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  2. Carnegie Mellon University - Wikipedia

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    On April 23, 2012, New York's Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York University's President John Sexton announced an agreement between New York City, New York's MTA, and a consortium of academic institutions, and private technology companies that led to the creation in New York of a Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP).

  3. Internet - Wikipedia

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    These accounts could have been created by home-working bookkeepers, in other remote locations, based on information emailed to them from offices all over the world. Some of these things were possible before the widespread use of the Internet, but the cost of private leased lines would have made many of them infeasible in practice.

  4. Transnistria - Wikipedia

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    The leading industry is steel, due to the Moldova Steel Works (part of the Russian Metalloinvest holding) in RîbniČ›a, which accounts for about 60% of the budget revenue of Transnistria. [100] The largest company in the textile industry is Tirotex , which claims to be the second largest textile company in Europe. [ 170 ]

  5. Seychelles - Wikipedia

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    A transit point for trade between Africa and Asia, the islands were said to be occasionally used by pirates until the French began to take control in 1756 when a Stone of Possession was laid on Mahé by Captain Nicholas Morphey. The islands were named after Jean Moreau de Séchelles, Louis XV's Minister of Finance. [21]

  6. High-speed rail - Wikipedia

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    According to this formula, a journey time of three hours yields a 65% market share, not taking into account any price differential in tickets. In Japan, there is a so-called "4-hour wall" in high-speed rail's market share: If the high-speed rail journey time exceeds 4 hours, then people likely choose planes over high-speed rail.

  7. Hollywood Walk of Fame - Wikipedia

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    The Walk of Fame runs 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from east to west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Gower Street to the Hollywood and La Brea Gateway at La Brea Avenue in addition to a short segment on Marshfield Way that runs diagonally between Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea; and 0.4 miles (0.64 km) north to south on Vine Street between Yucca Street and Sunset Boulevard.

  8. News Corporation - Wikipedia

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    News Corp was established in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited.News Limited was founded in 1923 in Adelaide by James Edward Davidson, funded by the Collins House mining empire for the purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda; [9] [10] subsequently the controlling interest was bought by the Herald & Weekly Times.