German carmakers were so bent on proving the cleanliness of diesel technology that in 2014 they financed a study involving caged monkeys watching television cartoons as they inhaled fumes from a Volkswagen Beetle.
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If the state were a private business, strict accounting standards would reveal a large budget deficit. The state was running a $1.7 billion deficit the last time the state controller filed a comprehensive annual report last spring, based on generally accepted accounting principles. Few states other than Illinois
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Three of the pupils were from John Tallach High and these are Mkhululi Lemekani, who attained As in Accounting, Business Studies, Economics and Geography, Munashe Mhlanga came out with As in Further Mathematics, Mathematics, Physical Science and Chemistry and Mandisi Mlambo got As in
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(SMALAND, Sweden) — Ingvar Kamprad, who founded the global Ikea furniture chain, has died at age 91. “One of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 20th century, Ingvar Kamprad, has peacefully passed away at his home in Smaland, Sweden, on Jan. 27,” Ikea said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg
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Ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont plans to seek judicial permission to attend a local parliamentary session Tuesday that would vote him in as regional leader for a second term. Spain's Constitutional Court has sought to block the investiture, ruling Saturday that Puigdemont, who has been
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