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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Hovnanian Reports 1Q Loss Doubled
Hovnanian, a large homebuilder, says it posted a quarterly loss more than twice as large as a year ago, blaming its continuing struggles on a gloomy housing market...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Texas Instruments Cuts Earnings Forecast
Texas Instruments lowered its outlook for earnings and revenue in the first quarter on weaker than expected chip demand and its shares fell as much as 5.5 percent...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Gas Prices Near Records, Following Oil
Gasoline prices were poised to set a new record at the pump, having surged to within half a cent of their record high of $3.227 a gallon. Oil prices surged above $108 to a new inflation-adjusted record...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Stocks Slide as Oil Surges
Stocks sank Monday as oil?s surge above $108 a barrel and more worrisome signs for the financial sector led investors to extend last week?s losses...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
The Lede: Seven More Sins, Thanks to Vatican
An official articulated seven new categories of sin "due to the phenomenon of globalization."...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Boeing to Appeal Air Force Tanker Contract
Boeing?s loss of the contract to a rival team was a blow not just to its corporate pride but its long-range outlook...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
House Panel Sues to Force 2 Bush Aides to Testify
A lawsuit seeks to force the White House chief of staff and former White House counsel to cooperate with an inquiry...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
MSNBC Cancels Tucker Carlson Show
The early evening program will be replaced with a new, politically oriented program featuring David Gregor...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Affidavit: Client 9 and Room 871
Court papers describe a round of phone calls, financial negotiations and an assignation at the Mayflower Hotel...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
From Public and Blogosphere, Shock
Many comments online and in blogs focused on the governor?s pledge to bring ethics reform to Albany...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
The Caucus: Obama Responds to Vice President Chatter
Barack Obama said that Hillary Clinton is trying to have it both ways by mentioning him as a running mate...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute, according to a person briefed on the inquiry...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Congress sues over prosecutors
A US congressional panel files a lawsuit to compel White House aides to cooperate with an inquiry into the firing of attorneys...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Cheney to tour Middle-East states
The US president sends his deputy to the Middle East to encourage leaders to stick to peace process promises...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Wholesale Inventories and Sales Up in January
U.S. wholesale inventories rose 0.8 percent in January, while sales jumped 2.7 percent, the largest increase in nearly four years, the Commerce Department said...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
McDonald?s Shares Up on Sales
Sales at restaurants open at least 13 months rose 11.7 percent globally in February on strong U.S. coffee sales and new sandwich offerings in Europe, sending shares up nearly 4 percent...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Carlyle Fund Seeks Halt to Liquidation
Carlyle Capital said that it had asked lenders to halt further liquidation of collateral worth as much as $16 billion while the two sides discuss ways to repay debt...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Liberty Media Chief Testifies in IAC Trial
In a trial that could determine the fate of IAC/Interactive, John Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, challenged Barry Diller?s plan to break up IAC into five companies...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Gas Prices Near Record; Oil Hits $107
Gasoline prices were poised to set a new record, having jumped to within half a cent of their record high of $3.227 a gallon. Oil prices, meanwhile, surged to $107, a new inflation-adjusted record...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Stocks Slide on Mixed News, Surging Oil
Wall Street fluctuated as investors sifted through several reports on how companies are handling a slumping economy and tight credit markets...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
DealBook: Blackstone?s Earnings Fall Steeply
The private equity firm reported $128 million in net income excluding expenses tied to its initial public offering, an 86 percent decline from a year ago, as it grapples with a choppier credit market...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
A Fading Sound Spreads Echo Far From Indonesia
The Gong Factory is one of Indonesia?s few surviving workshops producing the xylophones, gongs, drums and strings that make up the country?s traditional gamelan orchestras...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
The Lede: Magazine Regrets Prince Harry Article
The seed that would help undo an Afghan tour is regretted...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
City Room: Q&A on Rights of Students and Parents
Andrew Tirrell, a lawyer with the nonprofit organization Advocates for Children of New York, is taking questions from readers through March 14 on the rights of parents and students in New York City schools...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Diner?s Journal: On Tourists and Tipping
How can restaurants deal with tourists who refuse to tip?...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Plan to Let Families Live With U.S. Troops in Korea
If adopted, the proposal by the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea would be major change in deployment policy...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
MSNBC Canceling Tucker Carlson Show
The early evening program will replaced with a new, politically oriented program featuring David Gregor...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Israel Reduces Activity in Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has instructed the army to halt airstrikes and raids into the Gaza Strip in response to a recent drop in rocket fire from the territory, officials said Monday...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
China Sticking With One-Child Policy
China?s top population official has ruled out changing the country?s one-child family planning policy for at least another decade...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Five American Soldiers Killed in Baghdad
The blast was one of the worst single attacks on the U.S. military in months. An attack earlier in the day killed an important Sunni Arab leader...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Pennsylvania Ties Could Help Clinton
