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Bottom Line: A technical/defensive carry that works if execution and balance-sheet optics improve; not a pure value or growth standout.
From Barron's
True workplace diversity isn’t about optics—the way somebody looks—but is about diversity of thought.
Gray warns that sometimes, whether consciously or not, these privileged groups leverage “the optics of this collective recovery to accelerate their own rebuilding,” leaving working-class survivors “sidelined or ignored.”
From Los Angeles Times
Crews have excavated 85% of the area and have begun digging by hand around the valve to ensure adjacent oil pipelines, a fiber optic line and a gas line are not affected, Quiñones said.
From Los Angeles Times
Nearby, a tunnel has, since 1985, carried fibre optic cables under the Thames serving hundreds of City firms.
From BBC
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