Because the tax was not apportioned among the states as the Constitution required, those provisions were unconstitutional.
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Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2026
But state corporation taxes are apportioned based on where customers are located, not on where the company is based, as Isaaks explained in a report published on Tuesday.
Building a Better California has also allocated a large chunk of its massive war chest to reserve $87 million worth of advertising time ahead of the November election to sway public opinion, the New York Times reported last month.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
18 Aug. 2026
Yet the ones that are less successful tend to be more allocated.
The company said its network reaches more than 700 million viewers in India and is distributed in over 150 countries.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Aug. 2026
Within urban communities Hoodoo became increasingly commercialized, its ritual material distributed through supply houses, sold in stores, and advertised in the growing African American media.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Aug. 2026
That’s the takeaway from an incident in the small city of Chuzhou, China, after a large langue model dispensed some advice that led to the untimely death of 25 acres worth of produce.
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Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
12 Aug. 2026
The clarifying agent can be dispensed into the water via the app while the robot is making its rounds, and it is designed to help keep your pool water sparkling.
Men’s domestic cricket in Pakistan, aside from a brief spell from 2019 to 2023 while former Test captain Imran Khan was the country’s prime minister and instigated change, is divided between teams from regions and departments.
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Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2026
Customer data, inventory visibility, budgets, and decision rights should not remain divided by channel.
—
Ayşe Çetinel,
Harvard Business Review,
18 Aug. 2026
The study involved a personalized cancer vaccine called Intismeran, produced by Merck and Moderna, administered in combination with Merck’s cancer immunotherapy Keytruda.
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Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
19 Aug. 2026
On Wednesday, Colorado released results from the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS), PSAT and SAT tests administered to public school students across the state this past spring.
For a long time, the prime real estate for podcast discovery was Apple’s iTunes, where new podcasts were allotted their own row for a week.
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Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2026
Experts say the vast majority of nonprofits cap the amount of vacation time an employee can accrue, most often to one-and-a-half times the vacation hours allotted to them for a single year.
—
Audrey McGlinchy,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Aug. 2026
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