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The food company, which owns Spam and Skippy peanut butter, on Thursday posted a profit of $59.6 million, or 11 cents a share, compared with $183.7 million, or 33 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Like Buttigieg, he has made biking a part of his public image, even riding with a group of school kids in Brooklyn earlier this year.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
No one had asked me this a few years earlier, when many of us were pregnant for the first time.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Twenty-seven years earlier, she had turned up, uninvited, and laid down 1,500 mirror balls on the ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
I think back to earlier this summer when Camille somehow knew Mom was on a beach.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
