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US News Archive for April 2007:
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Chicago to Be U.S. Bid for ?16 Olympics
Chicago beat out Los Angeles as the United States? bid city for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in today?s vote...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Doctor Says Governor Is Doing Well After Surgery
After surgery to clean a wound from his car crash, Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey was said to be improving...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
If Elected ...: McCain Sees ?No Plan B? for Iraq War
Senator John McCain said in an interview that the buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq represented the only viable option to avoid failure...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Suits: Did Anyone Ask About a Yacht?
Richard M. Scrushy was ordered to wear a G.P.S. tracking device after prosecutors accused him of trying to flee the country in February...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Market Week: Retail Sales Could Set the Tone on Wall St.
?How the consumer acts is how the economy will act,? an analyst says...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
DataBank: Stocks Bounce Back From a Midweek Slide
The stock market rose again last week, fighting off a decline on Wednesday brought about by the release of the minutes of the last Federal Reserve policy meeting...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
National Perspectives: Buyers in New Mexico Find Views, and Value
The Talavera area has experienced rapid development in the last few years, as wealthier home buyers take advantage of the large lots and mountain views...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
The World: Asking for Money Is So Appallingly American, Dahling
In Britain, the old alma mater is learning how to tap the shuddering alumni...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
The Count: A Two-Day Reprieve on Taxes (Thank President Lincoln)
This year, the calendar has been generous, offering two loopholes to last-minute federal income tax filers...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Alternative Tax Hits Home the Hardest
A growing number of taxpayers across the region have been finding themselves paying the alternative minimum tax...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Industry: Lego Picks Up the Pieces After Layoffs and Moves
Faced with financial losses, Lego has had to lay off employees at its North American headquarters, sell its 230-acre campus and move production to Mexico...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
The Goods: Paste on the Brush, Not on the Sink
The X-Paste was inspired by Stewart Robertson?s children, who would leave half-squeezed toothpaste tubes uncapped...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Economic View: Parsing the Truths About Visas for Tech Workers
Requesting the coveted H-1B visa, from India to Silicon Valley...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
The Boss: Start-Ups and Catch-Ups
?Everyone wanted us to be successful in fighting spam,? said Enrique T. Salem, group president, worldwide sales and marketing, Symantec...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Career Couch: Danger Signals at Work, and How to Handle Them
Sometimes, roots of on-the-job violence are noticed only after it happens...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: ?For Sale? May Mean ?You Lose?
Auctions make money, but how much goes to shareholders?...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Strategies: Catching a Second Wind at Quarter?s End
The best-performing stocks of the recent past tend to keep beating the market ? just as past losers continue to lag behind. But why?...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Home Front: Willy Wonka? Not Exactly. But He Does Change Lives.
Michael Altman has filled most of the low-level jobs at his chocolate factory with ex-convicts. It?s part of a personal mission to be a good corporate citizen after a career as an executive recruiter...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Ping: Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Parade
Many people think national origin can shape a career in technology...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Novelties: The iPod and the Vacuum Tube Sing a Warm Duet
Manufacturers are selling docking stations for iPods and MP3 players with amplifiers based on an old but resilient technology: vacuum tubes...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Investing: This Time, Rate Cuts May Not Work Magic on Stocks
Conditions in the bond market make the current prospects for the stock market worse than these figures suggest, an analyst said...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Earning: Baby on Board, and a Photography Business, Too
As digital single-lens-reflex cameras have become more affordable, more people ? overwhelmingly women ? are starting photography businesses...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Everybody?s Business: Yes, Wall St. Still Gets Some Things Right
Let?s pause for a moment to be grateful for some of the marvelous developments in investing innovations...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Square Feet | Checking In: Lower Manhattan?s Revival Will Include New Hotels
A more active downtown is adding to demand for more guest rooms...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Media Frenzy: A Soft Sell With Cold, Hard Cash in Mind
Does ?advertainment? cross an unseen line between commercial message and content where consumers ought not to go?...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Aging: Disease or Business Opportunity?
