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US News Archive for September 2007:
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The Lede Blog: Emergency Text-Messaging
St. John's University receives wide praise for handling a crisis with text-messaging...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
City Room Blog: New York?s Best Street Food?
While the participants at the Vendy Awards served a range of food, for the third straight year, the finalists hailed from only two of the city's boroughs, Manhattan and Queens...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
What Plunge? September Is Good to Wall Street
After a tumultuous and brutal August, the stock market is within striking distance of the records it set in July...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Bill Clinton on Obama?s Experience
Using his own timeline for seeking national office, the former president, in an interview, plays one of this campaign season's big cards -- experience -- in taking on one of his wife's chief rivals...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
In Big Banks? Hands, Trusts Often Give Fewer Grants
With no family members to encourage gifts to the original donor?s favorite causes, banks and lawyers have wide latitude to change how trusts operate...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Stock Loans Are No Place for Secrecy
Creating greater transparency in the stock loan market, relied upon by those who borrow stock to sell short, would help people get fairer prices...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Can We Turn Off Our Emotions When Investing?
We all know what we should diversify, ignore the market?s white noise and avoid the herd when investing. But do we do that? Hardly...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Google Hiring Engineers Abroad
Google said it was expanding its staff of engineers in Europe to improve its products in local markets outside the United States...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Germany: Jobless Rate Falls
Germany?s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly 15 years in September, dropping to 8.4 percent...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Sweden: Nasdaq Deal Given Clearance
The financial regulator of Sweden said it had approved Nasdaq?s suitability as a potential owner for the exchange operator OMX...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
China: A Move to Restrain Prices
China raised the interest rate on mortgage loans to 1.1 times the nation?s benchmark lending rates and increased the minimum down payment on apartments intended for investment in an effort to cool surging property prices...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Germany: Cost Cuts at BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke will cut spending by 6 billion euros ($8.5 billion) over five years and change senior management after losing ground to the Mercedes Car Group of DaimlerChrysler...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Wall St. Firm Settles Case on Handling of E-Mail
Morgan Stanley will pay $12.5 million to resolve charges that it failed to produce e-mail and falsely stated that the messages were lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Disney to End Cellphone Service
The Walt Disney Company said Thursday that it would cease operating its family-oriented mobile phone service at the end of the year...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Foxtons Shuts Down
Foxtons, a discount real estate agency that brokered home sales for a 3 percent commission, shut its operations on Thursday and said it might file for bankruptcy protection...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Fidelity Founder?s Daughter Promoted
Questions about management succession linger at Fidelity Investments despite a revamp that expands the role of Abigail Johnson, the daughter of Fidelity?s founder...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Reporting Loss, Rite Aid Cuts Forecast
The drug store chain Rite Aid said Thursday that its second-quarter loss widened sharply, and it warned that it expected to lose more than it had forecast for the year...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Hope for Another Rate Cut Lifts Shares
The stock market rose as investors speculated that a drop in new home sales would give the Federal Reserve more reason to lower interest rates...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
A.I.G. Cuts 600 Jobs to Combine Units
The job cuts come as part of A.I.G.?s move to combine units with the newly acquired 21st Century Insurance Group...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Settlement Will Cost Freddie Mac $50 Million
The mortgage finance company Freddie Mac will pay $50 million to settle federal charges that it fraudulently misstated earnings over a four-year period...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Senators Scrutinize Google?s Bid for Ad Firm
Google?s proposed purchase of the online advertising firm DoubleClick received no outright opposition at a Senate hearing Thursday...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
E.E.O.C. Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P.
