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Nevada Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Groundbreaking Contingency Cap Ballot Measure
A lawyer for an Uber-backed ballot initiative that would impose the strictest cap on contingency fees in the country faced questions this week from the Nevada Supreme Court. An en banc panel of ...
Instant Scholar: The colonial origins of comparative development; empirical investigation by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James A Robinson
The influential study by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson examines how colonial-era institutions continue to shape economic ...
CNN18d
Oxford’s word of the year is a modern condition familiar to most of us
The healthcare company cited doomscrolling and social media addiction as examples of brain rot behavior, which could be prevented by setting limits on screen time or doing a digital detox.
Newsweek23d
Making an Example of Russia in Ukraine Can Deter China From Invading Taiwan | Opinion
We invested trillions of dollars over eight decades to prepare for that contingency ... to deter China from invading Taiwan is to make an example of Russia in Ukraine. First, by strengthening ...
Small Business24d
How to create a concrete financial contingency plan
A fool-proof contingency plan is based on the theory of minimum expense and maximum business ... technologies to strengthen their financial contingency planning. For example, ERP systems and data ...
Global Times25d
Japanese islands lack defense depths for HIMARS to be effective in 'Taiwan contingency:' Chinese military expert
When asked to comment on a report by Japanese media on US plan to work with Japan on contingency plans for a possible future emergency involving Taiwan, including deploying missile units on ...
The Taipei Times25d
US making Taiwan contingency plans
The US is drawing up contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of a Taiwan emergency, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported. They would be incorporated in a first ...
The Atlantic25d
Taylor Swift Is a Perfect Example of How Publishing Is Changing
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The day after Swift announced her book, David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the ...
New York Post25d
Cults, hackers and kidnappings: Wild conspiracy theories may have sparked tragic twist in Hannah Kobayashi’s missing persons case
The mysterious case of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi has been marred by wild conspiracy theories — including that she was brainwashed by a cult or blackmailed by African hackers ...
Philippine Daily Inquirer25d
West PH Sea: US drawing up contingency plans for Taiwan emergency – Kyodo
TOKYO — The United States is drawing up contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of an emergency over Taiwan, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported. They will be ...
UN News Centre25d
World News in Brief: Floods compound misery in Gaza, UN relief chief in Sudan, civilians under attack in Syria
For example, sandbags have been installed at 20 sites. However, for 90 per cent of the areas assessed by our partners, there are no workable contingency plans if flooding were to render the sites ...