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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
Your authors grew up in a time when school-children learned about the problems of an ozone hole, acid rain, and depleted tungsten supplies, not carbon emissions.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
The National Retail Federation (NRF) expects families with students in elementary through high school to spend an average of $858 on clothes, shoes, school supplies and electronics this BTS season.
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Catherine Salfino,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Aug. 2025
Perhaps the biggest endorsement of Hurst’s rising stock came in the Originals’ opening game this season: he was chosen to open the batting ahead of Jos Buttler in a team that also includes Phil Salt and Heinrich Klaasen — three international wicketkeepers.
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Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
9 Aug. 2025
But this morning, the stock fell by 13% in early trading, dragging down its share price below $30 and its market value to $11 billion.
The Premier League started doing stuff with players being interviewed from home on Zoom, and then started the ePremier League, with all 20 clubs asked to find a player who would like to be involved.
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Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
As far as material, obviously the stuff from the new album, and then there might be a few new songs and there might be a few covers.
Investment advisors, wealth managers and portfolio planners who position gold as an essential asset class could help their clients tap into its benefits as a strong diversifier, a stable long-term investment and a commodity with the potential for significant capital appreciation.
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Mitch Salchow,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
The shawl wasn’t the first commodity to go through imperial domestication.
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