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So-called pod-shop firms, such as Millennium Management and Point72 Asset Management, have been some of the biggest beneficiaries of the latest blitz of fundraising, Heinz said.

As part of its hiring blitz, the agency has dropped age, training and education standards and has offered recruits signing bonuses as high as $50,000.

The speech on tariffs from President Ronald Reagan that the Ontario government used in a $75 million ad blitz omitted a key section that calls into question the thrust of the message.

Former world under-12 champion Naroditsky, whose parents were Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union, finished ninth in last year's blitz world championship.

Looking back on her long life, she remembers surviving a German blitz on Port Glasgow during World War 2, which destroyed her neighbours' homes.