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Frozen yogurt war de-thaws, tart new brands hit US
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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25 bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Displaced Georgians look to US for hope, aid
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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26 dead as Philippine troops flush out rebels
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines peace in tatters after rebel attack
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for April 2008:
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Continental and United Said to Be Closer to a Merger
United Airlines and Continental Airlines would like to wrap up a deal by the end of next week, people with direct knowledge of the discussions said Friday...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
After Trading Scandal, Banker Gets I.T. Job
Jérôme Kerviel, the Société Générale trader who used his knowledge of the bank?s electronic risk controls to conceal billions in unauthorized bets, has a new job ? at a computer consulting firm...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
your money: For Many, Thrift Shops Are a Wardrobe Essential
As the prices of gasoline and groceries edge higher and debt weighs more heavily, saving money on clothes, shoes and household goods has become increasingly essential for many people...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Stocks Close Mixed After Economic Data
The Dow ended its second straight winning week with a moderate advance Friday, as investors? put aside concerns about consumer confidence and inflation. Broader stock indicators were mixed...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
The Food Chain: Movable Feast Carries a Pollution Price Tag
Never has food moved around the world at the speed or in the amounts it has over the last few years. Now, many say it is time to make shippers and shoppers pay for the resulting pollution...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Daily News Owner Matches Murdoch?s Offer for Newsday
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the owner of The Daily News, is expected to make the argument that his bid is more attractive because it can be completed faster and does not have the potential to fall into regulatory limbo...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Wachovia to Pay as Much as $144 Million in Marketing Case
The settlement ends a federal investigation into accusations that the bank allowed telemarketers to use its accounts to steal millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
City Room: Columbia Protester Returns to Campus
Gus Reichbach was prominently disciplined by Columbia University for his participation in the 1968 disturbances. He is now a judge...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
The Lede: Virginia Tech Slams Visit by Gun Dealer
A visit by Eric Thompson, whose company sold a gun to Seung Hui-Cho...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Democratic Impasse Creates Muddle for Superdelegates
The Pennsylvania primary did not clarify the picture for the party leaders and elected officials who essentially have the power to determine the presidential nominee...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
US to send out $100bn in rebates
The US government is to send consumers rebates totalling more than $100bn (£50bn), ahead of schedule...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Goodyear Swings to Profit as Revenue Rises
The tiremaker said it earned $147 million in the first quarter by focusing on higher-priced tires and international markets. The results beat Wall Street expectations...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Credit Suisse Reports $2.1 Billion Loss
The bank?s first-quarter loss was nearly three times worse than analysts had expected as it wrote down $5.3 billion in soured investments, but its shares rose in Zurich trading...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Senate Passes Genetic Discrimination Bill
The 95-0 Senate vote sends the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act back to the House, which could approve it early next week...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
New-Home Sales Fall to Low Last Seen in 1990s
Inventories rose as sales of new homes fell 8.5 percent, a far sharper decline than was forecast...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Witnesses Tell of Suffering After Lasik
Patients harmed by Lasik eye surgery alternated between fury and despair as they described their suffering to a Food and Drug Administration hearing...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Consumer Mood Sours More in April
Consumer confidence fell for a third straight month, hitting its weakest in more than a quarter century on worries over inflation and the sagging housing market, a survey showed...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Stocks Decline on Consumer Confidence Data
An early advance fizzled on Wall Street after a worrisome consumer sentiment reading and a disappointing forecast from Microsoft weighed on technology issues...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Ericsson Shares Jump as Profit Tops Forecasts
Shares in the telecom equipment maker recorded their biggest gain in nearly five years after the company?s first-quarter profit, while down sharply from a year ago, beat gloomy forecasts...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
TierneyLab: Winner of Astronomy Quiz
Why does a two-day weekend start on Saturday? That was one of the puzzles in the Lab Astronomy Quiz. You can still take the astronomy quiz and get your score instantly, but the prize is no longer available. We have a winner: Neal Sumerlin, who lives in Lynchburg, Va. He gets a copy of "The [...]...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Wachovia Pays $144 Million to Settle Claims
The agreement settles federal accusations that Wachovia failed to block telemarketers who took advantage of thousands of elderly bank customers...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
The Lede: U.N. Chief Declares Food Crisis
The food crisis clashes with the global warming crisis...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
The Fifth Down: Q & A on the N.F.L. Draft
Judy Battista, the New York Times?s N.F.L. reporter, will be taking reader questions Friday...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Dot Earth: Climate and the Web
Can the World Wide Web help solve worldwide problems?...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting
The detectives were found not guilty on all felony and misdemeanor charges in the November 2006 death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a club in Queens...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
In Shift, China Offers to Meet With Dalai Lama Envoys
The breakthrough comes as Chinese officials have pivoted this week and moved to tamp down the domestic anger unleashed by the Tibetan crisis...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Joint Chiefs Chairman Assails Iran?s Role in Iraq
The government of Iran continues to supply weapons and other support to extremists in Iraq, said Adm. Michael G. Mullen...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
In Zimbabwe, Raid on Opposition Party and Election Monitors
The raid signaled a sharp and very public escalation of the country?s deepening and increasingly violent political crisis...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Iran 'stepping up arms to Iraq'
