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US News Archive for August 2005:
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BA resumes Heathrow flights
British Airways has resumed flights at Heathrow airport after staff returned to work following an unofficial strike that crippled service and stranded tens of thousands of passengers. Limited flights are scheduled to continue Friday, although service is not expected to get back to normal for days...
CNN - August 12, 2005
City Releases Thousands of Oral Histories of 9/11 Attacks
The histories are a mosaic of vision and memory recalling the human struggle against surging fire, confusion, and horror...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
U.S. Steps Down Threat Level for Mass Transit Systems by a Notch
The announcement came as intelligence officials continued to weigh the likelihood of new terrorist attacks around Sept. 11...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Google Alters Plan for Searchable Library Databases
Google Inc. said today that it would temporarily halt its program to make searchable, digital copies of the vast contents of three university libraries in order to give publishers and other copyright holders the chance to opt out of having their protected works copied...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
British Airways Struggles to Resume Flights After Strike
Thousands of passengers remained stranded at Heathrow Airport following the unofficial strike by the airport workers...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Shares of Dell Dive as Growth Slows, Pulling Down Nasdaq
Shares of Dell fell sharply today, a day after the world's largest computer maker said quarterly revenue had not grown as fast as expected...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Venezuela-Shell tax row heats up
Venezuelan tax authorities close down a Shell office for 48 hours and ask for an injunction on some of its assets in a row over taxes...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
Chavez revokes US immunity
Venezuela removes the diplomatic immunity of US anti-drugs officials in an escalating row...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
FBI warns of anniversary bombs
Intelligence officials in the US warn that al-Qaeda may be planning to hijack fuel tankers to use as bombs in US cities...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
Athletics: Wariner wins 400m
Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner wins World 400m gold in Helsinki...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
BA says all staff to return
British Airways says all of its employees who took part in an unofficial strike that crippled flights at Heathrow airport have agreed to return to work. Limited flights are set to resume but with more than 100,000 people affected, service is not expected to get back to normal for days...
CNN - August 12, 2005
CIA: Iran leader likely not captor
A CIA report has determined with "relative certainty" that new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not involved in the taking of U.S. hostages in 1979, two government officials told CNN...
CNN - August 12, 2005
9/11 recordings, documents released
Thousands of pages of oral histories recorded by firefighters about September 11 and hours of radio transmissions were released Friday -- a vast mine of records that evoked anew the chaos and horror of the attack...
CNN - August 12, 2005
Group pulls anti-Roberts ad
NARAL Pro-Choice America said late Thursday it was pulling a controversial advertisement in which the abortion rights group accused Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of "supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted bomber."...
CNN - August 12, 2005
City Begins Releasing Thousands of Oral Histories of 9/11
A rich vein of New York City records from 9/11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories, are being released today...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Heralded as Parks, but Looking More Like Dumps
Every year, New York City buys plots of land to create parks. But in scores of cases, nothing happens...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Niger Is in the Headlines, but Other African Lands Suffer, Too
Famine is whittling away populations across the region. So how did Niger become the crisis of the day?...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Rumors of a Shortage of Dump Space Were Greatly Exaggerated
A remarkable productivity story is playing out: operators of garbage dumps are stuffing more waste than anyone expected...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Trade Deficit Climbs as Energy Costs Rise
Higher energy costs drove the United States trade deficit sharply higher in June, the government reported today, as oil prices set even bigger records this week...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Surinam ex-leader's son is jailed
The son of Surinam's former military leader Desi Bouterse is jailed for trafficking arms, drugs and luxury cars...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
Top US lobbyist accused of fraud
Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is charged with fraud over the purchase of casinos in Florida in 2000...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
Air strike strands thousands
Tens of thousands of travelers remain stranded after British Airways cancels flights to and from London's Heathrow Airport because of an industrial dispute...
CNN - August 12, 2005
Bush: 'Mistake' to leave Iraq
President Bush said Thursday he would not bring American troops home from Iraq prematurely despite a mounting toll from insurgent attacks, telling reporters doing so would send "a terrible signal to the enemy."...
CNN - August 12, 2005
Vote scandal hits Brazil markets
Brazil's currency and main stock market slide on the latest twist in a long-running corruption scandal...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
US grows wary of China flotations
Chinese firms floating on Wall Street could end up creating a new asset bubble and harming US investors, a Congressional panel hears...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
Couple's tale didn't 'wash'
A cab driver who picked up a couple suspected in the slaying of a Tennessee prison guard during a courthouse escape said Thursday the two told him they were going to an Amway convention. But, the cabbie said, their story just "didn't really seem to wash." The cabbie's tip led to the couple's capture...
CNN - August 12, 2005
Thousands stranded at Heathrow
Thousands of passengers were stranded Friday at Britain's biggest airport, Heathrow, because of strikes that forced British Airways to cancel flights during the peak summer holiday season. BA flights were to remain canceled until at least Friday evening...
