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An overvalued bolĂvar meant the country had been a major source of profits for foreign firms, but they evaporated for many with a new exchange rate.
President Obama is facing mounting pressure from religious groups demanding to be excluded from an executive order that would bar discrimination against gay people by companies that do government work.
Crumbs shut down Monday, a week after Nasdaq suspended trading of the companyâs shares because, it said, the retailer did not meet requirements for market capitalization, net profit or shareholder equity.
When President Obama placed a call to Chancellor Angela Merkel last Thursday, he did not know that a German intelligence operative had been arrested a day earlier, and had admitted to passing secrets to the C.I.A.
The Department of Defense announced a $40 million investment in direct brain recording. The aim is to develop new, memory-aiding treatments for traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 9, 2014, covering July 9, 2014.
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
G-Eazy
Lana Del Rey
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2014Lorenzo Ălvarez FlorentĂn, Paraguayan violinist and composer (born 1926)[â ]
Lorenzo Ălvarez FlorentĂn was a Paraguayan composer and violinist.
2014David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1922)[â ]
David Joshua Azrieli was an Israeli-Canadian tycoon, real estate developer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion in March 2013, he was ranked by Forbes as the ninth-wealthiest Canadian and the 401st wealthiest person overall.
2014Eileen Ford, American businesswoman, co-founded Ford Models (born 1922)[â ]
Eileen Cecile Ford was an American modeling agency executive. Along with her husband Gerard "Jerry" Ford, she co-founded Ford Models in 1946, which emerged as one of the earliest and most successful modeling agencies in the mid and late-20th century.
2014John Spinks, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1953)[â ]
John Frederick Spinks was an English musician and songwriter. He was best known as the guitarist and songwriter for the Outfield.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]