effective
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Succeeding him, effective immediately, is Takis Georgakopoulos, who has been with the company since late 2024 and most recently served as a co-president focused on technology and merchant solutions.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 15, 2026
It’s just that it needs more direct attention from the media, and then I think the activist community that works on these issues hasn’t been very effective.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
“JPY’s weakness, as measured by the real effective exchange rate, is becoming pronounced and warrants repeated FX interventions even as volatility in the JPY has been limited,” they say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
In healthy soils, these fungal networks can expand the effective foraging area of plant roots by up to 100 times and provide > 80 percent of a plant's phosphorous needs.
From Science Daily • Jun. 15, 2026
Farmer strongly believed that quarantines were not an effective strategy for handling AIDS, but the Cuban approach had been far more humane.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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