According to Bloomberg, Russia is considered well ahead of most other resource-rich countries in its economic development, with a long tradition of education, science, and industry.

According to Bloomberg News, ALEC is funded by, among others, Koch Industries Inc. and Exxon Mobil.

According to Bloomberg / Businessweek, Old Westbury is the second " richest " town in the United States, trailing behind only Palm Beach, Florida.

According to Bloomberg Wall Street's five biggest firms paid over $ 3 billion to their executives from 2003 to 2008, " while they presided over the packaging and sale of loans that helped bring down the investment-banking system.

According to Peter Robison and Christopher Donville of Bloomberg News, as reported in the Seattle Times ( April 17, 2009 ), " Weyerhaeuser is in a financial crisis so deep the largest U. S. lumber producer turns down the heat in its offices to save money ..." On September 28, 2009, Moody's reported Weyerhauser's proposed new notes rated at Ba1, a rating that puts them with junk bonds.

According to Bloomberg, social-media-ad spending is expected to reach " a total of $ 4. 8 billion at the end of 2012 and $ 9. 8 billion by 2016 ".< http :// www. bloomberg. com / news / 2012-05-15 / social-media-ad-spending-to-jump-to-9-8-billion-in-2016. html >.

According to Bloomberg Serbian currency was placed amoung the forth weakest world currency.

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Rubin pursued a romantic interest with Iris Mack and did not tell her that he was married.

According to Mary Brosnaham, spokeswoman for Coalition for the Homeless, the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg employs a deliberate policy of " active deterrence ".

According to Bloomberg, in 2011 the big five dominate the world's ten strongest $ 100-billion-asset banks, with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto-Dominion Bank, National Bank of Canada and Royal Bank of Canada at 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th place, respectively, while Bank of Nova Scotia sits at 18th place.

According to an August 10 article in Bloomberg by Katherine Burton, " James Simons's $ 29 billion Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund fell 8. 7 % in August 2007 when his computer models used to buy and sell stocks were overwhelmed by securities ' price swings.

According to Bloomberg, Duke Energy did not renew its membership with the NAM partly because of differences over climate policy.

According to Bloomberg, ICBC's market capitalisation at the end of trade based on its Hong Kong shares was US $ 156. 3 billion, making its equity the world's fifth highest among banks, just behind JPMorgan Chase.

According to an article in Bloomberg, Walmart's " probe of possible bribery in Mexico may prompt executive departures and steep U. S. government fines if it reveals senior managers knew about the payments and didn't take strong enough action, corporate governance experts said.

According to Bloomberg News, the company ’ s chief executive officer, Brian Camelio ​, founded ArtistShare in 2000 with the idea that fans would finance production costs for albums sold only on the Internet and Artists also would enjoy much more favourable contract terms.

According to Bloomberg News, on August 18, 2010, Druckenmiller announced the closing of his hedge fund " telling investors he'd been worn down by the stress of trying to maintain one of the best trading records in the industry while managing an ' enormous amount of capital.

According to Bloomberg News, Sperling earned $ 887, 727 from Goldman Sachs in 2008 for advice on its charitable giving and $ 158, 000 for speeches mostly to financial companies.

According to Bloomberg, in the wake of the financial crisis, Nomura did not take any government bail-out money In 2010 Nomura acquired a stake in Bank of Ireland according to publicly available data.

According to Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta and New York City Clerk Michael McSweeney, " same sex-marriages in New York City have generated an estimated $ 259 million in economic impact and $ 16 million in City revenues " in the first year after the enactment of the Marriage Equality Act.

According to Bloomberg News, Brazilian prosecutors allege that Barreto razed protected jungle on Brazil's Pico Island to build a personal home.

According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine, SAC Capital Advisors routinely accounts for as much as 3 % of the New York Stock Exchange's average daily trading, plus up to 1 % of the NASDAQ's — a total of at least 20 million shares a day.

