had
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verb
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Other officials disputed that Sacks was demoted, and Sacks told Bloomberg TV that he had used up the days he was allowed to work as AI and crypto czar as a special government employee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
That explains why the world’s biggest investment manager recently reclaimed a title it had ceded to one-time corporate cousin Blackstone for most of the past five years: Wall Street’s most-valuable publicly traded asset manager.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
“BlackRock had to do some deals in private markets. It’s just too important of a growth area for the ecosystem for them not to have a meaningful footprint,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
For decades, St. Michael’s had its own fire department and ambulance department, staffed largely by student volunteers and serving nearby towns.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
They had subsisted on leftovers and the occasional McDonald’s takeout from Window Rock.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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