple other celebrities, including musician John Legend and comedian W. Kamau Bell.
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Some party bigwigs find the economics of Marine Le Pen, the National Front's leader, a little dirigiste for their taste, and were uneasy to see Frauke Petry, the AfD's leader, share a stage with her.
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Over the weekend Republican bigwigs, including Senator John McCain, un-endorsed him in droves, a mini-stampede that had the air of a medieval court's chaos when a king seems mortally ill (with added Twitter).
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The stereotype of foreigners in Africa is of neocolonial exploiters, interested only in the continent's natural resources, not its people, and ready to bribe local bigwigs in shady deals that do nothing for ordinary Africans.
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It did not help that a pre-Zuma ANC policy of "empowering " black tycoons by encouraging the transfer of large stakes in white-owned firms to them made a handful of ANC bigwigs effortlessly rich.
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Shop Boll & Branch bedding and bath products at Amazon hereThis five-year-old startup was recently named the world's largest consumer of Organic Fair Trade Certified cotton — ahead of retail bigwigs like Patagonia and Nike.
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John Hickenlooper (D) will formally launch his presidential campaign today from Denver, replete with a music performance from local folk artist Nathaniel Rateliff and a "who's who" of Colorado bigwigs, including Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.
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She is spearheading the creation of an anti-harassment commission, backed by more than two dozen of the entertainment industry's biggest bigwigs, that, in a stroke of marquee casting, will be led by Anita Hill.
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Looking at presidential primary races between 1980 and 2004, the authors found that eight in 10 were decided by endorsements—when party bigwigs lined up behind a candidate before Iowa, that candidate tended to win.
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Two battleground districts in particular — in Lexington, Kentucky, and outside Houston — feature examples of the continuing battle between establishment Democrats and insurgent candidates, who are proudly spurning party bigwigs in their efforts to win primaries.
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A New Orleans native, he comes across as someone who is at ease in any situation, whether he is shadowing professional athletes and coaches, foul-mouthed derivatives traders or bigwigs at the International Monetary Fund.
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If party bigwigs manipulate the party apparatus to block the senator from Vermont, it will increase his support now and alienate his supporters, who might not vote this November is another candidate wins the nomination.
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When it launched in 2011, the industry festival was a place for beauty bigwigs to mingle and network, showing off the latest innovations that would potentially transform makeup, skin care, and hairstyling as we know it.
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NewsPicks has bigwigs like Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and former CNN political anchor Candy Crowley on it, who espouse their views on articles and skew how users perceive the content even before they read it.
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If NEEEF were enacted, it would probably be abused by ruling-party bigwigs to grab stakes in other people's businesses in the name of uplifting the previously disadvantaged, as has happened in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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In July an academic was removed from the management board of Nottingham's Ningbo campus—a joint venture with the Chinese government—after writing an essay critical of the 19th Party Congress, a meeting of government bigwigs.
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Even the bigwigs chill out at LANL's program: Last summer, Coles invited MIT mathematician Peter Shor—the guy who developed the quantum algorithm that does the kind of factoring that could unscramble our secret scrambled bits.
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In a meeting in Hollywood, Florida, he tried to convince GOP bigwigs that Trump's transformation was well underway and that the candidate was ready to pivot to the center by adopting a more moderate campaign persona.
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Mrs Clinton remains well ahead, with more than 12m votes to date and an all-but-insurmountable lead in the race to accumulate delegates, as well as among the party bigwigs who cast ballots as superdelegates.
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Instead, we suffer the shame of a grand finale, at which various bigwigs—Valentino, Tommy Hilfiger, Kate Moss, and so forth—flaunt their well-cut sense of humor, deliver their lines poorly, and reinforce their fame.
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After an eye-popping no-call in the NFC Championship dashed the team's hopes of a trip to the big game, the Who Dat Nation called for a boycott Sunday to send league bigwigs a message.
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For one week, industry bigwigs and #avgeeks alike descend on Le Bourget, the airport just north of the city (and the place Charles Lindbergh landed after his famous transatlantic) to see just where flying is headed next.
