In China, newer but heavily debt-financed assets—from metro systems to high-speed rail—face profitability challenges, with maintenance costs outpacing budgets.
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Maurice Obeid,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
The Zionist Organization, founded at the Basel congress, was financed by membership fees.
During a tour at Turning Point USA’s Phoenix headquarters last October, staff described the evolution from a Chicago garage startup to a sprawling campus funded by donors in 2018.
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Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
His position is funded by the ADG Community Journalism Project.
Americans have generally endorsed the death penalty, though the gap between those who favor it and those who don’t has shrunk to 10 points.
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Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
The demonstration is being organized by NASA Needs Help — a group formed by employees and supporters at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and endorsed by the Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Association (GESTA).
Regardless of their differences, all Cosmists advocated for the attainment of immortality and colonization of outer space, goals people still strive for today.
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Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
Several members of the Del Mar Historical Society advocated for the Alvarado House, which dates back to the late 1800s, to be part of the master plan.
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Luke Harold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Sep. 2025
Republicans on Capitol Hill also backed Bondi’s qualified statement that speech inciting violence should be prosecuted.
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Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
At xAI, Liberatore helped arrange a $5 billion debt sale alongside a $5 billion equity raise backed partly by SpaceX, and approved major data center expansion plans.
At Vanguard Studios, in Mumbai, Sheth came upon drawers full of glass negatives, receptacles for the countless unnamed sitters who’d once patronized the establishment.
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M. Z. Adnan,
New Yorker,
23 Aug. 2025
These restaurants are locally owned and supplied, and they’re patronized by people who live there.
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