award
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Saying the award was “outsized” and “supported by neither the facts nor the law,” Stifel contested the panel’s decision in federal court; the parties later reached a confidential settlement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Following a successful, decades-long career, Lunny was presented a lifetime achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2018.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Understanding the legal basis for the $90,000 award to your ex-spouse may help.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
In 1993, Anderson received the Academy of Country Music career achievement award.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Twice honored with the Hero of the Soviet Union award, Svetlana worked as a flight engineer.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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On the morning of his first awards nomination, he ducks behind the set to hide a grateful tear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
He still finds the awards and superlatives “surreal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The winner will be announced on Thursday after being chosen by senior lawmakers, ahead of an awards ceremony in December.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The crowd is a mix of younger staffers and more veteran New York politicians, many of whom are receiving awards.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
If they gave awards to people in the regular classes, the gym wouldn’t hold everyone.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
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In addition, the jury found the two deputies acted with reckless disregard and awarded $10 million in punitive damages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
In September, a Finra panel awarded one group of Payne’s investors $4.4 million in compensatory damages, more than their request for at least $3 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Bridget Jones Prize will be awarded to an unpublished writer, without an agent, based in the north of England as part of New Writing North's Northern Writers' Awards.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
World Airports awarded designing, building and operating authority to a private contracting consortium called LINXS, for LAX Integrated Express Solution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Points were awarded for bigger cargo, and the best you could hope for was two crates, or six points.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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That same month, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in the case of a 20-year-old woman who said she became hooked on social media as a child, awarding her $6 million.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
The two sides settled out of court after seven years, following a U.S. jury awarding Apple $539 million in damages for patent infringement of the iPhone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’s never settled into a particular genre and, perhaps due to that wide-ranging restlessness, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be awarding him an honorary Oscar in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Burnham also said the government would place more emphasis on "social value" when awarding contracts, which could include whether firms offer young people work experience.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He was awarding cash prizes to children all over his province who did well in their exams.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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