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It built up £1.8bn debt as a result of its commercial strategy, which led to the government intervening into the council last summer.

From BBC

Its aggressive, forward-leaning stance, even in simple black paint, says, like many of these cars, “I’m built to go fast.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead the crew built a cockpit on a gimbal several feet in the air and maneuvered the actors across the sky as if they were really flying.

From Los Angeles Times

Research by the late industrial historian Brian Newman concluded the first was built in 1904 by the Glasgow Crane and Electric Hoist Company for a shipyard in Sunderland.

From BBC

Henry Tye, the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, arrived at this conclusion by updating a long standing model built around the "cosmological constant."

From Science Daily