|
|
|
|
US News Archive for December 2006:
|
 |
Iran: Israel will be 'wiped out'
Iran's hard-line president says that Israel will one day be "wiped out" as the Soviet Union was, drawing applause from participants in a conference casting doubt on the Holocaust...
CNN - December 12, 2006
White House: Bush's Iraq policy largely decided
President Bush has largely decided on a new approach to the Iraq war that he will announce next month, the White House said, but the president gave no hint of his plan when he met with the country's Sunni vice president. After the meeting, Bush said the U.S. objective is to promote peace and to help Iraq "deal with the extremists and the killers."...
CNN - December 12, 2006
Holocaust Conference in Iran Provokes Outrage
The gathering in Iran drew fierce criticism today from European leaders, the Vatican and the White House...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Israeli Court Rules Army Can Be Held Liable
The ruling, which was unanimous, opens the way for Palestinians harmed in ?nonbelligerent? army operations in the West Bank or Gaza to seek redress for damages...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Karzai Says Pakistani Collusion Threatens Region
Afghanistan?s president said that Pakistani government elements were still supporting Islamic militants...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Steeple on Historic Harlem Church Replaced
A hole in Harlem?s skyline was mended when the Ephesus Seventh-Day Adventist Church got its steeple back...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Hevesi to Pay $206,000 for Use of N.Y. Workers
The payment resolves an inquiry into the comptroller's use of state workers to chauffeur his wife Carol...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Bush Delays Speech on Iraq Until January
President Bush is still asking detailed questions of his advisers and the answers will not be ready until after Christmas, a spokesman said...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Former U.S. Foodservice Executive Gets 3 Years? Probation
The former chief financial officer of U.S. Foodservice, Michael J. Resnick, was sentenced yesterday to three years? probation for his role in an accounting fraud...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Hewlett-Packard?s Longtime Financial Chief Is Set to Retire
Hewlett-Packard?s longtime chief financial officer, Robert P. Wayman, will give up the post this month and his seat on the company?s board in March...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
São Paulo Journal: Streets Are Paved With Neon?s Glare, and City Calls a Halt
São Paulo, Brazil, overwhelmed by what the authorities call visual pollution, plans to press the ?delete all? button on outdoor advertising...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Nasdaq Opens Bid for London Stock Exchange
Nasdaq started the takeover clock ticking for the London Stock Exchange today when it officially opened a $5.3 billion hostile offer...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Police Search EADS Office in Insider-Trading Case
The investigation seeks to determine whether managers at EADS had inside information when they sold stock in March, when EADS shares were near an all-time high...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Hewlett?s Chief Plans to Keep Cutting Costs
Mark V. Hurd assured analysts and investors that he planned to continue cutting costs but did not foresee making major acquisitions in order to maintain growth...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Fed Leaves Key Interest Rate Unchanged
Sounding a cautionary note on prices, the Federal Reserve left interest rates untouched for the fourth straight time...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
US interest rates on hold again
The US Federal Reserve keeps interest rates on hold for the fourth successive time amid signs of a slowing economy...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Mexico launches drugs crackdown
Thousands of Mexican soldiers arrive in the western state of Michoacan to deal with drug-related violence...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Praise, anger at Pinochet funeral
Hecklers angry at Chile's government shout over the sound of choirs at the tense funeral of Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator whose repressive rule from 1973 to 1990 made him infamous around the world for human rights abuses...
CNN - December 12, 2006
Iran Holocaust summit sparks fury
A gathering of Holocaust deniers in Iran touches off indignation across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis' systematic extermination of 6 million Jews. Moshe Ayre Friedman, a self-styled rabbi who is not recognized by Austria's Jewish community, is attending the conference...
CNN - December 12, 2006
More join search for 3 missing climbers
More searchers headed up Mount Hood on Tuesday, joining rescuers who had spent the night on the mountain in the hunt for three missing climbers. It's windy, but searchers of hopeful as the weather clears. But more snow is expected later in the week...
CNN - December 12, 2006
New Iraq policy now likely to come in new year
President Bush, about to wrap up a rushed weeklong effort to arrive at a new course for Iraq, now is likely to lay out his plan to the nation after Christmas, a senior White House official said Tuesday...
CNN - December 12, 2006
Leaders Voice Outrage on Conference on Holocaust in Iran
The statements from European leaders, the Vatican and the White House came on the conference’s second day...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
City Fails to Collect Millions for Water
Records riddled with errors and outdated information have made it impossible to pursue deadbeats...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
In Tuition Game, Popularity Rises With Price
Several schools have sharply increased tuition to match rivals, while also providing more financial assistance...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Goldman Reports Record Earnings for 2006
$16.5 billion was set aside for salaries, bonuses and benefits, or an average of $622,000 for each employee...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Futures Market in Hong Kong Receives Support
If Hong Kong creates a currency futures market, it would be the latest in a series of steps by Hong Kong to expand its somewhat narrow financial role...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
US trade deficit narrows sharply
The gap between how much the US exports and imports has narrowed to its lowest level in more than a year...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Bombing kills 60 in Baghdad
Many of the 60 killed and 220 wounded by a suicide truck bomb blast in central Baghdad Tuesday morning were unemployed Iraqis lured toward the explosion by an offer of work, according to an official with the Iraqi Interior Ministry...
