The al-Maa Bookstore (or Mahall al-Maa in Arabic) is owned by Hamzeh AlMaaytah, a fourth-generation book seller.
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Instead, Grab wants to be a "daily lifestyle platform," Maa said, as it expands into areas like digital payments and health care services, according to Maa.
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MAA Takaful, one of Malaysia's 11 Islamic insurers, is a joint venture launched in 2006 by MAA Group Berhad and Bahrain's Solidarity, which hold 75 percent and 25 percent stakes respectively.
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Nobody was racing against the clock at the "Maa-Rathon" - maa is Thai for dog - and there was no prize for the fastest dog and owner around the 1.7 km (1.1 mile) course.
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" 43A: In crosswords, sheep say "baa" and goats say "MAA.
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"We certainly do not have a monopoly in these markets," Maa said.
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The residential developer MAA is slated to construct 450 units of housing.
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In 2015 he became the first person of color to lead the MAA.
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"In San Francisco, most vehicles are four-wheel cars," points out Mr Maa.
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While the commitment is $100 million, Maa said he hopes to spend more.
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John Maa, MD, is the president of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society.
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Chennai (MAA) Reduced from twice-daily to daily from 23 March until 30 April.
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Maa is the chair of the California Advocacy Committee for the American Heart Association.
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Maa spent more than a decade in investment roles that included a stint with Goldman.
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If Guruji is Bhagvan Shree Rajneesh, then his Maa Anand Sheila is Batya (Kalki Koechlin).
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The university's administration, however, maintains that a solution can be reached to save the MAA.
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Pohjois-Korean ruuantuotanto ei riitä kunnolla kansan ruokkimiseen, siksi kaikki liikenevä maa on otettu viljelyyn.
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Maa explained that Grab will use the investment from Microsoft to improve user safety and experience.
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These expectations follow MAA reporting its third lowest SSNOI growth in six years at 3.1% in 0003Q17.
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"No other company has the footprint of licences that we have," says Ming Maa, the company's president.
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The next year, the MAA honored her again by naming her a LA/MS Section Next Fellow.
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The party said it had chosen Bhawani Maa for her past work on issues including women's rights.
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The Maasai people use Maa, a Nilotic language with quite different syntax than English or Romance languages.
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It's so widely used because it taps into our fifth basic taste: umami (pronounced oo-maa-mee).
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Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), delivered an emotional farewell address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the MAA and the American Mathematical Society in which he challenged the mathematical community to be more inclusive.
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Maa said the deal had closed and the firm was in touch with regulators to address any concerns.
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Maa joined Grab in October from Japan's SoftBank where he was involved in many of the company's investments.
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The payments opportunity is critical as "this is the real infrastructure glue that ties everything together," Maa said.
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Bpaet was strapped to her back with just a single piece of handmade fabric, a paa-kaa-maa.
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Fitch will also monitor the impact of the PPS acquisition on the growth and stability of the MAA portfolio.
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A patriotic slogan on one of the classroom posters reads in Hindi, "Maa tujhe salaam" ("Motherland, salute to you").
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One key benefit of combining with Uber, Mr. Maa said, is that it immediately expands Grab's food-delivery operations.
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"In Southeast Asia, there's little public transport, many dense cities and low car ownership," said Ming Maa, Grab's president.
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"Transport is a very, very large marketplace — I would argue, larger than e-commerce," said Mr. Maa of Grab.
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Today he puts the "Ma" back in "Machiavellianism," or SUGAR MAMA, or MAW, or MAA … it's probably nothing, right?
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Like Indonesia, many middle class and young consumers in Vietnam are using apps and websites to access services, Maa said.
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South-East Asia is not known for giving birth to Silicon Valley-beating tech companies, says Ming Maa, Grab's president.
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The Singapore-based company wants to be "a daily lifestyle platform," Grab President Ming Maa told CNN Business in December.
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The building has clearly been designed by the talented humans at MAA, albeit with a great deal of help from computers.
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"It is accurate to say we are absolutely not focused on an IPO or an IPO timeline right now," Maa said.
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"It is accurate to say we are absolutely not focused on an IPO or an IPO timeline right now," Maa said.
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By rolling out a range of daily services at varied price points, Maa was confident of Grab sustaining high growth rates.
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Fitch has also assigned a 'BBB-' rating to the Series I preferred stock MAA assumed in the recent acquisition of Post Properties.
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Moreover, MAA and its peers' development are meaningfully below the mid-to-high single digit exposures seen heading into the last downturn.
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Were this to occur, Fitch would also look for MAA to demonstrate and have a financial policy to maintain leverage below 5.5x.
