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At the same time, I want more exposure to companies with strong balance sheets, massive free cash flow, and businesses that can fund their own growth.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
China, France, Iran and Russia—that can produce ballistic missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
But smaller companies who need fresh financing to keep expanding that extra interest can eat up cash flow, force spending cuts, delay hiring or eventually make refinancing impossible.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
A prototype satellite containing four of Google’s artificial-intelligence chips, called Tensor Processing Units, was launched by SpaceX on Thursday, the beginning of a year-long experiment testing whether TPUs can survive in orbit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Amazingly, neurons can work as fast as thought.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Bottles of oil, packets of salt and a few tin cans lie among the debris.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Every four or five days, the cans had to be sent to Mumbai for processing, while the crew carried on shooting without knowing exactly what they had captured.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Walk around your property with a view to securing items such as fertilizer bags and open paint cans so that they don’t wash into storm drains, which flow to the ocean without treatment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Her family sued a distributor of Alani Nu energy drinks, alleging their marketing targeted minors and the cans failed to adequately warn of their caffeine content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Saturday morning, first thing, I pack my backpack with water and granola bars and drag my two garbage bags of cans to the supermarket to recycle them in the machines.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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It could help explain the weakness in banks, which may reflect worries about the damage higher rates could do to future loan growth and, if rates rise too far, the overall economy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
But because diesel production is linked to the output of other refined products like gasoline, restricting its export could end up raising prices of all fuels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
This could indicate the same pattern is repeating, and it is worth a closer look.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Lynch’s pending appointment as new CEO could complicate any deal as he tries to figure out his strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Beyond the fire’s glow, I never knew darkness could be so black.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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This year, they have been strengthened by signings; Tomos Williams crackled with cunning at scrum-half.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The story of the “Wooden Horse,” as most translations call it, gets only brief references in Homer’s epic, cited in passing as an example of Odysseus’s cunning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
He is cunning, not intelligent — something he unwittingly proves every time he claims that passing a basic mental competency test shows his brilliance.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
When free agency opens Tuesday, Pelinka is just going to have to show us how creative he can be, how clever and cunning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
Brambleweft starts to sketch—billowing skirts and cunning little capes, corsets stitched with fanciful creatures.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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Processing tomatoes — those used in products such as canned diced tomatoes and ketchup — are also fetching lower prices than they did a few years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"There is little difference nutritionally between canned and fresh food in terms of macronutrients, like carbohydrates, protein, fats, and fibre, as well as fat-soluble vitamins, like vitamin A and E, and minerals," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
He’s a partial owner of the canned yerba mate brand Mateina, but he “loves it without bias.”
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Soybean oil appears in salad dressings, mayonnaise, baked goods, infant formula, snacks and fried foods; soy lecithin emulsifies chocolate and bread; and soy protein fortifies energy bars, breakfast cereals and canned soup.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Ms. Lena told us there should be some food from her last trip, and I find lunch meat, bread, beef jerky, ramen noodles, oatmeal, canned soup, and dried fruits.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Meanwhile, Bumble Bee Foods plans to lay off 197 workers on Nov. 19 and estimates that it will lay off another 36 workers when the fish canning facility finally closes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Just this week, Disney announced sizable layoffs under the guise of “streamlining operations,” canning a large percentage of Marvel’s award-winning visual effects team that has been with the studio for years.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
While the canning process preserved the outer structure of the worms, it destroyed the internal features scientists would need to identify specific species.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Chicken of the Sea International is studying whether the ruling could help revive production at a Georgia canning plant that relies on imported tuna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
“Sir,” I say to the stranger, emboldened by the comforting shelves of canning jars and bins of nails and feed.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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