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The Russian Ministry of Defense did not acknowledge it, they did not talk about it in their regular coverage, and (the bloggers) suddenly went from being this small group that was covering nationalist topics and Russian conflicts worldwide to becoming the source of information in Russia.

Kateryna Stepanenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We measure snowpack wall-to-wall over mountains from aircraft using lasers and spectrometers, from that information, we can then know the full distribution of how much water there is in a mountain snowpack and also how fast it’s going to melt. That’s allowed us then to change forecast errors from being pretty large to very small and really dramatically changed water management in the west.

Tom Painter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s an interesting association, but causation is definitely not proven, we have to see if there’s a viable and biologically plausible mechanism by which a small amount of lithium in the water supply can somehow do this, yet pharmacologic dosing of lithium in women with bipolar disorder has not been reported to be causing increased risk of ASD.

Max Wiznitzer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Street hawkers, taxi drivers or teachers — they all relied on the dividend to pay for their regular expenses, like mortgage, insurance payments, school fees, that’s why, three years ago, what HSBC did upset those small minority shareholders.

Christine Fong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The probability of default has gone up noticeably, it is small, but it’s not zero. And it has gone up in a very significant way.

Andy Sparks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If prison does n’t humble you, I do n’t know what will, when you literally lose everything and you go into a really small cell for 231 days, if that does n’t humble you then you’re lost anyway.

Boris Becker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a small victory, but such a beautiful one. To see him put in handcuffs and the look on his face when he realized he is actually being held accountable for his crimes, it was priceless, i believe with all my heart the big victory is coming and I am more confident now than ever that we will find out what happened to Irene and where she is so that … (the) family can get peace and closure.

Stacy Koester

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To be honest, at first, I was very hesitant when this idea was discussed, my mind keeps telling me to back off. I mean, let’s be real here, it was too ambitious to say the least. Like, how can a small group of students from the Pacific Region convince the majority of the UN members to support this unique initiative?

Cynthia Houniuhi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tonight, our State grieves the death of another member of the law enforcement community — one who, when called upon, ran toward danger in aide of a female victim and her two small children.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They confiscated booby traps, boards with nails that were hidden by leaves and underbrush. You could kill a small child or a pet with those.

Michael Thurmond

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Small companies are afraid they will face( worker shortages) due to childcare leave, and this puts pressure on young fathers who want to take childcare leave in future.

Hisakazu Kato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Where there’s a relatively small but contained population, sterilization procedures are feasible, but they’re very expensive. And they’re not really going to work at a large scale.

Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve never seen anything like this, this was a very great small town, and now it’s gone.

Rolling Fork

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But the data don’t support these specific factors as solely driving the trend, so if you have excess body weight, you are at a higher risk of colorectal cancer in your 40s than someone who is average weight. That is true. But the excess risk is pretty small. So again, that is probably not what’s driving this increase, and it’s another reason to think that there’s something else going on.

Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am pleased that they reached a prompt solution that protects American workers and small businesses, and keeps our financial system safe, the solution also ensures that taxpayer dollars are not put at risk.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is about a community that no one had ever heard of before, becoming ground zero and a small town being destroyed overnight.

Misti Allison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Until detailed survey work is completed, we won’t know how many remaining populations exist, but the natural range of the species is small (and) highly fragmented, and we were only able to discover one living (specimen) at the time.

Michael Rix

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Blackness is not a monolith, it’s important to have a variety of people in front of kids just because it expands their view. A lot of times in inner cities, it’s easy for their world to become small.

Jamaal Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought.

Amanda Starbuck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, the Dodd-Frank piece I think would be very good for the economy, moving away from too big to fail and really lifting the burden off a lot of our small and medium-sized financial institutions who have just gotten clubbed by Dodd-Frank.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now, they want to bail out a bank? No. If one of our small businesses got bailed out – or went into bankruptcy, do you think they’d bail us out? They wouldn’t.

Nikki Haley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Senator, I’m committed to do what’s right. will you commit to insuring that these families, these innocent families do no lose their life savings in their homes and small businesses? The right thing to do is to say, ‘Yes we will.’.

Ed Markey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Will you commit to insuring that these families, these innocent families do no lose their life savings in their homes and small businesses? The right thing to do is to say, ‘Yes we will.’.

Ed Markey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everyone on Wall Street knew that the Fed’s rate-hiking campaign would eventually break something, and right now that is taking down small banks.

Ed Moya

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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