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Many employers say they offer telecommuting and flexible work hours to employees, but in fact are cutting back on time for child leave or to care for an ill parent.
While AT&Tâs bid for DirecTV bears similarity to Comcastâs deal for Time Warner Cable, experts say the differences could lead regulators to separate conclusions for each one.
After years of declining to charge big banks, prosecutors are now seeking to criminally punish the banks without putting them out of business and wreaking havoc on the financial system.
Conciliatory remarks on Ukraine by President Vladimir V. Putin were probably intended for China, where he arrives Tuesday determined to strengthen âmutually beneficial trade and economic ties.â
A low-key Midwesterner, Brady W. Dougan has always been something of an anomaly on Wall Street. He is also the chief executive of the first very large bank to be criminally convicted in decades.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 14, 2014, covering May 20, 2014.
Soundtrack
Lindsey Stirling
Ray LaMontagne
Passion
Iggy Azalea
2014Sandra Bem, American psychologist and academic (born 1944)[â ]
Sandra Ruth Lipsitz Bem was an American psychologist known for her works in androgyny and gender studies. Her pioneering work on gender roles, gender polarization and gender stereotypes led directly to more equal employment opportunities for women in the United States.
2014Ross Brown, New Zealand rugby player (born 1934)[â ]
Ross Handley Brown was a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He played 16 test matches, most frequently in the first-five back position, for New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks, from 1955 until 1962.
2014Robyn Denny, English-French painter (born 1930)[â ]
Edward Maurice FitzGerald "Robyn" Denny was one of a group of young artists who transformed British art in the late 1950s, leading it into the international mainstream. Reacting against the mainstream St Ives School of landscape-based painting and inspired by Abstract Expressionism, American films, popular culture and urban modernity, they saw abstract painting as their only conceivable route.
2014Arthur Gelb, American journalist, author, and critic (born 1924)[â ]
Arthur Gelb was an American editor, author and executive and was the managing editor of The New York Times from 1986 to 1989.
2014Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English businessman (born 1933)[â ]
Rupert, Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Count of Löwenstein-Scharffeneck was a Spanish-born Bavarian aristocrat and the longtime financial manager of the rock band The Rolling Stones.
2014Barbara Murray, English actress (born 1929)[â ]
Barbara Ann Murray was an English actress.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]