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Regulatory Compliance And Auditing: Audit models developed by agencies like the IRS or GSA OIG can be applied across procurement and financial oversight processes in other agencies, promoting integrity and cost savings.—
Sandeep Shilawat,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025 -
Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism.—
Sean Clancy,
Arkansas Online,
26 June 2025
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For Iranians themselves, it’s been a deeply frustrating recurring cycle, most recently experienced in the protests in 2022 that followed the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who had been detained by the religious morality police.—
ERIC EDELMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2025
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Iranian morality police had detained Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman, for not wearing the hijab properly.—
Sara Monetta,
NBC news,
19 June 2025
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In the modern workforce, consensus is treated as a virtue.—
John Spencer-Taylor,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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As nature literature proliferated, the nature fakers debate—over anthropomorphism in fiction and nature writing—considered how the natural world should be portrayed in literature: should writers impose human qualities and virtues onto animals?—
Jessica George,
JSTOR Daily,
25 June 2025
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Many of the grants fund cost-effective and life-saving information access efforts that educate ordinary North Koreans on the goodness of the U.S. and the truth about the outside world.—
Olivia Enos,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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With all of these dirty dishes, thank goodness for the convenience of dishwashers.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 June 2025
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And not unlike that earlier film, this one takes its tale of debauchery and rectitude and reconciles everything with a fiery third act.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 July 2024
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The film is a poem, its images made up of slumped torsos, of sidelong glances—and so the rectitude strikes us.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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McKinley was a man whose probity, caution, and incrementalism shrouded his analytical adroitness and tactical boldness.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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As for the legal probity of targeting such a change at one country—China—this would hardly be unprecedented.—
ALEX RASKOLNIKOV,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2025
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Known for her directness and honesty with players, the former Netherlands international makes decisions based on what is best for the team.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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True partners build trust through honesty and action.—
Suresh Rajapakse,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Bao Sheng was one of the first biodynamic durian farms in Malaysia, and its owner is credited with calling attention to durian’s numbing properties.—
Tom Downey,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
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Furthermore, additional attention to the matter appears to be resulting in voluntary corrective action.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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