"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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"The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things; how it had been built under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night’s hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent, and terribly angular bed which still formed the principal honour of the sleeping apartments), had been a g..."
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"“These big, blunt front hoods, they knock people down and run over them, as opposed to before when people would crumple onto the hood,” said Mike McGinn, a former Seattle mayor who is the executive director of America Walks, a national nonprofit that advocates for pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods."
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#cities #right #accidents #Langerman #SopheeLangerman #NationalMotorists #Beeber
"“Right now, there’s still a lot of value to be had, especially in markets where institutional players haven’t made their mark yet,” Jabir said, later adding, “You can still buy single family rentals at prices that do yield attractive returns.”This article is part of Fortune’s quarterly investment guide for Q4 2023."
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"But the ideological divide among House Republicans is now attracting attention in the upper chamber after GOP anger over Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville stalling military promotions erupted on the Senate floor.Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Dan Balz, a chief correspondent at The Washington Post; Adam Harris, a..."
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"Finding a space that allows staid public figures to attempt to communicate using voice and humor is rare, and I, for one, was delighted with what he wrote on the platform yesterday:“If Satoshi Nakamoto went as Satoshi Nakamoto for Halloween, would we be able to tell?Happy 15th anniversary to Satoshi’s famous white paper that started crypto.Any crypto companies that are tricking investors should..."
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"Building a talent pipeline Leaders must also ensure that talent is developed, working to recruit and retain employees to fill a pipeline that creates a flow of diverse talent that not only joins the company but ascends through the ranks."
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"Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites and “destroyed” some internal communications as the Federal Trade Commission was investigating the company, according to newly unredacted portions of the agency’s antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce giant."
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"“People just stopped seeing old people around,” Rúa explained to me.That mindset reached a sort of nadir during the coronavirus pandemic, the photographer Ari Seth Cohen told me: “People just were like, Okay, well, older people are going to die.”For 15 years, Cohen has been celebrating fabulous older women through his books, documentary films, and social-media account @advancedstyle."
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"Singapore has “a stable government, business-friendly environment, and comprehensive infrastructure required for semiconductor manufacturing, coupled with strong IP protection and a world-class education system,” Tan Yew Kong, senior vice president and general manager at GlobalFoundries Singapore, said in a statement, adding that the Singaporean government also provides “strong support.”"
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"The whole thing’s been thrown way up in the air by all these electric cars, all these big new capital requirements, different ways of selling cars, and plus they’ve got these tough unions, so I just don’t even look at the auto industry.”"
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"“We’ve waited eight long years to see justice for our members, a workforce that was cheated out of better living conditions, and timely meals and rest and leisure because the earnings that would have provided for that life were stolen by multi-billion dollar corporations,” said Bhairavi Desai, head of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which brought the wage theft complaints to the state."
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"He added that he chose love songs for their universality, but that people shouldn’t read them as autobiographical.Throughout our conversation, Jungkook would do things that might read as typically maknae to those fans who’ve followed him for years: drinking his water by lifting the cup with both tattooed, sweater-pawed hands; waving goodbye for a solid 15 seconds with a giant smile on his face,..."
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"For the first time in nearly two years, the Federal Reserve is set Wednesday to keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged for a second straight policy meeting — the clearest sign to date that the Fed is edging closer to the end of its rate-hiking campaign."
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"“We are actively engaging in conversations with the administration, regulators, and elected leaders across New Jersey to identify viable solutions that will not only preserve the progress made thus far, but also facilitate the successful execution of Atlantic Shores Project 1,” the company said.Subscribe to Impact Report, a weekly newsletter on the trends and issues shaping corporate sustainabi..."
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"A poll of Americans by YouGov found three backers of Israel for every Palestinian supporter on October 20th—a day with twice as many pro-Palestinian posts on American social media as pro-Israeli ones."
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"The broadcasts will also feature many of the twists from last year, including overlaying stats and game updates using its “X-Ray” technology, much like it offers information on which actors are in a scene during a film or TV show."
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"This would require the girl to be an angel of civilized and understanding behavior at first, pacifying her man by a gentle pat on the knee at just the right time and keeping him at bay and yet interested—in a way both tactful and loving (the teen-age magazines devote a lot of space to this technique and recommend warding off unwise passes by asking about the latest football scores), and then, o..."
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"A better term might have been resilient: Touchstones such as Debbie Gibson’s “Only in My Dreams” and Madonna’s “Borderline” skip along the surface of heartbreak, telling the listener that love—including the love of life itself—is stronger than loss.Pop titans of the early 2010s such as Katy Perry and Lady Gaga were also selling shots of motivation, though stridently and abstractly."
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"The survey also found that 16% thought “verification” indicates higher credibility, whereas it actually just indicates a willingness to pay for the symbol.IN CASE YOU MISSED ITSteve Ballmer started as Bill Gates’s assistant and now he’s on the verge of becoming wealthier than his one-time Microsoft boss, by Christiaan HetznerGroup representing the New York Times and 2,200 others just dropped a ..."
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