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Ninety-six percent of the vote was in favor of strike authorization.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
Eighty-seven percent of Peruvians disapprove of the legislature, according to an Ipsos poll.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
But if he’s in the S&P 500, you’re purchasing a little chunk of Tesla, which makes up about 2 percent of S&P index funds, every time you put money into such a fund.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Today the P/E level is about 30, “and the economy is projected to grow roughly 2.0 percent a year going forward,” he wrote recently.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
About 95 percent of each pellet is uranium 238, an isotope with a half-life of 4.5 billion years.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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