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US News Archive for December 2006:
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Rumsfeld praised on final day at Pentagon
Architect of the unpopular war in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was praised lavishly Friday for his service to the nation on a day of pageantry and testimonials for the outgoing Pentagon chief...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Consumer Prices Fell in November
Prices fell last month on everything from a gallon of gas to fresh vegetables to children?s clothing...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Nintendo Tries to Rein in the ?Whee!? of Its Wii
Nintendo is taking steps to keep users of its new console from damaging televisions, ceiling fans and bystanders...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Doctors Say Senator Is Making Progress
Senator Tim Johnson is making progress, but he remains seriously ill and may face a long recovery, doctors said...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Rescuers Search for American Climbers in China
Efforts are focusing on a remote region near Tibet where two elite climbers apparently went missing...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Rumsfeld Warns Against ?Graceful Exits? From Iraq
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said farewell to the Pentagon today with a combative address...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Golf: Woods eases into Challenge
Tiger Woods takes a one-shot lead over Henrik Stenson at the halfway stage of the Target World Challenge...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Pacific coast storm kills three
Heavy rain and strong winds lash the Pacific Northwest coast of the US and Canada, killing three people...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Protests spark clashes in Bolivia
At least 20 people are hurt in clashes between government and opposition supporters in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Rio police held over drugs links
Brazilian police arrest 75 serving officers suspected of links with drug gangs and organised crime...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Florida governor halts executions
Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends executions in the US state after a botched death by lethal injection...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Climbers' kin cling to hope
Relatives of three men missing in bitter weather on Mount Hood comforted each other and held out hope Friday that the trio survived, eight days after the lightly equipped men left for a two-day ascent...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Prince's new role: Army officer
Britain's future king, Prince William, has graduated as an army officer in front of his grandmother, the queen, who addressed the ceremony at Britain's Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Also there was girlfriend Kate Middleton -- fueling rumors of an impending royal engagement...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Rice rejects talks with Iran, Syria on Iraq
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has rejected a bipartisan panel's recommendation that the Bush administration engage Syria and Iran in efforts to stabilize Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Friday...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Protecting the Private Side of Yoko Ono?s Life
Even as she plays the role of cultural ambassador, Yoko Ono has fought fiercely to protect the sanctity of her home...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Lunch Menu: D?Amato, Koch, Clinton, ?08
At the Four Seasons this week, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sized up her 2008 presidential chances...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Ill Senator Is Called Responsive; Capital Is Riveted
Doctors said the outcome of Senator Tim Johnson?s condition might not be known for weeks or months...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Consumer Prices Stayed Flat in November
Products like gas, used cars and children?s clothing dropped, canceling out inflation in other categories...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Blizzard Lashes Pacific Northwest
Winds gusting up to 110 miles an hour knocked down trees and damaged structures...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Who Americans Are and What They Do, in Census Data
Fatter, taller and thirstier: An eclectic portrait emerges from the Census Bureau?s Statistical Abstract...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
US prices steady on cheaper fuel
US consumer prices were unchanged in November, as the cost of petrol continued to fall, data shows...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Burger King plans push in Japan
Fast food giant Burger King is taking a second bite at Japan, opening up a chain of outlets with local partners...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
US TV and internet use climbing
Americans will spend almost five months next year using different types of media, new statistics shows...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Schoolchildren released in Haiti
At least seven of a dozen children kidnapped on their way to school in Haiti are returned to their families...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Tributes to music mogul Ertegun
Tributes are paid to Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who has died at the age of 83...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
US terror cleric in health alert
The health of a blind radical Muslim cleric jailed for life in 1996 on terror charges is worsening, officials say...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Prince William: Officer, gentleman
