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US News Archive for September 2006:
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Thailand's leader 'ousted in coup'
The chiefs of Thailand's army, navy and air force met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej to declare they were taking over the country, according to a televised statement early Wednesday. The coup is being led by army chief Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, who announced the military and opposition Party of Democratic Reform were assuming control while PM Thaksin Shinawatra was in New York for a U.N. meeting...
CNN - September 19, 2006
Bush: Choose between freedom or extremism
President Bush challenged world leaders to do more to build democracy in the Middle East in an address at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday...
CNN - September 19, 2006
Columbia Alters Financial Aid for Low-Income Students
Columbia joined the growing number of universities that are improving financial aid for low- and middle-income students...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Israel to Pull Last Lebanon Troops by Weekend
Israel is clearly reluctant to stay much longer in southern Lebanon, even though U.N. troops are still short...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Chief Judge in Hussein’s Genocide Trial Removed
Iraq’s prime minister decided to remove the judge after he said last week that Saddam Hussein was “not a dictator.”...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Motorola to Buy Symbol Technologies for $3.9 Billion
Aiming to expand its position outside the cellphone market, Motorola is acquiring a leading maker of scanners and other wireless technology...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Yahoo Says Ad Growth Is Slowing; Stock Dives
A slowdown in automobile and financial advertising hurt the company’s advertising sales over the last few weeks...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Golf: Woods sings to US team
Tiger Woods sings in front of his US team-mates in a bonding exercise, despite his best efforts to avoid the session...
BBC News - September 19, 2006
Thai government faces coup attempt
Members of the Thai military are trying to seize power in Bangkok, but Thailand's leadership -- currently at the United Nations in New York -- expects everything to return to normal soon, Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai tells CNN. A statement on state-controlled Army TV says the government still controls the capital and the surrounding areas...
CNN - September 19, 2006
Atlantis return delayed; mystery debris spotted
NASA has delayed Wednesday's planned landing of space shuttle Atlantis by at least a day after engineers spotted unknown debris outside the orbiter. A poor weather forecast and concerns that something crucial has escaped the spacecraft prompted the delay, space shuttle communicator Terry Virts told the crew...
CNN - September 19, 2006
Will Bush and Ahmadinejad meet?
As President Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Tuesday, a top U.N. official said the two men likely will do their best to steer clear of each other...
CNN - September 19, 2006
Bush asks world to support Mideast democracy
President Bush challenged world leaders to do more to build democracy in the Middle East in an address at the United Nations on Tuesday. Bush used a noontime speech to the General Assembly to ask U.N. members for help in fighting extremism in the Middle East...
CNN - September 19, 2006
Suspect Is Held in Duquesne Shooting Case
A female student was also charged in connection with the shooting of five basketball players at Duquesne University...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Hungarian Leader Defies Calls to Resign
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany faced a night of anti-government riots that he called “the longest and darkest night of the republic.”...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Prospective Employees Say No to Freedom Tower
For many of the employees of the state and federal agencies, the memories of Sept. 11 were still too fresh to consider a return to ground zero...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Gauge of Inflation Falls in August
The producer price index, which measures the wholesale prices that businesses charge one another, rose just 0.1 percent overall...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Seeing Huge Losses, Chrysler Slashes Production
The Chrysler Group said today that it expects to lose $1.26 billion in 2006, and that it will cut production in the third quarter by 90,000 vehicles...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Hungarian PM: I will not resign
Hungary's Prime Minister says he will not resign after Monday's anti-government riots and vows to push ahead with tough economic reforms despite admitting that officials lied about the economy...