CNN - December 12, 2006
Chile to bid farewell to Pinochet
Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarizes public opinion in his native Chile in death as he did in life, is being cremated on Tuesday following a military funeral...
CNN - December 12, 2006
News Analysis: A Bitter Legacy of Division Survives Pinochet
Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s death has left a host of troubling legal and political questions unresolved...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Comair Pilots Authorize Strike
Comair pilots authorized a strike if union leaders determine it is necessary in the continuing dispute with the regional airline over contract concessions...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Former U.S. Foodservice Executive Gets 3 Years’ Probation
The former chief financial officer of U.S. Foodservice, Michael J. Resnick, was sentenced yesterday to three years’ probation for his role in an accounting fraud...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Sentencing on Foodservice fraud
The ex-chief finance chief at US Foodservice, a unit of Dutch retailer Ahold, gets three years' probation...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Football: Adu makes MLS switch
American teenager Freddy Adu, who recently spent two weeks with Man Utd, moves to MLS side Real Salt Lake...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
9/11 drama takes NY award
Hijack drama United 93 is named best film of the year by the New York Film Critics' Circle...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Colombia conflict draws in minors
Colombian children are still being recruited to fight in the civil conflict, some as young as eight, a Unicef report says...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Bush holds more Iraq policy talks
US President George W Bush enters a second day of talks about Iraq as he weighs possible policy changes...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Annan chides U.S. in last speech
In his last major speech as U.N. secretary general, Kofi Annan urges the United States to shun go-it-alone diplomacy and collaborate on its world challenges, including the Iraq war...
CNN - December 12, 2006
Dozens dead in Baghdad suicide bombing
A suicide car bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least 40 people and wounding another 50, according to an official with the Iraq Interior Ministry...
CNN - December 12, 2006
Medicare Links Doctors’ Pay to Practices
Congress is offering a raise to Medicare doctors who report how often they provide quality care, as defined by the government...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Federal Tests Find No E. Coli in Green Onions
Preliminary findings by Taco Bell had found that some green onions were contaminated, and the chain removed green onions last week...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Gay and Evangelical, Seeking Acceptance
Gay evangelicals come from a tradition whose leaders have led the fight against greater acceptance of homosexuals...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Water Bills Are So Flawed City Can’t Collect Millions
New York City has failed to collect on millions of dollars in water bills because of records riddled with errors and outdated information...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Former Coach Watches From a Seat, Not the Sideline
A former coach watched two Louisiana high school football players whom he groomed win a state championship trophy that will go into someone else’s trophy case...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
World Business Briefing: Europe and Asia
EUROPE...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Memo Pad
COMPLAINTS ON ENTRY Foreign business and leisure travelers are making their feelings known about difficulties in entering the United States. In a survey, foreign travelers rated the entry process the worst among the seven top regional destinations in the world, according to the Discover America Partnership, a tourism industry and business group that promotes foreign travel. Geoff Freeman, executive director of the group, said the study should be a “wake-up call” for the United States government to improve customer service and other procedures for visitors. While foreign visitors overwhelmingly reported positive experiences once they were in the United States, “perceptions of a rude and arrogant entry process are turning away travelers and harming America’s image,” he said, adding that business travel to the United States was down 10 percent in that period, while it was growing in other regions. The survey, which found that more than half of foreign visitors said immigration officials here were rude, was conducted in this fall by RT Strategies, a polling firm. Ranked from the top, the six destinations that scored higher than the United States were Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the Middle East...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Skilling Wins Delay of Sentence
The former Enron chief executive said he was made a scapegoat and is seeking to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Take-Two Improperly Dated Options Starting in 1997
Take-Two Interactive Software said Monday it improperly dated stock options for as long as nine years and would report undetermined expenses to correct compensation costs...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Frequent Flier: Does Hospitality Have to Be So Wasteful?
