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...As it becomes increasingly obvious that obesity is a drag on economies, a brake on productivity and a dampener of life chances, curbing it will become a competitive advantage....
...This Christmas, after the pandemic put the brake on office jollies, many employees may find themselves experiencing forced fun for the first time in two years....
...The first stop on my journey is a wood-panelled office in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, thousands of miles away from Guatemala City....
...The governor of California said he was activating an “emergency brake” and applying tougher coronavirus restrictions to large swaths of the state in an effort to contain a surge of infections that threatens...
...Election round-up Investors piled into tech stocks on Wednesday, with Facebook and Google-owner Alphabet among the biggest gainers as Republicans looked set to hold on to the Senate, putting the brakes...
...Jake Sullivan, Biden’s incoming national security adviser, put out a general appeal for the brakes to be put on this pact, but his plea went unheeded....
...US election winner: Big Tech Americans are still waiting to hear who will take the White House, with a potential ruling still hours away as results from Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia are counted...
...(FT) New dean in town Erika James has been named dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, making her the first woman and first person of colour to lead the programme that the FT...
...“It’s a shame that [BoE] is putting the brakes on when its peers are continuing to press ahead,” Ms Johnston said....
...Some chemicals companies have started saying they will now put a brake on further large-scale capacity expansions in the US....
...It shuttered operations in Arizona but plans to resume testing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the coming months and later in California....
...Sensitive to voter interests, western democracies may yet touch the brakes when it comes to mass deployment of AI technology, while authoritarian regimes hit the accelerator hard....
...A similar plan is being debated in Pennsylvania, and although it has come too late for Three Mile Island, it could save the state’s other nuclear plants....
...But not all autonomous car companies rely entirely on a back-up safety driver to apply the brakes in a crisis. Some use the self-driving systems to stop....
...The Miracle Mile in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is a vital capillary in the US freight transport system....
...The drivers can apply for 55 new specialist positions to operate cars on roads and on Uber’s test track in the Pennsylvania city, the company said....
...Asked about this by Pat Toomey, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Mr Powell acknowledged that “if you raise short term rates higher than long term rates then maybe your policy is tighter than you think...
...Vanguard, one of the most ferocious slashers of fund management fees, has put the brakes on its cost-cutting drive in a sign of the limitations of industry price reductions....
...Cars have their accelerator pedals on the right and the brake pedals to their left, not switched around randomly to create more excitement....
...US banks have hit the brakes on lending since Donald Trump’s election in November, casting doubt on claims that the president’s victory has unleashed “animal spirits” in the economy....
...This is roughly what happened in the postwar Bretton Woods system, in which countries retained capital controls as a brake on trade liberalisation. Rodrik’s thesis has aged rather well....
...Uber launched its first pilot of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, where no licence is required, although Pennsylvania regulators said that could change under proposed rules....
...Mr Sumwalt said an assistant conductor in the Amtrak train’s café car heard the train’s driver communicating with the driver of another train, operated by the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority...
...While the driver applied an emergency brake three seconds before the derailment, that only slowed the train to 102mph before it careered off the rails....
...He is going on a fact-finding trip to Pennsylvania, which has hundreds of wells....
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