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The sale could bolster other parts of the financially struggling university, but it could also mean the end of WHUT, the 35-year-old public television station that is the first owned and operated by a historically black institution.
An increase in the rates that webcasters, including Pandora, must pay record companies for the next five years may have huge consequences for Pandora’s business.
The story of how the deal came together started long before that — in December 2009, with the failure of the last such summit meeting in Copenhagen.
As Volkswagen struggles to explain a globe-spanning emissions-cheating scandal, its management culture — confident, cutthroat and insular — is coming under scrutiny.
Mr. Bharara, whose office recently won convictions of two of New York’s most powerful legislators, said Albany’s problems were deep and systemic, but declined to suggest specific reforms.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 9, 2015, covering December 14, 2015.
Adele
Justin Bieber
One Direction
Jadakiss
The Weeknd
2015Terry Backer, American soldier and politician (born 1954)[†]
Terry Backer, born Terrance Eddy Backer, was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1993 until his death in 2015.
2015Glen Sonmor, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1929)[†]
Glen Robert Sonmor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, scout and coach. He played 28 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers from 1953 to 1955, though most of his career was spent in the minor American Hockey League. After his playing career, Sonmor turned to coaching. He led the University of Minnesota from 1966 to 1972, then went to the World Hockey Association, where he was the general manager, and occasional coach, of the Minnesota Fighting Saints and Birmingham Bulls between 1972 and 1978. He then moved to the NHL to coach the Minnesota North Stars from 1978 to 1987. Later in his career, Sonmor became a scout for the Minnesota Wild of the NHL.
2015Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1963)[†]
Vadym Mykolayovych Tyshchenko or Vadim Nikolayevich Tishchenko was a Soviet and Ukrainian association football player and Ukrainian coach.
2015Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (born 1927)[†]
Lillian Vernon was an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She founded the Lillian Vernon Corporation in 1951 and served as its chairwoman and CEO until July 1989, though she continued to serve as executive chairwoman until 2003, when the company was taken private by Zelnick Media. When it went public in 1987, Lillian Vernon Corporation was the first company traded on the American Stock Exchange founded by a woman. New York University's Lillian Vernon Writers House is named after her and houses the University's prestigious creative writing program.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]