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[bee, bi] / bi, bɪ /




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If he were running, say, a pension fund, and he was approached by private equity, he said, “I would be very careful about what was being offered to me.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Poulson “knew the mission to Ploesti would be tough, perhaps the worst second mission a pilot could ask for,” Mr. Makos writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“That just underscores the incredible capital intensity of this build-out,” he said, adding that he tried to be relatively conservative in his assumptions but still arrived at “enormous” figures.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Anyone who has read widely in the history of the ancient world becomes aware that many crucial facts of history cannot be discovered or, if such accounts once existed, cannot be recovered in our day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

If she must be sick for a while, so be it.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

A different perspective on sudden fame is found in his remark to a reporter that many young people “are involved in the stories in a way that I am not.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

"I don't know what comes next. Some days, finding hope is harder than others. For now, I am trying to heal, one day at a time."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

My husband is very active, as am I, in supporting these women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

I still gave both of his children some money, and I’ve set aside a portion of my portfolio for them as well, should it outlive me, because that’s simply who I am.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

And I am ashamed to say that sometimes I took it out on Mutti, blaming her for just about everything.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

More than 1,000 centers are being planned across the U.S., with Virginia, Texas and California leading the nation in terms of hosting facilities that are operational, under construction or planned.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Visitors to Ireland are often surprised by the number of prehistoric burial monuments that stand like apparitions beside roaring highways or humming industrial estates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

So developers such as Monarch are trying to steer clients toward newer areas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

We are introduced to a former housemaid, who, before being diagnosed as insane, was “up before dawn with scuttle bucket and shovel, home in the dark to the thatch dripping soot.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

They have no prior notice that they are wanted or needed in the national military, but they arrive at their designated stations as requested.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The United States is just beginning to understand the magnitude of the data-center build-out, according to Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, a finance professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

West Virginia is not what he would consider a top market for data centers, at least not yet, Alingh said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

In a recent research paper, Van Nieuwerburgh said that despite AI being described as an intangible revolution, its near-term economic footprint is “strikingly physical.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

West Virginia is the country’s fifth largest producer of natural gas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

There are high-rise offices and impressive, colorful buildings, like the Metropolitan Theater, Crystal Arcade, and Jai Alai Building, a sports complex that is considered the finest art deco building in Asia.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Reddit’s stock plunged on Friday after the community discussion forum said its search referral traffic was down significantly in the third quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Gouverneur Morris was ahead of his time on the slavery question, viciously attacking the Constitution’s Three-Fifths Compromise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Tenney, of the Putnam County Development Authority, was one of local officials who spoke out against earlier versions of the law that allocated nothing to local governments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

We are introduced to a former housemaid, who, before being diagnosed as insane, was “up before dawn with scuttle bucket and shovel, home in the dark to the thatch dripping soot.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A girl who spoke out for what was right, even when people called her a witch.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

And 52% say they would invest in private assets if they were available in their company’s plan.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ancient women were debarred from holding power but sometimes did so from behind the scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Decades ago, a smallish number of private-equity funds were competing to buy companies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mr. Jones, a professor of British literature at Trinity College Dublin, calls James “a curiously incomplete man” whose “troubled depths” were “concealed beneath an unflappably conservative surface.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Don’t you dare sit there and act like you were mother of the year,” he says bitterly.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Of course, there have been some private-equity funds that have generated spectacular returns over the decades.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mr. Greenberger’s title poses the question: Why has Morris been forsaken?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“I don’t think we’d see the same amount of interest if the law had not been passed,” King said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

“The knock in the night has always been my calling,” this kind listener explains as she admits the exhausted woman with the rambling story to tell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“What about school? Have I been kicked out?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

If he were running, say, a pension fund, and he was approached by private equity, he said, “I would be very careful about what was being offered to me.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

There remains, nonetheless, the iron truth: “Any being may appear to thrive,” but at night, “her cage is still locked.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The jury heard the mark could only have been made by the wheels being turned while the car was stationary.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In addition, the editorial team was "told that we are being evicted from the building we have occupied for 30 years".

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

I rarely see him being this serious and impassioned about anything that doesn’t have to do with girls.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold


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