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Jay Su and Tamara Lasater Wacker, executive vice president and corporate environmental director of Formosa Plastics, respectively, wrote to the EPA in March 2025 to make their case for it.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
But the families of Africans killed fighting for Russia get nothing, according to Tamara Kurushkina, an official at Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Tamara Herrera, director of the Sintesis Financiera consulting firm, said she expected inflation to fall to a little over 100 percent this year.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
Giving evidence on the ninth day of the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, Dr Tamara McNamee, a consultant histopathologist, said she was initially asked to conduct a single-doctor autopsy on Low.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
In August 1942, squadron commander Tamara Pamyatnykh was assigned to lead two other pilots on a long flight to deliver a message to the Stalingrad Front.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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