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US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job

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275 points belter | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 11:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.998s | source
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jp57 ◴[04 Apr 25 14:57 UTC] No.43583387[source]▶
A bit off-topic, but I find it weird that they use "group" to refer to Apple, instead of, say, "Company". Is this an FT thing? I kept thinking that they were talking about some larger group of Silicon Valley companies (i.e. "the Silicon Valley group"), but no, they just meant Apple.
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1. cjbprime ◴[04 Apr 25 18:58 UTC] No.43586416[source]▶
It's a British thing -- another example is that Brits would use e.g. "Apple have decided to.." instead of "Apple has decided to.." (for every group of people including "the government", not just businesses).

I like this language quirk a lot. It almost feels subversive, pointing out through grammar that group entities are just people, responsible for their choices like everyone else.