Listiev found a European company (name undisclosed) willing to buy the ORT advertising franchise.

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In the case of ORT, only 39 percent of children with diarrhea actually receive it.

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Community Safety Minister Roseanna Cunningham said ORT had saved thousands of lives in Scotland.

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In early 1995 Listiev was named head of the reorganized company, now known as ORT (Russian Public Television).

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Now Berezovsky effectively controls ORT with 36% of the network's voting stock, and Lisovsky is again the sole agent for its advertising.

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ORT, of which the majority is owned by the government.

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Detective Kelly Ort told CNN that 33-year-old Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez of Queens was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and acting in a manner injurious to a minor after the incident Sunday in Times Square.

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ORT, were the first to be taken over.

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The Emergencies Ministry said 53 people were known to have died, although the Russian public broadcaster ORT put the known death toll at 65, and Interfax news agency said up to 70 people were confirmed dead.

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"The devastating conditions suffered by the Bangladeshi refugees as they fled the war with Pakistan offered ORT (oral rehydration therapy) its definitive test, " according to an August 2003 paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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