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It is a retail store that specializes in everything from candy to clothing. The most famous location is in the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada; stores also opened in Orlando, Florida (2005) and New York City (2006). The first location opened in Las Vegas in 1997, in the Showcase Mall next to the MGM Grand. On display are products of the brand in nearly every color . The New York City store is three-level glass box in Times Square. It includes a 50-foot wide, two-story-high, "wall of chocolate", made up of 72 continuous candy-filled tubes. Before it opened in 2006, nearly 13,000 people lined up for the 198 jobs, which were in demand because of a more generous health benefit package than is usually offered for an entry-level retail job in New York. What ?

A-M&M world

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George Inman later teamed with General Electric to create a practical one, sold in 1938 and patented in 1941. Circular and U-shaped lamps were devised to reduce the length of fluorescent light fixtures. The first fluorescent bulb and fixture were displayed to the general public at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The spiral tube was invented in 1976 by Edward E. Hammer, an engineer with General Electric, in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The design met its goals, and it would have cost GE only about US$25 million to build new factories to produce them, but the invention was shelved. What ?

A-CFL

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In 1955 Delta Air Lines pioneered the system at in Atlanta, Georgia , in an effort to compete with Eastern Air Lines. In the mid-1970s FedEx adopted the model for overnight package delivery, and after the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, Delta's paradigm was adopted by several other airlines. Airlines have extended the model in various ways. One method is to create additional ones on a regional basis, and to create major routes between them. This reduces the need to travel long distances between nodes that are close together. What ?

A-The Spoke-Hub Travel Distribution

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He was born into a poor family, the third son of Kaniram and Birdibai, in a village named Kashi Ka Bas, near Sikar. He was later adopted as a grandson by Seth Bachhraj and his wife Sadibai , a rich Rajasthani merchant couple of Wardha. Seth Bachhraj was a distant relative on his father's side and was a well-known and respected trader in the British Raj. Upon coming of age, under the guidance of Seth Bachhraj, he got involved in the family business of his grandfather. During this period he acquired the knowhow of being a tradesman—keeping strict accounts and buying and selling commodities—excelling in his work by the time Seth Bachhraj died. Who ?

A-Jamnlal Bajaj

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The derivative word was used to denote the coin introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his reign from 1540 to 1545. The original was a silver coin weighing 178 grains (11.534 grams). At the end of the 19th century the Indian silver ones went unto a gold exchange standard at a fixed rate of 1 unit to one shilling and fourpence in British currency. Valuation of it based on its silver content had severe consequences in the nineteenth century, when the strongest economies in the world were on the gold standard. The discovery of vast quantities of silver in the United States and various European colonies resulted in a decline in the relative value of silver to gold. What Am I Talking about ?

A-Rupee

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He was a longtime senior partner at management consultancy McKinsey & Company with Rajat Gupta, and the creator of two different types of outsourcing. He graduated from The Doon School, the IIT Bombay in India, Imperial College in the UK, and the Wharton School in the US. At McKinsey he pioneered and evangelized the concepts of Knowledge Process Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing. Correctly predicting the rise of both Silicon Valley and India, he founded and directed McKinsey offices in both locations, Silicon Valley in the 1980s and then India in the 1990s. These offices were tremendously successful, and led to his election as senior partner at an early age. He co-founded something in 1997, which is today one of the top 15 worldwide. Who ?

A-Anil Kumar

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The company now owns a diverse range of businesses including railroads, confectionery, retail, home furnishings, encyclopedias, manufacture of vacuum cleaners, jewelry sales; newspaper publishing; manufacture and distribution of uniforms; as well as several regional electric and gas utilities. The company traces its roots to a textile manufacturing company established by Oliver Chace in 1839 as the Valley Falls Company in Valley Falls, Rhode Island. The company went through a course of mergers and got its current name. The company suffered during a general decline in the textile industry after World War I. At this time, It was run by Seabury Stanton, whose investment efforts were rewarded with renewed profitability after the Depression. Which Co ?

A-Berkshire Hathaway