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If Leonardo DRS wins the T-X competition with its T-100 trainer, the company will manufacture the aircraft in Alabama, it announced Thursday. The Italian firm plans to build an assembly center at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, if awarded the T-X contract. Upward of $200 million will be spent on construction including buildings, infrastructure an...

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Suzanne Branciforte: Edvige, you’re a teacher of memoir writing. What are your roots, origins and story? Edvige Giunta: I am Italian, and American, Sicilian, Sicilian-American, European. I have multiple identities. Memoir became an opportunity to bring together threads of identity and cultural experience. It’s an antidote to cultural displacement....

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Filthy rich and already boast enough glass slippers to win a dozen princes? Italian shoemaker Antonio Vietri has the thing for you: 24-carat gold shoes. Vietri, from Turin in northern Italy, hopes to attract shoppers from wealthy Gulf countries with his blue or black suede moccasins with stitched gold-plated uppers.| "These are the first shoes in t...

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veryday luxury,” the term once considered an oxymoron, has gained international acceptance thanks to the transformative talents of Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli. After all, the man who admits to playing soccer in a cashmere sweater knows his rough sweats from silk parachute pants. His concept was never more apparent than on the catwalk at the...

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March was a record month for business confidence, with an absolute level that peaked at 105.1: the highest level since January 2016, continuing the recovery trend that began in January. This improvement has involved market-related services and retail sales, but it has also come in the form of an unexpected boost in the manufacturing sector (constit...

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From negotiating tables to eliminate trade tariffs between the US and the European Union (the TTIP talks) to erecting walls to obstruct free circulation of goods. The threat of a worsening – up to 100% - of US tariffs on a series of European products (from farm and food goods to motorcycles) – in response to an old quarrel on meat imports – is abov...

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Castello del Poggio’s IGT Moscato (SRP: $13) is now the top Italian Moscato in the U.S, according to Nielsen. Castello del Poggio sold more than 250,000 cases nationally in 2016. Overall, the winery saw a 19% sales volume increase, outpacing the Moscato category’s 2.8% volume growth. “Our Italian Moscato has taken off in the U.S with Castello del P...

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Pasta Aglio e Olio is one of my favorite recipes to make whenever we are hungry for pasta but short on time. While believed to have originated in Naples, Italy, various versions of pasta Aglio e Olio can be found in every region of Italy, and its natural simplicity makes it a great base recipe for any home cook's repertoire. Pasta Aglio e Olio...

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For millions of Italian immigrants, the straw-covered fiasco of Chianti on the dinner table was a piece of home. Bill Nesto remembers that his father, who was born in Boston in 1914, grew up in Apulia and returned to his native city shortly before World War II, pulled a large flask from under the kitchen sink and poured himself a glass of red every...

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When it comes to Italian espresso-pot designers, investors may be ready for a double shot. Shares of Bialetti Industrie SpA and De’ Longhi SpA, the two firms best known for making and selling the aluminum stove-top machines, still have upside after a frothy run, according to North Square Blue Oak Ltd., a boutique investment bank which scans the mar...

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