The group of thinkers based there developed what ultimately became know as the Chicago School of Economics.

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As many of you know, Secretary Clinton became the first Secretary of State since Dean Rusk, in 1961, to go to Asia on an inaugural trip.

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Much of the world, including as we all know, the United States, became hooked on cheap credit and governmental deficits soared.

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Sergeant Daley told us many things that we would need to know as rookie Army officers (which almost none of us became).

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"He came to the first day on set, and that was a little nerve-wracking, but it then became comforting because as we would be between takes he would, you know, be giving you a little thumbs-up, " Groff recalled.

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As we all know, in July 2012, the situation became immensely clearer when the Higgs boson was definitively discovered.

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Many of the signatories know Mr Kelly from his early days as an actor, before he became a household name as co-presenter of TV show Game For A Laugh.

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Facebook, as usual, declines to comment on any of these numbers, but we know that it became cash-flow positive in 2009.

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