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If that is the case, Republican bigwigs do not rule out losing the House of Representatives in a mid-term wave (the Senate map in 2018 so favours Republicans that few can imagine control falling to Democrats).
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In the race to 2237,2743 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, Ms Clinton has 2545,98 (including 503 superdelegates, party bigwigs who tend to support the establishment candidate) and Mr Sanders has 250,214 (reflecting a paltry 295 superdelegates).
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On April 12th the Swiss said the scope of their enquiries was widening, and that they were now investigating two former public officials from the United Arab Emirates—understood to be former bigwigs at IPIC and Aabar.
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But millions of American voters have no confidence in those same elites: the stripy-trousered experts and bigwigs who inhabit Washington's foreign policy think-tanks, or the retired generals and ambassadors who advise more conventional presidential candidates.
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As the Republican contest now swings westwards, for ten last state primaries, the party bigwigs scrabbling to Stop Trump have their work cut out; if he wins in Indiana on May 219rd, Mr Trump may be unstoppable.
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The three European bigwigs who travelled to Rome for the occasion (European Council president Donald Tusk, Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and European Parliament president Martin Schulz) are all of Catholic background, though Mr Schulz has lapsed.
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What makes this special is that, for the first time, local bigwigs are not just speaking in public, which is rare enough, but competing against one another and being judged by ordinary folk, which is unheard of.
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There's always a chance this works out the way the Democratic bigwigs intended: They nominate a popular centrist who promises a return to normality, wins over moderates tired of Trump, and secures the general election in November.
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The real hangup is not the prizes themselves but the shortlists — the silly and undignified competition among artists who often have nothing in common, and who feel they're being taken for a ride by sponsors and bigwigs.
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Rochester Drug Co-operative's former CEO Laurence Doud II and chief compliance officer William Pietruszewski are now the first distributor bigwigs to face criminal penalties in the onslaught of lawsuits and investigations currently facing major pharmaceutical companies.
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Even after candidate selection moved from smoke-filled rooms to primary elections, careerists held influence by means of what became known as the invisible primary, in which candidates contended for the support of party bigwigs and donors.
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A fanatical jihadist movement known as al-Shabab ("the Youth") still dominates much of the countryside and regularly murders bigwigs and blows up hotels and restaurants in Mogadishu, the seaside capital that was once an Italian colonial jewel.
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The authorities are pressing ahead with the privatisation of bloated state-owned enterprises; by the same token, party bigwigs must surely question the utility of the big subsidies they pump into often sluggish state-sanctioned clubs and associations.
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In a visit to Uganda in June an American Treasury official warned local banks that they would be cut off from America's financial system if they did not stop South Sudanese bigwigs from buying property with dodgy cash.
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Last summer an academic was removed from the management board of Nottingham University's campus in Ningbo, a city on China's eastern seaboard, after writing an essay critical of the 19th Communist Party Congress, a meeting of government bigwigs.
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The season's final moments depict the new lords of the Colombian drug trade toasting to their continued success, while a bemused committee of DEA bigwigs wonders how cocaine production could have gone up if Escobar's empire was crumbling.
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Zuckerberg, whose wife is Chinese-American, is reportedly learning Mandarin, and he visited China in March and met with lots of bigwigs, including Communist Party leader Liu Yunshan and billionaire Jack Ma, who founded the commerce site Alibaba.
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In an interview with legendary TV producer Norman Lear for Entertainment Weekly, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris revealed that he's left scenes on the cutting room floor that were deemed too shocking for TV by the network bigwigs.
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Among the Democrats, by the latest count, Mrs Clinton has the backing of 380 of the 713 superdelegates (party bigwigs free to back whom they choose) who will form part of the 4,764 delegates at the Democratic convention.
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He will meet Mr Sanders on June 9th, presumably to add his voice to those of the Democratic Party bigwigs who for weeks have been leaning on Mr Sanders to bow out for the sake of party unity.
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Robert Jackson Jr., a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said corporate bigwigs have been selling their shares after the buyback announcements hit, cashing in from the stock price surge that often happens after a repurchase notice.
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On Thursday night, inside Manhattan's Grand Hyatt Hotel, a ballroom full of wealthy Republican bigwigs poked at their $1,000 plates of Parmesan-loaded salads and mozzarella balls, and listened as Donald J. Trump told them about his life.
