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US News Archive for March 2005:
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Fed chief: Expect Social Security cuts
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Congress that the nation has about three years to fix Social Security. The mounting financial pressure of a wave of retiring baby boomers is so great that cuts in future government retirement benefits are all but inevitable, he said...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Missing girl case police have 'person of interest'
Police in Citrus County, Florida, are looking for a man they are calling a person of interest -- but not a suspect -- in the case of missing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, a sheriff's department spokeswoman said Tuesday...
CNN - March 15, 2005
A partisan cold war
Democrats served notice Tuesday that they will slow or stop most Senate business if Republicans unilaterally change the rules to assure confirmation of President Bush's controversial court appointments...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Syrian intelligence pulls out of Beirut
Under pressure from the United States, Europe and a significant portion of the Lebanese population, Syrian intelligence units are in the process of leaving Beirut, a Lebanese army source tells CNN...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Don't Let Your Head Flop, and Flip the Other Guy
Inside a double storefront in a small town in Missouri, young men - and some women - train in hopes of entering the world of big-time televised wrestling...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Baseball Testing Shows Drop in Use of a Popular Steroid
There were 73 positive tests for the steroid nandrolone in 2003, but only one in 2004, according to a letter submitted with documents to a Congressional committee...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Washington Awaits Results of 2 Anthrax Tests
Tests were under way after indications of anthrax turned up in a Pentagon mail site and another military postal facility...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Ex-Chief of WorldCom Convicted of Fraud Charges
Bernard J. Ebbers was found guilty of orchestrating an $11 billion fraud and faces what could amount to a life sentence...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Under Criticism, Greenspan Defends Backing Bush Tax Cuts
The Fed chairman defended himself today against Democratic lawmakers who say he contributed to budget deficits by endorsing the president's tax cuts in 2001...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
OPEC Considers Plan to Raise Output Ceiling to Curb Prices
The proposal represents a reversal of policy for OPEC, which had until now indicated it would reduce the amount of oil coming on to the market...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Former Qwest chief accused by SEC
The former CEO of Qwest Communications and six other executives are accused of inflating revenue between 1999 and 2002...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
'Anthrax found' in Pentagon mail
Further tests are being carried out after traces of anthrax are detected in mail meant for the US defence department...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Bolivia energy protest stepped up
Protesters in Bolivia set up more road blocks as the government prepares to debate reforms in the fuel sector...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Court killings suspect in court
A US man suspected of killing four during a courtroom rampage has returned to court to hear he will face murder charges...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Chilean jailed over Spain racket
Spain jails a Chilean lawyer who allegedly masterminded a huge money-laundering racket...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Film star Newman bowing out
Hollywood veteran Paul Newman says he wants to retire from acting and motor racing after his next film...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Ex-WorldCom chief guilty
Bernard Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom, was found guilty Tuesday for his role in the accounting scandal that resulted in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. A federal jury in New York convicted Ebbers on all nine counts that he helped mastermind a $11 billion accounting fraud at WorldCom, now known as MCI...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Ex-WorldCom chief guilty
Bernard Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom, was found guilty today for his role in the accounting scandal that resulted in the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. A federal jury in New York convicted Ebbers on all nine counts that he helped mastermind a $11 billion accounting fraud at WorldCom, now known as MCI...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Senate budget skirmish
Senate Republicans and Democrats are trying to use President Bush's plan to revamp Social Security as a political cannonball against each other in their skirmish over a $2.56 trillion budget...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Ex-Chief of WorldCom Convicted of Fraud Charges
Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief of WorldCom, was convicted on 9 counts of securities fraud. He faces up to 85 years in prison...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
N.F.L. Expected to Pick West Side Stadium for 2010 Super Bowl
The choice would be contingent on the construction by 2009 of a proposed stadium that remains embroiled in controversy...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
No Need to Stew: A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances
Striking back at the little things that drive people crazy is a case study in human inventiveness...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
U.S. Charges 18 in Arms-Smuggling Plot
Authorities have charged 18 people in connection with a weapons trafficking scheme that involved plans to smuggle and sell weapons, including assault rifles and surface-to-air missiles...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Ouster at A.I.G. Shows Rising Assertiveness of Boards
Maurice R. Greenberg's departure is the strongest sign yet that boards are reacting to changes in governance...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
China's soya needs lift Argentina
Argentina's economy has bounced back - and one of the biggest factors has been China's demand for soya...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
US considers 1,500 Iraq dead
The BBC's Adam Brookes looks at the political and military impact of the US death toll in Iraq...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Ecuador tribes take on oil giants
Tribes living atop oil reserves in Ecuadorean rainforest are fighting to keep the oil companies out...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Fans hope to save New York hotel
