Trump began his career at his father's company, the Trump Organization, and initially concentrated on his father's preferred field of middle class rental housing. In the 1970s he benefited from the financially strained New York city government's willingness to give tax concessions in exchange for investment at a time of financial crisis. Donald Trump - 1980s boom. As a talented dealmaker, he was able to secure loans with little collateral in the 1980s and created an empire in real estate, casinos, sports, ...

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Aflac NYSE: AFL TYO: 8686 is an American insurance company, which was founded by three brothers, John, Paul, and Bill Amos in 1955 in Columbus, Georgia. The company's corporate name was formerly American Family Life Assurance Company, but in 1990 the acronym was formally adopted as the legal name. The official name on the firm's Web site, and for legally selling insurance, is the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus. Aflac has three realms of operations: New York State, the rest of the United States, and Japan (where they still use the ...

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The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Common usage sometimes regards it as lasting from 1900 to 1999. The 20th century is also sometimes known as the nineteen hundreds (1900s). However, a number of arguments have been used to justify the common usage. One advanced by Stephen Jay Gould is that the first decade had only nine years, thus contradicting the definition of decade equaled 10 years. Another argument is that the astronomical year numbering system for years does have a year zero, the ...

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Goertz was the second of John and Deanna Colaizzi's five children. Her father was a salesman, and as a result, the family moved often. She spent her teenage years in Malvern and St. Davids and graduated from Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania in 1985. She later attended Villanova University but left after one year, instead choosing to devote her time to her first marriage (she later divorced) and motherhood. Goertz is a mother of two adopted children, the owner of several start-up companies (including an Internet C ...

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Many remaining vestiges of the concepts drawn from the 2002 competition have been discarded. The Freedom Tower will now consist of simple symmetries and a more traditional design intended to bear comparison with selected elements of the existing New York skyline. There will now be a central spire drawing from precedents such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building rather than an off-center spire ...

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20th century - World leaders. Africa Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togo Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya Idi Amin, Uganda Nelson Mandela, South Africa Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Gamal Abdal Nasser, Egypt Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana Julius Nyerere, Tanzania Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya Haile Selassie, Ethiopia Léopold Sédar Sengh ...

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2000s - Technology. A huge jump in broadband internet usage, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June, 2000 to what one study predicts will be 62% by 2010. Boom in music downloading and the use of data compression to quickly transfer music over the Internet, with a corresponding rise of portable digital audio players typified by Apple Computer's iPod. Digital cameras become very popular due to rapid decreases in size and cost while photo resolution steadily increases. Sales of film reel came ...

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Boise State University   Boise State University is a state university located near downtown Boise, the capital city of Idaho. More than 18,000 full and part time students attended at the school during 2004, making it Idaho's largest school in terms of enrollment. BSU offers 201 degrees in 190 fields of study - from doctoral programs to t ...

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• Boise State University - Colleges
• Boise State University - Athletics
• Boise State University - History
• Boise State University - Notable
• Boise State University - Broadcast

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Atlantic City is a city located in Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 40,517. It is a resort community located on Absecon Island, off the Atlantic Ocean coast of New Jersey. Other towns on the island are Ventnor, Margate, and Longport. Atlantic City New Jersey - History. Atlantic City has always been primarily a resort town. Its location in South Jersey, hugging the Atlantic Ocean between marshlands and islands, presented itself as prime ...

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• Atlantic City New Jersey - Local Government
• Atlantic City New Jersey - Federal state and county representation
• Atlantic City New Jersey - Casino resorts
• Atlantic City New Jersey - Former closed and never opened casino/resorts
• Atlantic City New Jersey - Media outlets
• Atlantic City New Jersey - Transportation

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A baby boomer is someone who is born in a period of increased birth rates, such as those during the economic prosperity that in many countries followed World War II. In the United States, the term is commonly used to refer to the generation which demographers have identified with birth years between 1946 to 1964, despite the fact that the U.S. birth rate actually began to decline after 1957. Baby boomers presently make up the lion's share of the political, cultural, industrial and academic leadership class in the United ...

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Bloom County was a popular comic strip by Berke Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the lens of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children have adult personalities and vocabularies and animals can talk. It grew out of a strip called The Academia Waltz, which Breathed drew for the student newspaper while a student at the University of Texas. Bloom County - Characters. Bloom County - Core ch ...

