distribution
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It operates from a distribution hub in Plymouth, where about 80 volunteers and four paid staff help sort, organise and load tonnes of surplus food each week.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Quickly arranging back-up power is "extremely difficult", and the networks of distribution companies are also being targeted.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Drivers include expected stable margins and increase in exclusive distribution contracts for specialty pharmaceuticals in prescription pharmaceuticals wholesaling operations, the analyst says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Environmental advocates were more cautious about criticizing the program, which they say provides critical funding to reduce pollution from ports, railyards and distribution centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Naturally, Miao-Yao speakers did not acquire their current fragmented distribution as a result of ancient helicopter flights that dropped them here and there over the Asian landscape.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The bank launched a share buyback program worth 500 million pounds, below the company-compiled consensus of 579 million pounds, bringing year-to-date distributions to 2.8 billion pounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The grandly named Anthropic Public Benefit Fund “might explore” donations to existing nonprofits, or “direct distributions to specific populations,” the company says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Once they get wind of your required minimum distributions in your early 70s, they will come knocking again.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
That wouldn’t matter for retirees holding Treasurys inside a tax-deferred retirement account like an IRA, but any distributions would count as income.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
To get around the problems of fossil distributions, they posited ancient "land bridges" wherever they were needed.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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