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Hickey said he was raising his price target for the company to $60 per share from $44 to reflect “the likelihood of a competitive bidding environment for a uniquely scarce global premium media asset.”
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
Combined with faster deoxygenation rates, these conditions increase the likelihood of hypoxia events, when oxygen becomes too scarce to support many forms of aquatic life.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
The ability to have people on site to do the electronic connections, put the panels in place, even to install the footings for the frame that solar panels go on is a scarce resource.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
He was, he writes, an “incorrigible satisficer” who minimized small decisions because “searching for the best can only dissipate scarce cognitive resources.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Octavian could scarce remain within the compass of the gunwales.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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