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The fund chief executive’s campaign to put women on British boards has succeeded by concentrating on corporate leaders and on company returns.
A booming business in lending to poor people with bad credit who need cars to get to work is as much about Wall Street’s demand for high returns as it is about used vehicles.
Chief executives of successful companies may deserve handsome pay packages, but how do you value the contribution of the average worker?
Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the new deputy crown prince, embodies Saudi Arabia’s shift to a more assertive foreign policy, analysts say.
After the storm largely spared New York City, officials were left to defend the decision to effectively close it down Monday night.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 2015, covering January 27, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Nicki Minaj
Sam Smith
Rae Sremmurd
2015Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (born 1927)[†]
Everett Lamar "Rocky" Bridges was an American middle infielder and third baseman with an 11-year career in Major League Baseball from 1951 to 1961. Bridges played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Redlegs and St. Louis Cardinals of the National League, and the Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels of the American League.
2015David Landau, English-Israeli journalist (born 1947)[†]
David Landau OBE was a British/Israeli journalist and newspaper editor. Landau was editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz from 2004 to 2008. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the paper's English edition from 1997 to 2004. Before joining Haaretz in 1997, Landau was the diplomatic correspondent of The Jerusalem Post for 12 years and its managing editor for four years. After leaving Haaretz Landau became the Israel correspondent for The Economist.
2015Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1935)[†]
Joseph Louis Rotman was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Rotman was the founder, benefactor and member of organizations such as the Clairvest Group Inc., the Rotman Research Institute, the Rotman School of Management, and the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Throughout his life, he received three honorary degrees, as well as an induction into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. He is well-regarded for donating his time and financial assistance to numerous philanthropic causes including the arts, education and healthcare.
2015Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)[†]
Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. Townes was an adviser to the United States Government, meeting every US president from Harry S. Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999).
2015Larry Winters, American wrestler and trainer (born 1956)[†]
Larry Winters was an American professional wrestler and trainer who competed in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and East Coast independent circuit during the 1980s and 90s. He has wrestled in the American Wrestling Association, the National Wrestling Alliance, National Wrestling Federation, Pro Wrestling USA and the World Wrestling Council. It was reported on several wrestling websites that Winters died due to a heart attack January 27, 2015.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]