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Once upon a time, sailors on leave on New York’s streets went a little wild — liquor and female companionship were the priorities. Now, not so much.
Democrats and Republicans say a clause affecting subsidies, now before the Supreme Court, was an inadvertent product of a sloppy merging of versions.
Charter Communications’ $55 billion bid for Time Warner Cable is aimed at helping fulfill Charter’s long-held strategy to become a legitimate national player in the industry.
The questioned findings, published in December in Science, have shaken not only political scientists but also public trust in the way the scientific establishment vets new findings.
The $56.7 billion offer is the latest in the sector as companies struggle to keep pace with the changing habits of how Americans watch and pay for television.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 20, 2015, covering May 26, 2015.
Mumford & Sons
Josh Groban
Various Artists
Tech N9ne
Zac Brown Band
2015Vicente Aranda, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)[†]
Vicente Aranda Ezquerra was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
2015Les Johnson, Australian politician and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (born 1924)[†]
Leslie Royston Johnson AM was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and held ministerial office in the Whitlam government, serving as Minister for Housing (1972–1973), Works (1973), Housing and Construction (1973–1975), and Aboriginal Affairs (1975). He represented the Division of Hughes in New South Wales from 1955 to 1966 and from 1969 to 1983. He later served as High Commissioner to New Zealand from 1984 to 1985, cutting short his term due to his daughter's ill health.
2015Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic (born 1927)[†]
Robert Paul Kraft was an American astronomer. He performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. His name is also associated with the Kraft break: the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8.
2015João Lucas, Portuguese footballer (born 1979)[†]
João Nuno Silva Cardoso Lucas was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]