[and, survive, differentiated]
Many of those businesses were in small towns and cities, where the succession problem is a potentially existential threat. The collapse of a business, whether a major local employer or a village’s only grocery store, can make it even harder for those places to survive the constant attrition of aging populations and urban flight that is hollowing out the countryside.
Relay has differentiated itself by appealing to potential buyers’ sense of community and purpose. Its listings, featuring beaming proprietors in front of sushi shops and bucolic fields, are engineered to appeal to harried urbanites dreaming of a different lifestyle.
In deep winter, some tourists come to eat salmon roe and scallops and see the ice floes that lock in the city’s modest port.
Japan’s Business Owners Can’t Find Successors. This Man Is Giving His Away.
[between, and]
Mr. Putin, in an article published in People’s Daily, the main newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, drew parallels between the threats that he claims Russia faces from the West — which, in his telling, prompted him to invade Ukraine — and Beijing’s security concerns in Asia.
Putin and Xi Celebrate Ties Unbroken by Russia’s War in Ukraine
[with]
an experiment with women police officers found that women who identified closely with their gender actually responded to gender bias with increased motivation to help other women
The immortal – and false – myth of the workplace Queen Bee
[being]
They found that being reminded of gender discrimination prompted participants to downplay the sexism they had experienced.
Queen bees: Do women hinder the progress of other women?
[that]
Most operators in the super-low-budget arena with heavy slates speak of the impact of having that very rare breakout,
How an Online Frenzy Lit a Fuse Under Microbudget Slasher ‘Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’
That is a space that is being watched with great interest by indigent Arts Faculties and budget-conscious Vice-Chancellors.
An Eccentric Tradition: The Paradox of “Western Values”
China and Russia both oppose a global order dominated by the United States and its allies, and that appears to outweigh any objections that Mr. Xi may have about Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Putin and Xi Celebrate Ties Unbroken by Russia’s War in Ukraine
animadversions that the poet receives quite humbly
[which]
And the inspiration and boost to productivity which sprung from there were equally unscheduled.
Why serendipitous interactions in the office made us feel productive
[who]
Even those of us who considered hallway run-ins a distraction are feeling the hole they left behind.
Why serendipitous interactions in the office made us feel productive