Baily
Britishnoun
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Personal computers, which economists credit for a productivity boom starting in the mid-1990s, were initially clunky and took years to become more user-friendly, said Martin Neil Baily, an economist at the Brookings Institution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
From the 13th minute when Lucas Akins buried a home penalty after Derrick Abu had hauled down Baily Cargill, the Stags never looked back in a one-sided first half.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024
Therapeutic boarding schools like Whetstone should be regulated similarly to state-licensed daycare centers, with complaints tracked and publicly accessible, to the extent possible, Baily said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023
The endorsement, made in a central Illinois fairground, is unlikely to win Baily many voters closer to Chicago.
From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022
“We didn’t know but one holiday, that was Christmas day,” Baily Cunningham, born enslaved in Virginia, recalled many years later.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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