The market for drugs to control and treat diseases of aging and for appearance-related products and services is expected to reach $71 billion a year by 2009...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
The Pilotless Plane That Only Looks Like Child?s Play
During the last several years, unmanned aerial vehicles ? known as U.A.V.?s ? have amassed unusual political firepower...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Stung by Indictment, a Power Broker Punches Back
David A. Stockman, President Ronald Reagan?s budget director, is facing a trial next year on fraud charges...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Chicago joins 2016 Olympic race
Chicago sees off Los Angeles to become the US Olympic Committee's chosen venue for the 2016 Summer Games...
BBC News - April 14, 2007
Flood watch in New York as storm heads east
A severe weather system blamed for at least two deaths plowed eastward Saturday, rattling Louisiana with strong thunderstorms as the Northeast prepared for possible coastal flooding...
CNN - April 14, 2007
Car Bomb Kills Dozens in Iraqi City of Karbala
Officials said that at least 34 people, including several children, were killed near a bus station in the holy city...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
North Korea Misses Key Deadline
The North took no apparent action to shut down and seal its main facility for manufacturing nuclear weapons fuel...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Museum Honors Hispanic Culture
San Antonio has swung into fiesta mode to welcome the nation?s largest Latino museum, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Marines? Actions in Afghanistan Called Excessive
American marines shot at bystanders in a rampage after a bomb ambush last month, a report released today said...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Russian Opposition Leader Held in Moscow March
Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion, was arrested during a rally that ended in clashes with riot troops...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Lenders Sought Edge Against U.S. In Student Loans
Private banks and lenders have for years waged a successful campaign to limit a federal program that was intended to make borrowing less costly...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Corzine Crash Comes at Crucial Time for N.J.
Instead of heading into a second budget battle with the State Legislature, Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey underwent another operation today...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Eye on Iran, Rivals Pursuing Nuclear Power
Roughly a dozen Middle East states say they want to start nuclear programs for peaceful uses, but analysts say the regional trend also poses dangers...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Market, bridge bombs kill dozens
Bombings in Baghdad and Karbala kill at least 56 and injure 78 more, according to police and medical officials. A car bomb in a crowded shopping area of central Karbala, a holy Shiite city, killed at least 43 and injured 55, officials say...
CNN - April 14, 2007
Bombings kill dozens in Iraq
Bombings in Baghdad and Karbala killed at least 56 people and wounded 78 more Saturday morning, police and medical officials said...
CNN - April 14, 2007
In Charge Again, Codey Plans No Surprises
Self-effacing and plain-spoken, but blessed with a cutting-edge sense of humor, Richard J. Codey, 59, is a warmly regarded politician in New Jersey...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
E-Mail Listed Possible G.O.P. Replacements for Attorneys
A Justice Department message appears to be at odds with officials? repeated statements that no successors were selected before several U.S. attorneys were dismissed...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Hope fades for missing crew members
Rescuers said Friday they had all but given up hope of finding five crewmen alive a day after their ship capsized in the North Sea near Scotland. A 15-year-old boy, who was working aboard the vessel with his father, was reported to be among the missing...
CNN - April 14, 2007
Controversial tilt-rotor aircraft heading to Iraq
The V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft will head to Iraq for its first combat tour later this year, Marine officials announced Friday. The aircraft, which took 18 years and $20 billion to develop, was redesigned after two accidents in 2000 that killed 23 Marines. Accidents in 1991 and 1992 killed seven. The Marines say the plane's problems are in the past...
CNN - April 14, 2007
Five million e-mails may be missing
Up to 5 million White House e-mails may be missing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged Friday. A liberal watchdog group alleges that over two years official White House e-mail traffic for hundreds of days has vanished -- in possible violation of the federal Presidential Records Act...
