American flags flew prominently along the only road to Promontory.
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"Promontory" or "Headland" should be reserved for Friday or Saturday.
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Golden Spike National Historical Park, Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 2019.
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The hotel sits on a rocky promontory above St. Jean Bay.
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Follows a report prepared by US-based consultancy Promontory Financial Group.
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Estimates of Promontory Summit's that day range from several-hundred to 3,000.
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The lights are out on La Toc promontory,except for the hospital.
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Eugene Ludwig is founder and chief executive officer of Promontory Financial Group.
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He stands, surveying the clay promontory, chewing on the water reservoir's bite valve.
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To date, the FCA has refused to publish the Promontory report in full.
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In May of 1869, right here in Promontory, the railroad system became transcontinental.
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The company said on Thursday that it was buying the Promontory Financial Group.
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I love the Promontory because it's got a restaurant downstairs and entertainment upstairs.
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Many homes with promontory settings, like this one, benefit from completely unobstructed views.
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She was swapping places with Amy S. Friend, who was a Promontory managing director for two years until 2013, when she landed the chief counsel job at the O.C.C. Before Promontory, Ms. Friend was chief counsel to the Senate Banking Committee.
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Head to Promontory Point to watch the sun come up from a rocky little beach.
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"This record-setting feat on the road to Promontory is unequaled in history," she marveled.
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Financial services veteran Konrad Alt, formerly a managing director at Promontory Financial Group and ex-U.
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Assuming the deal closes, Promontory is expected to continue to operate as its own business unit.
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The golden spike is ceremonially driven in, completing the first transcontinental railroad, at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869.
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Today the tech stalwart announced that it had come to an agreement to acquire Promontory Financial Group.
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Gene Ludwig, CEO of Promontory, is also expected to stay in his leadership role throughout the transition.
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Promontory was founded in 2001 by Eugene Ludwig, who had headed one of America's primary bank-supervisory agencies.
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"A yali in a bay is less valuable, but on a promontory is more valuable," Mr. Ozcan said.
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Ms. Ghadamian said she heard about the Promontory after visiting a friend who had leukemia and soon died.
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The FCA is investigating the leak of the report and has told RBS and Promontory to do likewise.
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He drives to the desolate promontory where he and Ophelia and Rico used to come in simpler times.
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There is little debate that Promontory has proved its worth as a repository of well-connected financial regulators.
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Visiting Promontory Summit is always relevant and accusatory because the United States is always about to come undone.
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Up on the promontory, I could see people taking the photographs they would later post on social media.
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The full report is based on a so-called skilled persons report conducted by Promontory consultancy in 2014.
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Then she headed toward a promontory overlooking the Pond, where MonsieurJavert caught a Magikarp on a wooden fence.
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The 600 Promontory consultants worldwide, among them Mary L. Schapiro, a former chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Eugene A. Ludwig, the former comptroller of the currency (and the founder of Promontory), are going to train Watson while it ingests the mountain of regulations that they once helped write?
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The result is an entire oeuvre of fantasy landscapes, such as the one in "Promontory," pictured here, from 2010.
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It has also asked RBS and consultancy Promontory, which also had access to the report, to conduct similar investigations.
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To make sense of this deal, you have to avoid relegating Promontory into the small box of financial services.
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Mr. Miao, 31, is a risk-management consultant at Promontory Financial Group, a financial services risk manager in Manhattan.
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I thought of these O-rings during the test in Promontory, while the booster continued pouring fire into the landscape.
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Eugene Ludwig is the founder and CEO of Promontory Financial Group, a global risk management and regulatory compliance consulting firm.
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As part of its settlement last year, Promontory agreed to sit out consulting jobs in New York for six months.
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That's what you see exploding in this video, filmed on June 28 at Orbital ATK's test facility in Promontory, Utah.
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His father is a managing director of the Promontory Financial Group, an advisory consultancy in New York on regulatory issues.
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Brentt was hawking mom's merch Wednesday night when her "So Nasty, So Rude" comedy tour rolled through The Promontory in Chicago.
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The chief executive said the company recently launched Watson Financial Services, which came out of IBM's acquisition of Promontory Financial Group.
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The motor, built to power NASA's heavy-duty Space Launch System rocket, will roar to life in Promontory, Utah on Tuesday.
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The next morning at 22014:22011 AM, Highway 21869—a two-laner running to and from Promontory, Utah—was already busy.
