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The European Central Bank proposed that Cyprus inflate the value of Cyprus Popular Bank’s collateral, so the E.C.B. might funnel more emergency loans, email indicates.
What began as a largely American problem for Takata is taking on widening proportions, involving drivers and regulators in multiple countries.
The company is facing its toughest challenge yet — curbing its ugliest, most aggressive impulses before its win-at-all-cost culture begins to turn off investors, potential employees and the public.
The foundation is to announce that it will receive $3.3 billion after it helped finance the development of drugs for the deadly lung disease.
After Netflix delayed a stand-up special, NBC announced it was dropping plans to develop a new sitcom starring the comedian, the latest fallout from rape accusations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 19, 2014, covering November 19, 2014.
Taylor Swift
Various Artists
Bette Midler
Jason Aldean
Calvin Harris
2014Roy Bhaskar, English philosopher and academic (born 1944)[†]
Ram Roy Bhaskar was an English philosopher of science who is best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of critical realism (CR). Bhaskar argued that the task of science is "the production of the knowledge of those enduring and continually active mechanisms of nature that produce the phenomena of the world", rather than the discovery of quantitative laws, and that experimental science makes sense only if such mechanisms exist and operate outside the lab as well as inside it.
2014Jeremiah Coffey, Irish-Australian bishop (born 1933)[†]
Jeremiah Joseph Coffey was the seventh Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sale, Australia, serving from 1989 until his retirement in 2008. On retirement, he was styled Bishop Emeritus of Sale.
2014Pete Harman, American businessman (born 1919)[†]
Leon Weston "Pete" Harman was an American businessman best known for having struck a deal with Colonel Harland Sanders to open the first KFC franchise. Located in Salt Lake County, Utah, Harman's location opened for business in August 1952.
2014Richard A. Jensen, American theologian, author, and academic (born 1934)[†]
Richard Alvin Jensen was an American theologian who served as the Carlson Professor of Homiletics Emeritus at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
2014Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (born 1950)[†]
Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, nicknamed Sar Talaei, was an Iranian football player, coach and football administrator.
2014Mike Nichols, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)[†]
Mike Nichols was an American film and theatre director and comedian. He worked across a range of genres and had an aptitude for getting the best out of actors regardless of their experience. He is one of 21 people to have won all four of the major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). His other honors included three BAFTA Awards, the Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1999, the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2003 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2010. His films received a total of 42 Academy Award nominations, and seven wins.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]