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US News Archive for July 2005:
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Harry Potter and the Frenzied Fans: The 6th Book Draws a Crowd
Diehard fans of Harry Potter have been flocking to bookstores across the country today to attend festivities planned around the midnight release of the sixth book in the series...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Court Backs Bush on Trials for Qaeda Suspects at Guantánamo
The panel emphatically overturned a decision that accused President Bush of overstepping his authority...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Bin Laden's driver to face trial
A US appeals court rules that the Guantanamo Bay trial of a former driver for Osama Bin Laden can go ahead...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
Nasa launch off until next week
Space shuttle Discovery will not be launched until late next week at the earliest as a fuel-gauge fault is probed...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
US top judge denies plans to quit
US Chief Justice William Rehnquist says he will continue to serve on the Supreme Court as long as his health allows...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
Woods Extends His Lead With Ease at St. Andrews
With a punishing driver and a deft putting touch, Tiger Woods used three birdies in his first nine holes to extend his lead...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
A Maverick Investor and Giver
Over nearly three decades as a money manager, Michael H. Steinhardt had a remarkable run, reporting a compound average annual return of 24 percent. Now he's speculating on philanthropy...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Saks Suppliers Want Records of Clothing Transactions
Saks Inc., facing federal investigations on its payments to clothing suppliers and at least two lawsuits from those suppliers, now has to turn over documents in the first suit filed...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Daniel P. Weadock, 66, Former Chief of Sheraton Hotels, Dies
Daniel P. Weadock rose from an accounts payable clerk at the ITT Corporation to lead its Sheraton hotels unit...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Former Ogilvy Executives Sentenced for Overbilling
Two former senior executives of the flagship New York office of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, part of the WPP Group, have been sentenced and fined after being found guilty of overbilling a federal antidrug agency for advertising work...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Ex-Qwest Officer Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading
A former chief financial officer of Qwest Communications pleaded guilty to insider trading, becoming the highest-ranking officer to admit to wrongdoing in a scandal that forced the company to erase billions of dollars in revenue...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Tying One's Pay to Performance. What a Concept.
JOHN J. MACK should have kept the money...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
G.O.P. Hopes Bill on China Will Assist Trade Pact
House Republicans plan to expedite a bill that would make it easier to retaliate against subsidized imports from China and tighten the definition of "currency manipulation," a major complaint against China...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Airline Offered Arbitration
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Pension Cost Report Says Albany Is Part of Problem
Skyrocketing pension costs have been straining city and state budgets for years, adding more than $4 billion in costs to New York's taxpayers since 2000...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
German Chain Is Still Mired, and Its Chief Scales Back
Thomas Middelhoff's highly visible campaign to turn around KarstadtQuelle, Europe's largest department store and mail-order chain, remains very much a work in progress...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Reports Say Hewlett Is Planning Layoffs
Analysts and others who closely watch Hewlett-Packard are convinced that layoffs are imminent. The only question is when...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Microsoft Joins Marvel in Online Game Deal
Batman and Spider-Man have been rivals for decades. Now they will square off in the online gaming arena...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Amvescap Names Chief
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Filing Says Purcell Plans Sale of Shares
Morgan Stanley's former chief executive, Philip J. Purcell, plans to sell about $40 million of stock, according to a recently filed regulatory document...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Review Finds Scientists With Ties to Companies
Forty-four government scientists have violated ethics rules on collaborating with pharmaceutical companies, a preliminary review by the National Institutes of Health shows...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Unocal's Board Decides to Continue Talking With Chinese
Despite mounting opposition in Washington, the board of Unocal, the American oil company at the center of a takeover battle, instructed its management to continue negotiations...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Food Industry Defends Marketing to Children
As the marketing of unhealthy food to children comes under increasing fire, food companies have often expressed their view that they would be better off regulating themselves. The government, apparently, could not agree more...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Contrary Tales of Vioxx Role in Texan's Death
In Angleton, Tex., two very different lawyers presented two very different opening arguments — in style and substance — in Ernst v. Merck, the first Vioxx-related lawsuit to reach a jury...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Quarterly Profit at Novartis Increases 9% on Strong Drug Sales in Europe
