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As growth falters in several developing nations, regulators are worried about the consequences of the borrowing frenzy and the risks associated with the funds that have largely replaced commercial banks.
Gap said the move would ultimately raise pay for 65,000 of its 90,000 American employees to $10 an hour by next year.
Former employees of the Premier Education Group say officials falsified records to keep students enrolled in order to secure government grant and loan money.
Caryl Churchill’s new play, “Love and Information,” unfolds with miniplots that deal with the ways we lust for, process and reject knowledge.
Proposed legislation would prohibit websites, online services and mobile apps for kindergartners through 12th graders from compiling, using or sharing the personal information of students.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 19, 2014, covering February 20, 2014.
Various Artists
Soundtrack
Bruno Mars
Toni Braxton & Babyface
Broken Bells
2014Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (born 1923)[†]
Rafael Addiego Bruno was a Uruguayan jurist and political figure.
2014Walter D. Ehlers, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1921)[†]
Walter David Ehlers was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the US armed forces' highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.
2014Garrick Utley, American journalist (born 1939)[†]
Clifton Garrick Utley was an American television journalist. He established his career reporting about the Vietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent covering the war on-site.
2014Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers.[†]
Euromaidan, or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The protests were sparked by President Viktor Yanukovych's sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. Ukraine's parliament had overwhelmingly approved of finalizing the Agreement with the EU, but Russia had put pressure on Ukraine to reject it. The scope of the protests widened, with calls for the resignation of Yanukovych and the Azarov government. Protesters opposed what they saw as widespread government corruption, abuse of power, human rights violations, and the influence of oligarchs. Transparency International named Yanukovych as the top example of corruption in the world. The violent dispersal of protesters on 30 November caused further anger. Euromaidan was the largest democratic mass movement in Europe since 1989 and led to the 2014 Revolution of Dignity.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]