Celebrities and ordinary fans are trying to save New York's famous Plaza hotel from redevelopment...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
New Disney boss as Eisner ousted
Walt Disney Co names insider Robert Iger as successor to embattled chief executive Michael Eisner...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Rice 'will not run' for president
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tries to dampen speculation that she will run for president in 2008...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Atlanta hostage recounts ordeal
A woman held by the suspect in a courthouse shooting in Atlanta last week says he "just wanted normalness"...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Kennedy cancels Irish talks
Senator Ted Kennedy cancels talks with the Sinn Fein leader amid concerns about the IRA's "ongoing criminal activity"...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Europe and US take on ice moon
The European space agency asks its US counterpart to join it on a mission to Europa, the ice-crusted moon of Jupiter...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
US to name new Nasa chief
The White House nominates Dr Mike Griffin as the next US space agency (Nasa) Administrator...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
US retail sales rise in February
US sales rose in February and, as new figures came out for January, it turned out that they were up in the first month of the year as well...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
AIG chief executive stands down
The chief executive of AIG, the world's biggest insurer, quits in a board shake-up prompted by investigations by US regulators...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
NHL exiles take show to Russia
Russian ice hockey is proving to be the main beneficiary of the American NHL wage dispute, as the BBC's Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford discovers...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Secrets of ex-Nazi's Chile cult
Paul Schaefer, the fugitive leader of a bizarre cult in Chile, had close links with the Pinochet regime, writes the BBC's Becky Branford...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Fischer 'must be deported to US'
Japanese authorites say former chess champion Bobby Fischer can only be deported to the US and not to Iceland...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Bush names aide to sell US image
President Bush picks a key adviser to improve the image of the US abroad, especially in the Muslim world...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
US raids target cross-border gang
More than 100 members of a notorious multinational street gang are arrested in the United States...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Costa Rica ex-leader on bail
Costa Rica's ex-President Miguel Angel Rodriguez is moved from jail to house arrest as corruption inquiries continue...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Rice starts Asian tour in India
Condoleezza Rice arrives in India to begin her first major tour of Asia, with N Korea and China set to dominate...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
NHL: Talks planned on pay row
The NHL and the players' union will return to the negotiating table this week...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Baseball: Cubs hit by Prior injury
Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Prior is sidelined indefinitely because of inflammation in his right elbow...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Halliburton in $108m Iraq probe
US energy firm Halliburton has been questioned by the US Defense Department over $108m of a bill for Iraq services...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
McCartneys take fight to US stage
The family of murdered Robert McCartney travel to the US in the next phase of their fight for justice...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Clinton goes home after surgery
Former US President Bill Clinton leaves hospital, four days after surgery as a follow-up to his heart bypass...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Brazil star urges kidnap silence
Brazilian and FC Porto football star Luis Fabiano appeals for silence over the kidnapping of his mother last week...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
California judge backs gay unions
A San Francisco judge rules that a law banning gay marriage in California is unconstitutional...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Judge questions Chile cult head
Former Nazi and cult leader Paul Schaefer is questioned in Chile over the disappearance of a left-wing activist in 1974...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Bolivia unions gear up for strike
Bolivia's labour unions are beginning a 48-hour strike, pressing the government to nationalise the natural gas sector...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Police storm Manila jail, 21 die
Philippine police storm a Manila prison to put down a deadly revolt by members of a Muslim separatist group linked to al Qaeda, killing 21 inmates. Four of the inmates are leaders of the Abu Sayyaf separatist group...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Republic Airways Agrees to Invest $125 Million in US Airways
US Airways said last night that Republic Airways Holding had agreed to invest $125 million in the airline once it emerges from bankruptcy protection. It was the second such investment that US Airways has obtained in the last month and greatly increases its chances of surviving...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Baseball: Cubs hit by Prior injury
Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Prior is sidelined indefinitely because of inflammation in his right elbow...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Copper price fires up Antofagasta
Copper miner Antofagasta hands back a chunk of its profits to its shareholders after rising copper prices sees its earnings triple...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Judge questions Chile cult head
Former Nazi and cult leader Paul Schaefer is questioned in Chile over the disappearance of a left-wing activist in 1974...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Costa Rica ex-leader on bail
Costa Rica's ex-President Miguel Angel Rodriguez is moved from jail to house arrest as corruption inquiries continue...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
Atlanta's 26 hours of fear
In the end, Brian Nichols gave up without a struggle in a peaceful but curious conclusion to a rampage of violence that left four people dead and a city on edge. Police have been able to piece together a chronology of what they believe Nichols did during what one FBI agent called a "reign of terror."...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Nichols set to make court appearance
Brian Nichols -- the man accused of killing a state judge, court reporter, sheriff's deputy and federal agent in Atlanta -- will make an initial court appearance Tuesday morning at the Fulton County Jail, authorities said...