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Tai met Perkins at a conference in Perth, and was impressed enough with her Canva pitch that he invited her to MaiTai Maui to meet some of the tech bigwigs who rated a spot on the guest list.
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Patrick Shanahan, America's acting defence secretary, presented the collection of grainy aerial shots to his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual gathering of military bigwigs in Singapore from May 31st to June 2nd.
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Bigwigs are attempting to secure their roles in the new political season, argues Tatiana Stanovaya of the Centre for Political Technologies, a think-tank: the Duma contest is "turning into elections for the future elite of Putin's fourth term".
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That was theme of this year's annual "Will on the Hill" performance of the Shakespeare Theatre Company on Monday night, when lawmakers, media bigwigs and D.C. influencers dressed in Shakespeare-era garb poked fun at politics and Beltway insiders.
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It remains to be seen what will become of a warmer, fuzzier approach to recreational weed usage, but there is one thing that fans, players, and NFL bigwigs can agree on: there is at least some hope in dope.
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Letter To the Editor: In the wake of prominent women speaking out about the sexual harassment they endured from bigwigs like Harvey Weinstein and Fox News executives and hosts, many other women are standing up and speaking up, too.
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These informal tête-à-têtes between network bigwigs and candidates are a standard feature of the election process but rarely result in dramatic changes: After the meeting, the network's coverage of Sanders continued to oscillate between derision and dismissiveness.
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Founded by the longtime friends and collaborators Ryan Holliday-Stevens and Laura Taylor in 2013, Solace London has won over celebrities like Bella Hadid and Chrissy Teigen as well as retail bigwigs like Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue.
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The real estate mogul turned president filled his Cabinet with a cadre of Wall Street and corporate bigwigs and invited top CEOs to join two White House business councils, the Strategic and Policy Forum and the American Manufacturing Council.
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Now that the summer blockbuster season is over, this week felt as if the superhero film industry—or the bigwigs at DC, Marvel, and Fox, at least—let out a deep sigh of relief and started thinking about the future.
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And a "yes" vote could channel the rebels' revolutionary energies into resisting the party bigwigs' choice of leader; already it seems she will face a challenge for the job from Simone Lange, the mayor of Flensburg, at the conference in April.
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For herders to encroach on government and private land is normal in Africa, but the size of the herds, the involvement of political and military bigwigs as cattle barons, and the proliferation of weapons have all got out of hand.
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Some in the White House tell Fox News that they believe administration bigwigs like Conway are in fact some of the worst leakers, leading junior staffers in the communications department to feel the warnings of an impending purge are unfair.
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WHATEVER the inhabitants of New Orleans think about the monuments to Confederate bigwigs that dot their city, many felt relief, on the afternoon of May 19th, that the last of the four most prominent statues was at last being taken down.
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It raised successive rounds of funding from Silicon Valley bigwigs like Kleiner Perkins and Twitter, attracted hardcore fans in music celebrities like Chance the Rapper, and went from 1 million registered users in 2010 to around 40 million in 2014.
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Screening Room, Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to bring new movies into homes for $50 — the same day they hit theaters — got a round of loud boos and hisses this week from the biggest of bigwigs at CinemaCon.
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Other Christian bigwigs have held meetings with the aim of agreeing on a single candidate, to make best use of a primary calendar which sees early contests in a string of rural and southern states with lots of religious voters.
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The field's bigwigs agreed that everything possible should be done to make the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that had been invented a few years earlier available to all who needed them, and began to create the institutions that would distribute them.
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Last June, at an annual gathering of military bigwigs in Singapore, France's defence minister joshed her British counterpart by pointing out that the previous year both had vied to send more frigates to the Shangri-La Dialogue than the other.
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The other Meyer administration bigwigs are too busy talking about how her presidency has been ranked by experts as only the 43rd most effective, just behind James Buchanan … "Who many feel is responsible for starting the Civil War," Kent adds.
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Interesting ... at the same time, the ABC bigwigs were announced Monday that Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie were coming back to 'Idol' for season 3, Ryan was spotted leaving Marea restaurant in NYC with Disney TV Chairman Peter Rice.
