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Walmart is looking to grab a bigger share of the billions of health care dollars being spent in the United States and to benefit from the shifting delivery system that has resulted from the Affordable Care Act.
Fan Bao, the head of the China Renaissance investment firm, has built a network of contacts with a focus on tech start-ups that will thrive in China’s “new economy.”
Douglas Preston, a Hachette author, wrote a letter to his readers asking them to contact Jeff Bezos. Nearly 1,000 other writers have joined his cause.
Cheap credit, lower tax bills and a desire for revenue, more than economic optimism, may be behind this year’s surge in corporate acquisitions.
Some Ebola patients still die at a Sierra Leone hospital, but just as many, if not more, are dying in the city and neighboring villages, increasing the risk of the disease’s spread.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 6, 2014, covering August 8, 2014.
5 Seconds of Summer
Soundtrack
Weird Al Yankovic
Sam Smith
Kidz Bop Kids
2014Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (born 1929)[†]
Menahem Golan was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget American films, primarily genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in Israel during the 1970s.
2014Charles Keating, English-American actor (born 1941)[†]
Charles Keating was an English actor.
2014Leonardo Legaspi, Filipino archbishop (born 1935)[†]
Leonardo Zamora Legaspi, OP was the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (1988–1991). He was appointed the first Filipino Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas in 1970.
2014Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (born 1929)[†]
Peter Joshua Sculthorpe was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighbouring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aboriginal Australian music with that of the heritage of the West. He was known primarily for his orchestral and chamber music, such as Kakadu (1988) and Earth Cry (1986), which evoke the sounds and feeling of the Australian bushland and outback. He also wrote 18 string quartets, using unusual timbral effects, works for piano, and two operas. He stated that he wanted his music to make people feel better and happier for having listened to it. He typically avoided the dense, atonal techniques of many of his contemporary composers. His work was often characterised by its distinctive use of percussion. As one of the compositional pioneers of a distinctively Australian sound, Sculthorpe and his music have been likened to the role played by Aaron Copland in America's musical coming of age.
2014Red Wilson, American football and baseball player (born 1929)[†]
Robert James "Red" Wilson was a professional baseball and college baseball and football player. He played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox (1951–1954), Detroit Tigers (1954–1960), and Cleveland Indians (1960), primarily as a catcher.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]