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The Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act, also known as the Cheeseburger Bill, was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in March 2004, but did not receive a Senate vote. The bill was reintroduced in 2005 by Florida Republican Congressman Ric Keller. On October 19, it once again passed the House with a 306-120 vote [1]. The bill will now be sent to the Senate. The Act aims to protect producers and retailers of foods—such as McDonalds Corporation—from an increasing number of suits and class action suits by obese consumer ...

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Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) is the biggest company in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000. It is also the most profitable financial services company in the world. Its formation was announced on April 7, 1998 through a merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group. It was the first US company to combine banking with insurance underwriting since the Great Depression. The company has over 275,000 employees and over 200 million customer accounts in 100 countries and is on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. C ...

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• Citigroup - History
• Citigroup - Citicorp
• Citigroup - Merger
• Citigroup - Post merger history
• Citigroup - Corporate Governance
• Citigroup - Current Board of Directors
• Citigroup - Business model
• Citigroup - Real estate
• Citigroup - Divisions
• Citigroup - Scandals
• Citigroup - Brands
• Citigroup - Ancestor companies

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Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL and LSE: ACP) is a computer technology company with its headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, part of Silicon Valley. Apple was a major player in the personal computer revolution in the 1970s. The Apple II microcomputer, introduced in 1977, was an instant hit with home users. The company further shaped the industry by introducing the first personal computer with a graphical user interface, (the Lisa) and then, in 1984, the revolutionary Macintosh. The Macintosh, ...

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• Apple Computer - History
• Apple Computer - 1976 to 1980 - The founding of Apple
• Apple Computer - 1981 to 1989 - Lisa and Macintosh
• Apple Computer - 1990 to 1997 - PowerBook and decline
• Apple Computer - 1998 to Present - New beginnings
• Apple Computer - Current products
• Apple Computer - Corporate affairs
• Apple Computer - Logo
• Apple Computer - Criticism
• Apple Computer - Apple CEOs 1977-present
• Apple Computer - User culture
• Apple Computer - Notable litigation

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Agent Orange is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. Agent Orange was used from 1961 to 1971, and was by far the most used of the so-called "rainbow herbicides" used during the program. Agent Orange (as well as Agents Purple, White, Pink and Green) contained dioxins which have caused serious harm to the health of exposed Vietnamese, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians and Americans, as well as their children and grandchildren. Dioxin ...

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rule So. Vietnam - 1,250,000+ US - 58,226 Wounded: 153,303 (US) The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War 1 was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or "Viet Cong") against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably the United States military in support of the South, with US combat troops involve ...

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• Vietnam War - NLF National Liberation Front in the South
• Vietnam War - John F. Kennedy and Vietnam
• Vietnam War - The propaganda campaign
• Vietnam War - Escalation
• Vietnam War - Intervention by the USA
• Vietnam War - Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin
• Vietnam War - Operation Rolling Thunder
• Vietnam War - U.S. forces committed
• Vietnam War - The Tet Offensive
• Vietnam War - Tet aftermath
• Vietnam War - Opposition to the war
• Vietnam War - Pacification and hearts and minds
• Vietnam War - Vietnamization
• Vietnam War - The end of U.S. involvement
• Vietnam War - Fall of Saigon
• Vietnam War - Casualties
• Vietnam War - Domestic effects and aftermath in Indochina
• Vietnam War - Vietnam
• Vietnam War - Cambodia
• Vietnam War - Domestic effects in the U.S.
• Vietnam War - War Powers Resolution
• Vietnam War - Social impact
• Vietnam War - Social attitudes and treatment of veterans
• Vietnam War - Common military medals of the Vietnam War
• Vietnam War - Notes
• Vietnam War - Lists

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) was founded by Sam Walton in 1962. It is now a multinational corporation and is the largest retailer and second largest company in the world based on revenue. For the fiscal year ending January 31, 2005, Wal-Mart reported net income of US $10.3 billion on US $285 billion of sales revenue (3.6% profit margin). If Wal-Mart were its own economy, it would rank 20th in the world, with a GDP between those of Greece and Ukraine. It is the largest private employer in the United States, Mexico and Canad ...

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• Wal-Mart - Wal-Mart TV Network
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• Wal-Mart - Renewable energy experiments
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• Wal-Mart - Public relations
• Wal-Mart - Criticism
• Wal-Mart - Dumping
• Wal-Mart - Use of overseas labor
• Wal-Mart - Opposition to unions
• Wal-Mart - Wages
• Wal-Mart - Labor laws working conditions and child labor violations
• Wal-Mart - Taxes
• Wal-Mart - Allegations of gender discrimination
• Wal-Mart - Health insurance memo
• Wal-Mart - Illegal use of undocumented workers
• Wal-Mart - Workforce diversity
• Wal-Mart - Product controversy
• Wal-Mart - Supplier relations and predatory pricing
• Wal-Mart - Local community impacts
• Wal-Mart - Philanthropy efforts
• Wal-Mart - Racism charges
• Wal-Mart - Response to criticism
• Wal-Mart - Wal-Mart in popular culture
• Wal-Mart - Statistics
• Wal-Mart - Retail operations
• Wal-Mart - Store counts & revenue
• Wal-Mart - Corporate governance
• Wal-Mart - Miscellaneous
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DaimlerChrysler AG (FWB: DCX, NYSE: DCX, TYO: 7663 ), headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany and Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a prominent automobile and truck manufacturer and financial services provider (through DaimlerChrysler Services). DaimlerChrysler was formed in 1998 by the merger of Daimler-Benz (Germany) and the Chrysler Corporation (USA). The transaction was announced on May 7, and took place on November 12. It was alleged in 2003 that it was not a merger but in fact a buy-out. The on ...