CNN - March 15, 2005
Perfect Season to Perfect Storm: Steroids Taint McGwire Legacy
Mark McGwire, the man who purportedly revived baseball in 1998, is in danger of going down as a sham...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Hawks May Be Awaiting the Stork
According to several naturalists monitoring the saga of the red-tailed hawks known as Pale Male and Lola, there are eggs in the new nest...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
California Judge Voids Ban on Gay Marriage
A judge held, in an opinion that will surely be appealed, that "no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners."...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Lobbyists Making Big Money in Albany's Chronic Logjams
With Albany controlled by just three men, the lobbying industry has taken full advantage of the situation and blossomed...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Some Wonder if the Surging Oil Market Is Ignoring Supply and Demand
HOUSTON, March 14 - Even as oil prices flirt with record highs, a growing number of people in the energy industry, including the chairman of Exxon Mobil, are voicing concern over whether the soaring oil prices are justified by supply-and-demand conditions in the market. Some are even comparing the trading in energy markets to the speculative frenzy in technology stocks in the late 1990's...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
In Clash of Titans, Chief of A.I.G. Met His Match
Last Wednesday, lawyers for American International Group and its chief executive, Maurice R. Greenberg, paid a visit to the Manhattan office of the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
A More Participatory Management Is Seen Under New Leaders
American International Group will be a vastly different company without Maurice R. Greenberg, the chief executive who has personified the giant insurer for decades and has set the tone for its hard-charging way of doing business...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Fare Increases Stick
FARE INCREASES STICK For the second time in a month, Northwest Airlines has taken the lead in imposing fare increases that have been adopted by the other major carriers. The latest increases are as much as $20 round trip, depending on routes. In the past, Northwest has often been the spoiler when competitors sought to raise fares to offset the higher cost of fuel. "It's amazing because this is going to stick, and it's the second time in two weeks that Northwest has led the way," said Terry Trippler, an air fare researcher who is starting a Web site, FareFacts.com. "It shows you just how serious the airlines are about fuel costs."...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Biotechs Lead Late Rally, but High Oil Prices Limit Gains
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
For Airline Frills, Check Out the No-Frills Carriers
Song, Delta's low-cost subsidiary airline, wants to increase revenue by adding amenities to appeal to travelers who are tired of being treated like cargo...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
U.S. Subpoenas Wyeth on Prices
WASHINGTON, March 14 (Dow Jones/AP) - Wyeth Pharmaceuticals said Monday that it had been served with a subpoena from the United States attorney's office in Massachusetts over pricing practices for its Protonix heartburn drug...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Is the Car Unsafe, or the Driver?
