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US News Archive for December 2007:
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Letterman Pursuing a Deal With Writers
The deal, which would allow David Letterman?s show to return in January, could be the first break in the strike...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Andy Pettitte Says He Used Growth Hormone Twice
The Yankees pitcher, who was named in a report on drugs in baseball, said he used the substance after an injury...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Obama Shows Confidence in Iowa Sprint
Senator Barack Obama is threatening Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s long dominance even as he faces intensified questions about his vulnerabilities...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Correction: On the Crest of a Food Wave
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New York Times - December 15, 2007
Correction: When a Luxury Vacation Cultivates Philanthropy
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New York Times - December 15, 2007
Correction: Stocks Climb on Optimism for Lenders
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New York Times - December 15, 2007
A Dim Market, Darkened by Inflation Fear
It was a dismal week for the stock market, despite an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The Count: Still Choosing the Mailbox Over the In-Box
The old-fashioned letter is far from dead, especially during the holidays...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Eggnog, the Tonic for What Ails Detroit
The weather in Detroit may be frightful, and the outlook for auto sales is not delightful, but that did not get in the way of auto company parties...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The Boss: The Urge to Go Global
?Give people the vision and hold them accountable, but let them do it their own way.?...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Yes, There Can Be Life After Word
AS the clerk at Circuit City rang up my purchase of a new notebook computer last month, she started her up-selling...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Market Week: Minding the Rate Gap
Over the next week or so, the value of your stock portfolio could depend on the rate at which banks around the world make short-term loans to one another...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Travel Bug: Growing Rebellion on the High Seas
Websites and online forums have been gathering complaints from dissatisfied cruise ship passengers...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
The Bush administration is working to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies who aid the N.S.A.?s warrantless eavesdropping program...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The World: As China Goes, So Goes Global Warming
Theories abound over how best to help China embrace emissions-reducing policies., but can the emerging superpower realistically fast-forward through the most carbon-intense phase of nation building?...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Spending: Remember the Milkman? In Some Places, He?s Back
A return to a simpler past, with the ease of Internet ordering...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
On the Economy: The Republicans? Expensive Tax Promise
Maintaining the Bush tax cuts, as G.O.P. candidates have promised, would require running faster and faster to stay in place...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Preoccupations: Where Water-Cooler Talk Is About the Water Bowl
Employees explain the benefits of bringing their dogs to work...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Fair Game: Quick, Call Tech Support for the S.E.C.
A government report highlights shortcomings in the Securities and Exchange Commission?s efforts to battle insider trading and market manipulation...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Off The Shelf: A Grim Diagnosis for the U.S., and a Prescription
In ?The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity,? Robert Kuttner sounds a chilling, if often shrill, alarm...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Venti Capitalists
A look at Starbucks as a corporate juggernaut...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Square Feet | Blueprints: For Green Products, a Green Showroom
The model work spaces are used by the staff, to show function as well as form...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Digital Domain: Hannah Montana Tickets on Sale! Oops, They?re Gone
A lawsuit seeks to discover how ticket brokers manage to snatch up a high proportion of tickets for big-name concerts to resell them at inflated prices...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Strategies: Are Buyback Stocks Still Good for Investors?
Looking below the surface of repurchase plans...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Career Couch: How to Defang Scary Technology
In learning new software, focus on the concept more than the sequence of keystrokes...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft
The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Ping: Bell Labs Is Gone. Academia Steps In.
A vanguard group of universities is giving corporations greater access to ivory-tower laboratories ? for a price...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Economic View: A Carbon Cap That Starts in Washington
While a binding global agreement would be the best way to cut back on carbon emissions, a more limited approach is wending its way through Congress...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Now, Shopping Bags Are the Fashion
Once a flimsy afterthought in American retailing, the lowly, free store bag is undergoing a luxurious makeover...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Wheels: What?s So Great About Scooters?