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• DaimlerChrysler - DaimlerChrysler brands
• DaimlerChrysler - Holdings
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The Vatican Bank is a common name given to the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR) or Institute for Religious Works, the central bank for the Roman Catholic Church located in Vatican City. The Vatican Bank is run by a professional bank President who reports directly to a commitee of cardinals, and ultimately to the Pope (or the Cardinal Camerlengo during an interregnum). The current President is Angelo Caloia. Vatican Bank - History. The Vatican Bank is a branch of the Roman ...

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• Vatican Bank - Banco Ambrosiano scandal
• Vatican Bank - Allegations
• Vatican Bank - Legal action
• Vatican Bank - Role in popular culture

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Westboro Baptist Church is an organisation based in Topeka, Kansas, headed by minister Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. and notorious for running godhatesfags.com and other websites expressing its condemnation of various groups, (see "WBC Websites" below). Although its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations (however, there are numerous independent Baptist churches throughout the United States that are unaffiliated with such groups). The church describes itself a ...

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• Westboro Baptist Church - Composition of the Westboro membership
• Westboro Baptist Church - Purpose
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• Westboro Baptist Church - Sky Television report
• Westboro Baptist Church - Quotes from Phelps' Sermons
• Westboro Baptist Church - Similarities to the Christian Identity movement
• Westboro Baptist Church - Activities and statements
• Westboro Baptist Church - Criminal record
• Westboro Baptist Church - Violence against Westboro
• Westboro Baptist Church - Claiming divine vengeance
• Westboro Baptist Church - September 11 attacks and the space shuttle Columbia
• Westboro Baptist Church - London terrorist attacks
• Westboro Baptist Church - God Hates Canada and God Hates Sweden
• Westboro Baptist Church - Indian Ocean earthquake
• Westboro Baptist Church - Stance on adoption by same-sex couples
• Westboro Baptist Church - Hurricane Katrina
• Westboro Baptist Church - Picketing of Rehnquist's funeral
• Westboro Baptist Church - Picketing of Fred Rogers' memorial
• Westboro Baptist Church - Soldiers in Iraq
• Westboro Baptist Church - Other prejudices
• Westboro Baptist Church - Responses
• Westboro Baptist Church - Criticism
• Westboro Baptist Church - Opposition to Westboro's theology
• Westboro Baptist Church - Parodies
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Abercrombie & Fitch is a specialty retailer encompassing four concepts: Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie (Abercrombie Kids), Hollister Co., and Ruehl no.925. The merchandise is sold in retail stores throughout the United States, in catalogs, and online. As of 2005, the company operated 366 Abercrombie & Fitch stores in all U.S. states (except Wyoming) and in the District of Columbia. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. - History. During the beginning of the 20th century, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. was ...

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• Abercrombie & Fitch Co. - Other brands and additional information
• Abercrombie & Fitch Co. - Management

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IBM - Early years. IBM's history dates back decades before the development of electronic computers – before that it developed punched card data processing equipment. It originated as the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation, which was incorporated on June 15, 1911 in Binghamton, New York. This company was a merger of the Tabulating Machine Corporation, the Computing Scale Corporation and the International Time Recording Company. The president of the Tabulating Machine Corporation at that time was He ...

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In 1972, Keating began to work for American Financial Corp., a company involved in insurance and banking. Four years later he moved to Phoenix, Arizona to run the real estate firm American Continental Corporation, a spin-off of American Financial Corp. In 1984, American Continental Corporation bought the Californian Lincoln Savings. Such savings and loan associations had been deregulated in the early 1980s, allowing them to make highly risky investments with their depositors' money, which Keating took advantage of. Some regulators noted the ...

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Charles Keating, Charles Keating - Early life education and the war, Charles Keating - Anti-pornography efforts, Charles Keating - Failure of Saving & Loan the Keating Five, Charles Keating - Legal consequences, Charles Keating - Swimming

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Singers Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake were performing a duet of Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body," which featured many suggestive dance moves by both Timberlake and Jackson. As the song reached the final line, "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song," Timberlake pulled off a part of Jackson's costume, revealing her right breast (adorned with a large, sun-shaped nipple shield, a piece of jewelry worn to accentuate the appearance of a nipple piercing). CBS immediately cut to an aerial view of the stadium, but the damage had be ...

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Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy - Nipplegate, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy - The Streaker, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy - Other controversies, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy - Aftermath, Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy - Parody

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PayPal - Beginnings. PayPal was founded in December 1998 by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. One of its first premises was the 165 University Avenue office in Palo Alto, California, home of a number of other noted Silicon Valley startups. On the business side, many of its initial recruits were alumni of The Stanford Review, which was also founded by Peter Thiel. Most of the early engineers hailed from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recruited by Max Levchin. In its initial incarnation, PayPal was a se ...

