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
While Bank of England governor Andrew Baily acknowledged the decision to cut rates was "finely balanced", despite this higher level of inflation, one issue affecting the Bank's decision was the jobs market.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025
The endorsement, made in a central Illinois fairground, is unlikely to win Baily many voters closer to Chicago.
From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022
However, Krueger lost to Republican Kay Baily Hutchison in a June 1993 special election.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 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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