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In the case of Ghost in the Shell, the studio bigwigs were clearly unwilling to give a plum role in a very expensive blockbuster to an unknown quantity, a description that could apply to nearly every Asian in the acting business.
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And in the days and weeks to come, Rubio will get even more help and money than he has so far from Republican bigwigs who are desperate to see someone less truculent and divisive than Trump or Cruz burst into the lead.
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Iguodala, who Fast Company referred to as "the NBA's ambassador to Silicon Valley," has invested in tech startups like direct-to-consumer mattress company Casper while introducing his teammates to Silicon Valley bigwigs like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and venture capitalist Mary Meeker.
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The risk for Bangkok's bigwigs is not only that sinecures and other such rewards will soon be diverted to the crown prince's favourites, but also that the new king's reign might fatally damage the prestige of the institution from which such goodies flow.
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With the Ottomans closing in on Constantinople, the Pope, the hard-pressed Byzantine emperor and the local bigwigs of the Medici clan lent their backing to an effort to reunite the Latin and Greek churches and create a kind of pan-Christian front.
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The style of his coronation may surprise everybody as much as the peroration of Archbishop Curry, drawing on Martin Luther King and the French mystic and scientist Teilhard de Chardin, seemed to startle the bigwigs who had gathered for last weekend's wedding.
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He was one of several bigwigs to have been purged recently by the dictator, Kim Jong Un. Meanwhile, South Korea, displeased at the launch and at an earlier underground nuclear test, shut the industrial park at Kaesong that it operates with North Korea.
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However, some of Mr Sanders's most fervent supporters think that the Democratic nomination system is unfair because Mrs Clinton has won with the support of superdelegates—party politicians and non-elected bigwigs who account for 2371% of the total delegates to the convention.
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But at the trade section of the show aerospace bigwigs were as keen to talk about the missiles the F-35 can fire, and the sort of missile-defence systems that could eventually shoot it down, as they were the fighter jet itself.
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Far from fringe, the neighborhood is on the circuit of art world bigwigs such as the Tate Modern director Frances Morris, for its combination of art with $1-million price tags and a creative scene that includes craft makers, food and drink.
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While business bigwigs spend hours thrashing out the details of the Jamie Vardy film, the Jamie Vardy reality TV show, Wes Morgan's autobiography and a range of novelty Robert Huth body scrubs, several Leicester fans have gone straight to source for their merchandising.
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Travers is shy and relatively awkward, but he's not a pushover, and much of the season revolves around his attempts to figure out if his bosses — and the bigwigs they answer to — are using the intellectual output of API employees in shady ways.
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As part of a far-reaching federal investigation, dozens of alleged mafia bigwigs and members — many with colorful names like "Fish", "Tony the Cripple", "Muscles" and "Tugboat" — were charged this week for their alleged roles in a long-running and elaborate racketeering conspiracy.
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Then they pried into the computers of Epic bigwigs such as design director Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski; the pair chortled when they opened a music folder that Bleszinski had made for his Lamborghini and saw that it contained lots of Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus tunes.
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In other words, having graduated from merely tweeting to obsessively ruminating on the labyrinthine, never-ending series of injustices inflicted upon him and his fellow conservative tweeters by the social media bigwigs, Trump has graduated from being one who posts to being A Poster.
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It attracted 3,500 business, financial and political bigwigs, and then left a bad taste in the mouth when less than two weeks later he locked up a coterie of Saudi princes and businessmen in the same Ritz Carlton hotel where the foreigners had stayed.
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Bigwigs who will probably sink with her include Saviour Kasukuwere, who enacted the racist indigenisation law; Ignatius Chombo, the finance minister; Jonathan Moyo, a serial plotter and former regime mouthpiece; Patrick Zhuwao, a nephew of Mr Mugabe; and the head of the police, Augustine Chihuri.
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In the post, Bezos claims AMI bigwigs threatened to publish intimate photos of him — including a "below the belt selfie" — unless Bezos called off a private investigation into AMI that he'd funded after the Enquirer released private texts between Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
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The poll will also make it easier for Mr Rohani to continue with his economic reforms, which involve opening Iran to more foreign investment and freeing the private sector to compete against inefficient state firms that serve largely to enrich religious and military bigwigs.
