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Recent Examples of job lotWhere some other towns operating similar schemes have put together a job lot of houses for €1, Castiglione di Sicilia is pricing the properties according to their condition.—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
Indian officials have argued that it if the country were to stop buying Russian oil, a plan must be put in place to stabilize energy markets, along with a contingency to fill the shortfall in supply if Russian barrels are taken off the market.
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Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
New Jerseyans’ electricity rates rose roughly 20% at the start of June as a result of price-setting capacity auctions—the market where power producers are paid to guarantee future supply.
The company’s Amazon Web Services will launch a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers called AWS RTB Fabric, with a goal of helping marketers and media outlets buy and sell digital commercial inventory through split-second auctions.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
Blue Jay follows other recent robotics developments at Amazon, including the testing the humanoid robot Digit and the inventory processing Sequoia robotics system.
In an allegation that ties together the suit’s claims of unpaid royalties and unregulated shooting conditions, the suit claims that the defendants have profited from merchandise depicting Corcoran’s nude body.
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J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
But SpongeBob represents Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures’ most valuable property, with countless merchandise products, TV series spinoffs, video game adaptations and even a 2017 Broadway musical version to date, so clearly nothing can be left to chance.
Electric telegraph lines and railroads encouraged and were encouraged by a new age of imperial expansion, commodity extraction, industrialization, urban growth, global migration, rising population, and scientific development, among other things.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
Earlier, when gold demand was largely driven by consumption and prices of jewelry rose, consumers would cut back on spending, said Anindya Banerjee, head of commodity and currency markets at Kotak Securities.
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