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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Newspaper Ad Revenue Down 7.9%
Newspaper advertising revenue fell 7.9 percent in 2007, the second-worst year in more than half a century, the Newspaper Association of America said on Friday...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week includes Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Looking Ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
ECONOMIC SIGNALS The main economic event of the week will be the unemployment report for March, to be released on Friday. Employment is expected to fall by 40,000 jobs...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
The Media Equation: We Want It, and Waiting Is No Option
The Web empowers both groups and individuals, a place where choice is not only an option, but an imperative...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Wal-Mart Savings Ads Assailed
Groups say that the implied claim of Wal-Mart?s ad campaign that it saves the average family $2,500 a year is misleading...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Drilling Down: The Year of Magical Budgeting
Contrary to popular advice, it may be easier for people to prepare yearly budgets rather than monthly ones...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Brake Problems Led to United Jet Skids
Two United Airlines A320 jetliners skidded off runways in recent months because of crossed wires in their antilock brakes, the airline said...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
For the Finale, a Tune That May or May Not Be the Boss?s Favorite
Did Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, really mean it when he said the Disney tune ?He?s a Tramp? was his favorite?...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Hollywood Producer Set to Make Shows for Xbox
Microsoft announced a deal with a company headed by Peter Safran, the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager, to produce original shows for distribution on the system...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Glamour Is Chastened After Caddish Remarks by Dating Blogger Incite a Revolt
In the beginning, Glamour magazine?s s online community responded well to the postings of Mike Cherico, a Los Angeles high school teacher writing a blog about dating...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Advertising: Is the Ad a Success? The Brain Waves Tell All
Agencies and advertisers are growing more interested in neuroscience in their never-ending efforts to improve effectiveness...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Six Degrees (at Least) of Contenders for President
Since news of blood ties between presidential candidates and unlikely famous people spread last week, many have rushed to genealogy resources to see if they, too, could have important relations...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
2 Irish Billionaires Clash Over Publisher?s Course
The battle revolves around Independent News & Media, whose flagship publication is London?s Independent...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Spat Between Actors? Unions Snarls Negotiations With Studios
The sudden split between two actors unions this weekend appeared to weaken labor organizations without making life easier for the studios they bargain with...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Citizen Huff
Since plans three years ago to launch the blog The Huffington Post were announced, it has grown in ways that few people, except perhaps founder Arianna Huffington, expected...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Doubt Cast on 2 Drugs Used to Lower Cholesterol
The drugs Vytorin and Zetia may not work and should be used only as a last resort, The New England Journal of Medicine and a panel of cardiologists at a major cardiology conference said on Sunday...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Online Chat, as Inspired by Real Chat
A new wave of Silicon Valley companies is bringing live socializing into online social networking Web sites...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Bravo?s Chief Reaches Out to the Prosperous Urban Woman
Lauren Zalaznick, the woman behind the surging success of cable television?s Bravo network is, in many ways, a model of the channel?s viewers ? wealthy, educated and attentive to pop culture...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
E-Commerce Report: Making Appointments for Doctor or Dinner
A set of Internet start-up companies has emerged to help service providing small businesses use the Web as more than just an online brochure...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Israel Agrees to Ease Access for Palestinians
With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the region, Israel agreed to remove about 50 West Bank roadblocks...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Midwest Region: Kansas Holds Off Davidson in Final Seconds
Kansas wore down Stephen Curry and Davidson with its size and strength, holding on for a 59-57 victory Sunday that put all four No. 1 seeds into the Final Four for the first time...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
A Nervous Wall St. Seems Unsure What?s Next
Most everyone wants to know when will the financial crisis end. So far the markets are whispering an answer that no one wants to hear...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Wiring Is Blamed in Airliner Skids
Two United Airlines A320 jetliners skidded off runways in recent months because of crossed wires in their antilock brakes, the airline said...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Sadr Offers Deal for Truce as Fighting Persists in Iraq
The Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr took a step toward ending six days of combat between his militia allies and Iraqi and U.S. forces in Basra and Baghdad...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Opposition Claims Win in Zimbabwe on Unofficial Tally
Zimbabawe?s main opposition party said that unofficial results showed a landslide victory over Robert Mugabe, who has led this nation for 28 years...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
9/11 Lawyer Made Name in Lawsuit on Diet Pills
A lawyer representing nearly all ground zero workers who are suing New York City is being sued himself. The case centers on the distribution of a large settlement in a prior case...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Art and History Clash in San Francisco
Plans to build a huge modern complex in San Francisco?s Presidio district have come up against fierce opposition...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Dot Earth: Polar Cities a Haven?
