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The quarter also included $1.5 billion raised in the quarter for its supercore infrastructure strategy, and $1.2 billion for its infrastructure private wealth strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
On the business front, she’s the president of the Mellon Foundation, the largest private funder of the arts culture and the humanities in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Goldman economists hold that if central banks begin to loosen policy in late 2027 through 2028, prices will likely increase again as their buying of bullion competes with demand from private investors.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
A company which runs a private prison and a health board has admitted criminal charges following the death of a prisoner who contracted Covid-19.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Just inside his small private entrance a wooden bench ran along the wall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Taking a step back and looking at initial public offerings and public equity markets versus privates, I think it’s fair to say that somewhere along the line, we’ve lost our way.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
What, Henry asks, “have kings, that privates have not too, save ceremony, save general ceremony?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
They’re going to put aspartame in this possibly-causing-cancer category, along with, oh, putting talcum powder on your privates, or working in a dry cleaner.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2023
The army statement included photos of the four: a corporal, a lance-corporal and two privates.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2023
The privates of the Army were in such desperate circumstances, their pay being so meager, that they worked at other trades than killing and dying to supplement their income.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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