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Companies that operationalize these practices report 30–40% reductions in rework—savings that directly impact margins and competitiveness.—
Brent Gleeson,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025 -
Crime reduction was another area of focus for Strnad, who graduated from Milwaukee Area Technical College in 1999 with a police science degree.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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However, the department’s own data notes this is a 26% year-over-year decrease from 2024.—
Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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By the fall of 2018, Ford started to see a decrease in sales of the once-popular Escape, as competition from other brands in the compact SUV market grew.—
Olivia Evans,
The Courier-Journal,
12 Aug. 2025
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China’s economy is already flirting with deflation, as consumer prices have been anemic while producer prices have been falling.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
15 Aug. 2025
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This year, Chinese authorities intensified scrutiny over excessive production in sectors like steel and coal in a bid to curb cutthroat competition that has weighed on businesses’ profitability and worsened deflation.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
15 Aug. 2025
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Exemptions are better than abatements—Exemptions for a set period with specific set asides seem to create the most predictability for the developer.—
Roger Valdez,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Property tax abatement: Advocates mention giving providers a property tax break, which some states have done, to free up a portion of their budget that could be used for other expenses like salaries or supplies.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Newsom also is pushing how California’s population shrinkage, which in the state’s history only happened under him, has ended.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
25 July 2025
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Long-term deficiency causes epidermal shrinkage in mice, and in humans.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
30 June 2025
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Between the diminution of the room and the presence of the attendees, and the ability to interact with objects in a 3D space, the result is one of being there in the same moment, engaging with the same things.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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There are many worthwhile ways to write about the arts, but her sniping at reviews suggests a faux expansion that would actually be a grave diminution.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
24 July 2025
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The early 2020s likely marked the end of a decades-long yield downtrend, especially amid rising U.S. debt.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Economic divergence Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg, sees the dollar resuming its downtrend by early 2026 at the latest because of the relative trend growth differential between the U.S. and the euro zone looking ahead.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
31 July 2025
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That’s a dramatic falloff, one that suggests Ceci is probably a lot closer to third-pair territory these days.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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But the falloff in family viewers and lower interest among teenage audiences points toward a less optimistic best-case scenario, in my own assessment.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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“De-escalation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/de-escalation. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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