Aaron's Rents, Inc.
Aaron Rents, Inc. (
NYSE:
RNT) is a
lease-to-own retailer, whose principal rival is
Rent-A-Center. It was founded by Charles Loudermilk in
1955. The company focuses on
furniture, electronics, applicances, computer leases and retail sales.The company is divided into three major divisions: sales and lease ownership; corporate furnishings; and manufacturing. The incorporation of manufacturing as well as retailing makes the company
vertically integrated. The company has over 950 company owned stores, and uses the franchise model as well for a total of over 1400 stores throughout North America.
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AARON is a
software program written by artist
Harold Cohen that creates original artistic images. Proceeding from Cohen's initial question "What are the minimum conditions under which a set of marks functions as an image?", AARON has been in continual development since 1973. The name "AARON" does not seem to be an acronym, rather it was a name chosen to start with the letter "A" so that the names of successive programs could follow it alphabetically.
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This article is about Aaron in the
Hebrew Bible. For other uses of the word Aaron, see
Aaron (disambiguation). Aaron , or Aaron the Levite (flourished about 1200 BCE), was, according to
biblical accounts, one of two brothers who play a unique part in the history of the
Hebrew people. He was the elder son (and second child) of
Amram and
Jochebed of the tribe of
Levi.
Moses, the other son, was three years younger, and
Miriam, their sister, was several years older. Aaron was the great-grandson of Levi and represented the priestly functions of his tribe, becoming the first High Priest of the Hebrews. While Moses was receiving his education at the Egyptian court and during his exile among the
Midianites, Aaron and his sister remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of
Egypt. Here he gained a name for eloquent and persuasive speech; so that when the time came for the demand upon the
Pharaoh to release Israel from captivity, Aaron became his brother’s nabi , or spokesman, to his own people and, after their unwillingness to hear, to the Pharaoh himself.
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