The most senior US military official says Iran is increasing the flow of weapons and training to Iraqi insurgents...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: Shares Rise on Lower Jobless Claims and Ford?s Profit
Wall Street rallied Thursday after weekly unemployment claims fell and Ford Motor reported a profit in the first quarter, injecting some optimism about the economy into the market...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years for Not Filing Tax Returns
The actor was sentenced to a maximum of three years in federal prison for three misdemeanor convictions of failure to file his income taxes...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
The Fifth Down: Q&A, a Day Before the Draft
Judy Battista, the N.F.L. reporter for The Times, will be taking reader questions Friday...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Zimbabwe Police Raid Opposition Party Office
About 200 to 250 heavily armed police officers arrested hundreds of people, a spokesman for the opposition party said...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
U.S. Medics Tend to Iraq?s Wounded in Sadr City
With little in the way of emergency services and travel hampered by sporadic firefights, a steady trickle of Iraqis has been turning to the American soldiers here for medical care...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
China Plans to Meet Dalai Lama Aide
Chinese state media say that the government will meet with a private representative of the Dalai Lama soon...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
US marine on Japan rape charge
A marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Japan will face a court martial, the US military says...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
US Senate honours Suu Kyi
The US Senate approves a bill awarding Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi its highest medal...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Argentina's economy chief quits
Argentina's economy minister resigns after less than five months in the job in the wake of a bitter farmers' strike...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Snipes jailed for three years
Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes is sentenced by a US federal judge to three years in prison for tax offences...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Del Toro to direct Hobbit movies
Mexican-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is named as the director of the planned Lord of the Rings prequels...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Chinese Stocks Soar After Tax Reduction
Stock prices soared in China, gaining over 9 percent after the government moved to restore confidence in the market by reducing taxes on trades...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Wall Street Advances After Drop in Jobless Claims
Stocks turned higher as investors focused on a drop in weekly unemployment claims and stronger-than-expected results from Ford rather than weak housing figures...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Triple-A Failure
How Moody?s and other credit-rating agencies licensed the abuses that created the housing bubble ? and bust...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Generics and Job-Cutting Costs Lower Drug Makers? Profits
The drug maker AstraZeneca, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Bayer reported declines in first-quarter profit on generic competition and costs from cutting jobs...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Union Pacific?s Profit Rises on Higher Revenue
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? The Union Pacific Corporation said Thursday its net income jumped 15 percent in the first quarter because price increases and fuel surcharges helped increase revenue even as shipping volume remained flat...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Whirlpool?s Profit Drops 20% on Declining Sales
ATLANTA (Reuters) ? Whirlpool, the appliance maker, posted much lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as sales declined in the United States and oil and steel costs soared...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Weak Cellphone Sales Plague Motorola
The company said it lost $194 million, or 9 cents a share, for the quarter that ended March 31...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Dow Chemical Earnings Drop 3%
The company reported a 3 percent drop in first-quarter profit because of higher prices for raw materials and energy, but still managed to top Wall Street?s expectations...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Costs of Spinoff Push Down Altria?s Profit
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? The Altria Group said Thursday that its first-quarter profit fell 11 percent, partly as a result of costs related to the spinoff of Philip Morris International and relocating its corporate headquarters...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Housing Slump Cuts Black & Decker?s Profit
The tool maker Black & Decker Corporation reported sharply lower first-quarter profit and cut its full-year forecast as a housing slump and credit crunch slowed home improvement activity...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Sales of Wii Propel Profit at Nintendo
The Nintendo Company?s net profit last fiscal year surged 47.7 percent, powered by strong sales linked to its popular Wii videogame console and brisk sales of its DS handheld devices...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
New Contracts Lift Results at Electronic Data
Electronic Data Systems Corporation posted better-than-expected first-quarter profit and sales, driven by its best quarter for new contracts since 2002...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Scripps Profit Rises With Network Ratings
E. W. Scripps said that its first-quarter profit rose 23 percent from the same period a year ago, mostly because of higher ratings and ad sales at its HGTV and Food Network...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
American Express Profit Falls
American Express, the credit card company, said Thursday that profit declined 6 percent in the first quarter as more cardholders failed to make payments...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Two More Airlines Report Quarterly Losses
The US Airways Group and the Alaska Air Group posted quarterly losses Thursday, citing surging fuel costs that have squeezed the entire industry...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Write-Downs Give Credit Suisse $2.1 Billion Loss
The first-quarter loss was nearly three times worse than analysts had expected as the Swiss banking giant wrote down $5.3 billion in soured investments...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Conoco Gains on Oil Prices, Not So Much on Gasoline
ConocoPhillips said on Thursday that its first-quarter earnings rose 17 percent as soaring oil and natural gas prices outweighed weak profits from gasoline production...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Weak Dollar Helps 3M, but Maybe Too Much
The diversified manufacturer 3M reported better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, but its shares fell on investor concern that the weak dollar accounted for too much of the company?s growth...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
New-Home Sales Fall to Low Last Seen in Early 1990s
Buyers vanished from the housing market in March, as sales of new homes plummeted to the lowest level since the housing recession of the 1990s...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Fault-Finding in Dallas Between Controllers and Pilots Becomes a Problem for the F.A.A.