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Were this to occur, Fitch would also look for MAA to demonstrate and have a financial policy to maintain leverage below 220x.
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"We have a strong belief that we're not the sole source of innovation in Southeast Asia," Maa told TechCrunch in an interview.
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It will make more than $1 billion in revenue this year and wants to double that number in 2019, according to Maa.
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Grab president Ming Maa said in a statement that the company will work with Mitsubishi and TIS to co-develop financial products.
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"Ensuring greater access to affordable and accessible financial services and products is key to growing financial inclusion in Southeast Asia," Maa said.
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MAA Group said it had received central bank approval for the sale, a deal which was first proposed in November of last year.
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MAA Takaful held 1.2 billion ringgit ($306.7 million) worth of assets as of June 2015, a 5 percent increase from a year earlier.
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Grab's president Ming Maa told Reuters last week that passengers and drivers had plenty of other transportation options, from taxis to public transport.
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But it may be the art school's final open house in the building, as the municipal government has moved to evict the MAA.
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"We continue to see significant demand from investors, both financial investors and strategic investors on a global basis," Grab President Ming Maa told Reuters.
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Cote said Allen and his Gravier Productions Inc failed to allege an "actionable breach" of his so-called multi-picture acquisition agreement, or MAA.
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Grab is already ahead of GoJek in the Indonesian ride-hailing market, providing well over half the rides in the country, according to Maa.
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In an interview with CNN Business in December, Grab President Ming Maa said the company expects to double revenues this year to $2 billion.
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Speculation has been rife that the company could go public soon, but Maa said there were no specific plans for an initial public offering (IPO).
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Maa said its total gross merchandise volume (GMV) in food delivery, a segment where it is expanding aggressively, has surged 300% in the first half.
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They also claim ancestral rights, saying the British forced their Maa-speaking ancestors off the land a century earlier to give it to white settlers.
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MAA has appropriate contingent liquidity in its unencumbered asset pool, which covers unsecured debt by 2.5x on a net basis assuming a stressed 8.5% cap rate.
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Maa said Grab is not focused on an IPO even as U.S. ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft kicked off the process to list this year.
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Maa said Grab is not focused on an IPO even as U.S. ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft kicked off the process to list this year.
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In an interview, Ming Maa, Grab's president, said that the deal with Uber would help Grab move closer to profitability, although he declined to give specifics.
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"The elders are now talking in public about this which has never happened before," said Leuka, a former teacher and co-founder of grassroots project SAFE Maa.
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In its mature ride-sharing business, the company is profitable in several of its markets, Maa said, adding that Grab has no specific plans for an IPO.
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Grab president Ming Maa recently told TechCrunch that there are some "interesting" markets where the company isn't present, and it looks like Myanmar is one of those.
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As the liquidity deficit totals $359 million, Fitch envisions MAA will look to improve coverage by issuing unsecured debt, expanding its revolving credit facility or some combination thereof.
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Maa said Grab is "very focused" on security and privacy and is open with users and business partners regarding the data it collects and how it is handled.
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Food and drug administration * Plans to submit marketing authorization application (maa) for brigatinib to european medicines agency (ema) in early 2017 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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" There are technology-focused areas that the two "would love to collaborate on," Maa said without giving specifics, but these conversations are at early stage and "anything is possible.
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MAA paid a relatively high premium to consensus net asset value (NAV) for Post that will cause the transaction to be dilutive initially to earnings and NAV per share.
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Grab President Ming Maa told Reuters that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son was "highly supportive" of the deal, which he called "a very independent decision by both" Grab and Uber.
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Addition of Development Capacity: Fitch views MAA retaining the development capacity acquired from PPS as a change in strategy, despite expectations that it will remain manageable in terms of exposure.
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The Honda deal, like the Tokyo Century alliance, is another that seems to have been landed by Ming Maa, the former SoftBank executive who joined Grab as president in October.
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The Singapore-based firm continues to see strong interest from global investors after securing nearly $1.5 billion from the Vision Fund in a year-long round, Ming Maa told Reuters.
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Maa, 42, said Grab was keen to tie up with more partners that could provide it with a complementary set of technologies or services to help it expand its offerings.
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The Singapore-based firm continues to see strong interest from global investors after securing nearly $1.5 billion from the Vision Fund in a year-long round, Ming Maa told Reuters.
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Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) and AmSurg (AMSG) join the S&P 500, swapping places in the S&P MidCap 400 with Owens-Illinois (OI) and Legg Mason (LM) respectively.
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"The school has not been provided with any suitable interim premises suitable for its needs and operations," reads a statement sent to Hyperallergic by MAA student representative Andreas B. Amble.
