principal
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Treasurys to cover future interest and principal payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
You should not treat the $500,000 as “a standalone pile of money,” said James Mayo, a certified financial planner and principal of IronFjord Wealth Management.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
A bondholder must settle for the return of his principal with the interest he earns along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
York has been the 49ers’ CEO since 2008 and became the principal owner in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Just like you don’t know who took my car apart and reassembled it in the library,” said the principal.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
We lengthened the school year, brought in hundreds of tutors, replaced 95% of principals and nearly half the teachers while retraining the rest, and embedded data-driven instruction and high expectations into daily practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The principals settled on hosting Collins for a publicity event at Navatek’s Maine headquarters in August 2019, where she posed for pictures with Kao and a model of the company’s experimental boat.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
There have been some concerns this will place more pressure on school principals and teachers who are SEN coordinators in schools.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Francois Resnais, national secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa, France's top union of school principals, criticised the timing as "bad".
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
“My bet is that all the women wore little white gloves,” says Davis Masten, who today is one of the principals in the consulting firm Cheskin founded.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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