A new report found that the Mercedes E-Class sedan has the safest design of any car, but E-Class drivers may just drive more carefully than most...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
China to Meet With U.S. and Europe Over Exports
China plans to hold talks with the United States and Europe to try to avoid trouble over China's rapidly growing exports of clothing...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Saatchi & Saatchi May Be Experiencing Some Déjà Vu
A decade after legal battles over breakaway employees disrupted the operations of Saatchi & Saatchi, a lawsuit threatens to generate a new round of turmoil...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Have Frequent-Flier Miles? Use Them or Lose Them
Here's how many miles I just spent to get one free business-class ticket from New York to Shanghai and back next November - and not even on the days I had originally wanted to fly: 240,000...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Hypothetical Campaign Leads to a Real Client
Hypothetical Campaign...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
A Tyco Lawyer Says She Was Not Told About Forgiven Loans
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Trial Will Proceed For Former Broker
By Reuters...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Public TV Hires Former Official
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting named W. Kenneth Ferree, formerly head of the Federal Communications Commission's media branch, as its chief operating officer...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Chief Is Leaving Insurance Giant; Inquiries Mount
Maurice Greenberg, who built A.I.G. into an insurance powerhouse, stepped down as chief executive after a series of run-ins with regulators...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Duke Power May Seek to Build Nuclear Plant
WASHINGTON, March 14 - Duke Power met with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission employees for three hours on Monday to discuss the costs and schedule for something no one in this country has done in decades: seek permission to build a nuclear power plant...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Theater Chain Buying Sony's Digital Projectors
Landmark Theaters will install a new generation of digital projectors developed by Sony, which show movies at twice the resolution of previous digital projectors...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
How a 15-Year-Old Got the Flying Habit in the Old Days
I started flying young, if accidentally, in 1947 on propeller planes such as Dakotas and Super Constellations. The summer I was 15, I traveled with my mother by boat and train to Montreux, Switzerland, where she was born, for vacation. At summer's end she returned to the United States and I stayed on to attend a French language and literature class for foreign students at the local high school...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Genentech Drug Shows Effect on a 2nd Cancer
Genentech Inc.'s cancer drug Avastin prolonged the lives of patients with advanced lung cancer in a clinical trial, a result that sent the company's shares soaring...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
I.B.M. Will Buy Ascential to Bolster Software Unit
I.B.M. said that it would acquire the Ascential Software Corporation for $1.1 billion in an effort to broaden its offerings in the market for corporate software...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
A Promising Recovery After a New Aortic Valve Procedure
Cardiologists in Michigan implanted an artificial heart valve in a 76-year-old man by feeding the device through a vein in his leg...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Reversing Data, Japan Reports Growth in 2004
The mild recession that Japan fell into last year has not only ended, but it did not last as long as previously reported, new figures released Monday showed...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Wireless Deal for Assets in Six States
Verizon Wireless agreed to buy airwave licenses and other assets from Leap Wireless International for $102.5 million to increase capacity in six states...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Deal Lost, Swiss Mine Company Hints It Will Try Others
After failing to acquire WMC Resources of Australia, the mining company Xstrata has a new growth strategy that could include another takeover attempt...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Lawsuit in Nursing Home Dispute
A group of investors seeking to take over Beverly Enterprises, an operator of nursing homes and hospice service provider, filed suit yesterday against an Arkansas official who has proposed a bill that would prevent a hostile takeover...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
As Directors Feel Their Oats, Chiefs Are Put Out to Pasture
The ouster of the A.I.G.'s chief executive is the strongest sign yet that boards are reacting to changes in governance...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
A Different Kind of Chief Executive at Walt Disney
It is clear that Robert Iger, who will succeed Michael Eisner in September, is going to be a different kind of chief executive for the Walt Disney Company...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Philip Morris Trying to Buy Competitor in Indonesia
Signaling the growing enthusiasm of tobacco companies for the lucrative Asian cigarette market, Philip Morris offered to buy Indonesia's third-largest cigarette maker...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
With Rare Unity, OPEC Ministers Gather in Iran
The gathering is a testimony to an uncommon consensus that has taken hold in the oil cartel over the last five years...
New York Times - March 15, 2005
Hockey: talks planned on NHL row
The NHL and the players' union will return to the negotiating table this week...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
NHL exiles take show to Russia
Russian ice hockey is proving to be the main beneficiary of the American NHL wage dispute, as the BBC's Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford discovers...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
McCartney family take fight to US
The family of murdered Robert McCartney travel to the US in the next phase of their fight for justice...
BBC News - March 15, 2005
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