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This developing plot line, however, stays in the background as customers turn up demanding to look like Beyoncé or requesting micro braids, a labor-intensive torture for overworked hands.

Jobless inertia and financial strife breed a cruelty that isn’t dissimilar from the cold strike of an employer maintaining their bottom line, cutting 100 workers with the same callousness that they’d cut 1,000.

At a fringe meeting on Monday, Davis said he believed Kemi Badenoch was "on the right lines" and the party could win the next election.

That sounds like an admission that Pfizer’s deal had more to do with protecting its bottom line by staving off tariffs than with giving American consumers a break.

On April 3, 1882, the city permitted the Los Angeles Telephone Co. to string lines within city limits.