People familiar with the deal’s progression said Lorch soon became involved in structuring key aspects of the deal beyond its financing, including how the board would sit for 15 years and choose its successors.
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Cate Brown,
ProPublica,
21 Oct. 2026
Trump’s successors will need to salvage his defective effort to help guide this transition.
Managers call upon pinch hitters to substitute for batters and to increase the chances of getting a hit.
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Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
4 Oct. 2026
But through the course of 162 games, Venable pushed countless buttons and pulled endless levers for a team that used an opener a league-high 31 times and turned to pinch hitters more than all but one other club.
Viewed this way, protections such as immutable backups and isolated backup networks, often cut for budget reasons, look less like expenses and more like insurance against days of downtime.
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Michael Wu,
Forbes.com,
20 Oct. 2026
No other quarterback this season has more than four TD passes without a turnover with backups Drew Lock and Marcus Mariota pulling that off.
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