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
A worrying sign as Baily Cargill is forced off, with Stephen McLaughlin slotting in at left back.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 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
Nash’s daughter, Baily Nash, now 22, arrived at the house after her father’s death to collect his things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
“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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