He also collects planes, his favorite being his Italian Marchetti jet.
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This being an Italian fashion company, it tends toward luxury rather than prescription glasses, and that hurt it during the economic downturn.
"He was always a busy man, " Pier Silvio Berlusconi says of his 73-year-old father, who besides being the Italian head of government, is also a billionaire media entrepreneur, real estate and insurance tycoon, bank proprietor, sports team owner and song-writer.
Vinokourov has faced doping suspicions after being linked to Michele Ferrari, an Italian doctor who won an appeal after being found guilty of sporting fraud and malpractice in 2004.
The bulk of historical evidence points to Columbus being either Spanish or Italian, so the researchers started there.
In September Tronchetti abruptly resigned his post after being publicly embarrassed by Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
The new data was presented at a physics conference being held in the Italian town of La Thuile.
The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police.
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The shares total around 25% and are also being eyed by an Italian group that has held talks with the club.
And what's with their greatest weaknesses being most kinds of Italian food, Sunday school, and the sun, which helps flowers grow?
Arrangements are being made with the Italian authorities to have him escorted back to the UK where he will be questioned by Hampshire detectives.
When asked to name the best thing about being a billionaire, Italian shoe mogul Mario Moretti Polegato, for instance, cited his ability to travel quickly to any corner of the world.
The marines, who were being held at the Italian Embassy in India and reported to a local police station once a week, were also allowed to return to their families for Christmas.
He spent 19 years in an Italian jail before being deported to Turkey.
We can also see quite clearly that the Italian situation is being driven almost entirely by the interest rate dynamics.
Corriere della Sera, which is perhaps closest among big Italian publications to being independent, evinced a mixed but on the whole warily supportive reaction.
Despite being one of the few Italian players to emerge with any credit from a dismal 2010 World Cup, Di Natale hasn't featured for the national team under new coach Cesare Prandelli.
The situation in Europe is worse, where investors are starting to wonder more and more about the Italian government securities being held by the large European banks, not to mention IOUs from the other countries like Spain.
Even though that 2.3% is a bit higher than it has been in recent days, it is cheaper than it has ever been for the UK government to borrow, whereas the Spanish and Italian governments are being forced to pay punitive interest rates.
More than 1, 000 foreigners risk being expelled under the decree, Italian media report.
Italian firms had hoped that being organised into clusters would help protect them from low-cost foreign rivals.
Last year the Indian head of an Italian company died after allegedly being beaten by a mob of sacked employees.
The marines are being kept in the custody of the Italian embassy, an arrangement that was in place before they left India in February.
The marines are being held in the custody of the Italian embassy in New Delhi, an arrangement put in place before they left India in February.
In India, the two marines are being kept in the custody of the Italian embassy, an arrangement that was in place before they left India last month.
In 1943, German paratroopers, on the orders of Adolf Hitler, seized former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government.
The excuses proffered in the Italian press range from Mr Milioni being physically barred by opposition party members, to him nipping out to buy a sandwich and forgetting the time.
In 2006, Juve were stripped of two league titles and relegated to the third division of Italian football -- before later being reinstated in the second tier -- for their part in the "Calciopoli" scandal.
Three years of Saturdays helping Tony Genaro deliver Italian bread reinforced it, but just being in Fairview was enough.
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