The lawsuit against the financial services company accuses it of discriminating against women...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Home Sales and Prices Fall Sharply
Sales of new homes dropped to the slowest pace in over seven years, foreshadowing further economic trouble ahead...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
$8 Billion Jet Order by British Airways
In its largest aircraft purchase in nearly a decade, the airliner ordered 24 Boeing 787 aircraft and 12 Airbus A380s...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Papers Study August Crisis, From First Wave to Last Ripple
Two new papers examine the causes and effects of this August?s unwinding in the financial markets...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
The Campaign Is Clean, the Stunts Fairly Dirty
Unilever is hoping to get some college students dirty as part of its marketing campaign for Axe Shower Gel...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Baby Furniture Maker Recalls Playpens
Kolcraft Enterprises recalled 425,000 playpens on Thursday, following the strangulation of a 10-month-old boy...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Canadian Dollar Aiding Online Retailers
The recent strength of the Canadian dollar has given a boost to online retailers who allow Canadians to bargain hunt in the U.S. without leaving home...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Wal-Mart Prices Aim for Younger Medicine User
Wal-Mart?s expansion of its low-cost generic drug program indicates that the company is reaching out to a younger and broader clientèle...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Law Firms Go a Bit Hollywood to Recruit the YouTube Generation
Several law firms are creating recruiting videos and Web sites to attract law students to their firms...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Artificial-Joint Makers Settle Kickback Case
Four of the nation?s biggest makers of artificial joints will pay a total of $310 million in fines to settle accusations that they paid kickbacks to surgeons...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Advocate of Paying Chiefs Well Revises Thinking
Michael C. Jensen, an early advocate for paying corporate executives well, is calling for greater accountability for C.E.O.?s...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages
Verizon said it would make its mobile network available for a text-message program by Naral Pro-Choice America...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Complaint Offers Window on Chinese Drug Ring
An affidavit filed by an agent of the F.D.A. details the personal involvement of Jin Lei, the founder of one of China?s largest drug makers, in an illegal hormone distribution ring...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
I.M.F. Faces a Question of Identity
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was appointed to head the I.M.F., will inherit an organization struggling to find a purpose in a vastly changed financial world...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Push for Action on Flight Delays
President Bush ordered transportation officials to take steps to reduce delays in the nation?s airspace...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Del Monte Invests in India
Del Monte Pacific agreed to buy a 40.1 percent stake in FieldFresh Foods, an ambitious but so far unsuccessful venture created to ?link Indian fields to the world.?...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
The iPhone War
A software update wreaked havoc on modified iPhones...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Apple Replaces General Counsel
Daniel Cooperman of Oracle will join Apple in November. He is the company?s second general counsel appointment in the past year...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
U.A.W. Chiefs Unanimously Back G.M. Accord
Many of the local leaders said they expect their members to ratify the deal, a process that could begin in a few days...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Bain and Chinese Company to Buy 3Com
3Com, a maker of networking hardware and software, will be sold to affiliates of Bain for $2.2 billion in cash. China-based Huawei Technologies will acquire a minority interest...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Consumer Spending Rises, Easing Fears of Slowdown
Consumer spending rose by a better-than-forecast 0.6 percent last month, while a closely watched inflation indicator posted its smallest monthly gain in more than three years...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
What Plunge? September Is Good to Wall Street
After a tumultuous and brutal August, the stock market is within striking distance of the records it set in July...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Bristol-Myers to pay $515m fine
Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb agrees to pay more than $515m (£251.7m) to settle charges of price fraud...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
City Room: City Room: As Mets Fall, Do Ya Gotta Bereave?
As the Mets struggle to hold on to hopes of October baseball in Queens, how are their fans feeling about this possible collapse of historic proportions?...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
DealBook Blog: DealBook: Senate Eyes Google?s DoubleClick Deal
Microsoft is fiercely opposed to Google’s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising firm DoubleClick. But the transaction drew no outright opposition from United States senators at a hearing Thursday, which focused on the deal?s potential threats to competition and consumer privacy. Senator Herb Kohl, the Democrat of Wisconsin who heads an antitrust subcommittee, said [...]...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Rare Supreme Court Stay Halts a Texas Execution
Amid renewed questions about lethal injection, the Supreme Court issued a last-minute reprieve last night...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Bush Outlines Climate Change Vision
President Bush called on the world?s worst polluters to come together to set a goal for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the climate to heat up...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
In Love With Pop, Uneasy With the World
Bruce Springsteen reflects on loss, outrage and the perfect hook...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
The Lede Blog: Myanmar Clamps Down on the Internet
Burmese bloggers report that they are running into hurdles in getting the word out on the crackdown...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Bits Blog: The iPhone War
A software update wreaked havoc on modified iPhones...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Apple Replaces General Counsel
Daniel Cooperman of Oracle will join Apple in November. He is Apple?s second general counsel appointment in the past year...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Del Monte Invests in India
Del Monte Pacific agreed to buy a 40.1 percent stake in FieldFresh Foods, an ambitious but so far unsuccessful venture created to ?link Indian fields to the world.?...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Bain and Chinese Company to Buy 3Com
3Com, a maker of networking hardware and software, will be sold to affiliates of Bain for $2.2 billion in cash. China-based Huawei Technologies will acquire a minority interest...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Consumer Spending Rises, Easing Fears of Slowdown
Consumer spending rose by a better-than-forecast 0.6 percent last month, while a closely watched inflation indicator posted its smallest monthly gain in more than three years...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Nielsen sued over online ratings
The owner of El Pais sues the US ratings firm Nielsen for revising downwards the number of users of ElPais.com...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
US shoppers buy more in August
US consumer spending increases during August, as core annual inflation is at its lowest since early 2004...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
US offers lawyers to terror suspects
Fourteen "high-value" Guantanamo Bay detainees are to be given access to lawyers, the Pentagon says...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
With Monks Contained, Myanmar Authorities Attack Civilians
Exile groups said that they had less news about clashes, partly because of an apparent clampdown by authorities on Internet and telephone communications...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
E.E.O.C. Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P.
