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...According to the annual Giving USA survey, last year charitable donations amounted to 1.9 per cent of US GDP, the same as in the year of Pallotta’s TED talk....
...Between 2008 and 2013 there were a series of megamergers in which United, Delta and American Airlines each swallowed a similarly sized competitor....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, undermining Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with...
...When the house came on the market a few years later, in 2013, he didn’t need to think twice....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
...Barack Obama granted California a special licence to set it own emissions rules in 2013....
...Design historian Lesley Jackson, who is updating her 2013 book on Ercol for a new edition to be published this year, likens the process to Henry Ford’s revolutionary systematisation of car assembly....
...Bill Ford and Jim Hackett, the chairman and chief executive of Ford, wrote in March: “We support increasing clean car standards through 2025 and are not asking for a rollback.”...
...“The initial community consultations in 2013 envisaged a boutique hotel with 30 cabins,” says this individual....
...The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the best-known name in US addiction treatment, started recommending the drug be used in 2013 at the behest of its medical director, Marvin Seppala....
...As recently as 2013, three-quarters (74 per cent) of women said that reporting sexual harassment was a risky career move. (Today, only 44 per cent do.)...
...In 2013, Ainslie, a four-time Olympic gold medallist, led what has been described as the greatest comeback in sailing history as Oracle Team USA fought back to beat Team New Zealand in a winner-takes-all...
...Ford Mr Trump relentlessly attacked Ford from the stump for producing cars in Mexico instead of the US....
...In 2013, this was more than $704bn, or 4.2 per cent of GDP, according to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis....
...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...Mr Leten pointed to the use of Atlas’s gluing, tightening and riveting technology in the Ford F150 pick-up: “We can make the car stronger with less material.”...
...In the 2013 case of Clapper v Amnesty International USA, Supreme Court justices ruled that legal action could not be brought against a government surveillance programme as the plaintiffs could not prove...
...Hyundai and Kia went from 129.8g of CO2 per km in 2013 to 130.5g in 2014. They forecast that by 2021 Hyundai and Kia will be at 98.8g, versus a target of 94.3g....
...It opened in the US in 2013 and transferred to London last month....
...The Gucci Museum, which opened in Florence in 2011, recently announced acquisitions from Tom Ford’s era at the house....
...Ford is working to ramp up production of a ground-breaking new F150 pick-up truck....
...Since the release of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2013, however, sales have rebounded, with combined PS4 and Xbox sales almost 50 per cent higher than the previous console cycle....
...But there was no joking about Univision’s interest in The Onion, whose properties include the pop culture-focused A.V....
...Mr Trump has already criticised Ford for promising to move production of its small cars from the US to Mexico over the next three years....
...Ford’s South American operations also suffered last year. The pre-tax loss in the region came to $1.2bn — compared to a loss of $33m in 2013....
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