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U.S. Office Market Struggling As Prices Fall 11% And Vacancies Hit 19.7%

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million, a staggering 97% drop from its 2006 sale price of $332 million. Many of these properties were sold at discounts exceeding 20%, and some were sold at more than half their previous value. For instance, a building in Manhattan at 135 West 50th Street was sold for $8.5 Despite these challenges, certain office sectors remain resilient.

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Work to Do in 2025: Working While Female

Bonnie Low-Kramen

Indra Nooyi led PepsiCo as CEO for 12 years from 2006. After all, to attract new talent, the materials appearing on the Careers tab of websites are the first contact with anyone considering working for a company. Women are either too loud or too soft, too feminine or too masculine.

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Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system | Priti Krishtel

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Between 2006 and 2016, the number of drug patents granted in the United States doubled -- but not because there was an explosion in invention or innovation. Between 2006 and 2016, the number of drug patents granted in the United States doubled -- but not because there was an explosion in invention or innovation. Fill out our survey !

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The one drug RFK Jr. should actually ban

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While the agency doesn’t dispute that ractopamine can harm animals, and it halved the maximum dose in pigs in 2006, it has argued welfare issues can be mitigated by simply asking meat producers to handle ractopamine-fed animals more carefully — a response that the petitioning organizations called “toothless.”

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There’s a bigger story behind Colbert’s cancellation

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In 2006, he headlined the White House Correspondent’s Dinner in character and ripped into Bush directly to his face, in a moment that Vanity Fair would say turned Colbert into a “folk hero for the left.”

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The new revelation about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, explained

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Epstein was charged in Florida in 2006, but the case was resolved in 2008 in what was later derided as a sweetheart plea deal. The investigation into Epstein truly kicked off the following year, in 2005, when a 14-year-old girl and her parents went to the Palm Beach police, accusing Epstein of molesting her during a massage.

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Me Too is a movement, not a moment | Tarana Burke

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In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the rampant sexual violence she saw in her community. In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the rampant sexual violence she saw in her community. I believe we can build that world." Want to help shape TED’s shows going forward?