CNN - August 12, 2005
U.S. Fraud Charge for Top Lobbyist
Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist, was indicted on fraud charges involving his purchase of a fleet of gambling boats...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
After Decades of Disappointment, Gazans Are Preparing to Rejoice
Israel's planned evacuation of Jewish settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip has generated optimism among Gazans...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
City to Release Oral Histories of 9/11 Friday
A rich vein of New York City records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories, will be made public...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
The Wrong Way Out of a Housing Project
In a city of less crime and more opportunity, the paths followed by young men out of the projects offer humble, attainable promises, but no guarantees...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Research Scientist's $105 Million Is a Way to Give Back to N.Y.U.
The donation by a scientist who made a fortune on a blockbuster drug is one of the four or five largest ever given to a school or health care institution in New York City...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Japan Posts Slower Growth Than Expected
Japan's economy expanded at a slower-than-expected 1.1 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, a report released on Friday showed...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Burnett Decides to Resign From Morgan Stanley Account
Burnett Decides to Resign...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
U.S. to Seek Textile Pact With China
United States trade negotiators will meet with their Chinese counterparts to discuss limiting exports of textiles from China...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
DreamWorks, Posting Loss, Still Beats Forecasts
DreamWorks Animation SKG, creator of the "Shrek" franchise, reported a second-quarter loss, citing the soft market for DVD sales of "Shrek 2."...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Sales at Target and Kohl's Exceed Wall Street Estimates
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Is Glaxo's Pipeline Half Full or Half Empty? Views Differ
GlaxoSmithKline, Europe's largest drug maker, has been showing signs of a revival, but critics say that some of the company's most highly publicized drugs are behind schedule...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Oil Touches $66 a Barrel, Another High
For the third time this week, oil prices raced to a new high...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
The Churn
Deal Makers...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Economic Expansion Grows as Unemployment Shrinks
Emboldened by rising wages and better job prospects, American consumers headed to car dealers by the thousands last month to take advantage of Detroit's deep discounts, and helped empty bulging warehouses...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
A.I.G.'s View of Regulators
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
New York Garbage Adapts to Life After Fresh Kills
ALBANY, Aug. 11 - Since New York City sent its last barge-load of garbage to the Fresh Kills dump on Staten Island on March 21, 2001, it has been working to come up with a permanent plan to get rid of the thousands of tons of trash it generates each day...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Qualcomm to Buy Flarion for $600 Million
Qualcomm said that it would buy the wireless broadband technology firm Flarion Technologies in a bid to expand its own wireless technology...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Waste Yes, Want Not
A remarkable productivity story is playing out in the trash business: operators of garbage dumps are stuffing more waste than anyone expected into landfills...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
U.S. Airlines Raise Fares
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
ValueClick Buys a Rival in Online Ads
ValueClick, an online advertising agency, said that it had agreed to buy Fastclick for $214 million in stock to create the largest online advertising-network company...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Chrysler Predicts New Models Will Lead to Higher Profits
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Asian Markets Reap Benefits From Revalued Chinese Currency
International investors are betting that Asia's economies will get a lift from China's move last month to revalue its currency...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
And What Would Thurber Say? A Single-Sponsor New Yorker
Target is the first single advertiser in the 80-year history of The New Yorker magazine to sponsor an entire issue...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Pfizer to Detail Drugs' Risks and Consult Doctors Earlier
Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, is changing the way it promotes medicine to consumers in response to heightened scrutiny by regulators and lawmakers...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Hewlett Buys Printer Firm
The Hewlett-Packard Company said that it planned to acquire most of the assets of Scitex Vision, a maker of large-scale printers, for $230 million...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Ex-WorldCom Officer Sentenced to 5 Years in Accounting Fraud
The sentence was a fifth of the standard and a striking example of the benefit of working with government prosecutors...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Former Banker Pleads Guilty in Tax Shelter Case
The plea appears to involve the first criminal charges brought by the government in its investigation of tax shelters sold by KPMG...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Dell Profit Grows 28% in Quarter
Dell shares fell sharply in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company said quarterly revenue had not grown as fast as expected...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Inept Boards Need Have No Fear
How irresponsible does an outside director have to be before he or she faces legal responsibility for nonperformance of duties? Very, very irresponsible...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Life on Hold: A Logjam of Nominees at Pentagon
Nearly a quarter of the people nominated to the top civilian Pentagon jobs that require Senate approval are trapped in the confirmation pipeline...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
The Analysts Collect Their Reward: More Scrutiny
First Wall Street's analysts were accused of being too dependent on company management, and now regulators fear they may be teetering close to insider trading...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Morgan Stanley's Retail Troubles
The firm's returned chief executive has thrown down the gauntlet in its struggling retail unit...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Shares Rally Late in Day, Buoyed by Economic Data
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Tony Soprano and Crew Will Return for '07 Season
The most successful series in the history of cable television, "The Sopranos," will return in 2007 with an additional eight episodes...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
China Says Trade Surplus Widened Further in July
The trade surplus is likely to increase pressures from the United States and the European Union for China to let its currency appreciate faster...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Books, Not Tales, Get Taller Before Baby Boomers' Eyes
Publishers are issuing new paperbacks in a bigger size for baby boomers who are finding it harder and harder to read small type...
New York Times - August 12, 2005
Experts 'decipher' Inca strings
Researchers in the United States believe they have deciphered mysterious strings used by ancient Incas...
BBC News - August 12, 2005
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