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...For givers, when they succeed, this “spreads and cascades”. Anyone who has felt miserable at the hands of a competent jerk in the office, fear not, they will probably get their comeuppance....
...Cascade has been managed by Michael Larson since 1994....
...“We don’t know yet whether the consequences of easy money and regulatory changes will cascade throughout the US regional banking sector (akin to the S&L Crisis) with more seizures and shutdowns coming,”...
...Throughout the interview, Olczak twiddles a cobalt blue IQOS between his fingers and even empties its cartridge on one occasion, but does not take a puff....
...Unhedged wrote about this earlier this year, when Berkshire unveiled a $4.2bn stake in HP Inc, which sells printer cartridges (that stock has slightly underperformed the market since)....
...Then, just before Christmas, came the winter storm that triggered a cascade of nearly 17,000 flight cancellations at Southwest, overwhelming the airline’s creaking software as it struggled to match crews...
...of US high school students and almost 3 per cent of middle school pupils used e-cigarettes last year, but the majority used a disposable device such as those made by Puff Bar and Stig rather than Juul’s cartridge-based...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 31, 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Per Bloomberg: Juul Labs Inc. is beginning talks regarding funding for a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to people with knowledge of the preparations....
...It has celebrated by buying a $4.2bn stake in the leading company in the overpriced printer cartridge industry. HP also sells personal computers....
...Now Gates’ investment vehicle Cascade is buying half of Prince Alwaleed’s stake, increasing his holding in Four Seasons to 71 per cent in a deal that values the hotel chain at $10bn, including debt....
...Vintage values for video gamesIn a world of weirdness, retro games are in some sort of bubble, writes Leo Lewis on the news that someone paid $1.56m for a sealed version of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 cartridge...
...When the #MeToo movement triggered a cascade of sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men a few years ago, it drew attention to how non-disclosure agreements can silence people and let wrongdoing...
...On Wednesday Prince Alwaleed agreed to sell half of his Four Seasons stake to Bill Gates’ investment vehicle Cascade....
...Companies have launched a $400bn fundraising blitz in the first three weeks of 2021 as government and central bank stimulus cascades across capital markets....
...It could also prove tricky for Cascade, since if GIP won over enough shareholders to de-list Signature, Cascade may be left with an illiquid minority stake in a private company....
...That might be stamps, football stickers, coins, autographs, comic books, retro video game cartridges, and perhaps watches or vintage automobiles for the wealthy....
...A typical minus 80C freezer works through a cascade refrigeration system, which combines two independent compressors to reach lower temperatures....
...“These results are what we would have expected and hoped for with an antiviral therapy that should have the most impact when given earlier in the course of the disease, before the inflammatory cascade leads...
...“You can switch on, via a snowball effect, an entire cascade of immune mechanisms which you can leverage,” says Dr Tureci....
...The compound, which is known as EIDD-2801, works by planting molecules in a virus’s RNA genetic material that then trigger a cascade of mutations, which ultimately kill it....
...Peloton’s ad has provoked a cascade of criticism for being old-fashioned and sexist....
...It came complete with a business model, based on making money from follow-on sales of ink cartridges, that proved an even more effective innovation....
...The cascade of hacks has made it difficult to attribute a consumer’s identity theft to any one incident, officials said on Monday....
...Scale can be very powerful in starting and sustaining “information cascades” in which people are persuaded without clear evidence to imitate others....
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