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His growing fortune has caused a controversy because it has been amassed in a developing country where per capita income does not surpass $14,500 a year, and nearly 17% of the population lives in poverty. Critics claim that He is a monopolist. His wealth is the equivalent of roughly 5% of his countries annual economic output. He has been awarded the Entrepreneurial Merit Medal of Honor from Mexico's Chamber of Commerce. He is a CEO of the year in 2003 by Latin Trade magazine, and one year later CEO of the decade by the same magazine. In 2008 his philanthropy was recognised with the award of The National Order of the Cedar by the Lebanese government. Who ?

A-Carlos Slim

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His father died when he was 11. His early schooling was at the Native High School and later at the Little Flower Catholic High School in Kumbakonam. He went to college at Maharajas College in Ernakulam and earned a B.Sc. in zoology. During the time of wartime food shortages he chose a career in agriculture and enrolled in Coimbatore Agricultural College where he graduated as valedictorian with another B.Sc, this time in Agricultural Science. In 1947, the year of Indian independence he moved to the IARI in New Delhi as a post-graduate student in genetics and plant breeding and obtained a post-graduate degree with high distinction in Cytogenetics in 1949. Who ?

A-M. S. Swaminathan

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Who is known as the Milkman of India ?

A-Verghese Kurien

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Who is known as the Milkman of India ?

A-Verghese Kurien

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Harry Jennings and his disabled friend Herbert Everest, both mechanical engineers, invented the first lightweight, steel, collapsible in 1933. Mr Everest had broken his back in a mining accident. The two saw the business potential of the invention and went on to become the first mass-manufacturers of it: Everest and Jennings. What Am I Talking about ?

A-Wheelchairs

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Italian confectioner Perugina manufactures a small chocolate and hazelnut candy called Baci (Italian for kiss). Baci are reputed to have been used as a clandestine method for delivering love notes between two confectioners, Giovanni Buitoni and Luisa Spagnoli. This may have served as the inspiration for what with Regard to hersheys?

A-The Paper plume for Hershey Kisses

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In June 2010, the company changed to its present name, to reflect its latest strategy of expanding worldwide, including licensing its brand and expertise to develop non-gaming hotels and residences. Through 6 global offices of its subsidiary, it has agreements to develop and manage non-gaming Bellagio, Grand and Skylofts hotels in countries such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, India, Vietnam, Egypt and China by 2013. Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda Corporation were, until May 2009, the majority shareholders ; Kerkorian was the former owner of the studio, from which the predecessor corporation, derived its name. Following a one-billion-dollar stock offering by it amidst the global credit crutch, Tracinda's shares were diluted from 53.8 percent to 39 percent. In May 2010, hedge fund Paulson & Co acquired 40 million shares (about 9%) to become the second-largest shareholder. It has plans of opening a property in Delhi. Which Corp ?

A-MGM Resorts International