CNN - September 19, 2006
In Gaza, the Rule by the Gun Draws Many Competitors
Fighting between Fatah and Hamas is part of a power struggle in the one Palestinian area that Israel has largely abandoned...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Princeton Stops Its Early Admissions
A week after Harvard abandoned early admissions as a program that puts low-income students at a disadvantage, Princeton has followed suit...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Critics of War Spare Senator in Close Race
Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington’s campaign appears to be benefiting from a cold dose of pragmatism among antiwar Democrats...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Brokerage Firm Plans Breakup
Collins Stewart Tullet, a British financial services company, outlined plans to break up to help it capitalize on a growing number of small American companies that are going to London for public listings. The company said it would separate its retail stockbroker and its institutional broker by year-end and return £300 million ($564 million) to shareholders. All the company’s United States equities business has been moved to the stock brokerage arm, Collins Stewart, which is building its presence in the United States. The company also reported results, saying profit more than doubled in the first half of the year, to £68.5 million ($128.8 million) from £26.1 million a year earlier...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
World Business Briefing | Europe: Norway: Statoil Invests in Gulf of Mexico
Statoil, Norway’s largest oil company, will pay $700 million for stakes in two oil and gas finds and one exploration prospect in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to offset an expected drop in domestic output. The company will buy 17.5 percent of the Caesar discovery and 12.5 percent each of the Big Foot find and the Big Foot North prospect from the Plains Exploration and Production Company of Houston, Statoil said. The discoveries are expected to increase production “significantly” after 2010, Statoil said. It did not estimate the size of the reserves in the stakes...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Enlisting Science’s Lessons to Entice More Shoppers to Spend More
More and more retailers are employing rigorous scientific techniques to improve their bottom line...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
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New York Times - September 19, 2006
World Business Briefing | Americas: Canada: Insurer to Sell Fund Unit
Sun Life Financial, a Canadian insurer, hired investment bankers to consider a possible sale of its United States money-management unit, which has had $16 billion withdrawn from its funds over four years. Sun Life did not disclose the name of the investment bankers. Sun Life, based in Toronto, said there was no assurance a transaction would result. MFS has lost $3.7 billion in mutual fund shareholder withdrawals this year through July 31, according to the Boston consulting firm Financial Research Corporation...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
BP Delays Opening of Big Oil Platform
BP said the start of production at its Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico would be delayed after tests showed safety problems...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Scania Rejects Takeover Bid by Rival Truck Maker
The Swedish truck maker Scania and its two largest shareholders rejected a takeover bid from a German rival, MAN A.G...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Memo Pad
BUSINESS TRAVEL COSTS RISE Reflecting robust demand in business travel, airfares, hotel rooms and rental cars all cost more in the second quarter of this year, compared with the second quarter of 2005, according to the American Express Business Travel Monitor, in a report to be released today. The report found that the average paid one-way coach fare jumped 13 percent, to $247, for 329 domestic city pairs tracked by American Express. On 160 international routes tracked, the average one-way coach fare increased 9 percent, to $1,150; one-way business-class fares were up 6 percent, to $4,088; and first-class fares were up 4 percent, at $6,000. Average paid domestic hotel rates, including all categories of hotels from budget to deluxe, rose 3 percent, to $139. Internationally, average hotel rates rose 11 percent, to $237. The average daily cost to rent a car domestically rose 4 percent, to $67.26. “Over the last year, fleet pricing has been rising at a double-digit pace,” said Frank Schnur, a vice president at American Express Business Travel Advisory Services. Rising prices are “a trend we expect to continue,” he said...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
ImClone and Sanofi Lose Patent Lawsuit
The companies have lost a court ruling that may result in their paying royalties on an experimental cancer drug to an Israeli research institute...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Data Supports Medtronic’s Disk
An early analysis of data on the Prestige spinal disk shows it works at least as well as spinal fusion and has similar risks...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Ex-Enron Executive Gets Prison Sentence
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Napster Ponders Sale or Alliance
Napster said that it had hired UBS Investment Bank to assist in the possible sale of the company...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Belgian Court Tells Google to Drop Newspaper Excerpts
The court ordered Google to remove all links to French- and German-language newspaper reports published in Belgium...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
U.S. Closes Lucrative Airwaves Auction
Bids totaled nearly $13.9 billion in the latest and most lucrative auction of the public airwaves...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
On the Road: Will Cost Prematurely Doom Security-Check Fast Lanes?
Ever-changing lists of prohibited airplane carry-on items make the Registered Traveler program sound great, but government fees could price it out of existence...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Warner Music Makes Licensing Deal With YouTube
The deal would authorize YouTube.com to show Warner Music videos and user-created clips that incorporate Warner music...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Hedge fund takes hit for billions
US-based hedge fund Amaranth Advisors says volatile energy prices may cost it billions of dollars...
BBC News - September 19, 2006
Tennis: Acasuso jibe at Hewitt
Jose Acasuso criticises Lleyton Hewitt's decision to employ two minders for the Davis Cup semi-final in Buenos Aires...
BBC News - September 19, 2006
Canada clears 'al-Qaeda suspect'
A public inquiry clears a Canadian citizen, who says he was tortured in Syria, of having links to al-Qaeda...