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Particularly troubling to the MAA and many others are the implications that the decision may have on appropriation of the ancient and medieval world by white supremacists and European nationalists.
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These factors offset Fitch's expectation that Equity Residential will operate with higher leverage than MAA through the cycle given its financial policies (current leverage is low given lack of reinvestment opportunities).
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Post Properties (PPS) is near a deal to be bought by rival apartment REIT Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) for about $4.4 billion in stock, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Post Properties — The apartment real estate investment trust is being bought by rival MAA in a $4 billion stock swap deal.
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Last month, Grab's president Ming Maa - a former SoftBank executive - said Grab was considering raising more funds in the ongoing financing round, in which the SoftBank Vision Fund invested $1.5 billion.
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That network allowed Grab to hire experienced executives to fill out its team, including most notably Ming Maa, a "deal-maker" who joined as company President from SoftBank 18 months ago.
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"We will be investing the vast bulk of this capital we have raised into expanding our super-app platform and providing new services to our customers, particularly in Indonesia," Maa said.
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Maa, 42, said Grab was keen to tie up with more partners that could provide the company with a complementary set of technologies or services to help it expand its offerings.
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Maa, 42, said Grab was keen to tie up with more partners that could provide the company with a complementary set of technologies or services to help it expand its offerings.
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One of the standout features of Jaich Maa was a huge calcite cavern called Tay Ujaa, or "big cave," said scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute who were part of the expedition.
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Founded in 1995, the MAA offers BFA and MFA degrees, as well as a PhD in fine arts, a BA in Critical Studies, and MA degrees in Critical and Pedagogical Studies.
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While other big ride hailing firms such as Lyft and Uber have made moves to go public this year, Grab has no plans for an IPO, Maa said at the time.
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For instance, Ahmad Jamal sits on George Nelson's Herman Miller MAA office chair on the cover of All of You, showing he and his music are both centered in American modernism.
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EXPECTS TO RATE PPS OBLIGATIONS As MAA will be merging the PPS operating partnership into its own, Fitch expects to rate Post's senior unsecured obligations at 'BBB+' upon completion of the merger.
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The six student team is then brought together prior to the IMO for a three-and-one-half-week training program at Carnegie Mellon University, which is also organized by the MAA.
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"We're just at the tip of the iceberg for financial services," said Maa, adding that developing the region's largest payment mobile wallet gave Grab valuable data insight into customers and drivers on its network.
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Grab President Ming Maa declined to comment on ongoing investment discussions, but he told CNBC that the company was on track to raise about $3 billion in funds by the end of the year.
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That's because many of Hoglund's responsibilities will be transferred to Grab President Ming Maa, who joined the company from Grab investor SoftBank in October, and transitioning to that new structure is the immediate priority.
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The Singapore-based startup has raised more than $2.7 billion so far this year and will get to $3 billion "before New Year's bell," President Ming Maa said in an interview Tuesday with CNN Business.
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Last month Grab's president Ming Maa, a former SoftBank executive, said the ride-hailing company was considering raising more funds in its ongoing financing round, in which the SoftBank Vision Fund has invested $1.5 billion.
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Landlessness is a widespread problem in Kenya's pastoralist communities, said Ole Timoi, program manager at Dupoto-e-maa, a community-based organization that has worked with the Maasai since 1993 on education, infrastructure and land.
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"Our president, Ming Maa, always says: 'If it's got wheels, I want it on the platform,'" said Vassilakis, referring to Grab's goals to continue expanding its transport fleet, which now includes coaches, bikes and shuttle buses.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Leverage Strong for Rating: Fitch expects leverage to remain between 5.0x-5.5x through the forecast horizon as MAA continues to utilize a mix of unsecured bond issuances and dispositions to fund investment activity.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Today the Malmö Art Academy (MAA) in Malmö, Sweden, held an open house at the Mellersta Förstadsskolan, the 1898 building that has been its home for the past 21 years.
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Vietnam ranks third or fourth among Grab's top markets, said Maa, who joined the company three years ago from its major investor, Japan's Softbank Group Corp, and a previous decade-long stint at investment bank Goldman Sachs.
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For more click on Zurich Insurance is set to take full ownership of Malaysia's MAA Takaful after the deal received regulatory approval, giving Europe's fifth-biggest insurer a foothold in the world's second largest Islamic insurance market.
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Fda by mid-year * If cerliponase alfa maa accepted by ema, opinion from committee for medicinal products for human use anticipated in q1 2017 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Bengaluru Newsroom: +1-646-646-8780)
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While it might not be a household name to those outside financial markets, Grab president Ming Maa played up Invesco as "one of the smartest investors in developing markets" in a statement released alongside news of the investment.
