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A recent $400 million swindle against a Citibank affiliate in Mexico demonstrates the systemic challenges of finding safe lending clients in regions subject to cronyism and sudden policy shifts.
President Obama this week will direct the Labor Department to revamp its regulations to require overtime pay for millions of workers.
Political donations by relatives of Roberto and William Isaias, fugitives from Ecuador who fled to Miami, have raised questions about Washington’s decision making on their fate.
The documentary “Anita” tells the story of Anita Hill, who challenged Justice Clarence Thomas’s nomination and brought sexual harassment into public awareness.
Malaysian authorities were struggling to interpret data showing what could be the lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 veering off course and hundreds of miles from its last known position.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 2014, covering March 12, 2014.
ScHoolboy Q
Soundtrack
Beck
Kid Cudi
Romeo Santos
2014Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)[†]
Věra Chytilová was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave 1966 film Sedmikrásky (Daisies). Her subsequent films screened at international film festivals, including Vlčí bouda (1987), which screened at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival, A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989), which screened at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992), which screened at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. For her work, she received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award.
2014Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (born 1923)[†]
Paul Charles Donnelly was an American guided missile pioneer and a senior NASA manager during the Apollo Moon landing program at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Responsible for the checkout of all Apollo launch vehicles and spacecraft, he was also involved in every U.S. manned launch from Alan Shepard's Mercury suborbital flight in 1961 through the tenth Space Shuttle mission (STS-41B) in 1984.
2014José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (born 1936)[†]
José da Cruz Policarpo, officially referred to as José IV, Patriarch of Lisbon, though usually referred to as "D. José Policarpo", was Patriarch of Lisbon from 24 March 1998 to 18 May 2013. Pope John Paul II made him a Cardinal in 2001. Policarpo held a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
2014A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.[†]
On March 12, 2014, an explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The explosion leveled two apartment buildings located just north of 116th Street at 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue, killing eight people, injuring at least 70 others, and displacing 100 families. City officials initially pointed to a gas leak as the cause of the blast. In June 2015, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) blamed the explosion on failures by Consolidated Edison and the city. The NTSB also agreed to review Whistleblower Gas Explosion Audit Findings from the 2009 Floral Park Queens gas explosion as part of their East Harlem Gas Explosion Investigation. The NTSB were unable to resolve these hazards found with merit by the New York State Public Service Commission (NYSPSC) and they remain a Public Safety Hazard today.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]