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Institutional Investor (June 10)

2022/ 06/ 13 by jd in Global News

“From 2006 to 2015, only four ESG shareholder proposals at companies in the Fortune 250 passed with majority votes. But in recent years, institutional interest in ESG proposals has undergone a dramatic transformation: From 2016 to 2021, 41 ESG shareholder proposals passed.” With ESG proposal now regularly passing, we’ve reached “a milestone for ESG integration.”

 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 1)

2022/ 02/ 03 by jd in Global News

“The highly contagious omicron variant has pushed the daily average of U.S. COVID-19 deaths higher than last fall’s delta wave as the nation nears a chilling milestone of 900,000 coronavirus deaths.” Statewide deaths have also been growing, though “it remains unclear if Georgia will surpass the peak that followed the devastating surge of the earlier delta variant.”

 

New York Times (January 5)

2022/ 01/ 06 by jd in Global News

“Toyota Motor unseated General Motors as the top-selling automaker in the United States last year, becoming the first manufacturer based outside the country to achieve that feat in the industry’s nearly 120-year history.” Coming amidst a “tumultuous” year shaken by supply chain and manufacturing issues, the milestone also “underlines the changes shaking automakers… as they move into electric vehicles.”

 

Market Watch (September 16)

2021/ 09/ 16 by jd in Global News

“The U.S. passed another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, when the number of fatalities from COVID-19 passed 666,000, meaning that about 1 in every 500 people living in America has died of the illness.” And with just under 2,000 deaths from COVID a day, “the U.S. is suffering more deaths every two days than in the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001.”

 

CNN (June 20)

2021/ 06/ 21 by jd in Global News

“China has administered more than 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses, an astonishing milestone that comes as the country rolls out an unrivaled inoculation drive…. Those doses are almost 40% of the 2.5 billion shots administered globally” and “all the more remarkable given that China’s rollout…. only reached its first million administered doses on March 27.”

 

Reuters (March 15)

2021/ 03/ 15 by jd in Global News

U.S. airlines are pointing to “concrete signs of an industry recovery as a slowing COVID-19 pandemic helps leisure bookings.” One of them, “Chicago-based United, which had been among the most pessimistic of the airlines heading into the pandemic a year ago, is the first to say it could hit the industry’s cash burn milestone” and return to the black in March.

 

Houston Chronicle (March 2)

2021/ 03/ 04 by jd in Global News

“Houston is the nation’s first city to record every major variant of the novel coronavirus—many of which are more contagious than the original strain.” This unwelcome milestone “comes barely a week after the ever-evolving virus’ death toll in the United States passed the half-million mark, a grim figure that…experts believe will continue to increase unless Americans double-down on social distancing, masks and vaccination efforts.”

 

Boston Globe (February 23)

2021/ 02/ 24 by jd in Global News

“The United States has now reached a calamitous milestone that crystalizes a year of grief and anguish: 500,000 lives lost to COVID-19.”

 

MarketWatch (January 13)

2021/ 01/ 15 by jd in Global News

“The U.S. set another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, when more than 4,400 COVID-19 patients died, the most in a single day since the start of the outbreak, and experts said that with cases continuing to accelerate, the worst is still to come.” Simply put, the “vaccine program must speed up to avoid reaching 640,000 deaths by spring, equal to lives lost in the 1918 flu pandemic.”

 

Washington Post (January 3)

2021/ 01/ 03 by jd in Global News

“Despite the president’s denials, the nation’s death toll surpassed a grim milestone Sunday of more than 350,000…. The nation topped or neared 200,000 reported cases for the sixth straight day Sunday. More than 125,000 people are battling covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, in hospitals across the country.”

 

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