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The movie industry awaits the announcement, on Thursday, of Oscar nominees, though the movie with the most nods is no longer guaranteed to win best picture.
China’s export machine has continued to run even as blue-collar wages have soared between fivefold and ninefold in dollar terms in the last decade.
A pending free-trade agreement — and at least one Japanese farmer — is posing challenges to the elaborate system that protects the homegrown crop.
A smaller trade deficit, increased consumer spending and a surging stock market contributed to a revised outlook for United States growth.
The more than 800 monuments in New York City’s parks often illuminate only dimly remembered parts of the city’s multilayered history.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 8, 2014, covering January 10, 2014.
Beyonce
One Direction
Eminem
Soundtrack
Katy Perry
2014Sam Berns, American activist (born 1996)[†]
Sampson Gordon Berns was an American activist with progeria, an extremely rare and fatal disease that causes the body to age rapidly. Berns helped raise awareness about the disease, and he was the subject of the HBO documentary Life According to Sam, which was first screened in January 2013.
2014Petr Hlaváček, Czech shoemaker and academic (born 1950)[†]
Petr Hlaváček was a Czech shoe expert, university lecturer and researcher. His professional focus was to study the preparation and production of shoe materials, footwear, footwear ergonomics and historical footwear.
2014Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (born 1929)[†]
Zbigniew Stefan Messner was a Polish communist politician and economist. His ancestors were of German Polish descent who had assimilated into Polish society. In 1972, he became Professor of Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice. In the 1980s, Messner held numerous high ranking posts within communist party apparatus. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) from 1981 to 1990, when PZPR was dissolved, member of the PZPR Politburo from 1981 to 1988, Deputy Prime Minister from 1983 to 1985, member of Sejm from 1985 to 1989, Prime Minister of Polish People's Republic from 1985 to 1988 and member of the State Council of the Polish People's Republic from 1988 to 1989. Additionally in the 1960s Messner was the chairman of Piast Gliwice football club.
2014Larry Speakes, American journalist, 16th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)[†]
Larry Melvin Speakes was an American journalist and spokesperson who acted as White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987. He assumed the role after Press Secretary James Brady was shot on March 30, 1981.
2014Dajikaka Gadgil, Indian jeweller (born 1915)[†]
Anant "Dajikaka" Gadgil was an Indian jeweller, industrialist and writer. He is best known for founding the P. N. Gadgil Jewellers & Company in Pune in 1958.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]