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The case illustrates how executives face both reputational risks and potential harms to their businesses when romantic relationships go awry.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

You’re not wrong about the S&P 500, although there are no guarantees that past success predicts future success, as the past few years of the index illustrates.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

One can decry Broadway’s fearful economic dependence on the familiar while still recognizing, as this sampling of the spring musical season illustrates, that all art is fundamentally an act of reinvention.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The weekly chart illustrates how round number theory came into play at the $200 figure:

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

This example from the Jordan Valley, like that from Tell Abu Hureyra, illustrates that the first farmers used their detailed knowledge of local species to their own benefit.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond