For Parisian Jews in 1941 and 1942, these thefts were compounded by a cascade of other degradations, including the loss of distinguished positions at the Sorbonne, in banking, science, and medicine, with more devastation to come.
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Christopher C. Gorham
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
How to Avoid Getting Downgraded While downgrades are almost entirely out of your control, there are a few factors that can work in your favor.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Oct. 2025
But given a wave of recent concern about the bank’s lending approach — evidenced by two ratings downgrades by Fitch and Moody’s this year — the change of guard holds the potential for shaping Afreximbank in Elombi’s image.
Although the study shows that the occurrence of giant planets declines as stars age, the few planets that remain in close orbits around red giants offer valuable insights.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
The largest declines were in Massachusetts, down 26, Washington state, down 18, and North Carolina, down 17.
Said to offer a level of care not currently available in any other local program, patients would be overseen by doctors and nurses who would oversee withdrawal management and therapy designed to prevent relapses.
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Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
Not only are relapses unpredictable but scientists have yet to explain the slow and insidious degeneration that often occurs even without new lesions.
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