"The country’s latest budget, passed by the State Duma, Russia’s parliament, on October 26th, will boost defence spending in 2024 by nearly 70% to 10.8trn roubles ($115bn)—nearly a third of total expenditure and almost three times what had been forecast in 2021."
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"Austin, Deltona, Fla., and Phoenix are off 5.5%, 3.2%, and 2.1% respectively, while Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boise, Colorado Springs, Raleigh, and Cape Coral, Fla., all showed smaller declines, meaning that they’ve also widely trailed a consumer price index that’s been running at about 3% since last August."
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"Over the course of his long career as director, playwright, and teacher, Brustein aided the artistic development of such theater artists as Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Cherry Jones, Sigourney Weaver, James Naughton, James Lapine, Tony Shalhoub, Linda Lavin, Adam Rapp, William Ivey Long, Steve Zahn, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet and Peter Sellars."
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"After programmers designed it in 1959, Cobol quickly became the de facto language for data processing, which meant that banks, insurers, government agencies, and any other company dealing with terabytes of information wrote and maintained millions of lines of Cobol code."
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"More must-read commentary published by Fortune: The ‘Big Stay’ isn’t going away as the labor market stops rewarding job hoppers, according to ADP payroll data Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers ar..."
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"“Even though we’re seeing stronger support for unions, (with) the highest popularity of union favorability in polls since at least the 1960s, translating the worker desire for representation into actual representation is really hard under our current system,” Alexander Colvin, dean of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, told The Associated Press earlier this month."
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"From there, the priorities are as follows with training and development as a recurring undercurrent: Establish a safe environment Implement clear policies with legal’s oversight Crowd source use cases from across your organization Prioritize the further development of use cases based on ROI AI will both replace things that exist and enable things to come, and the magic is in the opportunity."
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"Financial terms were not disclosed.EXITS- Spire Healthcare Group acquired Vita Health Group, a Bury St Edmunds, U.K.-based mental and physical health services provider, from ARCHIMED for £74 million ($90 million).- Nexus Capital Management acquired Dollar Shave Club, a Los Angeles, Calif.-based brand of men’s grooming products, from Unilever."
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"29 includes three proposed sales in the Gulf of Mexico — the minimum number the Democratic administration could legally offer if it wants to continue expanding offshore wind development under the 2022 climate bill.Subscribe to Impact Report, a weekly newsletter on the trends and issues shaping corporate sustainability."
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"From there, the priorities are as follows with training and development as a recurring undercurrent: Establish a safe environment Implement clear policies with legal’s oversight Crowd source use cases from across your organization Prioritize the further development of use cases based on ROI AI will both replace things that exist and enable things to come, and the magic is in the opportunity."
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"Austin, Deltona, Fla., and Phoenix are off 5.5%, 3.2%, and 2.1% respectively, while Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boise, Colorado Springs, Raleigh, and Cape Coral, Fla., all showed smaller declines, meaning that they’ve also widely trailed a consumer price index that’s been running at about 3% since last August."
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"Due, who teaches a course on Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA, is both a scholar of the genre and a prolific writer of it: She also has a story in Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, edited by the Get Out director Jordan Peele and the science-fiction veteran John Joseph Adams, and published this month.Listen: What scares Jordan PeeleThe Reformatory - A NovelBy Tananarive..."
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"Disney+ Disney’s bundle of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ no longer has a free trial, so you’ll have to pay $15 per month for all three combined (or $25 per month for no ads on Hulu)."
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"After programmers designed it in 1959, Cobol quickly became the de facto language for data processing, which meant that banks, insurers, government agencies, and any other company dealing with terabytes of information wrote and maintained millions of lines of Cobol code."
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"More must-read commentary published by Fortune: The ‘Big Stay’ isn’t going away as the labor market stops rewarding job hoppers, according to ADP payroll data Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers ar..."
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"Together, those groups make up “the trifecta of respiratory death,” Sara Cherry, a virologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told me.Flu and coronavirus have a recent track record of trouble: Since 1918, flu viruses have sparked four pandemics, all the while continuing to pester us on a seasonal basis; some scientists worry that another major human outbreak may be brewing now, as multiple H..."
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"“People and other disasters” have chipped away at it, but perhaps the most destructive and sinister force in the poem is time itself; little by little, it has broken into dust something that was once imposing."
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"Together, those groups make up “the trifecta of respiratory death,” Sara Cherry, a virologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told me.Flu and coronavirus have a recent track record of trouble: Since 1918, flu viruses have sparked four pandemics, all the while continuing to pester us on a seasonal basis; some scientists worry that another major human outbreak may be brewing now, as multiple H..."
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"Hospitals facing all of these challenges might benefit from owners with experience in health care and a focus on long-term sustainability, but the one thing that private equity has indisputably brought to health care—its ability to borrow money on behalf of the companies it acquires—has been far less helpful.In a 2018 review of 390 private-equity deals, Daniel Rasmussen, a former Bain analyst w..."
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"Johnson had to swear that he had:never been a member of any State Legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I have never taken an oath as a member of Congress of the United States, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of a..."
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