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Scott Walker and Susana Martinez would have convened their key colleagues — that is, some of the billionaires now funding the myriad GOP super-PACs and other party bigwigs — and calmly explained the reality to them to extract some kind of agreement among all present.
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One of the bigwigs at Orion, Arthur Krim, had been a negotiator during the second Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the US and the Soviets in 1979, and wanted to make Russia the one to hasten the end of the world in the film.
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In fact, there's a grand total of one specific claim from this analysis that's reported in Sherman's piece, sourced to an anonymous person briefed on a recent call in which this group made its case to Clinton campaign bigwigs: But this alone proves nothing.
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Welcome to Hollywood, where people love to wag self-righteous fingers — over the past year, awards shows have become a platform for industry bigwigs to rail against the Trump administration — but run for cover whenever the topic casts show business in an unflattering light.
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As a member of the aristocracy, Lenox has access to Metropolitan Police bigwigs, but to establish himself as a private consultant he must solve a case on his own — ideally, a cunning mystery like the one he and his clever valet, Graham, contend with here.
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Hanoi is forecast to have seven million motorcycles on its roads in the next two years - almost the same as its current population - leaving city bigwigs with a crisis on their hands as cars, buses and bikes jostle and petrified pedestrians run the gauntlet crossing streets.
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But Moonves was removed, as was John Lasseter, even if it took longer than it should have, and even if it seems to have happened largely because corporate bigwigs, in both cases, seemed nervous about the PR problems and legal issues inherent in keeping both men around.
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Air Force Leaders Say It&aposs High Time Our Planes Shoot Deadly LasersMilitary bigwigs gathered in Orlando this week for the annual AirWarfare Symposium to discuss big…Read more ReadThe weapons manufacturer says it has successfully tested a new laser weapon at 58 kilowatts of power.
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Then at 5pm local time Mr Seehofer and other CSU bigwigs (including the leading hardliners Markus Söder, the Bavarian minister president, and Alexander Dobrindt, the CSU's leader in the Bundestag) are due to meet with Mrs Merkel in a last-ditch attempt to find common ground.
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" Sources told Foreign Policy that the decision to uninvite Aro didn't come from the bigwigs at the State Department, such as Secretary Mike Pompeo, but instead from lower-level staffers "wary of the optics of Pompeo granting an award to an outspoken critic of the Trump administration.
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Roland is the central character of the eight-book Stephen King series on which The Dark Tower is based, a sprawling Western-fantasy-science-fiction-horror mashup that various bigwigs (including J.J. Abrams and Ron Howard) have been trying to adapt for the screen for a decade.
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Accompanied by Bollywood music and religious Hindu chants, the video shows the Kumar family celebrating the festival of Diwali with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, and hobnobbing with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other political bigwigs both in India and the United States.
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After last year's major controversy when CES banned and revoked the Innovation Award in Robotics given to Lora DiCarlo's women's pleasure device, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the bigwigs behind CES, officially agreed to allow sex tech onto the show floor (and only on a trial basis).
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Undaunted, party bigwigs and intellectuals have begun making the case that, for all its rough edges, "Trumpism" is a recognisably conservative way of viewing the world, with the potential to rescue swathes of America from feelings of abandonment and despair, securing majorities for Republicans for years to come.
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Every May, all the bigwigs from the broadcast TV networks travel to New York for the upfronts, where they put on a whole song-and-dance routine (sometimes literally) to showcase their biggest stars and shows, unveil their fall schedules, and convince ad buyers to invest in them.
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Bigwigs from the two parties were also as one in adopting grave expressions and tones of outrage, when pondering evidence that Russian spooks meddled in the election of 2016, notably by stealing and leaking embarrassing e-mails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chief and from the Democratic National Committee.
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Their problem is that as those rules are currently being interpreted by congressional bigwigs, Republicans think they effectively can't move on to a new budget resolution, which would allow a 2115-vote tax reform bill, without either passing or deciding to permanently abandon their 251-vote health bill.
