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US News Archive for December 2005:
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Bush: Iraq war not lost
U.S. President George W. Bush will reiterate his case for staying the course in Iraq and keeping troops in place during a speech starting at 9 p.m. ET (0200 GMT Monday)...
CNN - December 18, 2005
Sharon suffers mild stroke
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a mild stroke Sunday, a hospital official said. Although Sharon will remain in the hospital for a few days, his condition is improving and he was conscious throughout, a doctor said. Sharon "is now speaking with his family" and members of his government, the doctor told reporters...
CNN - December 18, 2005
Bush: Iraq pullout would hurt U.S. credibility
President Bush will say Sunday night that a premature withdrawal from Iraq would damage U.S. credibility just as insurgents are starting to feel "a tightening noose." In excerpts from Bush's first speech from the Oval Office since the start of the Iraq war, Bush hails last week's Iraqi election as "the beginning of something new."...
CNN - December 18, 2005
Bush Administration Mounts Broad Defense of Iraq War
As Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Iraq today, President Bush prepared for a rare Oval Office address...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Transit Union Tries New Tack on Pensions
The transit union is filing a complaint with a state labor board over the M.T.A.'s insistence on less generous pensions...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Garciaparra Joins the Los Angeles Dodgers
Nomar Garciaparra, who made five All-Star teams for the Red Sox from 1996 to 2004, has agreed to a one-year contract with the Dodgers...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Trade Officials Agree to End Subsidies for Agricultural Exports
The deal sets a deadline for wiping out subsidies of agricultural exports by 2013, realizing a goal of U.S. negotiators...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Colts bid for perfect season ends
San Diego beat Indianapolis 26-17 to end their hopes of an historic unbeaten year...
BBC News - December 18, 2005
Time names Persons of Year
The good deeds of an activist rock legend and one of the world's richest men and his wife carried the day in 2005, as Time magazine on Sunday named U2 frontman Bono and philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates as its "Persons of the Year."...
CNN - December 18, 2005
Time Persons of Year: Bono, Gates
The good deeds of an activist rock legend and one of the world's richest men and his wife carry the day in 2005, as Time magazine names U2 frontman Bono and philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates as its "Persons of the Year."...
CNN - December 18, 2005
WTO seals farms deal amid protests
Ministers from 149 states save long-running global trade talks from collapse with an interim deal to end farm export subsidies by 2013 and open up markets in wealthier countries to the world's poorest nations...
CNN - December 18, 2005
Lutes + Synthesizers +Rock Beats = America's Most Popular Christmas Music?
Chip Davis, the founder of Mannheim Steamroller, has sold 27 million albums by figuring out what Americans really want to hear during the holidays...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Nations Reach Agreement at World Trade Conference
The world's leading trading nations resolved a series of issues that have blocked a global trade agreement for the last three years...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
WTO strives for deal amid protests
In the waning hours of the World Trade Organization talks, member states release a final draft of an agreement proposing all countries end agricultural export subsidies progressively by 2013. Outside the talks there have been occasionally violent protests...
CNN - December 18, 2005
WTO nears deal amid protests
Just one issue remained unresolved as WTO negotiators worked to reach a series of agreements to end agricultural, manufacturing and service trade barriers, according to a World Trade Organization official Sunday...
