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      <title>Boomerang hires are quietly becoming companies&apos; best recruiting channel</title>
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      <title>Downtowns stopped waiting for Fridays and started remodeling</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[City centers stopped betting on full office return: apartments in towers, new weekday rhythms, and a slow municipal-finance reckoning.]]></description>
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      <title>The IPO window reopened — for companies that didn&apos;t need it</title>
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      <title>Franchising is booming — because buying a boss beats job hunting</title>
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      <title>Nearshoring built factories faster than it built jobs</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Small business credit is available again — at a price owners now read closely</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[CEO-to-worker pay ratios keep widening, but equity grants and methodology footnotes explain more than headline salaries. What to read.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Veneers Work: The Step-by-Step Process Explained</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:11:25 GMT</pubDate>
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