ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

* Colin Powell: America's Best Leaders from US News & World Report

Using this procedure, Groseclose and Milyo obtain the stark result that all sampled news providers-except Fox News ' Special Report and the Washington Times-are located to the left of the average Congress member, i. e. there are signs of a liberal bias in the US news media.

The North Side is also home to Allegheny General Hospital, listed among the 1999 US News & World Report 2000 best hospitals nationwide.

" US News also ranks the Albers School among the top 10 % of undergraduate business schools nationwide.

The 2012 US News and World Report Law School rankings lists the school at number eighty-two in the nation overall, adding that the school has the number one legal writing program in the nation, as well as top-twenty rankings for its part-time program and its clinical programs.

Sports talk radio can be found locally and nationally in the US ( with the networks ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio, as well as nationally syndicated hosts Jim Rome and Dan Patrick ).

Prominent US tabloids include nationally the Metro, locally, the New York Post, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Herald, the New York Observer, Newsday on New York's Long Island, the San Francisco Examiner and Baltimore Examiner.

Former US tabloids that have ceased publication include Denver's Rocky Mountain News.

The professional schools of the University of California, San Francisco are among the top in the nation, according to current ( 2012 ) US News and World Report graduate school and other rankings.

In addition, the UCSF Medical Center in 2011 was ranked by US News and World Report the 7th-best hospital in the nation, making it the highest-ranked medical center in northern California.

In 2012, the school of medicine ranked 5th overall among research-based medical schools by US News and World Report.

In 2012, US News and World Report ranked the UCSF School of Pharmacy number one in its " America's Best Graduate Schools " edition.

In 2011, US News and World Report named the UCSF Medical Center the seventh-best hospital in the nation, making it the highest-ranked medical center in Northern California.

In 2012, US News ranked SAIC the second best overall graduate program for fine arts in the U. S. tying with the Rhode Island school of Design.

That service, United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was a pioneer in newsfilm syndication and numbered among its clients major US and foreign networks and local stations, including for many years the early TV operation of ABC News.

ABC News reported that US cruise missiles were part of the bombardment of the camps, which targeted Abu Hureira Qasm al-Rimi.

The 2013 edition of US News & World Reports Best Colleges ranked Lehigh in its " Most Selective " admissions category and 38th in the " National Universities ( Doctoral )" category.

* BBC News: Al Qaeda ' executed US serviceman '

US News and World Report ranked Michigan Tech's undergraduate program 115th in the nation based on peer assessment, student selectivity, financial resources and other factors.

On July 17, 2007, The Wall Street Journal, a unit of Dow Jones, reported that the company and News Corporation had agreed in principle on a US $ 5 billion takeover, that the offer would be put to the full Dow Jones board on the same evening in New York, and that the offer valued the company at 70 % more than the company's market value.

In the 1990s and into the 2000s ( decade ), Carnegie Mellon solidified its status among elite American universities, consistently ranking in the top 25 in US News and World Report rankings, and in the top 43-50 universities worldwide.

Oxford, UK and Indianapolis, US, The Fridtjol Nansen Institute & The International African Institute in association with James Currey and Indiana University Press.

In the US, the government has initiated legal action against the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson for allegedly paying kickbacks to Omnicare to promote its antipsychotic Risperidone ( Risperdal ) in nursing homes.

A privately held company, Bunge & Born did not release periodical financial statements, though it reported US $ 2 billion in gross receipts in 1962 ; by then, it had become a leader in commodity futures trading, operating 110 offices worldwide.

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Other associated brands include the US version of Havana Club, Drambuie Scotch whisky liqueur, DiSaronno Amaretto, Eristoff vodka, B & B and Bénédictine liqueurs.

Due to an affliction affecting bats in the northeastern US known as white nose syndrome ( WNS ), the US Fish & Wildlife Service has called for a moratorium effective March 26, 2009 on caving activity in states known to have hibernacula ( MD, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NJ, PA, VA, and WV ) affected by WNS, as well as adjoining states.

These are Kelvin ( SI units ) or Rankine scale ( Imperial & US units ).

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

Further soundings made by the US Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping in 2011 are in agreement with this figure, placing the deepest part of the Challenger Deep at, with a vertical precision of approximately.

, Dungeons & Dragons remained the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US $ 1 billion in book and equipment sales.

* 1975: Never Can Say Goodbye ( MGM )-US Pop # 25, US R & B # 21

* 1975: Experience Gloria Gaynor ( MGM )-US Pop # 64, US R & B # 32

* 1976: I've Got You ( Polydor )-US Pop # 107, US R & B # 40

* 1978: Love Tracks ( Polydor )-US Pop # 4, US R & B # 4

* 1979: I Have a Right ( Polydor )-US Pop # 58, US R & B # 56

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

* Herman Brood & His Wild Romance ( 1979, Shpritsz re-release for US market, contains an edited version of Saturday Night )

As of June 30, 2011, the largest hedge funds by worldwide assets were Bridgewater Associates ( US $ 58. 9 billion ), Man Group ( US $ 39. 2 billion ), Paulson & Co. ( US $ 35. 1 billion ), Brevan Howard ( US $ 31 billion ), and Och-Ziff ( US $ 29. 4 billion ).