CNN - December 18, 2005
The World: Latin America Looks Leftward Again
The appeal of rural socialism is a powerful reminder that much of South America has become disenchanted with the promises of global capitalism...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Transit Union Tries New Tack on Pensions
The transit union plans to file a complaint over the M.T.A.'s insistence the union take less generous pensions for future workers...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Jack Anderson, Investigative Journalist Who Angered the Powerful, Dies at 83
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative columnist once appeared in more than 1,000 newspapers with 40 million readers...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
A Cloning Scandal Rocks a Pillar of Science Publishing
The publication of a paper by South Korean scientists on the cloning of human embryos, celebrated by the magazine Science, has now turned into a debacle...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Taken to a New Place, by a TV in the Palm
Consumers have downloaded three million video programs from iTunes since the new video iPod became available in October. What gives?...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
The World: Ending Aid to Rich Farmers May Hurt the Poor Ones
Some economists are warning that if the industrialized world ends its farm subsidies, poor countries may be harmed...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
[TS] The Boss Actually Said This: Pay Me Less
One Wall Street executive atop a fast-growing firm is saying no to the piles of pay that make corporate America's world spin so splendidly...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Video Game Books: Generation Xbox
Video games, already a huge business, may show us where the whole world is heading...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Strategies: Thrown for a Yield Curve
Is Alan Greenspan right in thinking that there is no need to worry that the yield curve has flattened and is close to inverting?...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Black and White and Technicolor All Over
The New York Times has been many thing in many films, and is about to be a few more...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Directions: Funny, They Did Look Jewish
It wasn’t DreamWorks' synergy that bothered some early critics...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
The Basics: The Muzak of Ka-ching!
Does playing holiday music help boost sales? Are there some mixes of songs that work better than others?...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Armchair M.B.A.: In G.M.'s Sight Lines: Washington and Tokyo
Let other industries fret about China. General Motors still has its eyes on Japan...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
The Boss: A Hand in Two Cultures
Hiroshi Oto is the president of Fujisankei Communications International...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Yes, We Shop, but We Don't Really Want To
Yes, We Shop,...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
The Goods: The Surgeon General Has ... Never Mind
WHEN traveling abroad, American smokers are often taken aback by the bluntness of cigarette warnings...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Suits: Psst: Want to Know a 'Dirty Little Secret'?
The prevailing wisdom on skilled work being shifted abroad - outsourced - is that it is anecdotally alarming but not really a big deal economically. Sure, the thinking goes, some software engineers and others are losing their jobs to low-cost workers in India, but there is always churning in the dynamic American job market of 130 million people. It's what makes the United States economy competitive...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Off the Shelf: Exposing the Economics Behind Everyday Behavior
What interests Tim Harford, the author of "The Undercover Economist," are the stories behind the myriad little transactions that take place every day...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Blueprints: A Family of Restaurants Made Up of Individuals
MORE than two decades ago, the first Rosa Mexicano restaurant opened on First Avenue near East 58th Street in Manhattan. Instead of finding routine permutations of rice, beans and cheese, diners devoured more ambitious fare, like tequila-marinated lamb shank roasted in parchment paper, grilled filet mignon smothered in tequila and mushroom cream sauce, pomegranate margaritas and guacamole prepared tableside...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Everybody's Business: Executives Gone Wild: It's Not a Pretty Sight
THERE is a scene in the old gangster movie...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Market Week: Seeking Hints in Housing Numbers
IF you're counting on a light week because you don't think that much market-moving news can break just before the holidays, think again...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Economic View: Health Care for All, Just a (Big) Step Away
By reallocating money already devoted to health insurance, the government could go a long way toward giving insurance to the 45 million Americans who lack it...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Digital Domain: Is Mark Cuban Missing the Big Picture?
Mark Cuban's rationale for making hugely expensive investments in Landmark Theaters, an art-house chain, seems dangerously ungrounded in reality...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Investing: Start With a Stock Index. Now Try to Turbocharge It.
Instead of trying merely to match the performance of the stock market, a new kind of designer index fund aims to outperform it...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Spending: When PayPal Becomes the Back Office, Too
Many of the newest and smallest businesses find that using PayPal is more cost-effective than turning directly to a credit card company to process transactions...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
In Sickness and in Health ... They Did
Having engineered the merger of his smaller America West Airlines with US Airways, W. Douglas Parker faces the daunting task of combining their vastly different work forces...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Trade Ministers Continue Talks as Protesters Are Jailed
Trade ministers from around the world made slow progress on Sunday morning, after a night in which the police battled rioting South Korean rice farmers with tear gas and fire hoses...
New York Times - December 18, 2005
Boxing: Ruiz loses to Valuev
Nikolay Valuev becomes the tallest and heaviest champion in history with a points win over John Ruiz in Berlin...
BBC News - December 18, 2005
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