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Dell was listed at number 51 in the Fortune 500 list, until 2014. After going private in 2013, the newly confidential nature of its financial information prevents the company from being ranked by Fortune. In 2014 it was the third largest PC vendor in the world after Lenovo and HP. Dell is currently the #1 shipper of PC monitors in the world. Dell is the sixth largest company in Texas by total revenue, according to Fortune magazine. It is the second largest non-oil company in Texas behind AT&T and the largest company in the Greater Austin area. It was a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: DELL), as well as a component of the NASDAQ-100 and S&P 500, until it was taken private in a leveraged buyout which closed on October 30, 2013.

Originally, Dell did not emphasize the consumer market, due to the higher costs and unacceptably low profit margins in selling to individuals and households; this changed when the company's Internet site took off in 1996 and 1997. While the industry's average selling price to individuals was going down, Dell's was going up, as second- and third-time computer buyers who wanted powerful computers with multiple features and did not need much technical support were choosing Dell. Dell found an opportunity among PC-savvy individuals who liked the convenience of buying direct, customizing their PC to their means, and having it delivered in days. In early 1997, Dell created an internal sales and marketing group dedicated to serving the home market and introduced a product line designed especially for individual users.
1. Who is the #1 shipper of PC monitors in the world?
2. Were they 52 on the Fortune 500 list?
3. What rank were they?
4. Until when?
5. How many other competitors were above them in personal computing sales?
6. What's one of them?
7. What's the other?
8. Is it still available for shares of stocks to be bought by the public?
9. What year did that stop?
10. Did it always place emphasis on the everyday buyer side of things?
11. When did that start to change?
12. With what new technology?
13. How many reasons did they not place emphasis on those types of customers at first?
14. What were they?
15. Did they do well with first time consumers?
16. What sort of consumers did they do well with?
17. Did they make a new series of products for them?
18. What was it called?

Numbered answers:
1. Dell
2. no
3. 51
4. 2014
5. Two
6. HP
7. Lennovo
8. no
9. 2013
10. no
11. 1996-97
12. the company's internet site
13. Two
14. higher costs and lower margins
15. no
16. 2nd and 3rd time buyers
17. yes
18. unknown

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Roger Federer and Serena Williams have been named as 2009' s world champions by the International Tennis Federation(ITF) after topping the year-end rankings.

Federer, who wins the honour for the fifth time, completed a career Grand Slam at Roland Garros before winning his 15th Grand Slam ride at Wimbledon.

And Williams won the Australian Open and Wimbledon, her llth major success.

The pair will receive their awards at the annual 1TF world champions dinner in Paris in June.

Federer regained the world number one ranking from Rafael Nadal after his Paris victory and his Wimbledon win over Andy Roddick saw him surpass Pete Sampras' haul of Grand Slam titles.

He was also runner - up at the Australian Open and the US Open and helped his country retain its Davis Cup world group status.

" It is an honour for me to be named ITF world champion for a fifth time.It was an incredible year for me both on and off the court," said the 28 - year - old Swiss star whose wife Mirka gave birth to twin girls in July.

"To win my first Roland, Garros title, break the all - time Grand Slam record and regain the number one ranking is amazing.It means a lot to me to finish the year again at the top."

Williams takes _ for the first time since 2002.As well as her Grand Slam wins, she won the season - ending WTA Championships in Doha.sealing the top ranking in the last event of die year.

She also took the doubles year award with sister Venus after taking their career total to 10 Grand Slam titles.In doing so, she joins Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis as the only players to become singles and doubles world champions in the same year.

American twins Bob and Mike Bryan were named as the men' s doubles world champions for the sixth time in seven years.
1. what man was named champion in 2009?

Numbered answers:
1. Roger Federer

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CHAPTER VII

A PROFESSIONAL BURGLAR

There were three men in New York that day, who, although they occupied their accustomed table, the best in one of its most exclusive clubs, and although their luncheon was chosen with the usual care, were never really conscious of what they were eating. Weiss was one, John Bardsley another, and Higgins, the railway man, the third. They sat in a corner, from which their conversation could not be overheard; and as often before when their heads had been close together, people looked across at them, always with interest, often with some envy, and wondered.

"I'd like you both to understand," Weiss said, speaking with unaccustomed emphasis as he leaned across the table, "that I don't like the look of things. We tackled something pretty big when we tackled Phineas Duge, and if he has the least idea that these Chicago brokers have been operating on our behalf, it's my belief we shall find ourselves up against it."

Higgins, who was the optimist of the party, a small man, with the unlined, clear complexion and face of a boy, shrugged his shoulders a little doubtfully.

"That's all very well, Weiss," he said, "but if Phineas had been going to find us out at all, he'd have found us out three weeks ago, when the thing started. He wouldn't have sat still and let us sell ten million dollars' worth of stock without moving his little finger. I guess you've got the jumps, Weiss, all because we were d-----d fools enough to sign that rotten paper last night. All the same I don't quite see how he could ever use that against us. His own name's there."
1. How many men are there?
2. Where?
3. At what establishment?
4. Where were they seated?
5. Who is working on their behalfs?
6. Who has the happy outlook?
7. What was his reaction?
8. Did he have the appearance of a grown man?
9. What did they sell?
10. How much?
Numbered answers:
1. Three
2. New York
3. An exclusive club
4. Their accustomed table
5. Chicago brokers
6. Higgins
7. He shrugged
8. No
9. Stock
10. Ten million dollars' worth