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"This was our place, not Russia's," he said, standing on a wooden promontory above a majestic harbor studded with Russian warships.
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Nor do I think any of the other Promontory consultants are up to the task of training Watson, whatever that means.
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Before the settlements, the bank paid Promontory $54.5 million to help investigate the misconduct and make an independent report to regulators.
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Rutland Beard, commander of a brigade of army troops with headquarters on "Freedom Hill," a promontory near Danang, understood his men.
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My social media life changed slightly when I joined the cybersecurity practice of a consulting firm called Promontory Financial Group in 2015.
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She wants to wait out here, on this clay promontory above the river valley, and wants to watch the day go by.
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During the Cold War, a Distant Early Warning (DEW) line radar station tracked Soviet planes from a promontory next to the ocean.
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For the test, the engines on the booster will be ignited for two minutes at Orbital ATK's test facilities in Promontory, Utah.
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In practice that would require flying the Spanish flag on the Rock, the dominant feature of this promontory of 2.6 square miles.
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A few days later, though, as I sat on a desert promontory overlooking northwestern New Mexico, the sticker didn't seem so funny.
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For instance, in 2012, Promontory hired Julie L. Williams, a former chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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But the firm's deep connections to Wall Street and banking remain, and it is obvious that IBM bought Promontory for these connections.
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It was a seminal moment in American history: the inauguration of the first Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah.
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The FCA published a "high-level" summary last year, and permission from RBS and Promontory would be needed before publishing the detailed summary.
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NASA rolled the camera out for a recent test of its Qualification Motor 2 booster in Promontory, Utah, and the results are seriously breathtaking.
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He described a nightly "melee" at Delicate Arch, a popular sunset spot, with hundreds of tourists jockeying for primo viewing along a sandstone promontory.
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We found the first one, Fort Olivier, on the edge of a promontory near town, in a pleasant open area dotted with palm trees.
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This video, taken on June 28 at Orbital ATK's test facilities in Promontory, Utah, shows a test of NASA's new booster, the Space Launch System.
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The 2,240-square-mile iceberg only traveled about 27 miles northeast before getting stuck behind an elevated ice promontory known as the Bawden ice rise.
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The bank said it would publicly report on the progress of its remedial action plan, which would be reviewed by independent reviewer Promontory Financial Group.
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The bank said it would publicly report on its progress against the remedial action plan, which would be reviewed by independent reviewer Promontory Financial Group.
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Promontory, in Oakville, owned by Will Harlan, son of the famed winemaker Bill Harlan, is among the lot of these new wave of wineries, too.
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A visit to the new home of Mia Sara and Brian Henson requires a wavy excursion through the Hollywood Hills and down to a promontory.
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The site at Promontory Summit, 66 miles (203 km) northwest of Salt Lake City, is now preserved as a national historic park, named Golden Spike.
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Ms. Williams left the agency in 2012 and is a managing director at Promontory, a regulatory-compliance consulting firm specializing in the financial services industry.
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At a barren clay promontory, the road makes a turn and descends into the easternmost of two gulches, and here a clay pullout overlooks the valley.
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In a statement, IBM said that Promontory and its 600 employees around the world would mesh with its own offerings, including its Watson artificial intelligence platform.
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We dawdled our way around the islands, fishing the shallows and the riffles, then shifted to a granite promontory on the other side of the cove.
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Reporting by Terray Sylvester in Promontory, Utah; Writing and additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Frank McGurty, Jonathan Oatis and James Dalgleish
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Promontory has recently dabbled in software, but is best known for its employees' background and their capacity to provide expertise (its contention), contacts (its critics') or both.
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He was referring to figures from a subsequent report into GRG conducted by consultants Promontory, which was commissioned by the Britain's financial regulator the Financial Conduct Authority.
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Big Blue said Promontory would be expected to help train Watson, its artificial intelligence platform, to help IBM's financial clients manage their regulatory obligations and reduce costs.
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The watchdog has rejected calls from British members of parliament to publish the full report that was undertaken by a "skilled person", in this case consultants Promontory.
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"The real risk is the macroeconomic risk rather than a regulatory risk," said David Pinto-Duschinsky, who works in London for Promontory Financial Group, a consulting firm.
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Bailey said this was partly due to there being "no meeting of minds" between RBS and Promontory, the external consultant hired by the watchdog to write the report.
