People familiar with the deal’s progression said Lorch soon became involved in structuring key aspects of the deal beyond its financing, including how the board would sit for 15 years and choose its successors.
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Cate Brown,
ProPublica,
21 Oct. 2026
Trump’s successors will need to salvage his defective effort to help guide this transition.
Managers call upon pinch hitters to substitute for batters and to increase the chances of getting a hit.
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Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
4 Oct. 2026
But through the course of 162 games, Venable pushed countless buttons and pulled endless levers for a team that used an opener a league-high 31 times and turned to pinch hitters more than all but one other club.
The bulk of the costs was reportedly for munitions replacements at $29 million.
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Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
28 Oct. 2026
The fund would help the district move away from relying on annual operating resources and one-time funding opportunities to fund the work or making capital decisions when major repairs or replacements become necessary.
Moreover, both sides are now able to target the substitutes and reserves that in the past could be used to cushion losses.
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Tatiana Mitrova,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Oct. 2026
To be sure, odds and gambling platforms do not use methodologies used by traditional political polling, and therefore are not substitutes for political polls.
Viewed this way, protections such as immutable backups and isolated backup networks, often cut for budget reasons, look less like expenses and more like insurance against days of downtime.
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Michael Wu,
Forbes.com,
20 Oct. 2026
No other quarterback this season has more than four TD passes without a turnover with backups Drew Lock and Marcus Mariota pulling that off.
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