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For a company whose future depends on people handing over their information in return for handy online services, Google’s very ambitions may now stand as its biggest hurdle.
In several cases where hazardous conditions were uncovered, there has been considerable resistance to closing a factory, as owners worry about losing orders and workers fear losing their jobs.
The car company says the mechanics of the air bags may be faulty, causing improper inflation.
More than four dozen Iraqi citizens are scheduled to travel to Washington to testify against the Americans who they say fired wildly on unarmed citizens, leaving 17 Iraqis dead.
African-American voters are hoping to flex political muscles long atrophied after supporting Senator Thad Cochran on Tuesday in his runoff victory against a Tea Party challenger.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 25, 2014, covering June 26, 2014.
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Miranda Lambert
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Brantley Gilbert
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2014Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (born 1925)[†]
Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Leader and then Senate Majority Leader. A member of the Republican Party, Baker was the first Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate in Tennessee since the Reconstruction era.
2014Bill Frank, American-Canadian football player (born 1938)[†]
William B. Frank, Jr. was a Canadian football offensive tackle in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the BC Lions, Toronto Argonauts and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He also was a member of the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Colorado. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.
2014Rollin King, American businessman, co-founded Southwest Airlines (born 1931)[†]
Rollin W. King was an American businessman and investment consultant. He is best known as the co-founder and former director of Southwest Airlines.
2014Bob Mischak, American football player and coach (born 1932)[†]
Robert Michael Mischak (Pronounced: MIH-shak) was a college and professional American football guard and tight end who played six seasons in the American Football League (AFL), from 1960 to 1965. He was selected by his peers as a Sporting News AFL All-League guard in 1960 and 1961. He was an AFL Eastern Division All-Star in 1962. He also played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and was a starting guard in the famed 1958 "Greatest Game Ever Played". In addition, Mischak was a 3-time Super Bowl champion coach with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders.
2014Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor (born 1921)[†]
Julius Rudel was an Austrian-born American opera and orchestra conductor. He was born in Vienna and was a student at the city's Academy of Music. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 17 in 1938 after the country was annexed by Germany.
2014Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (born 1931)[†]
Mary Rodgers was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions. Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas' successful children's album Free to Be... You and Me.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]