bureau
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He later moved to London, where he worked for journalist David Brancaccio at the London bureau of the public radio business affairs program “Marketplace.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
New growth drivers played a prominent role in supporting industrial earnings in the January-September period, said Yu Weining, chief statistician at the bureau.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The centre of the quake hit Baqên County in the Nagqu region as on Thursday night, Xinhua reported, citing the local emergency management bureau.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
She arrived at CNN in 1983, working as a news desk assistant in Atlanta and then at its New York bureau with the ambition of becoming a foreign correspondent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Reaching my bureau, I peer into the mirror and then squeeze my eyes tightly shut.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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“For years we’ve talked about, how do we better coordinate the bureaus? There have been advances, but it’s still fundamentally been a challenge,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The members, including the board president, are appointed by the mayor and together oversee more than 5,500 people who work for city bureaus and offices that handle sanitation, street lighting, engineering, graffiti removal and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Spanish Civil Guard has set up bureaus in Madrid, Toledo, Seville and Córdoba to investigate reports of missing persons.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
A juicy plot-thickener here: The three credit bureaus created and own VantageScore, devising it as a way to pay less for credit scores.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
With 2,300 journalists around the world, in 197 bureaus, serving a market including investment bankers, derivatives traders, stockbrokers, newspapers, radio, television, and Internet outlets, Reuters has always had a very complex audience to satisfy.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
Bureaucracy and costs are displaced everywhere from the NHS to local councils to citizens advice bureaux.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2017
It's recently been adding international bureaux, including a UK headquarters in Scotland.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2017
And for the first time in at least three years, British holidaymakers have found that a pound buys less than a euro at some bureaux de change.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2016
A proposition was being signed in the bureaux to fix the seat of the Assembly outside of Paris.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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