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The global pandemic threw up a myriad of challenges for the franchise sector and many brands are continuing to deal with the fallout from that, together with changing consumer behaviours, inflation, recruitment and supply chain issues.—
Fiona Simpson,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025 -
If the individual begins throwing up, or if symptoms get worse or last for over an hour – call 911.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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And for professionals facing career transitions, volunteering is a way to rediscover one’s mission, re-skill and rebuild.—
Leslye Moore,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Expanding our defense industries and rebuilding our stocks of weaponry and strategic materials is a critical part of that.—
The Editors,
National Review,
11 July 2025
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The facility is retrofitted to accept food waste trucked in from external sources—waste that would otherwise end up in landfills, which are the leading source of methane emissions in California.—
David Blekhman,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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In 1994, the Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District retrofitted the Capay Diversion Dam, which was the longest dam in the world made of a rubber bladder.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
4 July 2025
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With the drum out, hose down the housing and seals, then reassemble.—
Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 June 2025
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And unless there is a new comprehensive nuclear deal between Iran and the United States, Tehran is likely to seek to reassemble its nuclear program.—
Vali Nasr,
Time,
26 June 2025
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After Tim reconstructs the code for the nanotech wall’s opening sequence, and despite a violent confrontation with Yuri, Tim and Olivia activate the code to create a breach.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
11 July 2025
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Archaeologists are working to reconstruct the jadeite death mask and perform DNA and isotope analysis on the skeletal material.—
Kerry Breen
July 10,
CBS News,
10 July 2025
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Spanning three levels and over 17,000-square-feet, The Louis combines retail, exhibition and hospitality spaces.—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Both of these pieces combine the shade with soft, easy-to-wear silhouettes.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 July 2025
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The area is tipping toward another wave of change as the city of Boise prepares to rehabilitate and redevelop an aging and battered apartment building.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
6 July 2025
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Located just east of Ogden’s intersection with Naper Boulevard, Jack in the Box will join other new or redeveloped sites in the area, including Costco, Amazon Fresh, several restaurants and the Casey’s gas station and convenience store.—
Marie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
4 July 2025
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This ignores a fundamental problem of innovation and inventiveness, which is that many of the innovative geniuses who devised transformative inventions failed to profit financially from their own ingenuity while more aggressive, entrepreneurial bystanders claimed credit and profit.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
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The breath-freshener smell that Marks had devised was a combination of laurel leaves—peculiar to the modern sensibility, but not off-putting—and musk.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
10 July 2025
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