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The 20-year-old singer was pushed and pulled in so many directions by the music industry—bigwigs trying to prime her into the next pop star or suggesting she sound more like Sheryl Crow—that she decided to self-release her debut EP, Crush, with her band, Alyeska.
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By the end of Mr. Thiel's speech on Thursday night, it's possible he will have succeeded in showing off an ideology that is rarely encountered in public — the hands-off-my-stuff, techno-libertarian vision that is a hobbyhorse of Mr. Thiel and a few other Silicon Valley bigwigs.
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And the sin of Damore's infamous memo on sex differences was to explicitly defend a reality — the nerdy-boys'-club culture of the tech world — that Silicon Valley's mostly male bigwigs are quite happy to sustain, even as they use gender-diversity initiatives to toss some incense to egalitarianism.
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Added to the $750 million in hotel and rental-car tax money and the PSL/naming-rights revenues, though, and it's fair to say that the bigwigs behind the deal could end up paying next to nothing—while Nevada taxpayers could be on the hook for a billion dollars or more.
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When Pastor Terry Jones, a Florida-based preacher, threatened to to stage a Koran-burning spectacular, he was told by bigwigs like the then defence secretary, Robert Gates, and David Petraeus, perhaps America's best-known general, that such an act would put many lives, including those of American soldiers, in danger.
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But the military men and old party bigwigs close to Armando Guebuza, the president who stepped down a year ago and who signed off on the original EMATUM deal, still retain much influence—and may well favour a more ruthless course against Mr Dhlakama, including a so-called "Savimbi solution".
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With hindsight, some critics wondered if his sendups of Nazi bigwigs and fascist foot soldiers hadn't been a little too funny, like the poem "Joebbels," which in thick Berlin dialect deflates the Führer's diminutive propaganda minister, or a spoof Hitler Youth essay weighing who was the greater German, Goethe or Hitler.
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However, a group of CIA bigwigs led by Quaker Wells (Gary Oldman) still want access to Pope's memories, and so they enlist the soft-spoken Dr. Franks (Tommy Lee Jones) to copy them from Pope's sawed-open brain into the body of Jericho Stewart — a violent, remorseless thug played by Costner.
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It may well be, as Enten suggests, that a lot of Republican bigwigs are just much more politically and culturally comfortable with the other candidates in the establishment "lane," and so they aren't ready to throw in with Rubio's piety and Tea Party-ish voting record until they have no other choice.
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Some of the more junior members of the family such as Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, niece Lady Sarah Chatto and Lord Freddie Windsor and his wife Sophie headed across the city to the party in a hired bus, in contrast to the chauffeured cars employed by senior royals and city bigwigs.
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He and his band of pranksters — a mix of real figures, like Phil Ochs, and stand-ins for real figures, like Sy Neuman (Jerry Rubin) — drop dollar bills on traders at the New York Stock Exchange, haul tenement trash to Lincoln Center, mail joints to establishment bigwigs and nominate a pig for president.
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That initial portrait of Colin Kaepernick gained Williams increased notoriety in Atlanta, and it remained up well after the media had moved on from the controversy around player protests during the national anthem … that is, until NFL bigwigs came to town for the Super Bowl (which took place on Sunday, February 3 in Atlanta).
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Yet if anyone was talking about #MeToo, I certainly couldn't tell, though the actress Andrea Riseborough, who played Billie Jean King's love interest in "Battle of the Sexes," was wearing a black tank top emblazoned, in white, with the words #TimesUp, the name of the anti-harassment initiative started by hundreds of Hollywood female bigwigs.
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What McConnell leaves out is that once she had captured the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware in 2010 — in an upset that shocked the Republican establishment, both in Delaware and Washington — party bigwigs turned their backs on her campaign, in some cases going out of their way to sabotage it, according to O'Donnell herself.
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Even though the group has held meetings that included Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon leader Jeff Bezos and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — which happened at a so-called "tech week" blitz at the White House in June — the executive order commissioning the project only tapped government employees, not private-sector bigwigs, as formal participants.