Britain's Prince William, eager to draw a line under a decade of conspiracy theories about his mother's death, has graduated as an army officer and is launching his new career. His grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, gave the address at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Storm hinders rescuers
Fierce weather in the Northwest stymied rescuers trying to find three climbers missing on Oregon's Mount Hood. Rescuers were forced to search lower elevations of Mount Hood in hopes that one or more of the three missing climbers had managed to descend that far...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Iranians hit polls, test president
Iranians started voting on Friday for local councils and a powerful clerical body in the first electoral test for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his allies since he swept to office in 2005...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Last-Minute Health Benefits Slipped Into Bill
Before Congress adjourned, lawmakers managed to quietly add obscure provisions to a grab bag of legislation...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
California: Engineer Is Charged With Economic Espionage
A Chinese engineer was charged in San Jose with stealing trade secrets from a Silicon Valley company that made military training software...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Japan Tobacco Bids for Gallaher
Gallaher Group, the maker of the Benson & Hedges brand in Europe, said it had received an offer of £7.5 billion ($14.7 billion)...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Golf: Stenson holds off Tiger
Sweden's Henrik Stenson leads the Target World Challenge tournament by two shots from Tiger Woods...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
US congressmen in rare Cuba trip
Ten US congressmen travel to Cuba in the largest such delegation since Fidel Castro took power in 1959...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
Taiwanese first lady begins trial
Taiwan's wheelchair-bound first lady went on trial Friday on charges of embezzlement and forgery, with the troubled rule of President Chen Shui-bian hanging in the balance...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Mount Hood rescue effort faces 100-mph winds
Faced with impending 100-mph winds in the fiercest storm in a week, rescuers planned to search lower elevations of Mount Hood in hopes that one or more of the three missing climbers had managed to descend that far...
CNN - December 15, 2006
Ill Senator Is Called Responsive
Senator Tim Johnson was said to be in critical condition after an operation to stop bleeding in his brain...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Fatter, Taller and Thirstier Americans
The Census Bureau?s 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States shows an eclectic portrait of the American people...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Reversing Trend, Big Drop Is Seen in Breast Cancer
Rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped from August 2002 to December 2003, researchers reported...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
U.S. Is Dropping Effort to Track if Visitors Leave
Homeland Security officials have abandoned efforts to develop a system to determine whether foreign visitors leave the country...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Legislators Vote for Gay Unions in New Jersey
The vote fulfilled a court mandate to provide equal rights to gays and lesbians but frustrated people on both sides of the issue...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Faith and War: From Head Scarf to Army Cap, Making a New Life
Fadwa Hamdan belongs to the rare class of Muslim women who have signed up to become soldiers trained in Arabic...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
World Business Briefing: Europe, Americas and Asia
EUROPE...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Angelo R. Cali, 91, Founder of Real Estate Trust, Dies
Angelo R. Cali?s family-owned real estate development company merged with the Mack Company in 1997 to create one of the country?s largest real estate investment trusts...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Alan F. Shugart, 76, a Developer of Disk Drive Industry, Dies
Alan F. Shugart was an engineer and entrepreneur whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Black, White and Read All Over Over
Serkan Ozkaya?s most recent scrivener project grew out of a fascination with the interplay between the idea of the original and the copy in an ever more mass-produced postmodern world...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Dell Will Delay Financial Report
Dell said Thursday it would delay filing its quarterly report with securities regulators because of investigations into accounting practices...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
After the Summit, a Different Path
Only a few weeks after leaving his job on Wall Street in the spring of 2004, Lawrence Schloss found himself dealing with dirty running water and eight-hour walks across glaciers that at times threatened to collapse...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
The Churn
People...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Ahmet Ertegun, Music Executive, Dies at 83
Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records and shaped the careers of John Coltrane and the Rolling Stones...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Law Firms? Merger Will Expand Reach
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Preston Gates & Ellis agreed to merge yesterday to form one of the nation?s largest law firms, with 1,400 lawyers and expected 2007 revenue of $750 million...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
U.A.W. President Won?t Rule Out a Merger With Another Union
