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AALA/Teamsters 2010 represents administrators with teaching credentials, such as principals, and also a group of central managers, such as a database administrator and a construction manager.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
If central bankers think that the rise in energy prices is unlikely to result in what are known as second-round effects, they can leave borrowing costs unchanged.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
Investors are worried that will push up inflation—strengthening the case for central banks to raise interest rates, or at least keep them elevated.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
"I am delighted that the different types of analyses we did converged on very similar results, suggesting that language change must be a central component in explaining universals."
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
Besides, the world was full of miserable places just like the central plateau, all of them hopeless.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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