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For Mr. Cagle, who grew up a Hollywood-obsessed pop culture fanatic in Abilene, Tex., the goal is to turn his passion for celebrity into profits.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is said to have agreed to pay a $25 million fine in New York for obscuring misconduct it was supposed to unearth.
With an estimated 11,000 homes destroyed and many more severely damaged, Gaza’s housing and humanitarian troubles are just beginning.
Companies like Google are employing unorthodox criteria — say, whether a product is used daily, like a toothbrush — to size up their deal targets, and without the advice of Wall Street bankers.
Millions of Americans have trained for new careers through the $3.1 billion Workforce Investment Act, but many have not found new jobs and are instead faced with thousands of dollars of debt.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 13, 2014, covering August 18, 2014.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Eric Clapton & Friends
Soundtrack
5 Seconds of Summer
Shawn Mendes
2014Gordon Faber, American soldier and politician, 39th Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (born 1930)[†]
Gordon C. Faber was an American politician and businessman in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon. He joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was a small business owner before becoming a real estate agent and entering politics. He served on Hillsboro's budget committee and city council before serving two terms as mayor from 1993 to 2001. The Gordon Faber Recreation Complex in the city's northeast corner is named in his honor.
2014Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)[†]
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont who served as a member of the Vermont Senate from 1967 to 1969, Attorney General of Vermont from 1969 to 1973, and later served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1989 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007. He was a member of the Republican Party until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent politician and began caucusing with the Democratic Party.
2014Levente Lengyel, Hungarian chess player (born 1933)[†]
Levente Lengyel was a Hungarian chess player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1964.
2014Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (born 1918)[†]
Dominick George "Don" Pardo Jr. was an American radio and television announcer whose career spanned more than seven decades.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]