DETROIT, Dec. 14 ? With membership in the United Automobile Workers union at its lowest level since World War II, the president of the U.A.W., Ron Gettelfinger, left open the possibility on Thursday of a merger with another union...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Ford Reorganizes Executives
The Ford Motor Company named a global head of product development yesterday and assigned more managers to report directly to its new chief executive, Alan R. Mulally...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Hedge Fund Founder Admits Guilt in Fraud
WHITE PLAINS, Dec. 15 (AP) ? A founder of the collapsed hedge fund the Bayou Group admitted Thursday in federal court that he had conspired to defraud investors of more than $10 million, federal prosecutors said...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
U.S. Drops Most Import Barriers to High-Grade Steel
The end of most tariffs and duties against imports of a high-grade steel used in cars was a victory for U.S. and Japanese automakers...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Costco Profit Increases 10%
CHICAGO, Dec. 14 (Reuters) ? The Costco Wholesale Corporation posted a better-than-expected 10 percent rise in first-quarter profit Thursday, helped by a big jump in membership fees...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
$40 Million Bonus at Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, gave its chief executive, John J. Mack, $40 million in stock and options for 2006, the largest bonus ever awarded to a Wall Street chief...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Prices of Imported Goods Rose in November
Prices of goods imported into the United States rose last month for the first time in three months because of an increase in the cost of natural gas purchases...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Expected EMI Takeover Deal Falls Through
EMI confirmed on Thursday what some had been speculating for days ? a hoped-for takeover by a private equity investor is dead in the water...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Chief Financial Officer Appointed by Times Company
The New York Times Company named James M. Follo, the former chief financial officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, as its chief financial officer...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Talks With China End With Few Signs of Progress on Currency Issue
The U.S. and China set up several study groups and made general pledges, but did not specifically address America?s demand that China stop undervaluing its currency...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Suit Challenges Warm Gasoline
The suit accuses oil companies and gas stations of overcharging customers at the pump by failing to compensate for changes in gasoline volumes when temperatures rise...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
2 Equity Firms Paying $7.6 Billion for Largest German TV Broadcaster
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Permira agreed on Thursday to buy ProSiebenSat.1, Germany?s largest private TV broadcaster...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Debt Trading Aids Earnings of Two Firms on Wall St.
Lehman Brothers Holdings and the Bear Stearns Companies, the Wall Street companies most dependent on the fixed-income market, posted record fourth-quarter earnings, helped by corporate bonds and derivatives...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
[TS] High & Low Finance: S.E.C. to Firms: Keep Money, Forget Rules
Proposed S.E.C. rules will allow foreign companies to raise money in the American capital market without having to comply with U.S. rules...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Rich Earnings on Wall Street Help to Lift Shares Broadly
In trading Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 99.26 points, or 0.81 percent, to 12,416.76, another record close...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Not Everyone Is Grateful as Investors Build Free Apartments in Mumbai Slums
In India, builders who raze slums and use part of the land to build houses for the former residents are then allowed to build lucrative towers on the rest of the land...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
At Chrysler Now, the Fast Track Runs Downhill
Chrysler has a backlog of gasguzzlers while consumers want fuel-efficient vehicles, and plant closings and job cuts are rumored to be in the works...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
New Minder of Expenses for Citigroup
Robert Druskin, Citigroup?s new chief operating officer, said he aims to make a ?leaner, thinner Citigroup? to win over frustrated investors...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Insider: Barring the Hedge Fund Doors to Mere Millionaires
On Wednesday, the S.E.C. proposed limiting the number of people who can invest in hedge funds by raising the minimum wealth required to buy in...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Advertising: Why an Agency Said No to Wal-Mart
After suddenly calling off a lengthy ad agency search, Wal-Mart invited four of the five finalists to come pitch again. Three accepted. One walked away...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
Criminal Inquiries Look at U.S. Oil-Gas Unit
The two inquiries are just the latest of several into the Interior Department?s Minerals Management Service and its collection of royalties for oil and gas...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
OPEC Sets Reduction in Output
OPEC plans to reduce its output by nearly 2 percent in February, an indication that it wants to keep oil prices above $60 a barrel next year...
New York Times - December 15, 2006
New Jersey allows gay unions
New Jersey's state legislature legalises same-sex civil unions, but says they cannot be called marriages...
BBC News - December 15, 2006
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