At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry Ford envisioned two cars in every garage in America. I wonder, as the 21st century starts, if we shouldn?t also make room in our garages for a scooter...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Giuliani Laying Out His Vision
After a rocky month, Rudolph W. Giuliani is planning to give an address in Tampa, Fla., tomorrow where he will lay out his vision of a Giuliani presidency...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
5 Afghans Killed in Kabul Attack
A vehicle packed with rockets exploded across the street from the Kabul police headquarters Saturday, killing five civilians and injuring at least 24 others...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
A Baseball Lover, Key to Tarnishing a Yankee Era
A former police officer from Queens linked Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte to performance-enhancing drugs...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Late Reversal by U.S. Yields Climate Plan
Nations committed to negotiating a new accord by 2009 that, in theory, would set a course toward halving emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2050...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Musharraf Lifts Pakistan?s State of Emergency
President Pervez Musharraf lifted Pakistan?s state of emergency and restored the constitution, easing a crackdown that worried Western supporters...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Nations Set Timetable to Revive Climate Treaty
The deal came after the U.S., facing sharp verbal attacks in a final open-door negotiating session, dropped its opposition to a last-minute amendment proposed by India...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Before It Disappears
Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse ? to behold an untrammeled frontier...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Golf: Woods charges into lead
Tiger Woods hits a course record 10-under 62 to take a four-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Target World Challenge...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Mukasey silent in CIA tape case
The US attorney general refuses to tell Congress about a probe into the wiping of CIA tapes...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
City Room: The Week in Pictures
Slide Show: A selection of photographs that tell the story of the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include SantaCon, the Metropolitan Opera's production of "War and Peace" and the Frank Viola Homing Pigeon Club on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Giuliani Plans to Lay Out His Vision
After a rocky month, Rudolph W. Giuliani is planning to give an address in Tampa tomorrow where he will lay out his vision of a Giuliani presidency...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
5 Afghans Die in Kabul Explosions
A rocket landed in a crowd of civilians near Kabul?s police headquarters, and a truck full of rockets exploded nearby moments later, an official said...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Campaigns Woo 3 Iowans for Paper?s Endorsement
Presidential candidates are going to unusual lengths this year to court The Des Moines Register?s editorial board...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Huckabee Faces Old Queries in New Spotlight
While he was lieutenant governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee formed a nonprofit organization that raised money for him to travel the country promoting conservative politics...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The TV Watch: Taxi TV, Brisk as the Traffic You?re Stuck In
Suddenly television screens are part of the Manhattan cab ride experience. Is anything worth watching? Stay tuned...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Report to Urge Sweeping Change for SUNY System
A proposal would allow New York State?s public colleges and universities to raise tuition without the Legislature?s approval...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
A Baseball Lover From Queens, Key to Tarnishing a Yankee Era
By linking Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, Brian McNamee delivered a rattling blow...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Executive Pursuits: Sticker Shock a Hazard, Even When the Artists Are Only Potential Stars
If the entry fees for collecting contemporary art are relatively low, the financial returns can be of hedge fund proportions...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Tool Maker Sharply Cuts Its Outlook
Black & Decker slashed its fourth-quarter profit outlook on Friday, citing worse-than-expected conditions in North America and a one-time charge...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Paid in Dollars, Some Americans Are Struggling in Europe
With plunging exchange rates, American expatriates whose pensions or incomes are paid in dollars are scrimping...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Hirotaka Ono, Auto Executive, Is Dead at 52
Mr. Ono was a senior operating officer at the Suzuki Motor Corporation who was considered a possible successor to his father-in-law, Osamu Suzuki, as chairman...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Investors Sell on Inflation Data
Stocks fell Friday after accelerating inflation spurred concern that higher prices will curb consumer spending and give the Federal Reserve less leeway to cut interest rates...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
What?s Offline: Piggybacking on Buybacks
Sometimes the simplest investing strategies are also the best. One example is investing in companies that have announced they are buying back their own stock...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Senate Passes Bill Easing Home Loan Rules
The Senate passed legislation on Friday that would make more Federal Housing Administration loans available to subprime borrowers facing foreclosure...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Saturday Interview: Building a Greener Cardboard Box
Recycling programs are improving the environmental impact of all the packaging Americans consume, says Patrick J. Moore, chairman and chief executive of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Basic Instincts: A Little Here, a Little There and It?s Gone
Where does the money go? As I tallied up our family?s income and expenses for the year, I was baffled...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Regulator Won?t Step Aside in Google Review
The head of the Federal Trade Commission said Friday that she would not remove herself from an antitrust review of Google?s purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Talking Business: In a Mess, Yes, but She?s Got a Plan
The person who spurred the government to action concerning the subprime mortgage mess was not Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. It was Sheila C. Bair...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
What?s Online: The Mac Crowd Mourns
In part because CompUSA has been a large seller of Macs, the news last week that the electronics retailer plans to close its remaining stores early next year has drawn lots of attention online...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Sallie Mae Chairman Made Chief
The giant student lender whose $25 billion buyout has run aground said on Friday that its executive chairman would again take up the role of chief executive...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Wikipedia Competitor Being Tested by Google
Google is testing a new Web service intended to become a repository of knowledge from experts on various topics, one that could turn into a competitor to Wikipedia and other sites...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Off The Charts: In Export-Import Data, More Signs of a Slowdown
American consumers may finally be showing some restraint. At least that is the indication from the trade figures released this week...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Report Says That the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster
From 2003 to 2005, the increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Money Goes Far in New York, if You?re European
With the dollar near its lowest rate ever against the euro, many Europeans are looking at the United States as a cheap place to flex their strong currency...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Small Shops See Smallness as Their Big Selling Point
Most small retailers, which cannot afford either price cuts or expensive advertising, are doing something else this holiday season: making a virtue of their size...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Ethanol?s Issue: Getting Acquainted With Drivers
The industry is experiencing a historic boom, yet ethanol remains a mystery to the motoring public, even in states that have pushed it hardest...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Adding to the List of Worries, Signs That Inflation Is Bubbling Up
A pick-up in prices will complicate efforts by the Central Bank as it tries to stave off a slowdown in economic growth...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
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