The lawsuit against the financial services company accuses it of discriminating against women...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Weak dollar holds oil prices firm
Oil prices approach record highs as the weak dollar and more worries about supply inflate prices...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
US pledges funds for Hariri court
The US contributes $5m towards the trial of suspects in the murder of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
Oprah Winfrey tops TV 'rich list'
Oprah Winfrey is the highest-paid star on TV, earning four times more than her nearest rival, Forbes magazine says...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
Child health bill faces Bush veto
The US Senate backs a bill to expand a children's health insurance plan, which President Bush says he will veto...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
US race row teen freed on bail
A US judge orders the release on bail of a black youth whose prosecution for beating a white boy sparked huge protests...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
Iran and Venezuela heads in talks
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in Venezuela for talks with President Hugo Chavez...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
Mexico criticises US border plans
Illegal immigration cannot be solved by erecting a wall between Mexico and the US, the Mexican president says...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
Cardinals 3, Mets 0: Mets Lose Again to Fall Into Tie With Phillies
With a loss to the Cardinals on Thursday, the Mets dropped out of sole possession of first place in the N.L. East for the first time since May 15...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
The Caucus: G.O.P. Candidates Criticize Absent Rivals
Six Republican presidential candidates had the stage at tonight's Republican presidential debate to themselves, and blasted four of their leading opponents for not showing up...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Tickets to a Venturesome Film Festival
The 45th New York Film Festival offers something tasty for every discriminating cinematic palate...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Edwards to Accept Public Financing for Primaries
Advisers said the decision was made not because of any shortage of money but because John Edwards wanted to draw a distinction with his main rivals on the issue of the influence of money on politics...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
For Craig and Others, a Caucus on the Potomac
The travails of Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho are only the latest to rock an eclectic Washington neighborhood described as a ?floating trailer park.?...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
New Test Asks: What Does ?American? Mean?
Authorities unveiled 100 new questions immigrants will have to study to become American citizens...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Art Review | Richard Prince: Pilfering a Culture Out of Joint
The paradoxically beautiful, seamless 30-year survey of his work at the Guggenheim Museum catches many of our inharmonious country?s discontents and refracts them back to us...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Report Assails F.D.A. Oversight of Clinical Trials
The Food and Drug Administration does very little to ensure the safety of the millions of people who participate in clinical trials, a federal investigator has found...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
High & Low Finance: Stock Loans Are No Place for Secrecy
Creating greater transparency in the stock loan market, relied upon by those who borrow stock to sell short, would help people get fairer prices...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
World Business Briefing: Germany: Jobless Rate Falls
Germany?s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly 15 years in September, dropping to 8.4 percent...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
World Business Briefing: Google Hiring Engineers Abroad
Google said it was expanding its staff of engineers in Europe to improve its products in local markets outside the United States...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
World Business Briefing: Sweden: Nasdaq Deal Given Clearance
The financial regulator of Sweden said it had approved Nasdaq?s suitability as a potential owner for the exchange operator OMX...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
World Business Briefing: China: A Move to Restrain Prices
China raised the interest rate on mortgage loans to 1.1 times the nation?s benchmark lending rates and increased the minimum down payment on apartments intended for investment in an effort to cool surging property prices...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
World Business Briefing : Germany: Cost Cuts at BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke will cut spending by 6 billion euros ($8.5 billion) over five years and change senior management after losing ground to the Mercedes Car Group of DaimlerChrysler...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Wall St. Firm Settles Case on Handling of E-Mail
Morgan Stanley will pay $12.5 million to resolve charges that it failed to produce e-mail and falsely stated that the messages were lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Foxtons Shuts Down
