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Charter Communications wrapped up its $34.5-billion takeover of Cox Communications early Thursday, picking up millions of new internet and TV customers in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Saliba has been ruled out for an 'extended period' with a long-term back issue which he had been managing last season and which ended his World Cup with France early.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Driving home together after a writing seminar in the early 1990s, author Carole Glickfeld’s student mentioned that she and her husband were starting an internet bookstore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Charpentier said it was too early to forecast eventual price increases for consumers, but warned that the extra costs were difficult to absorb in full.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s a valid question, because Zara doesn’t get up early.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
"The later crops, the second earlies, are more a concern, because they're at tuber initiation stage," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
Circumcising babies when they are at their earlies stage of development-imprinting every experience- is bad medicine.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2012
After Panetta met with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius earlies this month, the columnist wrote that “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June.”
From Time ● Feb. 23, 2012
If you, like me, have long been befuddled by potato planting classifications – earlies, second earlies, maincrop, lates – this podcast is revelatory.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
Try | | | | other earlies |Golden Wax | May 15 | July 22| Rusted.
From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband's condemnation earlier on Thursday had drawn "ouright" rejection by the Israeli foreign minister.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Compared with a year earlier, prices were 18.1% higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Aerial support crews, grounded by bad weather earlier in the week, hoped to keep operating until nightfall, when civil protection drones would take over the task of monitoring for "potential flare-ups," the governor's statement said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Apple appears to be on track to increase its spending, moving away from its historic net-cash neutral position earlier this year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
I left for Baltimore earlier this evening, back when I thought I’d be visiting a different family, because doing anything felt better than doing nothing.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Normally these organoids live for a few months, meaning they can only offer a window into the earliest stages of human brains, which take nearly 20 years to fully develop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The earliest burials were generally spaced apart from one another, and the bodies were placed inside coffins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
U.S. carriers aren’t scheduled to resume services to Israel until the fall at the earliest, meaning that Americans have to find other ways to get there, often transiting through Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
National Highways said repairs to the A31 were not expected to be begin until Friday 14 August at the earliest.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
During the last stage of the Paleolithic, which began about 35,000 years ago, we meet the earliest works of art known to us.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
