principal
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“Most mortgages are still under 7%, but we are getting close to hitting the number,” Michael Read, principal at Bridgeway Mortgage and Real Estate Services in Morristown, N.J., told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Dr Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall Insight, told the BBC on Thursday a fresh increase in wholesale prices would "increase pressure on our January price cap forecast".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Merav Opher, SHIELD's principal investigator at Boston University, and her colleagues simulated encounters between the solar system and extremely cold regions filled with gas and dust.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
At the Maria Cabrales school, principal Regla Maria Perera, 64, said there is an art to running a school that has no electricity and is not blessed with good natural light.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
In a strangely kind voice, the principal says, “Please don’t make this any more unpleasant than it already has to be.”
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Francois Resnais, national secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa, France's top union of school principals, criticised the timing as "bad".
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Among the principals, everyone—El-Sayed, Stevens, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee—quickly got on the same team.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
“Couture’s” three principals rarely interact with one another, but those meaningful exchanges argue that, amid the mad clatter of the everyday, a brief, unguarded moment with a stranger can be supremely restorative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Mr. Smith has some very sympathetic, likable and, naturally, very good-looking principals on whom to hang his tale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
First, Pendleton and Van Ness agreed that both principals fired their weapons.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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