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Shareholders are being asked to take less cash back today in exchange for profits that depend on that spending paying off.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
She decried the “cynicism that started to take over this city, that started to make us believe that L.A.’s problems weren’t just bad, but they were permanent. That L.A.’s best days were behind us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
There’s so much work to do, so much chaos and destruction to try to undo, and still a few months before the newly elected can take office and start shaping their states and districts.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
"As a small business we simply cannot afford to take on all the work and costs of organising a 60 show tour only to sustain a significant loss overall."
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
It will take nearly a century for science to develop the first "antibiotic," penicillin, to counter infections.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
As production takes off for AMD’s first-ever rack-scale solution, Helios, as well as the company’s next-generation Venice CPUs, CEO Lisa Su said the data-center segment’s growth is expected “to accelerate further” in the current quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Dressed casually in a bulky patterned sweater, he takes thoughtful pauses to answer certain questions, absentmindedly running his hands through an enviable mop of hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Unlike conventional electronics, which processes and stores information using the electrical charge of electrons, spintronics also takes advantage of a property known as electron spin.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Carville is often better known today as a commentator with sometimes controversial takes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
He takes my hand and guides me up, so that I am standing before him.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But data-center plans key to the AI build-out took a hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The night we’ve witnessed actually took place a decade ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
In his victory speech last night, El-Sayed took the time to, graciously, beak the vice president.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
On 11 April, Gordon took a video of Delia with her pet guinea pigs which was to be the last footage in which she was seen alive.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
She remembered her moshom’s advice to breathe and took a few moments to inhale and exhale slowly.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Prices for oil had taken a dive earlier this week, with Brent and WTI both losing more than 7% on Monday on reports of indirect mediation efforts between the U.S. and Iran.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
But Luna denies that deputies are fleeing the department and says he’s taken major steps to improve the hiring process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
That’s because favorable changes have taken effect for many self-employed workers and early retirees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian delegation will be made up of Lantratova and Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian businessman close to the Kremlin who has frequently taken part in US-brokered ceasefire talks.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Nollie, we soon learned, had been taken to the police station around the corner, to one of the cells in back.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
All but two of the sectors were up in midday trading, with the industrial sector down 1.1% and energy taking a 5.4% hit.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
El-Sayed thanked the crowd in the early hours of Wednesday morning for taking a chance on "the unlikeliest of candidates", saying his win was theirs.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
“The diplomacy signals are mixed but the market is taking the softer path,” Phil Flynn of the Price Futures Group says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Spintronics adds another way to work with information by taking advantage of electron spin as well.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
One girl who looks familiar is hanging on the arm of one of the guys while she laughs at something that must have been hysterical, while another poses next to them, taking a selfie.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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