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Perched on a promontory surrounded by water, the city was designed in such a way that the streets are shaded from summer's heat by the terraced buildings themselves.
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The first stage was ignited horizontally at Northrop Grumman's test facility in Promontory, Utah, with the goal of testing out all of the rocket's systems as one functioning unit.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Perched on a wild, windy promontory on the rugged tip of northwestern Tasmania, the tiny Cape Grim research station has been measuring airborne greenhouse gases since 23.
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To get a better sense of the destruction, I hiked to the top of Point Dume, a promontory near my house that also lent its name to the neighborhood.
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All tastings take place in small rooms scattered throughout the building, and Mr. Harlan said that guests are unlikely to see any other visitors during their time at Promontory.
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The Romans supposedly called Cape St. Vincent Promontorium Sacrum (Holy Promontory), believing that the water quenched the sun every evening, as the ball of fire set into the ocean.
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In a tree above a rocky promontory, he hung a speaker attached to an MP3 player loaded with a track he calls Deer in Distress: Ma ma maaaa maaaaah.
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Other events Black and the Lesbifriends Cartel organized took place in venues outside of the Northside, such as The Shrine in the South Loop, Simone's and The Promontory, among others.
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In time, the mouse comes back and wanders the clay promontory, lifting one tiny hand to lean on this or that stalk of grass, flouncing its whiskers when it sniffs.
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In the report prepared by Promontory Financial Group, the firm said circuit breakers, also called volatility moderators, may not be practical given the way Treasuries are trading around the globe.
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In particular, Promontory is expected to help train Watson, with the goal of aiding IBM's financial clients on managing their regulatory obligations and potentially reducing the costs of doing so.
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Ernst von Freyberg, a German businessman, who headed the bank in 2013, ordered the audit by the U.S.- based Promontory Financial Group after noting suspicious accounting procedures under previous administrations.
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In "The North Cape" (165), the first of the 236 Balke paintings in the show, we see this promontory as a broad horizontal seemingly formed by a single brush stroke.
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Park rangers at Wilson's Promontory in Victoria, Australia were greeted with the rare sight of a subantarctic fur seal just having a bit of a kip on its shores last weekend.
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The FCA said after the hearing it would publish the Promontory report in full once it has obtained the consent of those who provided information and any individuals who are identified.
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After all, didn't his "Duino Elegies" (1923), among the best poems of any century, come to him as he stood on a promontory in 1912, beneath a castle, in a storm?
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On a Thursday afternoon in June, a 17-foot-tall rocket motor—looking like something a dedicated amateur might fire off—stood fire-side-up on the salty desert of Promontory, Utah.
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Her private-sector and senior executive experience includes having served as managing director at the Promontory Financial Group, general counsel of the WorldWide Retail Exchange and general counsel of Columbia Energy Services.
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Rounding the fierce promontory of the Cape, where the hazards include gale-force winds, sleetlike rain and a minefield of icebergs, sailors face some of the most treacherous waters in the world.
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She joined Promontory from the Department of Homeland Security, where she served as the deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications and led responses to cybersecurity threats against corporations, civilians, and the government.
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That is the impression conveyed last week with IBM's announcement it would acquire the Promontory Group, a consulting firm made up of scores of former Washington financial regulators, for an undisclosed amount.
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On a quiet promontory on the Riviera, it's where Hollywood power players stay during the Cannes Film Festival to escape the crowds on the Croisette, Cannes' beachfront promenade, some nine miles away.
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The Financial Conduct Authority said on its website it had received the report from Promontory Financial Group and Mazars, the consultancy and the accounting firm charged with investigating RBS's Global Restructuring Group.
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Exactly 150 years ago, the first American transcontinental railroad was completed, here on the high plains of what was then not yet a state, at a lonesome and desolate spot called Promontory Summit.
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Valerie Abend, head of the U.S. cybersecurity practice with consulting firm Promontory Financial Group, said the advisory gives banks a clear list of what they need to include in SARs and the purpose.
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The Cove Lounge: Located in Hyde Park just a couple of blocks from the lake and Promontory Point, the cash-only Cove Lounge is a place where college kids rub elbows with grizzled regulars.
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On September 29th, IBM announced the purchase of Promontory, a 600-strong consultancy whose senior staff include former officials from the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators.