Foxtons, a discount real estate agency that brokered home sales for a 3 percent commission, shut its operations on Thursday and said it might file for bankruptcy protection...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Disney to End Cellphone Service
The Walt Disney Company said Thursday that it would cease operating its family-oriented mobile phone service at the end of the year...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Fidelity Founder?s Daughter Promoted
Questions about management succession linger at Fidelity Investments despite a revamp that expands the role of Abigail Johnson, the daughter of Fidelity?s founder...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Reporting Loss, Rite Aid Cuts Forecast
The drug store chain Rite Aid said Thursday that its second-quarter loss widened sharply, and it warned that it expected to lose more than it had forecast for the year...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
A.I.G. Cuts 600 Jobs to Combine Units
The job cuts come as part of A.I.G.?s move to combine units with the newly acquired 21st Century Insurance Group...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Hope for Another Rate Cut Lifts Shares
The stock market rose as investors speculated that a drop in new home sales would give the Federal Reserve more reason to lower interest rates...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Settlement Will Cost Freddie Mac $50 Million
The mortgage finance company Freddie Mac will pay $50 million to settle federal charges that it fraudulently misstated earnings over a four-year period...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Senators Scrutinize Google?s Bid for Ad Firm
Google?s proposed purchase of the online advertising firm DoubleClick received no outright opposition at a Senate hearing Thursday...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Insider: Papers Study August Crisis, From First Wave to Last Ripple
Two new papers examine the causes and effects of this August?s unwinding in the financial markets...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
BA Divides Order Between Boeing and Airbus
In its largest aircraft purchase in nearly a decade, the airliner ordered 24 Boeing 787 aircraft and 12 Airbus A380s...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Advertising: The Campaign Is Clean, the Stunts Fairly Dirty
Unilever is hoping to get some college students dirty as part of its marketing campaign for Axe Shower Gel...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Baby Furniture Maker Recalls Playpens
Kolcraft Enterprises recalled 425,000 playpens on Thursday, following the strangulation of a 10-month-old boy...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Wal-Mart Prices Aim for Younger Medicine User
Wal-Mart?s expansion of its low-cost generic drug program indicates that the company is reaching out to a younger and broader clientèle...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Canadian Dollar Aiding Online Retailers
The recent strength of the Canadian dollar has given a boost to online retailers who allow Canadians to bargain hunt in the U.S. without leaving home...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Artificial-Joint Makers Settle Kickback Case
Four of the nation?s biggest makers of artificial joints will pay a total of $310 million in fines to settle accusations that they paid kickbacks to surgeons...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Law Firms Go a Bit Hollywood to Recruit the YouTube Generation
Several law firms are creating recruiting videos and Web sites to attract law students to their firms...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
I.M.F. Faces a Question of Identity
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who will be appointed to head the I.M.F. on Friday, will inherit an organization struggling to find a purpose in a vastly changed financial world...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Revising a Boardroom Legacy
Michael C. Jensen, an early advocate for paying corporate executives well, is calling for greater accountability for C.E.O.?s...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Complaint Offers Window on Chinese Drug Ring
An affidavit filed by an agent of the F.D.A. details the personal involvement of Jin Lei, the founder of one of China?s largest drug makers, in an illegal hormone distribution ring...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages
Verizon said it would make its mobile network available for a text-message program by Naral Pro-Choice America...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Home Sales and Prices Fall Sharply
Sales of new homes dropped to the slowest pace in over seven years, foreshadowing further economic trouble ahead...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Push for Action on Flight Delays
President Bush ordered transportation officials to take steps to reduce delays in the nation?s overcrowded airspace...
New York Times - September 28, 2007
Thieves steal new Coppola script
Thieves in Argentina steal a computer from director Francis Ford Coppola, containing his latest film script...
BBC News - September 28, 2007
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