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Sir James said: "Londoners need homes they can afford to buy or rent. Entrepreneurs need to be able to start and grow businesses without being strangled by cost and regulation."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, demand continues to grow for lubricants such as engine oil, which can carry a significant environmental cost to produce.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
As the late British economist John Maynard Keynes reminded us, trees do not grow to the sky.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Big Sur’s micro-climate makes firefighting complicated: The relative humidity drops at night, making fires grow rapidly, Silveira has said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
You can’t grow all the way if you don’t have a whole name.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
For me, the Multistrada is like a kite that grows more stable the faster the wind blows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The film’s greatest special effect indeed becomes time itself, as the cast ages and grows across the course of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
"It suddenly, completely dried out," said British farmer John Pawsey, 62, who grows crops in Sussex, in southern England.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
In short, there was no market dysfunction that Bessent was obliged to address, just the market pricing Treasury yields at roughly the same rate the U.S. economy grows.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
But right before a volcano erupts, the ground around it sometimes grows dramatically.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Yiannopoulos, who grew up in Kent in the south of England, was arrested on 27 August after arriving at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Yet support grew as legal cases exposed the harms of social media and researchers like Jonathan Haidt advocated for a more thoughtful approach to technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The project grew out of previous work by the team that was published in Science and Nature Sustainability.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
The Timber fire, which has been burning since Aug. 8, grew only slightly on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The wind grew cold and the pools of water began to freeze.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Talbot and coauthor Shabnam Etemadi, a stem cell biologist and computational scientist at UCR, exposed human embryonic stem cells grown in laboratory dishes to several concentrations of vanillin.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sales within China have remained healthy and exports have grown to one third of its business, from next to nothing five years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Cargo operations have grown rapidly, bringing in goods from China and Hong Kong, and there has also been an increase in military traffic, particularly during the Gulf conflict.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
“As the grown men that you all are, I hope you find the courage to take responsibility for your actions and understand the impact caused on others.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He’d grown up away from people; he wanted nothing to do with them.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport announced Friday plans to rename BNA in honor of Parton, following a growing public campaign that surged after the country music icon’s death.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Nepal's foreign minister warned on Saturday of the growing threat from climate change in the Himalayas, as China offered water and satellite data after devastating floods on their shared border killed hundreds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
It is the latest move in a growing trend of Western countries helping Ukraine to build the weapons it needs to fight Russia’s invasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Liu's laboratory has now developed a process that could provide another destination for PVC waste and help address the growing problem of plastic pollution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
As “first in the field,” the Fox sisters were prime targets for a growing number of skeptics.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