BBC News - September 19, 2006
U.N.: Bush, Ahmadinejad won't meet
As President Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Tuesday, a top U.N. official said the two men likely will do their best to steer clear of each other...
CNN - September 19, 2006
Campaign Gifts From Big Insurer Elude the Limit
American International Group used obscure subsidiaries to elude restrictions on campaign donations to New York candidates...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Afghan Suicide Bombs Kill 18, Including 4 Canadian Soldiers
The three bombings, in one of the country’s worst days of violence against civilians, were a clear escalation in insurgent tactics...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Another Reason the City Never Sleeps: More Bedbugs
Officials are confounded about the best way to respond to the growing nuisance, according to city officials...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Struggle for Sobriety That Knows No Party Lines
In the precarious course of his recovery, Patrick J. Kennedy, a Democrat who pleaded guilty to impaired driving, has come to rely heavily on a Republican...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Antiwar Critics Spare a Senator in a Close Race
Senator Maria Cantwell’s campaign appears to be benefiting from a cold dose of pragmatism among antiwar Democrats...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
It’s Muslim Boy Meets Girl, Yes, but Please Don’t Call It Dating
The largest annual Muslim conference in North America hosted wildly popular speed dating sessions called the “Matrimonial Banquet.”...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Mets 4, Marlins 0: It’s All Good. No, It’s Better Than That.
By beating the Marlins Monday, the Mets became the first team other than the Braves to win the N.L. East division since the 1993 Phillies...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
How Much? Many Answers
Hotels are increasingly charging nonnegotiable surcharges for amenities that used to be part of the room rate...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Inflation Fears and Rising Oil Prices Bring Rally to a Halt
Stocks failed to extend last week’s rally Monday as the price of oil rose and inflation concerns spurred investors to sell shares of retailers...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
ADVERTISING: Trying to Figure Out How Much Tease Is Too Much
The outing of Lonelygirl15 has forced her audience to consider: Was Lonelygirl a simple hoax or high-concept art?...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Frequent Flier: A Flight Attendant’s Revenge
Flight attendants hear more complaints about the decline of airline service than they can remember. But what about the decline of passenger behavior?...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
G.M. Talked With Ford About Merger, Report Says
Managers from Ford and G.M. began meeting in July, according to Automotive News, but the talks are no longer occurring and no further action is expected...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Russia Halts Pipeline, Citing River Damage
Citing damage to salmon rivers, Russia on Monday withdrew environmental approval for the Royal Dutch Shell-operated Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Revlon Replaces Chief Executive
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Broadest Measure of Foreign Trade Deficit Widened 2.4% in Second Quarter
The deficit in the current account represents the amount the U.S. must borrow from foreigners to cover the shortfall between exports and imports...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Entrepreneur From Britain Opens Charity in America
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is introducing its particular brand of corporate philanthropy to the United States...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Software Chief Sees a Recovery of Some Losses From Scandal
CA Inc. expects to recover some of the money it lost in an accounting scandal, the chief executive, John Swainson, said...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Under Couric, Ratings Race Is Once Again, Well, a Race
Katie Couric has made the ratings race among the three network newscasts more competitive than it has been in nearly a decade...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Fuzzy Laws Come Into Play in the H.P. Pretexting Case
Despite the California attorney general’s assertion that he has enough evidence to press charges against people inside and outside Hewlett-Packard, a criminal case may be hard to prosecute, legal specialists say...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
KPMG Strikes Back at Former Employees in Tax Shelter Case
The accounting firm filed court papers seeking compensation from the former employees...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
I.M.F. Votes to Enhance Power of China and Others
Member states of the International Monetary Fund voted to adopt a disputed plan to modify the fund’s power structure ...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Market Place: Oil’s Rout Outpaces Its Advance
As crude oil prices have plunged, many traders say they have been dumping and short-selling stocks and futures contracts...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
A Corporate Nanny Turns Assertive
A court-authorized overseer monitoring Bristol-Myers Squibb successfully recommended that the board dismiss the chief executive...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
Retailers See Strong Sales for Holidays
The National Retail Federation will predict a sales increase of 5 percent, to $457.4 billion, compared with last year...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
A Hedge Fund’s Loss Rattles Nerves
Enormous losses at Amaranth Advisors resurrected worries that major bets by hedge funds could create widespread financial disruptions...
New York Times - September 19, 2006
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