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Given the paucity of income many songwriters receive from streaming services, these royalties can play an outsized role in both their career and their pocket.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025 -
The surprise was how clearly it could be detected, given the paucity of data on these idiosyncratic, ultra-low-turnout elections.—
The Upshot Staff,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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Among multiple other afflictions Levine expects are vitamin deficiencies, starvation, dramatic weight loss, vision problems due to a lack of sunlight, broken bones, cognitive impairment and mental health trauma.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Denver’s deficiencies in 2024 were Buffalo’s strengths.—
Ryan McFadden,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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The dangerous cold, multiple snowstorms and California’s devastating wildfires have caused an emergency shortage of platelets and some blood types at the American Red Cross.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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Rankings consider forecasted price increases, how quickly homes sell, inventory shortages, rising rents and local job and population growth, using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau and the company’s own listing data.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
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China’s previous retirement age was set at a time of widespread scarcity and impoverishment, before market reforms brought comparative wealth and rapid improvements in nutrition, health and living conditions.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune Asia,
17 Jan. 2025
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Children who learn to view money as a tool rather than a source of stress are more likely to save, invest, and break cycles of scarcity.—
Andre Jean-Pierre,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Ask for Help Struggling as a mom can be shame-inducing and produce feelings of inadequacy.—
Jazmine Denise Thompson,
Essence,
22 Jan. 2025
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In his post, the OP recounted how growing up alongside his high-achieving sibling had led to feelings of inadequacy.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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As of March 31, 2024, Eline Entertainment Group, Inc. had no cash and a working capital deficit of $62,932.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
24 Jan. 2025
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And the region is rapidly running out of time to catch up on the severe deficit in rainfall before the winter rainy season ends.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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There are no laboratory tests that diagnose spider veins, but imaging tests may be ordered if chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) is suspected.2 With CVI, the leg veins become damaged and do not allow the blood to flow back to the heart.—
Laura Schober,
Health,
12 Jan. 2025
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The 2021 Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey showed only nine percent of South Korean respondents—perhaps recognizing the insufficiency of this step—supported a U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons.—
Robert E. Kelly,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Dec. 2024
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The pair founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — a nonprofit dedicated to combating global poverty and disease — in 2000.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Furthermore, one in five Latino children and one in four Black and Indigenous children live in poverty.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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