Associated Press reporters Yu Bing in Beijing and Amir Shah in Kabul contributed to this story.
Both Mr. Bing and Ms. Loa attended California Institute of Arts in the late 1990s, but with Mr. Bing in visual arts and Ms. Loa in music the two never met.
It's "time for all of us to move forward with a renewed commitment to transparency and high ethical standards in our city government, " Bing said in a statement Monday.
They also appeared in 16 films, including alongside Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Buck Privates and with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in Road to Rio.
In theory, the tax break avoids double taxation on corporate profits filed in other countries, but the trouble with that is that a portion of those profits are bing booked in tax havens that have no income tax.
In particular, Bing did well in finance and retail, but lost market share in travel.
After publishing a few papers on the Bing studies in the early seventies, Mischel moved on to other areas of personality research.
Bing crashed in December 2009 because it was full of bugs.
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"If, in fact, the appointment of an emergency financial manager both stabilizes the city fiscally and supports our restructuring initiatives which improve the quality of life for our citizens, then I think there is a way for us to work together, " Mayor Dave Bing said in a statement.
Aside from fancy ways that Microsoft uses photos in tiles in Windows 8, in search results on Bing, and in megaphoto stitches in SkyDrive, the company just adheres to one simple concept that gives the user control over his or her pix: you can put your photos in whatever folders you want.
As of March 2013, Sood is responsible for leading Microsoft's global startups team, which includes startup accelerators in China, India, Israel and Seattle, and the Bing Fund based in Bellevue, Wash.
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The report also highlights the growth in Bing Travel, which jumped 41% to 22 million queries.
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Still slim at 67, Bing leans forward in his office chair at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in the broken heart of downtown.
Bing has kicked in fees for the first 100 applicants in hopes that it will remove the barrier for entry and encourage more female entrepreneurs to apply.
At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Microsoft showed how Bing can let you play games in search, IM people in Windows or Facebook a the same time, plan air travel, even choose and watch television or listen to music.
Mr Nadello said Microsoft had invested "significant dollars" in getting Bing on the search engine map.
That shift occurred earlier this year and represented the first time that Bing moved past Yahoo in popularity.
Of the four categories, however, Bing is picking up in the two that improved the most, in terms of spending.
Not surprisingly, the first story will be about Mayor Bing and will appear in one of the Fortune Group's magazines, says the ad executive.
Microsoft has invested heavily in its Bing search engine but that has not yet made a significant difference as Microsoft tries to compete with Google and Facebook for consumer mindshare.
In woodcarver Li Bing-Gui's workshop, a magnificent gilded dragon altarpiece sat waiting to be transported to the village of Kaoshong.
Microsoft has two additional weapons in Kinect and Bing that Apple lacks.
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Mayor Bing, whose 100th day in office is Wednesday, is a legendary pro basketball Hall of Famer who played nine seasons with the Detroit Pistons.
Google ( GOOG - news - people ) or on Bing or you're in some portal and there's stories that are populating.
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Trying to launch Bing and compete with Google in ad sales far too late and with weak products has literally created losses that exceed revenues!
When his basketball career ended in 1978, Bing turned to entrepreneurship.
And a lot of it, you end up either searching on Google or on Bing or you're in some portal and there's stories that are populating.
When Mr Sinatra was making his first records with the swing bands of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, the foremost pop singer in America was Bing Crosby.
The seven microphones, culled from our 85-year-old station's archives, are the kind of boxy contraptions that look great in front of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
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