quote [ [The] shopping comparison service had broken competition rules — hitting Alphabet, Google’s parent, with an at-the-time record-breaking […] penalty […].
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By September 2018, [Apple] had had to wire $15 billion in back taxes and penalties to the EU […]. However, in July 2020 Apple (and Ireland) won an appeal when the General Court annulled the EU’s decision. […] The Commission appealed that reversal and on Tuesday the CJEU set aside the General Court’s judgment ]

quote [ Consumers often have specific expectations around the design of international food packaging, with a preference for “folksy” or traditional aesthetics, which they perceive as more authentic. This trend suggests that many consumers distrust contemporary designs, associating them with a dilution of cultural authenticity. ]

quote [ I have to lend a paragraph to the art style. It’s reminiscent of ‘90s Saturday morning cartoons, bright and colorful and full of expression. Every character you can interact with has a portrait, and discovering each of them is like unwrapping a small gift. ]

quote [ It seemed the public could not get enough. It still can’t. Child lives on in a constant stream of biographies, novels, television series, films, and academic studies that show how The French Chef and Child’s cookbooks — notably Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) — stimulated Americans’ hunger for more sophisticated cuisine, and for the equipment required to produce it. ]

quote [ The video shows a woman reluctantly giving a tour of the hotel, casually introducing one of Poland's biggest boxing stars, Tomasz Adamek, without a hint of excitement.

She then proceeds to unemotionally present the hotel's other amenities, such as the pool, game room, sauna, gym, and bars and restaurants. ]

quote [ “It’s not like being down there is as bad as that scene from ‘Aliens,’” he said. ]

quote [ Of course, we have a lot of room for improvement in how we think about and manage solid waste in this world. ]

quote [ The similarities between Navajo weavings and the patterns in integrated circuits have been described since the 1960s. Marilou Schultz's weavings of integrated circuits make these visual metaphors into concrete works of art. ]

quote [ The consensus among these singers seemed to be that the voice should cruise low and soupy, that syllables shouldn’t be articulated so much as folded into a thick paste of consonants. When Staley stretches out a harmonized Yeah in “Man in the Box,” his tongue creeps upward, giving the word a light phasing effect, as if he is falling in slow motion, or perhaps being buried alive. ]

quote [ over the years, the city systematically shrank pedestrian space to make room for motor vehicles. Here's a look at the sidewalk on Lexington Avenue and 89th Street today, and the much more accommodating dimensions near the turn of the 20th Century, courtesy of architect John Massengale ]