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Though most of the presidential candidates have been testing early primary states for months, the costs were not counted as campaign money until just recently, raising accounting and regulatory questions.
Instead of ignoring its DVD-by-mail operation that was dwindling but still bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars in profits every year, the company concentrated on efficiency.
The Northeast Corridor has doubled its ridership in the last 30 years as its old and overloaded infrastructure has begun to wear out.
A new production of âTristan und Isoldeâ opening the Bayreuth Festival is willing to tinker with details of plot and character, but its mood is never persuasively disconcerting.
Federal regulators on Sunday levied a record penalty against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for failing to complete 23 safety recalls covering more than 11 million vehicles.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 2015, covering July 26, 2015.
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2015Bijoy Krishna Handique, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Mines (born 1934)[â ]
Bijoy Krishna Handique was an Indian politician who was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Jorhat constituency of Assam and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He was the only son of Krishna Kanta Handique, a renowned Indologist. Handique was a senior Member of Parliament from the North Eastern Region and represented the Jorhat Lok Sabha, Assam for six consecutive terms since 1991 to 2009. He also served as a Rajya Sabha member from 1980 to 1986. He had been elected to the Assam State Assembly in 1972 from the Jorhat constituency.
2015Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (born 1926)[â ]
Flora Isabel MacDonald was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. Canada's first female foreign minister, she was also one of the first women to vie for leadership of a major Canadian political party, the Progressive Conservatives. She became a close ally of Prime Minister Joe Clark, serving in his cabinet from 1979 to 1980, as well as in the cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1984 to 1988. In her later life, she was known for her humanitarian work abroad. Jimmy Carter has said that 90% of the contribution to freeing American hostages in Iran should be attributed to her and Kenneth D. Taylor. The City of Ottawa recognised MacDonald on July 11, 2018, by naming a new bicycle and footbridge over the Rideau Canal the Passerelle Flora Footbridge.
2015Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (born 1922)[â ]
Leo Charles Reise Jr. was a professional ice hockey player in the NHL and son of former pro Leo Reise. He was born in Stoney Creek, Ontario.
2015Ann Rule, American police officer and author (born 1931)[â ]
Ann Rae Rule was an American author of true crime books and articles. She is best known for The Stranger Beside Me (1980), about the serial killer Ted Bundy, her co-worker and one-time friend, who was later revealed to be a murderer. Rule wrote over 30 true crime books, including Small Sacrifices, about Oregon child murderer Diane Downs. Many of Rule's books center on murder cases that occurred in the Pacific Northwest and her adopted home state of Washington.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]