Rand News
Business Wire
2012-05-24T14:39:18Z
SWORDS, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ingersoll-Rand plc (NYSE:IR), a world leader in creating and sustaining safe, comfortable and efficient environments, announced today that Michael W. Lamach, chairman and chief executive officer of Ingersoll Rand ...
FXStreet.com
2012-05-22T08:58:04Z
Rising expectations that China might further ease monetary policy helped to buoy the rand yesterday. The currency has strengthened ... Principal is not guaranteed in the case of equities because equity prices are variable. Commission is the ...
NPR News
2012-05-21T23:54:03Z
Sound familiar? David Boaz, executive vice president at Cato, the libertarian think tank, views his home state of Kentucky as an unlikely launching pad for a candidate like Rand Paul. "My home state is not all that libertarian," Boaz says.
Independent Online
2012-05-29T11:34:25Z
The rand was range bound in midday trade on Tuesday as the local ... were rising but were still far from the amounts seen prior to the ECB's massive three-year loans. The ECB allotted EUR51.176 billion in seven-day funds at its weekly main refinancing ...
FXStreet.com
2012-05-29T06:33:46Z
The rand recovered further yesterday ... Principal is not guaranteed in the case of equities because equity prices are variable. Commission is the commission rate or the amount agreed with a customer when setting up an account or at any time ...
Business Day South Africa
2012-05-28T15:24:40Z
THE rand lost ground in thin late afternoon trade on Monday ... Strained areas of the euro-zone bond markets and main equity bourses were also quiet with the absence of major US players due to the Memorial Day holiday.
NJ.com
2012-05-25T16:32:39Z
The decision is the first of its kind in the state, Rand said. The Kuberts were riding on a motorcycle on Sept. 21, 2009 when Kyle Best, then 18, struck them around 5:49 p.m. as he drove home from the Randolph YMCA, where he worked as a swimming instructor.
msnbc.com
2012-05-26T01:15:12Z
In a ruling believed to be the first of its kind, Superior Court Judge David Rand decided that Shannon Colonna ... At the time, Best was driving home from his job as a swimming instructor. Records showed that Best responded to one of Colonna's texts ...
The Inquisitr
2012-05-26T05:11:25Z
Judge David Rand threw out a lawsuit against Shannon Colonna ... because Best was texting while driving on his way home from the Randolph YMCA. The Star-Ledger reports that Stephen Skippy Weinstein, the Kuberts attorney, sued Best ...
Business Wire
2012-05-22T23:52:52Z
ADELAIDE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rand Worldwide (OTCBB: RWWI), a global leader in providing technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, today announced that the Australian division of IMAGINiT ...
United Press International
2012-05-11T23:58:45Z
Rand Paul and single-parent blogger Bristol Palin ... "We know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home," the younger Palin, who became a single parent as a teenager, wrote in her blog for Patheos.
WGRZ TV
2012-05-25T08:25:53Z
However, the Rands never lived in it. The couple died before the home's completion. Their children lived in it for a short time, before selling it out of grief. The home went from the Masons, to the City of Buffalo, to Canisius College, and finally to ...
Inside Fidelity
2012-05-23T13:50:23Z
NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Ingersoll Rand Plc's CEO said he met with executives of Nelson ... FICS was established to present users with objective news, information, data and guidance on personal finance topics drawn from a diverse collection of sources ...
Hawk Eye
2012-05-27T15:47:20Z
The event was the annual Chrysanthemum Ball, held at the North Hill home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wellington Rand, and the newspaper reports of the time were to call it "the most delightful and artistic party ever given in this town." The Rand ...
From Google News Search: 'rand'
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Rand may refer to a number of places, people, organizations, and acronyms:
Contents
Places
- The Witwatersrand, ridge that runs through Gauteng, South Africa, which includes the East Rand and West Rand rivers
- Rand, New South Wales, small town in Australia
- Rand, Lincolnshire, small village in Lincolnshire, England
- Rand, California, community in Kern County, California
- Rand, Colorado, small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado
- The "Rand Mining District", area in Kern County, California
- Randsburg, California
People
- Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher and political activist
- Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
- Isaac Rand (d. 1743), English botanist.
- Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the "Rand formula"
- James Rand, Jr., American industrialist and president of the Remington Rand company
- Mary Rand, British athlete and Olympic champion
- Paul Rand, American graphic designer
- Rand Miller, co-creater of the computer game Myst
- Rand Paul, United States senator from Kentucky
- Rose Rand, Logician and philosopher, member of the Vienna Circle
- Sally Rand, American actress and dancer
- Shuli Rand and Michal Batsheva Rand, husband and wife, Israeli actors
- William H. Rand, founder of the Rand McNally company
Fictional characters
- Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series
- Rand (Robotech), a character from the fictional Third Robotech War
- Atton Rand, a character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
- Janice Rand, a character in the Star Trek universe
- Iron Fist (comics) (Daniel Rand), a Marvel Comics character
- Ben Rand, a character from Being There (1979) performed by Melvyn Douglas
Companies and organizations
- The RAND Corporation, an American think tank
- The Ayn Rand Institute, an American think tank
- Remington Rand, an American computer firm and general manufacturer
- Sperry Rand, an American equipment and electronics company
- Rand Refinery, the world’s largest gold refinery
- Ingersoll-Rand, a diversified American industrial firm
- Rand McNally, an American map publisher and printer
Abbreviation or acronym
- In computer science, any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions
- Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing, a type of licensing used during a standardisation process
Other uses
- South African rand, the national currency of South Africa (abbreviation: R, ISO-4217-Code: ZAR). The Rand is also widely accepted as currency in Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
- Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters
- Rand formula, a formula in Canadian labour law
See also
- Krugerrand, a South African gold coin
- Randlord, a term used to denote the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase
Noun
rand m. (plural randas)- edge, brink, margin
- (poetic) boss (of a shield); shield
- He under rande gecranc: he sank under his shield. (Beowulf)
- English: rand
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