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PayPal, PayPal - History, PayPal - Beginnings, PayPal - Acquisition by eBay, PayPal - Today, PayPal - Bank status, PayPal - Safety, PayPal - Criticism, PayPal - Warnings, PayPal - In the news, PayPal - Books

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LiveJournal - User interaction. As with most weblogs, people can comment on each other's journal entries and create a message board-style thread of comments — each comment can be replied to individually, starting a new thread. All users, including non-paying users, can set various options for comments: they can instruct the software to only accept comments from those on their friends list or block anonymous comments (meaning only LiveJournal users can comment on their posts). They can also screen various types ...

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LiveJournal, LiveJournal - Features, LiveJournal - Social networking, LiveJournal - Privacy, LiveJournal - Community, LiveJournal - User interaction, LiveJournal - Demographics, LiveJournal - Notable users and journals, LiveJournal - Frank the Goat, LiveJournal - Controversies, LiveJournal - Invite system, LiveJournal - Abuse team decisions, LiveJournal - Sale to Six Apart, LiveJournal - Community reaction, LiveJournal - Other sites running the LiveJournal engine, LiveJournal - LiveJournal timeline, LiveJournal - 1999, LiveJournal - 2000, LiveJournal - 2001, LiveJournal - 2002, LiveJournal - 2003, LiveJournal - 2004, LiveJournal - 2005, LiveJournal - Media attention

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IBM - Early years. IBM's history dates back decades before the development of electronic computers – before that it developed punched card data processing equipment. It originated as the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation, which was incorporated on June 15, 1911 in Binghamton, New York. This company was a merger of the Tabulating Machine Corporation, the Computing Scale Corporation and the International Time Recording Company. The president of the Tabulating Machine Corporation at that time was He ...

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IBM, IBM - Current business activities, IBM - Culture, IBM - Diversity and workforce issues, IBM - History, IBM - Early years, IBM - World War II, IBM - Airforce and airline projects, IBM - Successes of the 1960's, IBM - Recent history, IBM - Facts and trivia, IBM - Acquisitions, IBM - Spinoffs, IBM - Projects, IBM - BlueEyes, IBM - alphaWorks, IBM - Gaming Chips, IBM - Corporate governance

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In the late 1950s when SST designs were being actively pursued, it was thought that although the boom would be very large, they could avoid problems by flying higher. This premise was proven false when the North American B-70 Valkyrie started flying and it was found that the boom was a very real problem even at 70,000ft (21,000m). It was during these tests that the N-wave was first characterized. Richard Seebass and his colleague Albert George at Cornell University studied the problem extensively, and eventually defined a "figu ...

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Sonic boom, Sonic boom - Cause of sonic booms, Sonic boom - Characteristics, Sonic boom - Abatement, Sonic boom - Perception and noise, Sonic boom - Media

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In many countries, liability insurance is a compulsory form of insurance for those at risk of being sued by third parties for negligence. The most usual classes of mandatory policy cover the drivers of vehicles, those who offer professional services to the public, those who manufacture products that may be harmful, and those who offer employment. The reason for such laws is that the classes of insured are deliberately engaging in activities that put others at risk of injury or loss. Public policy therefore requires that such individuals shou ...

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Liability insurance, Liability insurance - Overview of Liability Insurance, Liability insurance - Public liability, Liability insurance - Product, Liability insurance - Employers, Liability insurance - Evidentiary rules regarding liability insurance

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New Coke - A new leader and a problem. The original drink's market share had been shrinking for decades, from 60 percent just after World War II to under 24 percent in 1983, in the face of fierce competition from archrival Pepsi-Cola. When Roberto Goizueta took over as CEO in 1980, he pointedly told employees there would be no sacred cows in how the company did its business, inc ...

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New Coke, New Coke - History, New Coke - A new leader and a problem, New Coke - A possible solution, New Coke - The market research, New Coke - Rollout, New Coke - Reversal, New Coke - Conspiracy theories, New Coke - Aftermath, New Coke - Coke II, New Coke - Was it really necessary?, New Coke - The taste-test conundrum

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The history of Diesel engines at General Motors has not been positive. In the 1970s, the company was unable to power its large cars and trucks with their emissions-strangled engines. Like many other companies, GM turned to Diesel power, directing the Oldsmobile division to develop two V6 and one V8 to be shared with all divisions. Oldsmobile's engines, the 5.7 L LF9 and 4.3 L LF7 V8s and 4.3 L LT6/LT7/LS2 V6, were notoriously unreliable. Although over one million were sold between 1978 and 1985, the ...

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List of GM engines, List of GM engines - Diesel, List of GM engines - Straight-3, List of GM engines - Straight-4, List of GM engines - Straight-5, List of GM engines - Straight-6, List of GM engines - Flat-6, List of GM engines - V6, List of GM engines - Straight-8, List of GM engines - V8, List of GM engines - V12, List of GM engines - V16

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