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US News Archive for September 2004:
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Ivan bashes Cuba, outer bands brush Keys
Hurricane Ivan -- already blamed for 62 deaths -- unleashed its fury Monday on Cuba with ham radio operators reporting trees and power lines down. Mexico has issued a hurricane warning for the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula and residents across the Gulf Coast of the United States are preparing for the worst and keeping an close eye on Ivan's progress...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Florida Panhandle prepares
Residents of the Florida Panhandle got serious about boarding up windows, stocking food and worrying as deadly Hurricane Ivan appeared to be heading in their direction, although a forecaster said Monday that there was a chance it could weaken before plowing ashore...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Assault weapons ban ends
Ten years after it was born out of the carnage of three California mass shootings, the federal assault weapons ban is fading out of existence Monday...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Florida and Gulf Coast Brace for Arrival of Hurricane Ivan
Residents prepared for a storm that has already swamped Caribbean communities and killed more than 60 people...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Kerry and Bush Trade Charges on End of Weapons Ban, and Crime
Senator John Kerry accused the president today of caving in to the gun lobby, a charge rejected by the White House...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Bloomberg Faces Payoff Year on School Plans
New York's public school children are returning to class for a year that will serve as a crucial barometer of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education efforts...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Sony Agrees to Buy MGM for Nearly $5 Billion
Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable operator, will join the investors working with Sony on the deal, a source close to the discussions said...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Zombie sequel tops US box office
Zombie sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse goes straight to the top of the north American box office chart...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Arctic's toxic burden harms bears
New evidence confirms the damage toxic chemicals are causing to the health of polar bears, conservationists say...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Time Warner drops out of MGM race
US media group Time Warner withdraws its bid for movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after failing to agree a price...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Ivan hitting Cuba, outer bands brush Keys
Cubans are feeling the effects of Hurricane Ivan as the storm spins 85 miles off the island's western tip, bringing heavy rain and winds of 160 mph. The Florida Keys also are getting a taste of the storm, with Sand Key reporting winds of 41 mph. Computer models indicate the brunt of the storm will miss the Keys, but forecasters say it is too soon to say exactly where the storm will make landfall in the United States...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Ivan threat shifts to Florida Panhandle
People who evacuated the Florida Keys were told they could go back Monday as 160-mph Hurricane Ivan appeared to spare them and instead took aim at the Panhandle, where residents weren't taking any chances...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Weapons ban ending
The expiration Monday of a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons means that firearms like AK-47s, Uzis and TEC-9s can now be legally bought -- a development that has critics upset and gun owners pleased...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Florida Panhandle Braces for Latest Storm, Hurricane Ivan
Residents boarded up windows and stocked food as deadly Hurricane Ivan appeared to be heading in their direction...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Absentee Votes Worry Officials as Nov. 2 Nears
Officials are worried that the efforts of the political parties to promote absentee balloting could taint the general election...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Stocks Slightly Higher as Profit Worries Ease
Investors discounted another technology profit warning and focused instead on positive outlooks for third- and fourth-quarter earnings...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Cubans braced for storm onslaught
Fierce winds are expected to hammer western Cuba in the next few hours, as Mexico issues a hurricane warning...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Hurricane sends oil prices higher
The price of oil continues to rise as fears grow that Hurricane Ivan could disrupt oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
BAE buys IT supplier to Pentagon
BAE Systems acquires a US firm which provides computer and IT systems to the US defence department...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Ivan again a powerful Category 5 hurricane
Hurricane Ivan chugged toward far western Cuba as a Category 5 storm early today, scouring the Caribbean with 160 mph (260 km/h) winds and leaving 42 people dead in its wake. At the same time, the National Hurricane Center held out hope that the powerful storm may slip by the tip of the island nation, heading toward the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula...
CNN - September 13, 2004
N. Korea: Demolition caused cloud
North Korea says a large mushroom cloud seen over the nation in satellite images was the result of a deliberate demolition of a mountain for a power plant...
CNN - September 13, 2004
A Stodgy Style, but BellSouth Starts to Loosen Its Top Button
BellSouth's approach to business has been stable, disciplined, anything but flashy. But now the company is slowly shedding its conservative approach...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Let a Thousand Ideas Flower: China Is a New Hotbed of Research
In recent years, hundreds of multinational companies have set up research laboratories in China...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
WPP wins race to buy Grey Global
UK advertising group WPP agrees to buy US rival Grey Global for $1.3bn, seeing off a rival bid from France's Havas...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Weary Florida leery of Ivan
The only whooshing sound Hurricane Ivan stirred in the Keys and populous South Florida on Sunday was a sigh of relief from residents no longer fearful the 160-mph storm would make a direct hit. But even as Ivan veered west, forecasters warned that the state, already slammed by two powerful hurricanes in a month, was not out of the woods yet...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Kerry challenges Bush on Iraq-9/11 connection
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accused the Bush administration Sunday of falsely linking Iraq to the attacks of September 11, 2001, "in its desperate attempts to reinvent a rationale for the Iraq war."...
CNN - September 13, 2004
Settlers protest Israeli withdrawal plan
Tens of thousands of people gathered in downtown Jerusalem on Sunday to protest Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and parts of the West Bank by the middle of next year...
CNN - September 13, 2004
With Eye on Storm, Skittish Floridians Search for Safety
With a third hurricane bearing down on Florida, thousands spent the weekend uncertain whether, when or where to flee...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
US Airways Tries to Reorganize for a Second Time
The airline, whose workers refused to accept $800 million in wage and benefit cuts, joins United Airlines in bankruptcy. Delta could soon follow...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Giants in Ad Bidding Wars: WPP Wins Grey Global
The WPP Group of Britain won the bidding for Grey Global Group, the last large independent advertising firm, with an offer thought to be worth more than $1.4 billion...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
The Customer Relationship Expert Takes a Dose of Its Own Medicine
Since 1993, Siebel dominated the market for customer service software. In recent years, however, it has stumbled. Can it regain its former glory?...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
At Disney, Mending Fences or Moving On?
Without Michael D. Eisner at the helm of the Walt Disney Company, will Harvey Weinstein and Steven P. Jobs stay as partners?...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Study Finds U.S. Companies Shifting Profits Overseas
From 1999 to 2002, American multinational corporations increased profits taken in countries with no taxes or low rates by 68 percent, a study found...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Can Mr. Chips Transform Intel?
Paul S. Otellini, the probable new chief of Intel, may have to lead the chip manufacturer in an industry where the race may be for creativity, not speed...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Do Newspapers Make Good News Look Bad?
Two economists argue that economic reporters slant the news unequivocally in favor of the Democrats...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Depression, a Frequent Visitor to Wall St.
Suicides in the brokerage industry are rare, but the chronic depression, even despair, associated with them is not infrequent on Wall Street...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
If the Revenue Column Says Zero, Avoid the I.P.O.
Initial offerings of commercially successful companies regularly beat benchmarks of similar stocks over the long term, according to a new study...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Making Money Fast on Very Slow Cars
A Swiss company has a unique business model: seeking out people with suspended driver's licenses and renting cars to them at a discount...
New York Times - September 13, 2004
Bonds closes on landmark
Barry Bonds hit his 699th career home run as the Giants beat Arizona...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Mexico deports US teens in rehab
Mexico closes three rehab centres and deports nearly 600 US teenagers having treatment for being there illegally...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
Gibbs leads Redskins to win
Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs sees Tampa beaten on his return to the NFL after 11 years away...
BBC News - September 13, 2004
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