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With first-time buyers as their intended customers, the company’s innovations included lowering prices by building homes on slabs, instead of digging costly basements.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Their thoughts instead turn to trusts and beneficiary designations for after-death instructions, and they focus heavily on the documents that come into play if you get sick, like power of attorney and a healthcare proxy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Germany, with Europe's largest economy, should see GDP expand 0.8 percent this year instead of 1.1 percent as its power-hungry industrial heavyweights face higher energy costs.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

The company this week instead published a Gauge report for February that reverts to the earlier methodology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

But the number that unexpectedly and astonishingly came out instead was, “One hundred.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom