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The company issued an “urgent agenda” memo to managers, pushing them to improve performance on fresh items, reflecting customer complaints about food quality.
The restaurant, known for featuring celebrity caricatures, is opening at a new location in Beverly Hills, and leaving its famous portraits behind.
The fines come as regulators are increasingly targeting a business culture in the financial industry that they say encourages improper conduct by its employees.
“Preparation for the Next Life,” Atticus Lish’s first novel, is a slow-building, unsentimental love story depicting blinkered lives at the American margins.
Mr. Obama will arrive at an international economic meeting in Australia hoping to press European and Asian leaders to get their economies moving again — and perhaps buoy his own presidency.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 2014, covering November 12, 2014.
Taylor Swift
Various Artists
Sam Hunt
Barry Manilow
Jason Aldean
2014Ravi Chopra, Indian director and producer (born 1946)[†]
Ravi Chopra was an Indian filmmaker, best known for directing the television show Mahabharat (1988–1990).
2014Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer (born 1947)[†]
Warren Clarke was an English actor. He appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. His television appearances included Dalziel and Pascoe, The Manageress and Sleepers.
2014Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (born 1929)[†]
Margaret "Marge" Ellen Roukema was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2003.
2014Valery Senderov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1945)[†]
Valery Senderov was a Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism.
2014The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.[†]
Philae was a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until it separated to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten years and eight months after departing Earth. On 12 November 2014, Philae touched down on the comet, but it bounced when its anchoring harpoons failed to deploy and a thruster designed to hold the probe to the surface did not fire. After bouncing off the surface twice, Philae achieved the first-ever "soft" (nondestructive) landing on a comet nucleus, although the lander's final, uncontrolled touchdown left it in a non-optimal location and orientation.
2014An Armenian Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter is shot down by Azerbaijani forces, killing all three people on board.[†]
The Mil Mi-24 is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and was introduced by the Soviet Air Force in 1972. The helicopter is currently in use by 58 countries.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]