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Even after they figure out how to get their equipment to the airport, pole-vaulters often do not know if the poles will be accepted on their planes or what the fee will be.
Trade experts say that governments have felt pressure to protect their domestic industries and started inhibiting foreign competition to compensate.
Banking industry analysts think downgrades by Moody’s will cause lasting pain for some of the biggest American banks.
The recent death of Víctor Báez, a longstanding police reporter, has added to a climate of fear among journalists in Veracruz State, a center of increasing drug violence.
Bain Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, structured its deals so that it was hard for the firm to ever really lose, even if the companies it owned foundered.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 20, 2012, covering June 23, 2012.
Adele
Alan Jackson
The Beach Boys
Neil Young With Crazy Horse
Big K.R.I.T.
2012James Durbin, English economist and statistician (born 1923)[†]
James Durbin FBA was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.
2012Brigitte Engerer, French pianist and educator (born 1952)[†]
Brigitte Engerer was a French pianist.
2012Alan McDonald, Northern Ireland footballer and manager (born 1963)[†]
Alan McDonald was a Northern Irish football manager and former professional footballer.
2012Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation (born 1925)[†]
Frank Chee Willeto was an American politician and Navajo code talker during World War II. Willeto served as the vice president of the Navajo Nation under President Milton Bluehouse, Sr. from his appointment in August 1998 until January 1999, when the Begaye administration took office.
2012Walter J. Zable, American football player and businessman, founded the Cubic Corporation (born 1915)[†]
Walter Joseph Zable was an American businessman, entrepreneur, semi-professional football player and college athlete. He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Cubic Corporation, a public corporation providing military defense equipment and automated fare collection equipment. At the time of Zable's death, he was the world's oldest public company CEO and Cubic was worth 1.28 billion dollars. Earlier in his life he had played semi-professional football for the Richmond Arrows in the Dixie League. Some sources also mention him as having played for the National Football League's New York Giants, although no official Giants records exist of his having played for the team.
2012Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.[†]
Ashton James Eaton is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event. Eaton was the second decathlete to break the 9,000-point barrier in the decathlon, with 9,039 points, a score he bettered on August 29, 2015, when he beat his own world record with a score of 9,045 points, and remains the only person to exceed 9,000 points twice. His world record was broken on September 16, 2018, by Frenchman Kevin Mayer, who became the third man to pass the 9,000-point barrier, with a total of 9,126 points.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]