distribution
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A Treasury official said last month the department was looking at blacklisting entities that provide warehouses and distribution centers to shut down the movement of goods into Iran’s land borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Ultimately, I leave you to decide whether this $90,000 distribution was fair because you’re the one who has to live with the court’s decision.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
As structured, the deal does not appear to require any public disclosures about pay or distribution of shares to executives.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Starting in 1990 as a transport company, Ravatomanga's Sodiat Group expanded into a sprawling conglomerate spanning automotive distribution, aviation, private security, media, construction, healthcare, real estate, hospitality, tourism and Madagascar's lucrative vanilla trade.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The distribution of continents in former times is much less neatly resolved than most people outside geophysics think.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The grandly named Anthropic Public Benefit Fund “might explore” donations to existing nonprofits, or “direct distributions to specific populations,” the company says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Only now, when private companies have been harder to sell and the distributions from these funds have slowed to a trickle, have fiduciaries started to realize that their expected return assumptions may be too optimistic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Once they get wind of your required minimum distributions in your early 70s, they will come knocking again.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
When it’s time to start taking your required minimum distributions, you could drop to two or three shifts a week or, better yet, move to a seated job like customer service.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
If we knew nothing else about language distributions and history, we might have guessed that the English language arose in North America and was carried overseas to Britain and Australia by colonists.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Human Geography - High School
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Earth Science - Middle School
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