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In addition to the storm’s destructive winds and storm surge, heavy rainfall in excess of 200 mm (8 inches) will bring the potential for flooding across the region.
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Helen Regan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Analyzing the Caribbean as a whole, Michael Craton posits plantation rates of return in excess of 10 percent for the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century, followed by modest declines across the last quarter.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
The company owes $700 million in total debt, has $1 million in underfunded pensions, $3 million in outstanding employee stock option liabilities, and just $359 million in excess cash.
—David Trainer, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
But, as the Journal reported in November 2024, Texas regulators have also cited the company for actions at Tesla’s giant Gigafactory just outside of Austin, including for dumping untreated wastewater, releasing pollution in excess of its permit and then not reporting it.
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
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Helen Regan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Analyzing the Caribbean as a whole, Michael Craton posits plantation rates of return in excess of 10 percent for the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century, followed by modest declines across the last quarter.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
The company owes $700 million in total debt, has $1 million in underfunded pensions, $3 million in outstanding employee stock option liabilities, and just $359 million in excess cash.
—David Trainer, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
But, as the Journal reported in November 2024, Texas regulators have also cited the company for actions at Tesla’s giant Gigafactory just outside of Austin, including for dumping untreated wastewater, releasing pollution in excess of its permit and then not reporting it.
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
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“In excess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20excess. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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