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In the new HBO series Big Little Lies, Laura Dern's character, uber-wealthy Renata Klein, lives in a modernist mansion perched on Monterey's highest promontory, looking down across the landscape of power-moms below.
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What Promontory has become is the new Fannie Mae, in the sense that like Fannie Mae in days gone by, former regulators and political operatives could always find comfort and lucre within its brick walls.
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Last year, Promontory paid $15 million to settle charges with the New York State Department of Financial Services that it had "watered down" reports that it had prepared for a British banking client, Standard Chartered.
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The year before Leland Stanford drove the golden spike into the railroads connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans at Promontory, Utah, George wrote an essay on the promises and drawbacks of the new transportation technology.
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Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) The second and final qualification motor (QM-2) test for the Space Launch System's booster is seen, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems test facilities in Promontory, Utah.
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Looking at the photographs of the Roman Forum, I could guess that there was probably a promontory somewhere southeast of the site that enabled you to look down into the Forum and in a northwesterly direction.
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My guide, Ellen Sutherland, who first moved to Punta Ala in 353 from Houston after falling in love with and marrying a local, led me up a steep trail until we reached a promontory along the ocean.
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The opening is the result of work done under the Central Park Conservancy's Woodlands Initiative, a $40 million project that involved revitalizing areas of the 843-acre park, including the Promontory, as the peninsula was originally known.
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Mario Smith has a radio show on WHPK, and he also works at The Promontory on Lake, which is a music venue that's also one of the best restaurants on the South Side, if you ask me.
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Researchers on Wednesday said about 50 fossilized footprints making up several different trackways were found at the two sites located a few hundred yards (meters) apart on the scenic promontory that juts into the chilly North Atlantic.
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CAPE GRIM, Tasmania — On the best days, the wind howling across this rugged promontory has not touched land for thousands of miles, and the arriving air seems as if it should be the cleanest in the world.
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The SEC also on Tuesday appointed Robert Brown, professor at the University of Denver, Kathleen Hamm of Promontory Financial Group, James Kaiser, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Duane DesParte, senior vice president at Exelon Corporation, to the PCAOB board.
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McCaul will join the ECB from Promontory Financial Group, a prominent U.S. consultancy firm which agreed to pay $15 million to New Yorks banking regulator in 2015 to settle accusations of whitewashing a report on Standard Chartered Bank.
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Britain's Financial Conduct Authority has hired firms Promontory Financial Group and Mazars to conduct its own investigation and produce a report, originally scheduled for the end of last year and now expected to be published in mid-2016.
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Founded by Eugene A. Ludwig, a former top banking regulator and a law school friend of former President Bill Clinton, Promontory became one of the top financial consulting firms to emerge after the global financial crisis of 2008.
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On May 10, about 20,000 people, including Mitt Romney in jeans, gathered at the Golden Spike National Historical Park in Promontory Summit; we were there to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the merger of the eastern and western tracks.
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At Promontory, now owned by IBM, McCaul helped audit the Vatican's bank during a clean-up ordered by Pope Francis in 2013 and also did consultancy work for the ECB during the set-up of the Single Supervisory Mechanism.
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The FCA commissioned consultants Promontory in January 2014 to look into allegations that RBS's Global Restructuring Group (GRG) pushed some of its small business customers into bankruptcy in the aftermath of the financial crisis that began a decade ago.
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The details of what happened next are a matter of some dispute, but testimony and trial evidence have established these basic facts: Captain Nettleton returned to his stately, 80-year-old official residence on a promontory above the bay.
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It looks over the park, and they can see the sanctuary from their windows, prompting a visitor to wonder why Mr. Rockefeller, who pushed for so many building projects when he was governor, did not do something about the Promontory.
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The last time I came to Promontory Summit was in 1995, not long after Timothy McVeigh — wearing a T-shirt printed with words shrieked by John Wilkes Booth as he assassinated President Lincoln — bombed our fellow citizens in Oklahoma City.
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On the west side of Broadway, starting around 279th Street, is Isham Park, once the location of an Italianate villa owned by the leather merchant William B. Isham, on a promontory with sweeping views of both the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.
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What was originally connected with a golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah is now a 140,000-mile network that carries approximately 40 percent of intercity freight, moves one third of all U.S. exports and sustains more than one million jobs.
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Among other things, the wall would visually and perhaps otherwise obscure public access from the High Line and from the street into the yard, turning Related's development into a man-made promontory, its occupants gazing down on the High Line's visitors.
