as in consultancy
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Owners are left to foot the bill of the true cost of caring for and educating Michigan’s youngest, according to Kathy Ligon, who has nearly 40 years of experience in early education and runs a child care consultancy.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
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It was further reported that The King’s Foundation brought in a specialist human resources consultancy, which upheld claims about staff shortages, inadequate management practices and low pay.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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The foot-dragging led Parker and Stone to flex their power, including by threatening legal action against Shell and RedBird Capital over allegedly manipulating negotiations with rivals to lower the price for Paramount.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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During the last round of labor negotiations with the NFLPA in 2020, the league pushed new language that more clearly delineated what gets shared in the event of a sale like this.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Brittany is joined by The Atlantic staff writer Spencer Kornhaber to get into the state of public discourse, and how traditional media may led us to this moment.—
Brittany Luse,
NPR,
11 Aug. 2025
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As moose-human conflicts and shifting wetland ecologies prompt hard conversations over how to manage moose, a range of options have been discussed in public discourse.—
John Wendt,
The Conversation,
11 Aug. 2025
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Davis is a magnetic front man, and the Roadhouse Band is an intoxicatingly raucous live outfit, but the constraints of the setup suited his new material, which is suffused with listlessness and yearning, dark jokes and wordy disquisitions on desire.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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In the end, McConnell’s disquisition falls short in making the case for primacy.—
Reid Smith,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Feb. 2025
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And though their scenes together are way too brief, the Older and Younger Elliott bull sessions give the movie both a spiky-humor rush and a sense of genuine grounding.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2024
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The newspaper’s staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news for a series of stories on a secret audio recording that exposed Los Angeles City Council members scheming in a crass and racist bull session about political power in the city.—
Elvia Limón,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2023
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“Pourparler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pourparler. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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