BlackRockâs Chief, Laurence Fink, Urges Other C.E.O.s to Stop Being So Nice to Investors
Laurence D. Fink, chief of BlackRock, the worldâs largest asset manager, warns of harm in dividends and stock buybacks.
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Laurence D. Fink, chief of BlackRock, the worldâs largest asset manager, warns of harm in dividends and stock buybacks.
A nationwide strike may provide the first test for the Clinton campaign at managing the desire of voters and party activists for an aggressive approach to mitigating income inequality.
Senator Marco Rubio offers new energy for the Republican Party, but a challenge is whether voters seek another charismatic first-term senator with a compelling story.
An oppressively antic show, about the uneasy relationship between a teenager and her mother, plays like a series of songs, scenes and sketches with little connecting tissue.
Henry Rayhonsâs sexual relationship with his wife, who was in an Iowa nursing home, has raised questions of consent.
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The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 2015, covering April 14, 2015.
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2015Klaus Bednarz, German journalist and author (born 1942)[â ]
Klaus Bednarz was a German journalist and writer.
2015Mark Reeds, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1960)[â ]
Mark Allen Reeds was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and a former player who had played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1989. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Burlington, Ontario.
2015Percy Sledge, American singer (born 1940)[â ]
Percy Tyrone Sledge was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, gold-certified disc from the RIAA.

2015Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal and theologian (born 1921)[â ]
Roberto Tucci, SJ was an Italian Catholic theologian, journalist, and Jesuit priest. He played an important role at the Second Vatican Council and organized foreign trips taken by Pope John Paul II. He was made a cardinal in 2001, and continued to prefer being addressed as "Padre Tucci".
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]