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Blackstone made a number of notable investments in the early and mid 1990s, including Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company ( 1991 ), Six Flags ( 1991 ), US Radio ( 1994 ), Centerplate ( 1995 ), MEGA Brands ( 1996 ).
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All the political part of the English Constitution is fully understood, and distinctly stated in Blackstone and many other books, but the Ministerial part, the work of conducting the executive government, has rested so much on practice, on usage, on understanding, that there is no particular publication to which reference can be made for the explanation and description of it.
While she was convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next-door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her début on Broadway that season.
In July 1989, Glenys Kinnock and Tessa Blackstone of the British Council of Churches visited Namibia and reported: " There is a widespread feeling that too many concessions were made to South African personnel and preferences and that Martti Ahtisaari was not forceful enough in his dealings with the South Africans.
On 16 August 2006, The Times reported that the NTL Incorporated group could become the subject of a £ 10bn-takeover-bid from a private-equity firm consortium made up of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain, Cinven, Blackstone and Providence Private Equity with a formal approach expected within a fortnight.
In 1863 he published his General View of the Criminal Law of England, the first attempt made since William Blackstone to explain the principles of English law and justice in a literary form, and it enjoyed considerable success.
No copies of these handouts exist, but Alexander Popham, later a close friend of Blackstone, attended the lectures and made notes, which survive.
On 9 February 1770 — apparently with the intervention of the King, and possibly Lord Mansfield — Blackstone became a Justice of the Common Pleas, succeeding Edward Clive, and was made a Serjeant-at-Law on 12 February.
Under Blackstone, a number of streamlining initiatives were undertaken, and several acquisitions were made.
When Blackstone sold the last of its shares in 2007, it had made five times what it had invested and it, and its co-investors collected a $ 2. 9 billion profit.
Blackstone for the first time made the common law readable and understandable by non-lawyers.
While there is much valuable historical information in the Commentaries, later historians have tended to be somewhat critical of the uses Blackstone made of history.
The British Rail Class 10 diesel locomotive was a variation on the Class 08 diesel-electric shunter in which a Blackstone diesel engine was fitted instead of one made by the English Electric company.
The decision to propel Harding forward, if the nomination wasn't decided on the first ballot, was made in what became known in American politics as the smoke-filled room in the Blackstone Hotel.
1945 Epiphone Blackstone archtop guitar, made in New York
The game was called Blackstone and was made in 1933.
Also, in 1997, Blackstone made its first investment in Allied Waste.
Blackstone made a significant investment in Financial Guaranty Insurance Company ( FGIC ), a leading monoline bond insurer alongside PMI Group, The Cypress Group and CIVC Partners.
In January 2008, Blackstone made a small co-investment alongside TPG Capital and Apollo Management in their buyout of Harrah's Entertainment, although that transaction had been announced during the buyout boom period.
According to Blackstone, the Act " perhaps superfluously " made explicit what was previous implicit.
Rochdale Museum hold an early Iron Age bracelet made of a shale from Kimmeridge in Dorset, which was found in 1929 on Flint Hill, east of Blackstone Edge.
It was the fortune he made at Blackstone, including the $ 1. 9 billion he received when it went public in 2007, that funded many of his charitable and political causes.
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A number of students also enter the buy-side with offers from top hedge funds such as Citadel LLC or private equity firms such as Silver Lake Partners or Blackstone Group.
< td width =" 74 %" valign = top > Blackstone, together with Lion Capital acquired Orangina, the bottler, distributor and franchisor of a number of carbonated and other soft drinks in Europe from Cadbury Schweppes for € 1. 85 billion </ td >
Since the closure of the credit markets in 2007 and 2008, Blackstone has managed to close only a small number of sizable transactions.
Blackstone describes a number of offences as being high misdemeanors, for example:
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William Blackstone, a notable English jurist writing in 1769, speculated that the name may have derived from the legal word " starr " meaning the contract or obligation to a Jew ( from the Hebrew שטר ( shetar ) meaning ' document ').
Since its inception, Blackstone has completed investments in such notable companies as Hilton Worldwide, Equity Office Properties, Republic Services, AlliedBarton, United Biscuits, Freescale Semiconductor and Travelport.
Other notable investments that Blackstone completed in 2008 and 2009 included AlliedBarton, Performance Food Group, Apria Healthcare and CMS Computers.
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His record was mixed at Blackstone, with some very good investments, such as American Axle, but also several large failures, including Haynes International and Republic Technologies.
During 1999, after Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman curtailed Stockman's role in managing the investments he had developed, Stockman resigned Blackstone to start his own private equity fund company, Heartland Industrial Partners, L. P., based in Greenwich, Connecticut.
As of the end of 2008, Blackstone had completed fundraising for six funds with total investor commitments of over $ 36 billion, including five traditional private equity fund and a separate fund focusing on telecommunications investments.
They also planned to use a Blackstone fund to invest in financial institutions and help build an asset management business specializing in fixed income investments.
In 1990, Blackstone launched its fund of hedge funds business, initially intended to manage investments for Blackstone senior management.
While Blackstone was active on the corporate investment side, it was also busy pursuing real estate investments.
Blackstone followed these investments with the acquisition of La Quinta Inns & Suites in 2005 and its largest transaction, the buyout of Hilton Hotels Corporation in 2007.
It was the largest American-owned security company in the United States until German and Swiss investments in Blackstone.
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The Blackstone Canal ( finished in 1828 ) in Massachusetts and Rhode Island fulfilled a similar role in the early industrial revolution between 1828 – 48.
Millville is in the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor and has a well-preserved lock which was used on the Blackstone Canal in the early 19th century.
The Blackstone and Mumford Rivers run through the Town and in the early 19th century numerous industrial developments were erected along the riverbanks, most notably the Whitin Machine Shop in Whitinsville, at its peak the largest manufacturer of textile machines in the world.
Uxbridge, a " mini tapestry of early America ", marks the center of the Blackstone Valley Heritage Corridor, a key region of America's earliest industrialization.
The Branch River and Blackstone Rivers provided much of the power for the early mills in the town.
Most of the leading dispensationalsts of the late 19th and early 20th century attended the conference regularly, including William Eugene Blackstone, Charles Erdman, James H. Brookes, William Moorehead, Adoniram Judson Gordon, Amzi Dixon, C. I.
In the early 1920s the American Bar Association presented a statue of Blackstone to the English Bar Association, however, at the time, the sculpture was too tall to be placed in the Royal Courts of Justice.
* William Blackstone, aka William Blaxton ( 1595 – 1675 ), early English settler in New England
The town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts became an early textile center in the Blackstone Valley, which was known for the manufacture of cashmere wool and satinets, from circa 1810.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston ran a small gang of neighborhood kids centered near 66th and Blackstone called the Blackstone Rangers.
It was originally opened as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and The Blackstone Group which sold its half in early 2011.
With a significant amount of dry powder in its new fund, Blackstone was one of a handful of private equity investors capable of completing large transactions in the adverse conditions of the early 2000s recession.
In late 2002, Blackstone remained active acquiring TRW Automotive in a $ 4. 7 billion buyout, the largest private equity deal announced that year ( the deal was completed in early 2003 ).
The American industrial revolution began in the Blackstone Valley, of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with early textiles, from 1791.
In one of the most prominent early treatises supporting that doctrine, William Blackstone wrote that Parliament is the sovereign law-maker, preventing the common law courts from throwing aside or reviewing statutes in the fashion Coke suggested.
A summary of early English common law is provided by Sir William Blackstone, who wrote about the law in 1765-69.
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