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The initiative's agenda includes aggressive deregulation, curbs on immigration, challenges to civil-rights protections, and a substantial reduction of the federal workforce, all with the aim of reducing the size and scope of government while reasserting executive authority.—
Nik Popli,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025 -
In similar trials conducted in Australia, researchers saw reductions of up to 98%.—
Heide Brandes,
thehustle.co,
24 Jan. 2025
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Overall car sales are expected to drop as autonomous taxis reduce the need for personal ownership of cars, with a decrease in traditional revenues for automotive suppliers like Valeo.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Walz’s recommendations come after Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers’ 2023 two-year budget grew spending by nearly 40% to $70.7 billion — though some of that was one-time spending, so Walz’s cuts would not account for a more than $4 billion decrease.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
17 Jan. 2025
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China narrowly avoided a slip into deflation in December, statistics authorities said last week, with prices rising at their slowest pace in nine months.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune Asia,
17 Jan. 2025
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Energetic purchases of bonds by the central bank are a standard policy prescription for economies facing deflation: a broad decline in prices.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Nobody throws press conferences for fire abatement.—
William Choslovsky,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Jan. 2025
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In April 2023, the city filed a nuisance abatement lawsuit against several individuals including Strather, as well as multiple limited liability corporations, claiming the building was blighted and a public safety hazard and needed to be either fixed up or torn down.—
JC Reindl,
Detroit Free Press,
4 Dec. 2024
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The shrinkage immediately became a proof point and cudgel taken up by the state’s chest-puffing detractors.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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But the shrinkage of the conference was visible with less than half the number of delegates compared to COP28 in Dubai last year which logged an attendance of over 83,000 delegates.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes,
22 Nov. 2024
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The diminution of Black Monday underscores the possibility – perhaps likelihood – that more coaching changes are coming down the pike.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
9 Jan. 2025
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Moscow, for its part, has already formed a quasi alliance with Beijing to expedite the diminution of Washington’s influence.—
Charles Kupchan,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Mar. 2021
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The price action went from a clear downtrend phase of lower highs and lower lows to more of a bullish trend with higher highs and higher lows.—
David Keller,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Alaska Air Daily, Weekly, Monthly American Air also reveals weekly and monthly downtrend price reversals.—
Bill Sarubbi,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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San Diego’s overall falloff from 2023 to 2024 impacted all players, Shaw included.—
Jeff Rueter,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Will Lewis, the publisher of The Post, said in a meeting last year that in 2023, The Post lost $77 million and had suffered a falloff in its digital audience since 2020.—
Benjamin Mullin,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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