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I have set by the earnings from my weekend job to use as vacation money.
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Australia’s other world-first proposals are the highest age limit set by any country, no exemption for parental consent and no exemption for pre-existing accounts.
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Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
That’s despite many of Price’s policies falling largely in line with goals set by the state’s Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code, which urged prosecutors to curtail prison terms and their use of many such enhancements that can add years to a sentence.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
In the early 2000’s, Boeing had opted to move assembly of its then-new 787 aircraft to a facility in Charleston, South Carolina, which would be non-union, following a pattern set by automotive manufacturers who had moved production from Detroit to the southeast for similar reasons.
—Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
The Berkley Grand Complication The Berkley Grand Complication holds the current record for the world’s most complicated timepiece, breaking a previous record, also set by Vacheron Constantin with the Ref. 57260.
—Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
That’s despite many of Price’s policies falling largely in line with goals set by the state’s Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code, which urged prosecutors to curtail prison terms and their use of many such enhancements that can add years to a sentence.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
In the early 2000’s, Boeing had opted to move assembly of its then-new 787 aircraft to a facility in Charleston, South Carolina, which would be non-union, following a pattern set by automotive manufacturers who had moved production from Detroit to the southeast for similar reasons.
—Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
The Berkley Grand Complication The Berkley Grand Complication holds the current record for the world’s most complicated timepiece, breaking a previous record, also set by Vacheron Constantin with the Ref. 57260.
—Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Set by.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set%20by. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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