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PROMONTORY, Utah (Reuters) - Connie Young Yu says that when her parents joined a delegation of fellow Chinese-Americans attending a 2100 event commemorating the centennial of the first U.S. Transcontinental Railroad, they were snubbed, upstaged by Hollywood star John Wayne.
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The three-day "Golden Spike" celebration opens on Friday at Promontory Summit, 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Salt Lake City, where the Central Pacific Railroad from the west was joined to the Union Pacific Railroad from the east on May 2200, 280.
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Bailey said the FCA would publish a detailed summary and in a form that won't need "Maxwellisation", a legal requirement to give RBS and Promontory a chance to respond, a process that has taken years with some official reports in the past.
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When you enter the site, coming in through gates at the Colosseum end of the Forum, a path leads you left, then up a flight of stairs, then farther up, to a restricted promontory, for a northwest view toward the Capitoline Hill.
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From the distance, it is a tiny white cap on a rocky promontory, and yet when you are inside it, it feels vast, easy to get lost in; Venetian towns are designed to fool pirates, each one a little like Venice itself.
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PROMONTORY, Utah, May 21869 (Reuters) - Thousands of visitors, many of them train enthusiasts, are expected to crowd onto a remote bluff in northern Utah for a day of speeches, music and a historical re-enactment marking the 21882th anniversary of the first U.S. Transcontinental Railroad.
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The explosion on Black Tom Island, a 25-acre promontory jutting from Jersey City that was built from New Yorkers' garbage, registered an estimated 223 on the Richter scale — 21921 times more powerful than the collapse of the World Trade Center 29 years later.
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Added to IBM's suite of consulting services, Promontory is somehow going to put Watson in a position to help financial institutions grapple with the millions of pages of new financial regulations its many executives put in place during their former careers as regulators in Washington.
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In "The Kingdom" — which is funny (in a weird way) and weird (in a funny way), as well as distressing, eerie, simultaneously tender and cool — the woman ages, with the last photograph showing her in a wheelchair on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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PROMONTORY, Utah (Reuters) - As train bells clanged and steam whistles tooted, thousands of people on Friday witnessed the re-enactment of a ceremony in Utah's high desert that marked the completion of the first railroad to span the North American continent 220 years ago.
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A three-day anniversary celebration is set to open Friday at Promontory Summit, 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City, where the Central Pacific Railroad from the west was joined to the Union Pacific Railroad from the east on May 10, 1869.
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Until then, imagine her as she was photographed by the orbiting HiRise camera after first reaching the scalloped rim of Victoria, looking down onto its rolling dunes: a tiny speck perched on a promontory peak, a new planet swimming before her eagle eyes, watched in silence from the skies.
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Until then, imagine her as she was photographed by the orbiting HiRise camera after first reaching the scalloped rim of Victoria, looking down on to its rolling dunes: a tiny speck perched on a promontory peak, a new planet swimming before her eagle eyes, watched in silence from the skies.
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There is also a sanctuary within the sanctuary — benches at the top of the Promontory — given by Sima Ghadamian, a dealer in rare gems who has lived nearby for the last couple of years, and her husband, Morad, an investor and carpet importer, and named for her parents, Mahrokh and Iradj Sakhai.
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GHOSTS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad By Gordon H. Chang Shortly after the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869, James Strobridge — the construction foreman of the Central Pacific Railroad — held a celebratory meal in his private railcar.
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"The Transcontinental Railroad was a tremendous feat of engineering, innovation and manpower that was key to unleashing the economic prosperity of the United States for generations," US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, whose parents are of Chinese descent, said Friday in a reenactment of the ceremony at Golden Spike National Historic Park in Promontory, Utah.
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It's distinctly more urban than the other Alpine spa resorts, but its position — secluded on a promontory 4,000 feet above Merano, along a steep country road winding past apple orchards, flocks of grazing mountain goats, a lovely 14th-century Romanesque church and antique castles — is still detached from the hustle and bustle seen vertiginously below.
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Perched on a promontory jutting from the face of Mount Amiata, a volcanic peak in southern Tuscany with a purplish-blue cast, the 220-bedroom castle, thought to have been built on Etruscan foundations dating to the fourth century B.C., was all that remained of an 218th-century bulwark with medieval walls encircling a central stone-paved courtyard.
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