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The Export-Import Bank, which helps finance overseas trade, was reauthorized by Congress for another four years, ending a five-month impasse. But obstacles to funding larger transactions remain.
A variety of factors is behind the price drop, analysts say, but OPEC’s decision on Friday not to tinker with its output, which is now at near-record levels, sent prices into a collapse.
Many plans include the stocks of gun manufacturers, but options are growing for investors who do not want the companies in their portfolios.
Known to readers of The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” department simply as “our friend Janet,” the longtime executive director of the New York City Housing Authority Symphony was equal parts Holly Golightly, Auntie Mame and Mehitabel.
The Islamic State has focused on prophetic texts stating that Islam will be victorious after an apocalyptic battle to be set off once Western armies come to the region.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 2, 2015, covering December 8, 2015.
Justin Bieber
One Direction
Logic
Jeezy
Chris Young
2015Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano and actress (born 1925)[†]
Mattiwilda Dobbs was an American coloratura soprano and was one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera. She was the first black singer to perform at La Scala in Italy, the first black woman to receive a long-term performance contract and to sing a lead role at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the first black singer to play a lead role at the San Francisco Opera.
2015Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer and coach (born 1936)[†]
Alan Hodgkinson MBE was an English professional football goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach.
2015Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (born 1943)[†]
Douglas Rainsford Tompkins was an American businessman, conservationist, outdoorsman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and agriculturalist. He founded the North Face Inc, co-founded Esprit and various environmental groups, including the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Tompkins Conservation.
2015John Trudell, American author, poet, and actor (born 1946)[†]
John Trudell was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2015Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and politician (born 1913)[†]
Elsie Tu, known as Elsie Elliott in her earlier life, was a British-born Hong Kong social activist, elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong from 1963 to 1995, and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1995.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]