There’s a lot of talk about the importance of sustainable tourism that diminishes your impact on the environment while giving back to the community, but talk is cheap...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
President Sets Retirement After 41-Year Career With Verizon
The president of Verizon Communications, Lawrence T. Babbio Jr., will step down by the end of the first quarter of 2007...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Texas Instruments Cuts Sales Forecast
Sales will be $3.35 billion to $3.5 billion, compared with an October forecast of $3.46 billion to $3.75 billion, because of lower revenue from handsets...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Further Decline Seen in U.S. Home Sales
Sales of existing homes are expected to decline 8.6 percent, to 6.47 million, for 2006, and shrink another 1 percent, to 6.40 million units, next year...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Trial Begins Over Disputed Purchase of Advo
Valassis Communications is suing to escape its deal to purchase Advo, a direct mail marketing company it agreed to buy for $1.3 billion...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
On the Road: End of Year. Short on Miles. Coach Class, Here I Come.
Fewer people are rushing to cram in miles before the end of the year to upgrade to a higher frequent-flier status...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Qualcomm Loses Ruling by Trade Panel
The panel ruled that Qualcomm, a maker of cellphone chips, is infringing a Broadcom Corporation patent on a way to conserve handset battery power...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
DuPont to Reduce Pesticide Output and Cut 1,500 Jobs
The DuPont Company will eliminate 1,500 agriculture jobs and cut output of herbicides and pesticides in a plan to increase spending on genetically modified seeds, the company said yesterday...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Under Pressure From Moscow, Shell Offers to Sell Stake in Big Oil and Gas Project
Shell made the offer after months of pressure by Russia’s environmental regulators, who threatened to freeze work on the project by revoking critical operating permits...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Hewlett-Packard’s Longtime Financial Chief Is Set to Retire
Hewlett-Packard’s longtime chief financial officer, Robert P. Wayman, will give up the post this month and his seat on the company’s board in March...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Buoyed by Mergers, Wall Street Extends Its Advance
Wall Street extended its advance yesterday as investors digested new takeover developments and placed bets ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Wholesale Inventories Up as Sales Decline Continues
Inventories at United States wholesalers piled up at a faster pace in October as sales posted their first back-to-back declines in more than three years...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Hedge Fund Says It Will Fight Freeport Bid for Phelps Dodge
SAC Capital Advisors, a $10 billion hedge fund, has raised its stake in the Phelps Dodge Corporation to 5.1 percent and said yesterday that it would oppose a proposed takeover of the company by Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
In Twist on Tuition Game, Popularity Rises With Price
Several schools have sharply increased tuition to match colleges they consider their rivals, while also providing more financial assistance...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
A Fund Plans to Offer a Rival Slate of Directors for the Applebee’s Chain
This is the first time the fund, Breeden Capital Management, has sought to wage a shareholder fight...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
São Paulo Journal: Streets Are Paved With Neon’s Glare, and City Calls a Halt
São Paulo, Brazil, overwhelmed by what the authorities call visual pollution, plans to press the “delete all” button on outdoor advertising...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Dubai Port Company Sells Its U.S. Holdings to A.I.G.
The DP World sale is the final chapter in a contentious deal that some say drove Middle East petrodollars away from the U.S...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
2 Rivals Make Higher Bids for Big European Steel Maker
Attempts by competing Indian and Brazilian steelmakers to acquire a big British-Dutch producer, the Corus Group, turned into a bidding war on Monday...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Take the Hotel Room Home
Hotels have become miniature malls, putting a price tag on nearly whatever you see, hear, taste, touch and smell during your stay...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
advertising: After 36 Years at Grey, Time for Life No. 2
An era in advertising will end Dec. 31 when Edward H. Meyer, 80, head of the worldwide agency now known as the Grey Global Group, retires...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Objectivity of a Rating Questioned
Standard & Poor’s made at least 48 changes to a report on a utility company’s financial health, at the company’s request, before releasing the document...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Strict U.S. Rules Disqualify Some Canadian Arms Workers
Arms makers who export to the U.S. are in a squeeze thanks to a complex set of State Department rules known as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
E.P.A. Revises Its Formula to Calculate Auto Mileage
The new formula takes into account higher speeds, more aggressive driving, more air-conditioning use and other factors not in the old system...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
The Energy Challenge: The Cost of an Overheated Planet
It is increasingly clear that there is a considerable cost to carbon dioxide emissions, especially to future generations...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
2 Firms Pay $4.3 Billion for Sabre
The travel reservation company agreed Monday night to be sold to Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Market Place: Shake-Up in Top Tier at Citigroup
Although the company’s organizational chart will slightly change, it does not mean the bank’s strategy will...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Stolen Lives: Protectors, Too, Gather Profits From ID Theft
Criminals are not the only ones profiting from identity theft; financial institutions are making money, too...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Before Visit to China, a Rebuke
The U.S. formally accused China on Monday of failing to open the nation’s economy and crack down on piracy of foreign goods...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Mexico troops sent to fight drugs
Mexico sends thousands of troops to deal with a wave of drug-related crime in the western state of Michoacan...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
| Keep up with Steve, join our G-Mail List to receive Gill Show updates and Steve's weekly column... |
|
|
|
 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
