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In June he revealed a state budget measure that capped how much in tax credits a business can claim each year, a limit industry groups warned would undercut the expanded program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In remarks later that day, he complained that "something is wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“The technology frees us from those repetitive tasks, so the employees can focus on higher-value work and the elimination of potential risk,” said Matt Wagner, WM’s senior director for organization and automation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Neither Lisbet nor Mihai can exhibit too much passion or zealotry, too much unjust anger or warranted affection.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Ma needs pecans for Texas chewy pralines, cornmeal for corn bread, and wool so she can knit us socks.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It also owns large stakes in companies like Apple and Coca-Cola – a brand close to Buffett's heart, as he famously drinks five cans a day.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Krista Ellis, the district’s head of school nurses, described the cans as a kind of status symbol—vibrant packaging paired with the thrill of a head rush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The sound design of “Voices” is raw and the rumored $50,000 budget so strapped that minor period piece inconsistencies like cheap plastic trash cans sneak into the frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
At Burning Man, there are no garbage cans.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
He was spending money to put garbage cans around Key West?
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Following the Rams’ season-opening loss to the 49ers, the Chargers could have been L.A.’s only 1-0 NFL team, but they blew the assignment against the Cardinals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
But it could also simply be an indication of presidential frustration in the face of events and circumstances, some of his own making, that are turning against him.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Remote-controlled and automated equipment could help ease a shortage of equipment operators at construction sites, landfills and other job sites struggling to fill positions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Roughly 10 years ago, Wollenweber said, the company figured out it could sell new and bigger systems to rapidly growing cloud businesses of the Big Tech companies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The crazy thing was no one in the room could find a way to counter that argument.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Shenanigan and her crew must use all their wit, nerve and cunning they possess to discover a killer in a world where everyone, it seems, is running her own con.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
In the aughts, Chase also appeared in more than 20 episodes of the Fox sitcom “Oliver Beene” and more than 30 episodes of HBO’s Emmy-nominated Mormon family drama “Big Love” as cunning teenager Rhonda Volmer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Marsh described Scatchard as "devious, cunning and untruthful".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
He wheeled a cunning rolling rack of stacked lanterns up next to the Plant and lit them, nine lanterns in all.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
He’s a partial owner of the canned yerba mate brand Mateina, but he “loves it without bias.”
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The pain was particularly acute at Nortera Foods, which the tribunal identified as the biggest processor of canned food by a significant margin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
A sausage-and-pepper meal starter eliminates most of the chopping; canned tomatoes provide the sauce’s backbone; and a few spoonfuls of prepared sun-dried tomato pesto pull everything into focus.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Go on,” Chess urged, because he couldn’t care about canned food and dollar bills when he felt such dread rising inside him.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
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
Staff working at a Guinness canning factory in Belfast, owned by international drinks firm Diageo, have begun strike action in protest over their pay.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Just pack it into one of Bertha’s canning jars to keep in my room.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
