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In January 2007 Siemens was fined € 396 million by the European Commission for price fixing in EU electricity markets through a cartel involving 11 companies, among which ABB, Alstom, Fuji, Hitachi Japan, AE Power Systems, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Schneider, Areva, Toshiba and VA Tech According to the Commission, " between 1988 and 2004, the companies rigged bids for procurement contracts, fixed prices, allocated projects to each other, shared markets and exchanged commercially important and confidential information.
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According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.
During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with the European Union totaled $ 200 million.
During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.
US House Resolution 106 was introduced on January 30, 2007 later referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
It then toured to other states, with the final appearance at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on 21 January 2007.
The UK's Financial Services Authority stated that the fine related to the company's inadequate bribery and corruption controls, claiming that between January 14, 2005 and September 30, 2007 Aon had failed to properly assess the risks involved in its dealings with overseas firms and individuals.
Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $ 230 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2007.
On 1 January 2007 Bulgaria entered the European Union.
On 1 January 2007, the municipality lost its short-lived ( 2003 until 2006 ) county privileges and became part of Region Hovedstaden ( i. e. the Copenhagen Capital Region ).
Bornholm Regional Municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as the result of the nationwide Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), which is quite understandable, since the island, as can be seen on maps, is quite far from the rest of Denmark.
With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on January 1, 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the EU.
Following extensive inspections and repairs, Interstate 90 east-and westbound lanes reopened in early January 2007.
Brian Lara received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield on Wednesday 10 January 2007.
The graphics relaunch in January 2007 has since seen the globe sting replaced by a red strapline to highlight the breaking story immediately.
A graphics relaunch in January 2007 saw the channel updated, with redesigned headline straplines, a redesigned ' Digital on-screen graphic ' and repositioned clock.
The 35th Bloody Sunday memorial march in Derry, 28 January 2007
* David Lempert, “ Foreign Aid: Creating Conditions for the Next Civil War ,” Phnom Penh Post, 16 / 01, January 12 – 25, 2007, available on the internet.
In January 2007, China signed a series of economic agreements with Cameroon, giving more than $ 54 million in loans.
In January 2007, Manuel Inocêncio Sousa, Minister of Infrastructure, Transports and Sea, acknowledged the People's Republic of China's importance to Cape Verde stating ,:
In January 2007, she and her colleagues published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and reported that they have found a virus-like particle ( but without finding nucleic acids so far ) in less than 10 % of the cells a scrapie-infected cell line and in a mouse cell line infected by a human CJD agent.
On 18 January 2007, Stoiber announced his decision to step down from the posts of Minister-President and CSU chairman by 30 September of that year.
On January 6, 2007, the Beavers ' men's basketball team snapped a 207-game losing streak to Division III schools, beating Bard College 81 – 52.
On January 13, 2007, the Caltech women's basketball team snapped a 50-game losing streak, defeating the Pomona – Pitzer Sagehens 55 – 53.
Charles returned to hosting his 6 Music show from November 2006 and to filming Coronation Street from January 2007.
January and Siemens
* January 29 – Peter von Siemens, German industrialist ( d. 1986 )
He is a brother of Carl Heinrich von Siemens and Carl Wilhelm Siemens, sons of Christian Ferdinand Siemens ( 31 July 1787-16 January 1840 ) and wife Eleonore Deichmann ( 1792-8 July 1839 ).
In 2006, Siemens announced the purchase of Bayer Diagnostics, which was incorporated into the Medical Solutions Diagnostics division on 1 January 2007, also in 2006 Siemens acquired Controlotron ( New York ) ( ultrasonic flow meters ) Also in 2006 Siemens acquired Diagnostic Products Corp., Kadon Electro Mechanical Services Ltd. ( now TurboCare Canada Ltd .), Kühnle, Kopp, & Kausch AG, Opto Control, and VistaScape Security Systems
In January 2009, Siemens announced to sell its 34 % stake in Framatome, complaining limited managerial influence.
In January 2010, he warmly welcomed the announcement by Siemens CEO Peter Löscher that his company would not seek new business in Iran.
In January 2007, he represented his government in signing a deal with Siemens that was designed to increase aboriginal employment.
On the January 13, 2007, Connex stopped running the Siemens trains as 3-car sets until the braking issue was resolved, with the result that all services ( including evenings and weekends ) on the Caulfield Group were operated by 6-car trains.
Amidst the media reporting an escalating problem with the risk of the entire fleet potentially having to be suspended, Siemens issued a statement on January 31, 2008 saying that they believed there had been no evidence during investigations of the braking failures that would require the entire fleet of trains to be withdrawn from service.
Peter von Siemens ( January 29, 1911, Berlin – May 23, 1986 ) was a German industrialist.
* Katharina von Siemens ( born December 24, 1938, Berlin ), married on June 24, 1959 in Geiselgasteig, near Munich, to Kraft Hans Konrad 7. te Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen Herzog von Ujest ( born January 11, 1933, Breslau ), the parents of:
In January 2010 a team of researchers from Siemens and Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications ( Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin ) demonstrated transmission at 500 Mbit / s with a white LED over a distance of, and 100 Mbit / s over longer distance using five LEDs.
That M-2 with the Siemens & Halske engine mounted to it, became Ryan's sales tool, and in late January 1927, he began touring the country in attempts to sell those engines.
He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Corporation from January 1, 1991 until his retirement in 1999.
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Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.
This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.
On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.
The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.
On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, the Medical Museum was required to move to Temporary Building `` S '' on the Mall from Chase Hall.
In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.
The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.
In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.
The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.
The dissolved oxygen in the aeration unit was consistently high until January 29, 1961.
The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.
A bond issue which would have provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools was defeated by district voters in January.
One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.
When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.
The Church Unity Octave, January 18-25, was enthusiastically devoted to prayer and discussion by the various churches.
Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.
A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.
The ensuing Union victory was among the bloodiest in American history, but it enabled Lincoln to announce that he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation in January.
After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.
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