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It will take several days for SpaceX shares to show up in any major index funds, so the offering’s wider impact on the market could play out over the next several weeks or longer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
A UFC match in March of this year had almost 2.5 million viewers, according to Sports Business Journal, on major free-to-air US network CBS -- a broadcast made possible by a seven-year $7.7 billion deal.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
An original yeshiva here, set up in the early 20th Century, was abandoned in 1929 during major sectarian riots in the British Mandate period.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
The Ellison family-controlled Harbor Lights Entertainment has sold its Showcase Cinemas theater chain to a major European cinema group in a $30-million deal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
But the slave trade becomes so profitable that slavery is later permitted; Newport, Rhode Island, emerges as a major slave port.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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