During both the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the strongest brands fell less, recovered faster, and ended up higher than market indices.
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Steven Wolfe Pereira,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed amid mostly modest movements in Europe following some sharper swings in Asia.
The president’s pursuit of a deeply conservative agenda for the arts unleashed unprecedented chaos at the nation’s premiere performing arts center, resulting in massive upheaval and wave after wave of prominent artist cancellations.
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Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
The agenda includes a full day of educational programming, followed by two days at the exhibit hall for retailers, brands and industry professionals.
For stores, these codes help streamline the checkout process, reduce pricing errors, and help with inventory.
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Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
27 Jan. 2026
Median single-family home sale price is $409,500 Many would-be homebuyers have been priced out of the market due to constraints on inventory, prices that have surged over the last five years and elevated mortgage rates.
But an information-technology contract gone horribly awry on her watch resulted in late bills last year that required school districts throughout the county to borrow and pay substantial interest just to make payroll and cover basic expenses.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
This of course is just the tip of the payroll-patriot iceberg not just at ZooMass, but in higher education generally.
Its music video served as a visual roll call of national pride, featuring a constellation of Venezuelan icons such as baseball superstar Omar Vizquel, Hollywood actor Edgar Ramírez, kinetic art master Carlos Cruz-Diez, NBA player Greivis Vásquez, and television presenter Maite Delgado.
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Leonor C. Suárez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
Carden was confirmed by unanimous consent, meaning no roll call vote was taken.
Hospitals have used what are sometimes called blackout procedures, which can include registering a patient under a pseudonym, removing their name from the hospital directory, or prohibiting staff from even confirming that a patient is in the hospital.
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Claudia Boyd-Barrett,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
Poets & Writers has a detailed directory of agents and the magazine often publishes profiles of agents as well as advice from them.
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