Profits at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis advanced 9 percent in the latest quarter, driven by strong sales of its two star drugs, the heart medicine Diovan and Gleevec, a cancer treatment...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
UnitedHealth Earnings Up
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Retail Chief at Morgan Is Planning to Step Down
The head of Morgan Stanley's long-troubled retail brokerage unit has told John J. Mack that he will step down after a successor is found...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Shuffle of Top Management Completed at Paramount Pictures
Rob Moore, a partner at Revolution Studios, was named president of marketing, distribution and operations at Paramount Pictures on Thursday...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Wal-Mart Accuses Second Executive in Fraud
Wal-Mart Stores said that a former vice president who contended that he was fired for helping to uncover wrongdoing by another executive was himself involved in the fraud...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Prices Stayed Flat in June, Even With Demand High
The cost of living, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was unchanged in June despite strong economic growth and a hint of rising labor costs, the government reported...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
2 Publishers Report Gains in Advertising
Knight Ridder and the Tribune Company reported modest gains in advertising in the second quarter amid uneven demand...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Inflation Remains Flat Despite Energy Costs
A series of economic reports released today showed weak inflation, improvements in manufacturing activity and slowing growth in business inventories...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Cricket: Windies reel in S Lanka
Sri Lanka reduce West Indies to 59-6 in their second innings on day three of the first Test in Colombo...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
Live: The Open
All the action from the second round of the 134th Open Championship at St Andrews' famous Old Course...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
NY commuters get bomb advice
New York police are to board public transport to give advice on identifying potential suicide bombers...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
CIA agent's spouse attacks Rove
The spouse of a CIA agent at the heart of a leak scandal accuses the White House of a cover-up involving aide Karl Rove...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
Australia PM set for terror talks
Australia's John Howard leaves for the US and the UK, where he is due to discuss the war of terror...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
Hurricane Emily heads for Jamaica
Hurricane Emily strengthens into the season's second major storm as it heads towards Jamaica...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
Postman shot by man wanting jail
A heavily indebted US man shoots his postman so that he can be sent to prison for the rest of his life...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
Schwarzenegger Is Drawing Fire for an Ad Deal
Critics called a contract between the governor of California and a group of fitness magazines a conflict of interest...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Own Original Chinese Copies of Real Western Art!
China's low wages and hunger for exports have already changed many industries. The art world, at least art for the masses, seems to be next...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Rehnquist Denies Rumor of Retirement
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said that he would remain in his post "as long as my health permits."...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer
Karl Rove spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article that identified an undercover C.I.A. officer...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Young Students Post Solid Gains in Federal Tests
Elementary school students made solid gains in both reading and mathematics in the first years of this decade, test results show...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Pataki Will Test '08 Winds in Iowa
Gov. George E. Pataki is headed to Iowa this weekend to explore whether he should run for president in 2008...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Former A.I.G. Chief Addresses Investigations
Maurice R. Greenberg has ended his long silence about the investigations into accounting practices at American International Group while he was chief...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
No. 2 Executive at Citigroup Will Step Down
Robert B. Willumstad, the No. 2 executive at Citigroup, announced that he was stepping down to seek a chief executive position at a public company...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
A Hands-Off Policy on Mortgage Loans
Despite expressing discomfort about the explosive rise in risky mortgage loans, federal banking regulators have been reluctant to take specific action against them...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Pushed by Fuel Costs, Delta Increases Cap on Air Fares
Delta Air Lines said that it had increased the price caps by $100 per one-way fare...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Upbeat Reports Send S.& P. to Highest Close in 4 Years
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index closed at its highest level in four years, after good earnings news from Apple, lower-than-expected inflation in June and stronger-than-expected retail sales...
New York Times - July 15, 2005
Australian PM goes to Washington
Australia's John Howard begins on Friday a visit to the US and the UK, where he is due to discuss the war of terror...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
More delays for shuttle Discovery
Nasa probes the problem that forced a launch delay, deciding whether the orbiter should be taken off the pad...
BBC News - July 15, 2005
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