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In 2016, AlMaaytah decided to split from the family brand and renamed his store al-Maa -- meaning "water" -- to better represent his philosophy: that books are as important to life as water, and should be just as accessible.
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But some water sources have struggled to keep up with demand, particularly during long droughts, said Ole Timoi, a program manager for Dupoto-e-maa, a community-based organization that works with pastoralist communities in the Rift Valley.
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The city of Malmö is in dire need of additional elementary and high schools, and has given Lund University (which runs the MAA) a year to vacate the building so that it can be turned into a school.
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As compared to the rest of the multifamily REIT universe, MAA is rated a notch lower than Equity Residential (A-/Stable), which Fitch views to have sector leading access to capital and a highly sought-after coastal infill portfolio.
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It isn't a formal corporate fund, and will be handled by Grab's existing team in Indonesia alongside executives such as President Ming Maa, who joined from investor SoftBank last year and runs a range of operational areas for Grab.
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A place the Middle East 'can't afford to lose' In 2016, due to a combination of economic conditions in Jordan, and a sudden illness that left AlMaaytah unable to work for several months, al-Maa came close to closure.
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Future Developments That May, Individually or Collectively, Lead to Negative Rating Action --Fitch's expectation of leverage sustaining above 6.5x; --Should MAA demonstrate a higher risk tolerance from both a business and liquidity perspective based on an increase in its development pipeline.
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Draximage faces very limited competition for some of its top products, such as MAA, an albumin injectable used in lung imaging, and DTPA, a pentetate injectable used for brain and kidney imaging, both of which have no competitors at present.
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Maa said Grab is interested in taking up a digital banking licence in Singapore, where the central bank has announced plans to issue up to five online-only bank licences and is expected to provide detailed guidelines in a few weeks.
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Maa said Grab is interested in taking up a digital banking license in Singapore, where the central bank has announced plans to issue up to five online-only bank licenses and is expected to provide detailed guidelines in a few weeks.
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For example, Martin Lehnert's "Reverse Dictionary of Present-Day English" (published in 1971 in Leipzig, East Germany, of all places) lists 116,000 English words starting with a, baa, sahaa, maa, et cetera, and ending with frizz, zizz, buzz, abuzz, and fuzz.
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"Our number one missions is to provide a safe and reliable transportation service, and so the key focus of this will be Honda doing driver safety training at centers and also at their dealers," Ming Maa, president of Grab, told CNBC by phone.
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"By using deflationary forces like digital banking, we are able to provide very similar sets of financial services at much lower cost than what traditional banks are able to provide," said Maa, who earned a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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"We continue to see a tremendous amount of investor interest around the world, and may consider upsizing this financing in the future," said Maa, a former SoftBank executive, who was instrumental in SoftBank's earlier investments in Grab before joining the startup in 2016.
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"We continue to see just a tremendous amount of investor interest around the world, and we may consider upsizing this financing in the future," said Maa, a former SoftBank executive, who was instrumental in SoftBank's earlier investments in Grab before joining the startup in 2016.
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"We continue to see just a tremendous amount of investor interest around the world, and we may consider upsizing this financing in the future," said Maa, a former SoftBank executive, who was instrumental in SoftBank's earlier investments in Grab before joining the startup in 2016.
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"The MAA provides certain benefits to Amazon, such as an exclusive 'first look' at Allen's subsequent literary and visual materials and the right to publicize the parties' agreements, but the plaintiffs do not allege that they suffered damages from the termination of these provisions," the judge wrote.
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They said the EMA had also accepted to review the marketing authorization application (MAA) for Cemiplimab, which is used to treat patients with metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) - a form of skin cancer - or patients with locally advanced CSCC who are not candidates for surgery.
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"We certainly do not see a slowdown in growth in any of our core businesses and if anything, as we continue to see more services being launched, we expect the growth from those relatively newer services to continue to be much higher than some of our more mature services," Maa said.
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"As a global leader in the automotive industry, Toyota's investment in Grab is based on their conviction in our leadership in driving the adoption of new mobility solutions and expanding [online-to-offline] mobile services, such as GrabFood and GrabPay, in the region," Ming Maa, president of Grab, said in a statement.
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"We are excited to announce today's partnership with Tokyo Century, which will help us meet growing user demand and further extend our market leadership by enhancing leasing and rental car options for our valued GrabCar drivers across our platform," Grab President Ming Maa, who joined from investor SoftBank in October, said in a statement.
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