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Judge Dariusz Lubowski ordered his release, after a ruling that was met with a ripple of surprise from the crowd in court and a smile from the man in the dock.

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Those moves occurred after a June 2023 Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in college admissions had ripple effects in the business world.

That will continue to ripple throughout the economy, they added, with more than 30% of overall GDP growth in the U.S. during the first half of the year tied to a rise in software investment.

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Experts say the ripple effects are being felt across the supply chain, even on businesses, like Mizuba, that were not bringing in shipments using the $800 exemption from tariffs, known as de minimis.

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Economists and other experts have long repeated the conventional wisdom that the stock market isn’t the economy, meaning that temporary pullbacks on Wall Street don’t always ripple as far as the average American’s pocketbook.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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