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Pressure mounts to coax greater profits from the low-margin brokerage business by finding ways for retail and investment banking to work better together.
Steven L. Rattnerâs re-emergence as a power player is well under way.
In prosecuting big banks, the government is starting to push for guilty pleas, rather than just the usual fines and reforms, a tactic expected to face roadblocks.
An overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American companies and government agencies start in a building on the edge of Shanghai, say cybersecurity experts and American intelligence officials.
It is no longer enough in some schools for students to run around during gym. Now they are often taught math or English or health at the same time.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 13, 2013, covering February 19, 2013.
Justin Bieber
Andrea Bocelli
Tegan and Sara
Charlie Wilson
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2013Armen Alchian, American economist and academic (born 1914)[â ]
Armen Albert Alchian was an American economist who made major contributions to microeconomic theory and the theory of the firm. He spent almost his entire career at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and is credited with turning its economics department into one of the country's best. He is also known as one of the founders of new institutional economics, and widely acknowledged for his work on property rights.
2013Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1948)[â ]
Park Chul-soo was a South Korean film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. He was one of the most active filmmakers in Korean cinema in the 1980s and '90s.
2013Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1937)[â ]
Robert Coleman Richardson was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of the property of superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.
2013Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (born 1924)[â ]
Donald Richie was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema. Although he considered himself primarily a film historian, Richie also directed a number of experimental films, the first when he was seventeen.
2013Eugene Whelan, Canadian farmer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)[â ]
Eugene Francis "Gene" Whelan was a Canadian politician, sitting in the House of Commons from 1962 to 1984, and in the Senate from 1996 to 1999. He was also Minister of Agriculture under Pierre Trudeau from 1972 to 1984, and became one of Canada's best-known politicians. During his career, he would meet Queen Elizabeth II, help Canada beat U.S. president Richard Nixon to the punch in "opening up" China, and play a catalyzing role in the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War. In an editorial immediately following his death, the Windsor Star said: He was folksy, flamboyant and colourful. He was the farmer in the iconic green Stetson. He was blunt and rough around the edges. At times he was the antithesis of all things politically correct. And, while nobody said it in so many words, he was also the guy who made being minister of agriculture seem almost sexy. Perhaps that's because being in a Pierre Trudeau government was sexy in itself. Regardless, Whelan is likely the only MP to hold that post and have his name remembered because of it.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]