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More troubling than its battle with Donald Trump, the Spanish-language broadcaster is dealing with a mixed bag of concerns — the same faced by most TV-based media companies — as it decides to go public.
An approaching action on interest rates is being closely watched as a broader debate divides liberals and conservatives over the management of the American economy.
Resentment has gelled into opposition to India’s version of affirmative action, a system of strict quotas that reserves nearly half of jobs for those from disadvantaged castes or tribes.
The opinions about Wall Street that are emerging from the presidential candidates suggest that the financial industry could face very different futures depending on which party wins the White House.
Many technological tools used by schools are designed to customize learning, but concern is developing over the collection and use of data on individual students.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 2015, covering August 31, 2015.
Luke Bryan
Dr. Dre
Various Artists
tobyMac
Taylor Swift
2015Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician, founded the National Motor Museum (born 1926)[†]
Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu was a British aristocrat and Conservative politician, best known for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for alleged homosexual activity, a charge he denied.
2015Tom Scott, American football player (born 1930)[†]
Thomas Coster Scott was an American professional football player who was a linebacker and defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants. He played college football for the Virginia Cavaliers, earning All-American honors as an offensive and defensive end. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979. Scott was also an elite lacrosse player and was Virginia's first two-sport All-American. He was also on the U.Va. baseball and basketball squads.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]