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A board remains in lock step with Rupert Murdoch, despite a growing storm of investigations into a phone-hacking scandal and an ensuing cover-up by senior officials.
After the vice president’s comments, the White House clarified that he was not articulating a change in policy.
The Knicks won in the postseason for the first time since 2001, an unlikely stretch for a free-spending franchise.
Stock volumes have dwindled since the financial crisis, and some fear that investors wary of stocks may have trouble generating respectable returns from the ultralow interest rates of the bond market.
Bo Xilai’s talents were counterbalanced by what friends and critics alike say was an insatiable ambition and studied indifference to the wrecked lives that littered his path to power.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 2, 2012, covering May 7, 2012.
Lionel Richie
Jason Mraz
Adele
Train
One Direction
2012Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (born 1931)[†]
Samuel Alexander Barr was a British shipyard worker, trade unionist and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) work-in veteran. Barr was an "inspiring speaker" and organiser who was a "widely respected shop steward" of the Boilermakers' Society at the time of the "historic work-in" at the UCS in 1971. Barr was credited with coming up with the idea for a work-in, which gained a lot of publicity and forced the UK Government into a reversal, saving 6,000 jobs at the shipyard. Barr was a lifelong friend to fellow UCS activists Jimmy Airlie and Sammy Gilmore. Throughout his life he displayed "considerable political commitment" to the right to work, and protection for the rights of young working people, and also particularly to the protection of the Clyde shipyards.
2012Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist and politician (born 1943)[†]
Ferenc Bartha was a Hungarian economist who served as the last governor of the Hungarian National Bank during the Communist regime.
2012Dennis E. Fitch, American captain and pilot (born 1942)[†]
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine's fan disk, which resulted in the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died during the accident, while 184 people survived. Thirteen of the passengers were uninjured. It was the deadliest single-aircraft accident in the history of United Airlines.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]