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Millilumen (mlm), a unit of luminous flux; Multi-layer mask, in multi-project wafer service in semiconductor fabrication; Multipurpose Laboratory Module or Nauka, a Russian module of the International Space Station.
Nauka is the primary laboratory of the Russian Orbital Segment, operating in conjunction with the Mini-Research Modules Rassvet and Poisk.It is used to conduct experiments and store scientific instruments, and can also serve as a backup service module for the ISS.
Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing [1] or pyramid selling, [2] [3] [4] is a controversial [4] and sometimes illegal marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or ...
Probably the most notable incident involving the American MLM was the death of Major Arthur D. Nicholson, a U.S. MLM Tour Officer. He was killed on March 23, 1985, shot by Soviet Army Sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev, and was considered the last American casualty of the Cold War, and the only U.S. MLM Officer to die in the course of duty, though ...
Beautycounter (dissolved in 2024); Betterware (placed into administration in 2018) [23]; Black Oxygen Organics (shut down in November 2021) [24]; BurnLounge (shut down as pyramid scheme by FTC in 2012)
As Russia did not have any laws against Ponzi schemes, the government decided to seek tax evasion charges. [6] At that point, Invest-Consulting, one of the company's subsidiaries, owed more than 50 billion rubles in taxes (US$23 billion in 1994), and MMM itself owed between 100 billion and 3 trillion rubles to the investors (from US$50 million ...
In 2008, they reported having 12 million MLM distributors worldwide, including more than 40,000 in Germany, [5] and 40 million customers, [6] mostly in Russia, with approximately 60,000 in Germany. [7] In 2014, they reported having 200,000 distributors in Uganda. [8] The company also has market partners in Indonesia, Hungary and Kazakhstan. [9]
Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi (Russian: Серге́й Пантеле́евич Мавро́ди; 11 August 1955 – 26 March 2018) was a Russian financial fraudster, financial criminal and previously a deputy of the State Duma. He was the founder of the МММ, a scheme that defrauded millions of people around the globe.