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According to Bloomberg the company utilizes an investing system that combines traditional diversification with " wager on or against markets around the world " and attempts to invest in instruments and markets that do not " move in lock step " with each other.

According to an article in Bloomberg, " about a quarter of all new hires " either quit or are let go within the first two years.

According to Businessweek, critics of Welch have questioned whether the pressure he places on employees may have led them to " cut corners ", which may have contributed to controversies over defense-contracting, or the Kidder, Peabody & Co. bond-trading scheme in the early 1990s.

According to many art researchers, particularly in the Netherlands and in Los Angeles, that type of public art is, in fact an effective tool of social emancipation or in the achievement of a political goal.

According to Los Angeles magazine, " Brando was rock and roll before anybody knew what rock and roll was ".

According to the official site of the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Barron Hilton agreed after his general manager, Frank Leahy picked the Chargers name when he purchased an AFL franchise for Los Angeles.

According to Walter, Gretzky was being " shopped " to Los Angeles, Detroit, New York and Vancouver.

According to the Los Angeles Times article, " The agency also asked the dozens of families that contacted officials to look for signs of disturbances -- shifted or cracked gravestones or anything else that appeared different from previous visits -- and didn ’ t receive a single call back, he said ".

According to a February 2012 study conducted by the Los Angeles Times ( sampling over 5, 000 of its 5, 765 members ), the Academy is 94 % white, 77 % male, 14 % under the age of 50, and has a median age of 62.

According to Luc Besson, this is the version he wanted to release, but for the fact that the extra scenes tested poorly with Los Angeles preview audiences.

According to the Los Angeles Times, when Malden finished speaking, " he was greeted by a rousing burst of applause.

According to his story, he sold his cookies to Chinese restaurants where they were greeted with much enthusiasm in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.

According to a 2012 Forbes Magazine report, they are the fourth-most valuable basketball franchise in the United States, valued at approximately $ 497 million ; the franchise is surpassed in value only by the New York Knicks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls.

According to Nava, " There are hundreds of thousands of refugees from Central America in Los Angeles alone.

According to the Los Angeles Almanac: " The original spelling of the name of the winds is unclear, not to mention the origin.

According to the November 23, 2004, ' Los Angeles Times ', " The neighborhood has become a melting pot of ethnic groups and home styles.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, Los Alamos County has a total area of 109 square miles ( 283 km² ), the smallest county in New Mexico.

According to Dr. Roy Whitehead in his book Lugo, " Don Antonio Maria Lugo … rode around Los Angeles and his Rancho San Antonio in great splendor.

According to the Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance report of 2009 the Palmdale / Lancaster, CA Urbanized Area ( a US Census Bureau defined term ) has a population of 483, 998, which Lake Los Angeles is a part of.

According to a Los Angeles Times news story from 1956, two swans named Rudie and Susie hatched their five new cygnets on the island in MacArthur Park Lake, and according to the park superintendent, these were the first swans born in the park in over a decade.

According to the Los Angeles Times, " s part of the agreement between UMG and the library, Universal retains ownership of the recording copyrights and the right to exploit the cleaned-up and digitized files for commercial purposes.

According to Peek and Bunnell, in 1983, Peek even joined the group onstage to perform a few songs during a concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the show " follows two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles ' Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists – of any kind.

According to her secretary, Grayson died in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles, California on February 17, 2010, aged 88.

According to Flags of the World, the Ecology Flag was created by cartoonist Ron Cobb, published on November 7, 1969, in the Los Angeles Free Press, and then placed in the public domain.

According to daytime television ratings, viewership averages 5 million per episode, ranking number 1 in all big markets, such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, and many others.

According to a Los Angeles Times article, part of this effort was to allow directors more creative control as collaborators on their projects and to give them the creative freedom to use traditional animation techniques — a reversal of former CEO Michael Eisner's decision that Disney would do only digital animation, which Catmull thought was the wrong idea of how Pixar's films did well.