An old home movie offers glimpses of a young Hillary Rodham and her roots in Scranton, Pa...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Blackstone makes three-month loss
The private equity firm Blackstone Group says it made a quarterly loss and blames the credit crunch...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Countrywide in US sub-prime probe
US authorities open an investigation into Countrywide Financial over suspected fraud, US media reports say...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
US 'to modernise Polish military'
The US agrees to help modernise Poland's military as part of a deal to base interceptor missiles there...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
NFL: Coughlin in Giants deal
Coach Tom Coughlin lands a new four-year contract after guiding the New York Giants to Super Bowl glory...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Argentina bus crash kills many
Seventeeen people die and 47 are injured after a train ploughs into a bus in eastern Argentina...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Democrats prepare for next battle
US Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign in Mississippi and Pennsylvania...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Church to step up climate fight
Leaders of the influential US Southern Baptists decide climate change is real and they should fight it...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Bolivia to defend coca leaf at UN
Bolivia plans to ask a UN agency to remove the coca plant from its list of dangerous illegal drugs...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
BMW to shift production to US
German carmaker BMW is expected to unveil details of plans to ramp up production in the US later...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Baghdad bomb kills five US troops
Five US soldiers are killed by a suicide bomb in Baghdad, in one of the deadliest attacks on US troops there in months...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Media Talk: Disinvited to a Screening, a Critic Ends Up in a Faith-Based Crossfire
A film critic found himself entangled in a debate over evolution and intelligent design tied to a screening of ?Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.?...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Recession and Credit Woes Rattle Investors
Recession fears following the biggest U.S. job losses in five years mixed with strains in the credit market on Monday to depress global stocks and the dollar...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Aversion to Death Penalty, but No Lack of Cases
The reluctance of federal juries in New York to impose death has led judges to call some cases a waste of time...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood
Reproductive outsourcing is a new but rapidly expanding business, as word spreads of India?s mix of skilled medical professionals, relatively liberal laws and low prices...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Iraq Suicide Bomber Said to Kill Sheik
A female suicide bomber killed the head of a local security group northeast of Baghdad on Monday, the targeted leader's brother and a provincial police official said. A child and a security guard were also killed...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Snow storms batter Canada and US
Parts of the US Midwest are clearing up after record snowfalls as blizzards move across eastern Canada...
BBC News - March 10, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week includes Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
George B. Litchford Sr., 89, Aviation Inventor, Is Dead
Mr. Litchford had a vital role in the development of the collision warning system now used on every airliner in the United States...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
The Media Equation: TV Puts an Odd Lens on Politics
Since political coverage has migrated to the cable networks, the tenor and texture of campaign reporting are changing as well...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
A Book of Big Names in Economics, and Only One Makes It to the Cover
?The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics,? attempts to make classic economic texts come to life...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Paramount Offers Film Clips on Web
Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom, will become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the Internet...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Time Change Boggles Cable
Some people awoke Sunday morning to find that many of their cable television programs seemed to be running an hour behind schedule...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Drilling Down: The Best Kind of Traffic for Web Sites
A study found that paid listings had a slight edge over ?organic,? or unpaid, search results...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Looking Ahead: This Week?s Scheduled Economic Reports
Reports on wholesale trade inventories, the trade deficit and another reading on inflation will be released this week...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Link by Link: Journalism in the Hands of the Neighborhood
The Knight Foundation in Miami is donating $25 million over five years ?for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.?...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
E-Commerce Report: A D.I.Y. Approach to Making a Web Commercial
Online start-ups are percolating new methods to help companies create passable videos and commercials on the cheap, and distribute them across the Internet...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
No Game About Nazis for Nintendo
Darkly illustrated and full of gruesome historical facts, a Holocaust-themed game called Imagination Is the Only Escape will not be distributed in U.S. markets...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Another DVD Format, but This One Says It?s Cheaper
A new system that is incompatible with Blu-ray, called HD VMD, for versatile multilayer disc, is trying to find a niche...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Giving the Outsiders a Say on Movies
The idea behind a new Web site, Massify.com, is to give film enthusiasts a vote on which films are made in the first place...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Facebook Is Extending Its Network to Blood Donations
The social networking site will tap its roster of millions of users for mobilization in times of blood shortages...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Ameriprise and MasterCard in Deal to Offer Credit Cards
It looks like a tough time to be entering the credit card business, but companies still regard the card business as lucrative, particularly when it aims at big spenders,...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
New Challenge to Times Board: Dissidents With Large Stake
Management at The New York Times Company is facing another challenge from dissident investors complaining of poor decision-making...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Advertising: Dancers in the Crowd Bring Back ?Thriller?
