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Shares have dropped 20 percent since their September peak. Some investors may be selling in anticipation of higher capital gains taxes.
While record outside spending affected the election in innumerable ways, the prizes most sought by the emerging class of megadonors remained outside their grasp.
Wall Street titans who supported Mitt Romney now face the prospect of developing a working relationship with the Obama administration.
Factions in the Chinese leadership had lacked a dominant elder statesman like Jiang Zemin to arbitrate disputes.
Changes in the American electorate have left many Republicans, who have not won as many electoral votes as President Obama did on Tuesday in 24 years, concerned about the future.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 7, 2012, covering November 8, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Kendrick Lamar
Jason Aldean
Mumford & Sons
Tony Bennett
2012Lee MacPhail, American businessman (born 1917)[†]
Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, chief aide to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert, executive vice president and general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.
2012Pete Namlook, German composer and producer (born 1960)[†]
Pete Namlook was an ambient and electronic music producer and composer. In 1992, he founded the German record label FAX +49-69/450464, which he oversaw. He was inspired by the music of Eberhard Weber, Miles Davis, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chopin, Wendy Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and most importantly Klaus Schulze.
2012Peggy Vaughan, American author (born 1936)[†]
Peggy Vaughan was an American author and speaker on infidelity issues.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]