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General Electricâs announcement is a stark recognition that it has become harder for financial services businesses to make big profits in the postfinancial crisis environment.
The reclusive Long Islander who made his fortune using computers to outsmart the stock market is a key early bankroller of Senator Ted Cruzâs fast campaign start.
The show employs satire without the bite of meanspiritedness.
Some insurance companiesâ complex, and mostly hidden, maneuvers to increase profits for shareholders may end up costing taxpayers and policyholders.
President Obama came to the Summit of the Americas in Panama determined to defuse a generations-old regional dispute over Cubaâs exclusion from the meeting.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 2015, covering April 11, 2015.
Kendrick Lamar
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Sam Smith
Taylor Swift
2015Jimmy Gunn, American football player (born 1948)[â ]
Jimmy Gunn was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was born in Augusta, Arkansas. He prepped at Lincoln High School in San Diego.
2015Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (born 1952)[â ]
Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was a Bangladeshi politician and journalist who served as the senior assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and was convicted of war crimes during the 1971 independence war of Bangladesh. He was executed by hanging at Dhaka Central Jail at 22:01Â on 11 April 2015.
2015François Maspero, French journalist and author (born 1932)[â ]
François Maspero was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad, Mehdi Ben Barka, and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express.
2015Hanut Singh, Indian general (born 1933)[â ]
Lieutenant General Hanut Singh Rathore, PVSM MVC(6 July 1933 â 10 April 2015) was an Indian General Officer. He was a recipient of India's second highest military decoration, the Maha Vir Chakra, for his role in the Battle of Basantar during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
2015Tekena Tamuno, Nigerian historian and academic (born 1932)[â ]
Tekena Nitonye Tamuno was a Nigerian historian and Vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan. He was the President of the Board of Trustees of Bells University of Technology.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]