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• Bloom County - Core characters
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• Bloom County - Bloom County itself
• Bloom County - Bloom County books
• Bloom County - Collections
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William Hall "Billy" Bush (born October 13, 1971) is the co-host of the NBC Universal-owned syndicated television entertainment program Access Hollywood along with Nancy O'Dell. Previously on the show, he was an East Coast correspondent in New York City from early 2002 until mid-2004, when Pat O'Brien left the show to host the new television program, The Insider. Bush is known for his light-hearted sense of humor and on-air high jinks with celebrity interviewees. For example, Bush famously brought pizza backstage to the ...

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The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States of America defined by the US Census Bureau. The Northeast is bordered to the north by Canada, to the west by the Midwest, to the south by the South, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Its largest city, New York City, is also the largest city and metropolitan area in the United States. As defined by the Census Bureau, the Northeast region of the United States covers nine states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania ...

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• Northeastern United States - Urban Suburban and Rural
• Northeastern United States - Economy
• Northeastern United States - Politics
• Northeastern United States - Historical Politics
• Northeastern United States - Northeastern Politics Today
• Northeastern United States - Some Famous Northeasterners

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Darrell Hammond (born October 8, 1955 in Melbourne, Florida), has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live (SNL) since 1995. Midway between the 2004–2005 season, Hammond set the record for the longest tenure of any SNL cast member in the show's history. Hammond also holds SNL records for most impressions by a single cast-member, and most times saying the legendary catch-phrase "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" to start the show. Hammond graduated from Melbourne High School in Melbourne, Florida in 1974 and th ...

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A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief and uncredited appearance in a play, or by extension, in works in other performing arts such as films and television. Such a role need not be played by an actor: short appearances by film directors, politicians, athletes, and other celebrities are not unusual. Cameo appearances can also occur in novels and comic books, when an established character makes a brief appearance (sometimes not explicitly identified) to establish a shared universe setting, or make a point of some sort. Many characters from Victorian and later fiction make cameo ...

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A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul or a tycoon, is a person who controls a large portion of a particular industry and whose wealth derives primarily from said control. Examples of well-known business magnates include newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of the Hearst Corporation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie of US Steel. In Russia and some other post-Soviet ...

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Twin Towers 2, or Twin Towers II, is a proposed plan designed by architects Kenneth Gardner and Herbert Belton to rebuild New York City's World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. It was presented as an alternative to the current official master plan of the new World Trade Center known as Memory Foundations. Twin Towers 2's centerpiece is two towers closely resembling the original Twin Towers, but with various technological, safety, and structural improvements, and one more sto ...

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Uncle Duke is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury. He is nominally Zonker Harris's uncle, although early in the Doonesbury continuity he was established as a Harris family friend. To reconcile this continuity error, many readers assume that Duke is Zonker's godfather (which in some families qualifies for the title of "Uncle"). Duke himself seems to remember winning Zonker in a pokergame. Duke's apperance and mannerisms are heavily based on the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson (see Raoul Duke). Bet ...

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Clear Channel Communications NYSE: CCU is a media company based in the United States of America. Clear Channel, founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, wields considerable influence in radio broadcasting, concert promotion and hosting, and fixed advertising in the United States through its subsidiaries. The company owns over 1,200 high-power AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations and more than 30 television stations in the United States, among other media outlets in other countries. The present head of the company is Mark ...

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• Clear Channel Communications - Market share
• Clear Channel Communications - September 11 2001
• Clear Channel Communications - Pro Freedom Rallies
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• Clear Channel Communications - Live music recordings
• Clear Channel Communications - Indecency zero tolerance
• Clear Channel Communications - Concerts and promotions
• Clear Channel Communications - Stations on Auto-pilot
• Clear Channel Communications - Rejection of anti-war billboard
• Clear Channel Communications - Censorship
• Clear Channel Communications - ClearChannelSucks.net and musician boycotts
• Clear Channel Communications - Official Response to Controversy
• Clear Channel Communications - Corporate governance
• Clear Channel Communications - Top executives
• Clear Channel Communications - Program hosts through its Premiere Radio Networks subsidiary
• Clear Channel Communications - Famous people managed by Clear Channel or subsidiaries
• Clear Channel Communications - Former hosts

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The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC) was a complex of seven buildings designed by Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki and leased by Larry Silverstein from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district. The complex contained 13.4 million square feet of office space, almost four percent of Manhattan's entire office inventory [1]. Best known for its iconic 110-story Twin Towers, after ...

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• World Trade Center - Observation Deck and Windows on the World
• World Trade Center - 1993 terrorist attack
• World Trade Center - 2001 terrorist attack
• World Trade Center - Rebuilding
• World Trade Center - Bayonne TV Tower
• World Trade Center - World Trade Center pregnancy studies
• World Trade Center - World Trade Center buildings
• World Trade Center - Film and media

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