"I asked to see a photograph, and the boy was so handsome and had such an open face that I realized that Sandra in sales had been wrong, and that it wasn’t okay to waste his father’s time making a presentation to us when we knew we wouldn’t buy.All that was left was the inevitable meeting with the closer: a former football coach of incalculable size with a gray ponytail, a leather necklace with ..."
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"The Trump administration cancelled visas for some Chinese students over alleged ties to the country’s military, then made visas harder to get for those coming from military-linked institutions."
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"A data set from researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Morning Consult, a data firm; and Raphael Schoenle of Brandeis University provides a cross-country gauge of what the public expects to happen to prices."
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"I asked to see a photograph, and the boy was so handsome and had such an open face that I realized that Sandra in sales had been wrong, and that it wasn’t okay to waste his father’s time making a presentation to us when we knew we wouldn’t buy.All that was left was the inevitable meeting with the closer: a former football coach of incalculable size with a gray ponytail, a leather necklace with ..."
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"With apologies to a certain newspaper’s slogan, many of Donald Trump’s most dangerous statements hide in the plain light of day.The problem is not that they don’t get reported on—they do—but even so, they are easy to tune out, perhaps because he’s been saying outlandish things for so long that people simply can’t bring themselves to parse the new ones; or perhaps because they’ve become accustom..."
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"But some China hawks say America must do much more: cut down on visas for Chinese tech students; double defence spending (and the size of the navy); deploy a surge of forces to Asia; and explicitly end more than 40 years of “strategic ambiguity” about whether America would directly defend Taiwan."
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"So if that’s slowing down a vessel, let’s say from 12 and a half to 12.3 knots, if that’s changing where a vessel is deployed…they can know in real time what the impact is going to be to their emissions, to their fuel costs, to their overall profitability.”"
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"Glilot Capital Partners and Fin Capital led the round and was joined by SYN Ventures, Valley Ventures, and others.- Dotwork, a Georgetown, Texas-based software platform designed to provide unstructured data, key metrics, and software stacks for strategy management, raised $12 million in Series A funding from Jim Crane, Tim Arnoult, Hunter Nelson, Steve Elliott."
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"Now we’re on strike Merit-based flexibility could be the future of work as return-to-office mandates fail to prop up productivity China’s export restrictions on critical minerals are threatening the viability of EV makers–and forcing them to innovate Melinda French Gates: ‘It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital’ The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solel..."
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"Now we’re on strike Merit-based flexibility could be the future of work as return-to-office mandates fail to prop up productivity China’s export restrictions on critical minerals are threatening the viability of EV makers–and forcing them to innovate Melinda French Gates: ‘It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital’ The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solel..."
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"A third area of fighting is to the east of Kherson city, where Ukrainian forces in recent weeks have managed to establish and hold a beach-head on the south side of the Dnieper—a tactical victory that has enabled them to funnel heavy equipment across the river."
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"Often I have visited the New York Museum of Natural History to touch with my hands many of the objects there exhibited, but I have longed to see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants displayed there—animals and the races of men pictured in their native environment; gigantic carcasses of dinosaurs and mastodons which roamed the earth long before man appeared, with h..."
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"“’Lazy girl jobs’ are not about being lazy but about being selective and prioritizing self-care—running a successful business definitely involves hard work, but it’s work that aligns with my values and doesn’t lead to burnout” For Aspinall, escaping the rat race and slowing down has been almost a decades-long process."
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"These include inflation being “contained” below 3% (it has already worked its way down from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to 3.7% in Sept 2023); widespread investment across the economy; a more dynamic economy after the pandemic; fading policy headwinds: and last but not least, an increase in productivity."
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"Taxes increased to a level fourteen times as high as normal in order to support the extravagances of the reconstruction government.Lamar, meanwhile, was cast as a “statesman” for whom “no partisan, personal or sectional considerations could outweigh his devotion to the national interest and to the truth”—a selfless patriot who had helped reconcile the nation.The truth of the matter was very dif..."
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"Previously, Bank of America strategists wrote that baby boomers won the housing market and millennials got screwed: Boomers benefited from a massive wealth transfer from the public to private sector, hold more than half of all wealth, and locked in some of the best mortgage rates (to be sure, boomers largely entered the housing market in the 1980s when mortgage rates were in the double digits, ..."
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"White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement the leaders would discuss the “continued importance of maintaining open lines of communication” and how the they “can continue to responsibly manage competition and work together where our interests align, particularly on transnational challenges that affect the international community.”"
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"A data set from researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Morning Consult, a data firm; and Raphael Schoenle of Brandeis University provides a cross-country gauge of what the public expects to happen to prices."
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"“I’m afraid for what [this] means for the way we develop communication, the way we do meetings, and the way we organize ourselves,” says Jeanine Turner, a professor of management and director of the communication, culture and technology program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business."
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