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Statement of the Office of the Trustee of Lehman Brothers Inc. (LBI) (Popularity:  )
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James W. Giddens, the Trustee for the Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Inc. (LBI), with assistance of his counsel at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, today filed his Second Interim Report for the period May 30 to November 11, 2009 with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The Trustee has now administered more than $110 billion in the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) liquidation of ...
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine Issues Statement Praising the House of Representative's Historic Vote to Pass Health Insurance Reform (Popularity: )
Tonight the House of Representatives passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act, landmark health reform legislation that will ensure every American has access to quality, affordable, stable and secure health care coverage. The legislation, which cracks down on some of the insurance industry's worst practices, would extend coverage to 36 million Americans and cut the deficit by $104 billion over ten years. Groups representing doctors and farmers, seniors, consumers, ...
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Statement of US Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on October employment numbers (Popularity: )
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement on the October 2009 Employment Situation report released today:"This past October, the economy lost 190,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate increased to 10.2 percent."We have known for some time now that the unemployment rate could reach this level, and it is an unacceptable situation. We are working hard to reverse these circumstances for the millions of Americans who ...
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NBC's The Office Star Rainn Wilson to Narrate Documentary About Different Kind of Company (Popularity: )
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Ironbound Films, creators of the Sundance and PBS sensation The Linguists, announced today that Emmy Award-nominated actor Rainn Wilson, who stars as Dwight Schrute on NBC's comedy series The Office, will narrate its feature documentary The New Recruits.The New Recruits is about a battalion of jet-setting business students armed with a radical plan to end global poverty: charge poor people for goods and services. They spend one year working with ...
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United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Palau (Popularity: )
The Department of Justice today announced that six detainees who are Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the Republic of Palau.Ahmad Tourson, Abdul Ghappar Abdul Rahman, Edham Mamet, Anwar Hassan, Dawut Abdurehim and Adel Noori were resettled in Palau earlier today.These detainees, who were subject to release from Guantanamo Bay as a result of court orders, had ...
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his Wife, Rosalynn, Join Thousands of Volunteers in Asia for Annual Habitat for Humanity Build (Popularity: )
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Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, will lead the annual Habitat for Humanity build bearing their name in five Asian countries, Nov. 15-20.The Carters and nearly 3,000 volunteers from around the world will build and repair 166 homes in Thailand, Vietnam, China, Cambodia and Laos - all countries along the Mekong River. In the Mekong River Basin, nearly one-fifth of the population ...
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Bill Gates to Call for United Action to Support World's Poorest Farmers (Popularity: )
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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on Thursday will urge governments, donors, researchers, farmer groups, environmentalists, and others to set aside old divisions and join forces to help millions of the world's poorest farming families boost their yields and incomes so they can lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Gates will say the effort must be guided by the farmers themselves, adapted to local circumstances, ...
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Statement of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on September employment numbers (Popularity: )
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U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the September 2009 Employment Situation report released today:"This past September, the economy lost 263,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate increased to 9.8 percent."At the beginning of this year, the economy was in an unprecedented freefall, shedding 700,000 jobs a month. This administration met these challenges head on by putting a plan in place designed to create jobs and ...
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Clinton Global Initiative Features Global HouseCall Video Telemedicine Commitment (Popularity: )
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Former President Bill Clinton's foundation selected Global HouseCall as one of the featured commitments from the 2009 Clinton Global Exchange which just concluded in New York City. Global HouseCall is a new video telemedicine system which connects patients and doctors over cell phone networks in real time. More information is available at website.Patients will be seen on computer screens by doctors who receive transmissions through web cam and video enabled ...
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University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Partners with Peking University to Deliver 2010 China Business Plan Competition in Beijing (Popularity: )
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The University of Maryland's leading Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business today announced the launch of the 2010 China Business Plan Competition, in partnership with the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing. Students from both universities have the unique opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and collaborate to come up with business ideas working virtually across continents, then compete together in China ...
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