Aviation officials said some instances of planes that passed too close to each other in Dallas were the fault of air traffic control supervisors, who blamed pilots...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
U.S. Allows Sale of Drug to Treat Constipation
Progenics Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth have won federal approval for the first drug to treat constipation caused by powerful opioid painkillers like morphine...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
For a Survivor in the Pinball Industry, the Game Isn?t Over
A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the Chicago area. Now there is only Stern Pinball Inc. in Melrose Park, Ill...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Starbucks Revamps Entertainment Unit
Starbucks shook up its entertainment division in the latest bid by the company to invigorate its sagging sales...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
S.E.C. Accuses Trader of Spreading Rumors
The charges are the first the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought against traders accused of being rumormongers and short sellers...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Beijing?s Guiding Hand Sets Off a Market Rally
Stock prices in China gained over 9 percent after the government moved to restore confidence in the market by reducing taxes on trades...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Russian Aluminum Tycoon Buys 25% of Nickel Giant
The aluminum tycoon Oleg V. Deripaska said that he had purchased 25 percent of the Arctic mining company Norilsk Nickel, furthering his quest to consolidate the Russian metals and mining industry...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Plastic-Bottle Scare Is a Boon for Some
Canada?s decision to label as toxic a chemical that is used to make a popular form of plastic has created headaches for some bottle makers but it may prove a bonanza for others...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
A Losing Year at Countrywide, but Not for Chief
Countrywide Financial?s chief executive, Angelo R. Mozilo, realized $121.5 million from exercising stock options and was awarded $22.1 million of compensation in 2007...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Advertising: Companies Return Criticism From Darfur Group
After taking criticism from activist groups over the last few months, some Olympic sponsors are starting to criticize right back...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Microsoft Shows Gains, but Also Weaknesses
Microsoft?s pursuit of Yahoo may have run into some bumps, but its big software business is humming along smoothly...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Actor Snipes Gets 3 Years for Tax Charges
The actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to a maximum of three years in federal prison for three misdemeanor convictions of failure to file his income taxes...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Peltz Offer Is Accepted by Wendy?s
After more than two years of bickering, Wendy?s International and Nelson W. Peltz have tied the knot for about $2.3 billion...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
High & Low Finance: Where the Fingers Are Pointing
When money managers make good investments, they are happy to take credit. When they make bad investments, they would rather the blame go elsewhere...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Ford Posts a Profit, Surprising Wall Street
The Ford Motor Company said that it earned $100 million in the first quarter, a pittance compared with the $15.3 billion it lost in the previous two years but an astonishing improvement...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Bush Administration Releases Images to Bolster Its Claims About Syrian Reactor
The photographic images were released to support the assertion that the building in Syria that Israel destroyed in an airstrike last year was a nuclear reactor constructed with help from North Korea...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Steps Set for Kin of 9/11 Victims to Stay in U.S.
Lawyers for the immigrants said a concession made Thursday by Homeland Security officials would help to bring the family members out of the shadows...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Pain of Foreclosures Spreads to the Affluent
But the few homeowners in trouble in affluent Greenwich are tapping into other resources that most people cannot call upon to help prevent the ultimate indignity...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Bits: Microsoft?s New Threat to Yahoo
Microsoft said that if Yahoo doesn't submit to its merger proposal by Saturday, it will do something really bad next week. That might be going to Yahoo shareholders, abandoning the offer, or even buying AOL or some other Yahoo rival...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Verdict Awaits Detectives in Death of Sean Bell
The verdict in the case against three detectives who killed Sean Bell arrives about 9 a.m. on Friday, with the judge?s decision sure to set off an outcry no matter what it is...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
In Council Campaigns, Relatives on the Payroll
More than a dozen of the 51 current members have used campaign funds to pay family members ? or themselves...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
What Darwin Saw Out Back
The New York Botanical Garden is replicating his work and experiments in a stunning, multipart exhibition called ?Darwin?s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure.?...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Opposition ?Clear Victor? in Zimbabwe, U.S. Says
A U.S. envoy declared Zimbabwe?s opposition leader the ?clear victor? in the nation?s disputed presidential election...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Pakistan Asserts It Is Near a Deal With Militants
A 15-point draft of the accord would lead to the gradual withdrawal of the Pakistani military from part of the tribal region of South Waziristan...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
McCain Faults Bush Response to Gulf Storm
Senator John McCain declared the handling of Hurricane Katrina ?terrible and disgraceful,? one of his harshest assessments yet of the Bush presidency...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Costly Lesson on How Not to Build a Navy Ship
A project heralded as the dawning of an innovative era in Navy shipbuilding is over budget and behind schedule...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
Cutoffs and Pleas for Aid Rise With Heat Costs
Millions of Americans are behind on electric and gas bills, and record numbers could soon face energy shut-offs...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
For Airlines, Runways Are the Danger Zone
Recent groundings have raised flags about skipped inspections and botched repairs to wiring, but what really worries specialists is runway collisions...
New York Times - April 25, 2008
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