Sony BMG ventured into ?guerrilla marketing,? staging dance scenes from Michael Jackson?s ?Thriller? to promote the 25th anniversary of the record?s release...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Cable Firms Join Forces to Attract Focused Ads
The nation?s six largest cable companies are planning a jointly owned company that would allow national advertisers to buy customized ads across their systems...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Serving Up Television Without the TV Set
Watching television online is now a common activity for millions, with one in four Internet users watching a full-length show online in the last three months...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Going to the Company Elders for Help
Hewlett-Packard is trying to galvanize thousands of its retirees into an auxiliary army of senior marketers, good-will ambassadors and volunteer sales people...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Democrats Confident After Taking Hastert?s Seat
Congressional Democrats were celebrating a victory that they said increased their confidence in holding the House in November and affirmed that party positions were resonating with voters...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Southern Baptists Back a Shift on Climate Change
A group of Baptist leaders has decided to back a declaration on climate change, saying the Southern Baptist Convention?s previous position on the issue was ?too timid.?...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Dot Earth: A Bullet in the Whale Wars?
Stink bombs and a (claimed) bullet fly in war over whaling...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Laugh Lines: So This Geezer Walks Into a Bar …
The Week in Review explores why codger jokes are huge in a campaign hypersensitive about race and gender. As readers of the late-night TV jokes posted here know, comics have gone to town on Senator John McCain: [Jay] Leno and his counterparts have been merciless with Mr. McCain, peppering their monologues with digs about dementia, [...]...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
The Scholarship Divide: Athletic Scholarships: Expectations Lose to Reality
The expectations of parents and athletes can differ sharply from the realities of college athletics...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Television Review | 'The Wire': So Many Characters, Yet So Little Resolution
?The Wire? went out the way it came in five seasons ago, not so much tying up loose ends, though it did, as meticulously proving that there is no end...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Bloemfontein Journal: On Campus, a Video Reminder of Apartheid?s Pain
A homemade video ? a crude protest against the racial integration of student housing at a South African university ? has provoked soul-searching across the country...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank
The move, which eased political pressure from the right wing of the government after a deadly shooting on Thursday, could further complicate peace efforts...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
This Land: Trading Vows in Montana, No Couple Required
Montana is the only state to permit that strange and sacred ceremony, the double-proxy wedding...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Sniping by Aides Hurt Clinton?s Image as Manager
Internal second-guessing has undermined Hillary Rodham Clinton?s image as a steady-at-the-wheel chief surrounded by a phalanx of loyal and efficient aides...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
McCain Uses Breathing Room to Focus on Coffers
John McCain has time he can use to unite his party and transform his operation into a general election machine, though the lull could also have drawbacks...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You
A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more about people than ever from what they search for and do on the Internet...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
Pakistan Rivals Join to Fight Musharraf
The leaders of the two major political parties agreed that they would reinstate the judges the Pakistani president fired, which may subsequently create a direct challenge to his presidency...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
In Tanker Bid, It Was Boeing vs. Bold Ideas
Boeing must decide by Wednesday whether to file an appeal on the Pentagon?s contract with Airbus...
New York Times - March 10, 2008
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