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Best Reads for Quarantine

As the weeks stretch on, quarantine is causing more and more of us to go stir-crazy – myself included!
Part of adjusting to this situation means accepting that it’s okay to not become a bread-making master, learn two new languages or write the next great American novel, according to mental health and productivity experts.
(Not that I haven’t tried…)
An acupuncturist I was seeing before quarantine put the conflict of adjusting to changes in our abilities in a good way: Just because something is different now doesn’t make it less than.
We’ve been hearing that sentiment translated in many different forms from experts lately.
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Booking Holdings Admits to Having Critical Failures Even Before the Pandemic

Booking Holdings, which calls itself the “largest, most profitable global online travel business in the world,” got candid about some stubborn, multiyear failures on page 42 of its more than 100-page proxy report. Despite notching a “solid” 2019, Booking Holdings stated Friday: “Nevertheless, 2019 was not without its challenges. Booking.com continues to under-index in the […] …read more […]

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Boeing pulls out of Embraer merger talks: sources

Boeing Co has told the Brazilian planemaker Embraer that Embraer has not met conditions needed to complete a civil aerospace tie-up, meaning the $4.2 billion deal is off for the foreseeable future, two people familiar with the matter said. In a letter late on Friday, Embraer declined to agree to an extension to an April 24 deadline to close the deal, which calls for Boeing to buy 80% of Embraer’s commercial aerospace activities, the sources said. Boeing later confirmed the decision. …read more […]

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Boeing pulls out of $4.2 billion deal for Embraer's commercial jet unit

Boeing Co on Saturday said it had canceled a $4.2 billion deal to buy the commercial jets division of Embraer , unraveling years of work on what the Brazilian planemaker expected to be a transformative move. Boeing’s statement confirmed a Reuters story earlier on Saturday and followed a story on Friday in which Reuters reported that the deal was close to collapse as the two parties neared a crucial midnight deadline. Boeing said in the statement that Embraer had failed to meet certain conditions for the deal to go through, although it did not specify which ones. …read more […]