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Hanna-Barbera figured out how to make do with more rudimentary animation, cutting in half the number of original frames per second.—
Brooks Barnes,
New York Times,
21 May 2025 -
The naming practices can frustrate efforts to track the chemicals in food, to measure how much of the stuff people are taking in, and even to figure out precisely which chemicals a scientific study evaluated, researchers said.—
David Hilzenrath,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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For example, under existing law, a team owner paying $1.6 billion for a franchise where $1.5 billion is intangible goodwill could deduct that $1.5 billion over 15 years.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
22 May 2025
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Before the rule, taxpayers could deduct all their state and local taxes from their federal taxes, which some policymakers have said mainly benefits wealthy homeowners in states with high taxes, such as New York and California.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
22 May 2025
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Tracking and Iterating: Use impact reporting to refine and scale programs effectively.—
Raghvendra Tripathi,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Rightly so, because the queue is an attraction unto itself – jaw-dropping, built to scale and packed with details from the films.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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The most telling way to measure Timber’s impact is that, even when White returned from injury in February, Arteta stuck with the Dutchman until he was lost to the ankle problem that kept him out for the final month of the season.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Boyer and his colleagues measured the concentrations of ammonia and other gases in the air roughly five miles away from a colony of 60,000 Adélie penguins in Antarctica.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
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