bureau
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Raman said she talked to Bass about creating a department for homelessness in late 2023 or early 2024, but the mayor told her to move ahead with the bureau instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Announcing the cancellation of Saturday's stadium gathering Dori Asgedom, head of Tigray's culture and tourism bureau, said it would not be going ahead because of "ongoing drone strikes and the threat of war".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Carolyn Carlson, Data-Clear’s president and founder, said she provided nationwide voting data to the bureau that year as part of a project to try and prevent an undercount of minority voters in the 2030 census.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The bureau on Friday set an upper limit for how much water it can cut from the entitlements of the downstream states in the coming years: 3 million acre-feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Hoover did not want White to leave the bureau.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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More often, buy-now-pay-later can be a one-way street — as on-time payments aren’t considered on your credit history, while missed ones can be reported to credit bureaus and hurt a credit profile, Patel warned.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
He has held numerous roles at the network over a four decade run, anchoring the “CBS Evening News,” co-hosting the division’s weekday and Saturday morning shows, covering business and reporting from overseas bureaus.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
In 2022, Fannie Mae instituted a “positive rent” initiative for landlords to report on-time rent payments—but not late or missed payments—to credit bureaus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Asa previously reported on semiconductor companies from the Journal’s San Francisco and New York bureaus, where he covered Nvidia’s rise amid the AI boom and Intel’s struggles to turn itself around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
It’s the matching bedspreads, the night tables, the lamps, the bureaus, the doubleness of everything in their room, that gives me this impression.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
Last year Russian state media claimed that RT had seven bureaux in Africa, although this cannot be independently verified.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
"Incidentally, we have also studied enemy weapons quite well, which were taken as trophies and dismantled to the last screw at our military construction bureaux," Medvedev added.
From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2023
She mastered the technique, and set up her own lacquerware workshop in Paris in 1910, producing screens, chairs, tables, bureaux, beds and dressing tables for some of the city’s richest clients.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2020
And bureaux are good, if you may take the drawers out and empty the pigeon-holes.
From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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