CNN - April 14, 2007
Post-Imus, WFAN Opts for More Sports, for Now
For now, Mike Francesa and Christopher Russo of the ?Mike and Mad Dog? show will fill in for Don Imus...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Romney and Giuliani Lead in Raising Money for ?08
Mitt Romney spent nearly 60 percent of the $20.7 million he raised in the first quarter...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Wellesley Class Sees ?One of Us? Bearing Standard
For her Wellesley classmates, Hillary Clinton?s quest to become the first female president is a generational mirror...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
E-Mail Identified G.O.P. Candidates for Justice Jobs
An e-mail contradicted testimony last month in which an attorney general?s aide said that no successors were considered before the attorneys were fired...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Corzine Facing Severe Hurdles in Intensive Care
Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey remained in critical condition and heavily sedated after a devastating car accident...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
G.E.?s Earnings Increase 2%; High-Cost Products Sell Well
The General Electric Company benefited from robust sales of engines, turbines and other big-ticket items in the first quarter, even as it grappled with problems in its consumer finance, plastics and health care businesses...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Citigroup Adds Hedge Fund and Its Leader
For nearly a year, Charles O. Prince III had been courting a former top Morgan Stanley investment banker. Yesterday, he got his man ? Vikram S. Pandit, who will head Citigroup?s alternative investments group. But Mr. Prince may be paying a steep price...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Talk of Possible $20 Billion Deal for Sallie Mae Pushes Shares Higher
Shares of Sallie Mae, the nation?s largest lender to college students, surged on the prospects that the company could be bought out in a deal worth more than $20 billion...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Shortcuts: Tools to Keep the Web Safe for Children
In learning about parental controls and filters for the Internet, one first has to learn the language...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
What?s Offline: The 3-Paragraph Job Review
In an article in The Harvard Business Review, the former chairman and chief executive of Allied Signal suggests a new way of doing performance appraisals...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
What?s Online: Say Good Night, Bandwidth Hog
Comcast is warning its customers to limit their bandwidth or face a one-year termination of service...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Market Values: If It?s a Merger, 2nd Thoughts Should Follow
The term ?merger mania? could be an astute diagnosis of a malady spreading through boardrooms and financial markets...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Markets Suffer After Russia Bans Immigrant Vendors
A strict anti-immigrant measure allowing only Russians to sell vegetables and other market goods is resulting in acute shortages and price increases in some regions...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Off The Charts: Washington Dares to Challenge the Lender It Depends Upon
Although protectionist tendencies in the U.S. do not break perfectly along party lines, some Democrats have been more vocal in urging action against what they see as unfair trade from China...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Saturday Interview: The Science of Attacking Cholesterol
Fred Hassan, chairman and chief executive of Schering-Plough, discusses how the pharmaceutical industry is tackling the challenge of cholesterol...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Your Money: Financially, Solar Power for the Home Is a Tough Sell
Even with federal and state credits, installing a home solar power system can mean waiting years for savings on energy bills...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Five Days: Talkers in Trouble, on the Radio and at a Chemical Giant
The flameout of the radio host Don Imus dominated the discourse this week, but there was other intrigue...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Guardedly Kicking the Tires on Chrysler
The effort by DaimlerChrysler to find a buyer for Chrysler is becoming a drawn-out, complicated process beset by issues including debt, health costs and unions...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: A Building for Diller by Gehry
With its billowing sheets of curved glass, its partly white windows, and the world?s largest high-def screen in its expansive lobby, the new headquarters of IAC is unlike anything in Manhattan...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
CA Says Its Founder Aided Fraud
CA accused its founder of masterminding a huge accounting fraud at the company...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Sales Abroad Propping Up the Economy
A weakening economy is getting some relief from abroad as American companies step up their sales to foreigners, the latest data, released Friday, suggests...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins
At the New York International Auto Show, doors swing open to reveal push-button starters ? no key necessary...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Patient Money: Hip Surgery With a Future
An interim approach to total hip replacement is offering an alternative that still leaves open the possibility of successfully receiving an artificial hip later in life...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Google Buys an Online Ad Firm for $3.1 Billion
Google agreed to its largest acquisition Friday, reaching a deal to purchase DoubleClick for almost double what it paid for YouTube last year...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
Combat, With Limits, Looms for Hybrid Aircraft
Critics say the V-22 Osprey?s limitations may make it vulnerable to attack...
New York Times - April 14, 2007
US 'expects Wolfowitz to stay on'
The US says it expects World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz to stay despite criticism of his behaviour...
BBC News - April 14, 2007
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