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Tidy general stores, ice cream parlors and a Main Street lined with striped awnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Some people go to Disneyland and Universal Studios,” said Masakazu Nakafuji, general manager of JTB’s New York office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Infantino served as secretary general of European football's governing body from 2009 to 2016.
From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026
Observational studies of the general population suggest that people drink less overall when on weight-loss drugs, but the clinical trials to date have focused on people with alcohol use disorder, rather than occasional drinkers.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
He repeatedly pestered the office of the attorney general of the state of Washington.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The idea to accommodate Nazi generals in comfort to lure them into indiscretions was a "brilliantly devious strategy", Albano said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Attorneys generals in 12 states last week filed a lawsuit to prevent the deal from going forward.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
A day earlier he met with other generals commanding Ukrainian front-line troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Working through more than 6,500 pages in Kolkata's National Library, he followed princes, generals, courtiers, royal women, imperial eunuchs and many others through tens of thousands of entries.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
In addition to the vice minister of justice, Russian doctors, dignitaries from other health organizations, and ten Russian generals in olive drab uniforms sat on one side of the assembled tables.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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