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Recent Examples of job lotWhere some other towns operating similar schemes have put together a job lot of houses for €1, Castiglione di Sicilia is pricing the properties according to their condition.—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
By June, most of NBCU’s Super Bowl inventory was gone, according to buyers, though there has been speculation that the company may have kept some ad berths back in hopes of getting $8 million or bigger packages of advertising tied to its larger portfolio of media assets.
Everything about Elvis, including his death-by-cardiac-arrest at 42 in Graceland, is the stuff of opera.
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Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
By our points formula, a game in the 10s or below is D-grade, the 20s is average, the 30s above average, the 40s really good and 50s-plus next-stratosphere stuff.
Identify which business processes are core differentiators (those that set you apart and may warrant custom functionality), and which are commodity functions (best suited for standardization through out-of-the-box ERP modules).
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Shiv Kaushik,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
This is amusing but understandable; in an era where commodity fetishism has turned analog, low-budget cinema into something aspirational, Jenkin has made no compromises for accessibility.
Its 12, 15, and 18 year olds are staples among sherried Scotch fans, while older age statements — like the Grandeur series and now these new 30- and 40-Year-Olds — showcase just how far the style can go.
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Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Chicago post-rock staples Tortoise are back with their first new album in nine years.
Less than a dollar separated the cost of a store-brand basket of goods at Walmart and Meijer.
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Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Phillips died in a police shootout on Monday, after officers were alerted to a possible break-in at a farm goods store in Poipoi in the western Waikato district, near to where he was believed to have been hiding out with his kids, CNN, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and ABC News Australia reported.
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