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Performance is not about stocks—it’s about money coming into this complex, spurring gains across the board.

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Performance is not about stocks—it’s about money coming into this complex, spurring gains across the board.

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From the 1960s through the late ’90s, spurred by the ready availability of cheap, calorie-dense food—engineered to be irresistible and offered in ever-larger portions—adult obesity rates in the U.S. more than doubled.

Hassan acknowledged that the spate of development was likely to increase competition and had already spurred a rise in rents.

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That kind of money has spurred a hiring spree among scores of aerospace and defense tech companies, many of which were started by former employees of SpaceX, which has large operations in Hawthorne.

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