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Another big initiative by the Jordanian royal house was the Common Word in which distinguished Muslims issued a friendly challenge to bigwigs of the Christian world, inviting them to dialogue and co-operation on the basis of two axioms which, in the signatories' view, were present in both religions: love of God and love of neighbour.
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Lobbyists, CEOs, defense contractors, high-profile lawyers, trade group bosses, and other bigwigs who seek to influence the federal government pay Trump's companies a combined millions of dollars to play at his golf clubs—giving them unprecedented access to a president who's spent nearly 60 days of his tenure at the courses they visit, USA Today reports.
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To make a splash on the city's jaded art scene, he hosted a lavish after-party at the Russian Tea Room, spooning lobster and caviar for 1,000 guests including the musicians Pharrell Williams and Swizz Beatz; the fashion designers Olivier Theyskens, Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs; and art-world bigwigs including Peter Brant, Simon de Pury and Jeffrey Deitch.
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That is, after all how Diane — perhaps BoJack's truest friend in the whole world — explains her friend to himself when, in a fit of self-loathing, he asks her to essentially destroy his career by writing the sort of exposé of his terrible deeds that has taken down so many other Hollywood bigwigs, in our reality and his.
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There have been cock-ups: a pro-EU round-robin from leaders of FTSE-100 companies was signed by only 36; a letter from military bigwigs saying the EU mattered for national security went awry when one signatory said he had not seen it; the ousting of the pro-Brexit boss of the British Chambers of Commerce was blamed on Downing Street.
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But the larger story of the night was the failure of the "Never Trump" alliance—an always-brittle coalition involving Mr Cruz, the third-placed contender Governor John Kasich of Ohio and Republican bigwigs who fear that Trumpian bigotry will lose them the general election in November (though they are not sure how to win without the tycoon's bigotry-cheering voters).
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Not just the millions of economically vulnerable voters who've been sold out too many times by megadonor-fueled lawmakers, but also musicians and artists who might otherwise choose to stay out of politics: especially in places like Worcester that are ignored by Democratic Party bigwigs who spend most of their time in Boston, one of the most unequal cities in America.
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Their progression through the competition was judged by various music industry bigwigs, including, for Popstars: the Rivals, an Irish music manager called Louis Walsh—the man whose lasting contributions to the world are Westlife, Boyzone, and the phrase "you look like a pop star, you sound like a pop star" (without a hint of irony, I believe that this is a better legacy than most).
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There was always a contrast drawn between Smith's Mike, the badder, more often shirtless of the two, and the married, more cautious and conservative Marcus, who as "Bad Boys for Life" gets underway is itching to retire, while Mike is dedicating himself to tracking down a Mexican assassin (Jacob Scipio) who is methodically executing a list of Miami justice system bigwigs: a judge, a prosecutor, a forensics expert.
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What's most notable about L.A. Confidential is the way that it posits the media — which has one of its major bases of operation in Los Angeles — rewrites what really happened to create a narrative that's more palatable to a mass audience, something that may have been market-tested in Los Angeles (where the police help Hollywood bigwigs craft stories less likely to rattle the status quo) but which is clearly spreading throughout the country by the year 1953, when Confidential is set.
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Focusing the critical eye beyond the pure-aesthetic bokeh in the coming deluge of spiritually bankrupt hypnagogic pop, the A&R bigwigs at the Brooklyn-based firm opened the aperture wide enough to capture diverse and enterprising intercontinental artists of vast acclaim: Ariel Pink stationed in Los Angeles, Pill hunkered down in NYC, Tonstartssbandht enduring Orlando, Dungen operating somewhere in Stockholm, the antipodal Connan Mockasin skyping in from New Zealand for royalties reports—and this with the Colombian heritage of head honcho Andrés Santo Domingo also notwithstanding.
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Notable residents that have at one point owned property here include actors Robin Williams, Sharon Stone with then-husband Phil Bronstein — who was the executive editor for the San Francisco Examiner —, Cheech Marin, and Eugene Levy; musicians Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Kirk Hammett of Metallica, prominent photographer Ansel Adams, and Bay Area tech bigwigs like Twitter and Square founder and CEO and billionaire Jack Dorsey, who reportedly paid a collective $30 million for two homes next door to each other, both nestled into a cliffside overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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