With or without climate calamity, an urbanizing Arctic is coming...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
The Caucus: Bowling With Barack
Barack Obama spent Saturday evening in a close encounter with the fierce urgency of a gutter ball...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
French Architect Wins Pritzker Prize
Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for wildly diverse projects, has won architecture?s top honor...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Journal Issues Warning on Two Cholesterol Drugs
The drugs may not work and should be used only as a last resort, The New England Journal of Medicine said...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Tibet Protest at Olympic Ceremony
Greek officials handed over the Olympic flame to organizers of the Beijing Summer Games on Sunday, but demonstrators sought to disrupt the ceremony...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Rice Announces Mideast Concessions
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel pledged to remove some West Bank roadblocks as a start to ''concrete steps'' in an agreement Sunday with the Palestinians that is aimed at paving the way for a final peace deal this year...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Foreclosure Machine Thrives on Woes
Law firms and default servicing companies have been raking in mounting profits on foreclosures...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
News Analysis: In This Shiite Battle, a Marked Shift From the Past
Among the differences between the ongoing Shiite battle in Iraq and the wave of Shiite attacks of 2004, one is that the Shiite rebels are fighting Iraqi soldiers, not Americans...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Dith Pran, ?Killing Fields? Photographer, Dies at 65
Mr. Dith was a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
US TV and film actors sever ties
Hollywood's acting unions refuse to work together in contract negotiations, raising fears of a strike...
BBC News - March 30, 2008
G. David Low, 52, Astronaut and Aerospace Executive, Dies
Mr. Low flew three space shuttle missions and later became an executive in the space industry...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Homeowners? Pleas Put G.O.P. Lawmakers in Bind on Defaults
Some Republicans are stuck between constituents demanding protection from foreclosure and party leaders urging restraint...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Police Beat Tibetan Protesters in Nepal
Police say 200 Tibetan exiles and monks have tried to storm the Chinese Embassy visa office in Nepal?s capital. Police stopped them by beating them with bamboo batons...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Bad Dreams: Alley Fighters
The Mahdi Army militiamen may look ragtag, but they know their way around the slums in which they fight...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Consumed: Style Decoder
How bar-code technology became a medium for creativity...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Fair Game: If You Can?t Sell, Good Luck
A market dries up, and the little guy is left holding the debt...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Letters
That Creature in the Markets...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Questions for Paul O'Neill: Market Leader
The former Treasury secretary talks about how the Bush administration mismanaged the crisis in financial markets, his relationship to Dick Cheney and what happened to Bear Stearns...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
The Way We Live Now: Bleakonomics
On Wall Street, intervention should have happened long ago. It?s called oversight...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Russian Vodka With a Feminine Kick
As the economy continues its skyward race, marketers are taking note of Russian women and the discretionary income they represent...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Changing the Rules of the Games
How did a handful of activists manage to shake up Beijing with ?Genocide Olympics? T-shirts?...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Square Feet | Spotlight: Before the Olympics, a Parade of Companies
By the time the Olympic torch arrives in Beijing in August, the city will have largely completed its transformation into a modern metropolis...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: A Middling Week, but a Good One for 2008
The broad market declined modestly, but the Nasdaq composite index, which is heavily laden with technology stocks, managed a slight gain...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Career Couch: The Adroit Speaker Doesn?t Wing It
Concentrate on the audience ? who they are and what will interest them ? and not on yourself...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
The Boss: Multitasking, Then and Now
My family taught me that using time productively meant more than just speeding through school...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Home Front: Imaginary Hors d?Oeuvres, but Real Job Skills
Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow offers job training exercises to help the unemployed develop or improve career skills...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Ping: Thinking Outside the Company?s Box
More businesses are learning how to buy the great ideas of others...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Novelties: Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You
Tired of hearing other people?s cellphone conversations? Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Economic View: When the Long View Isn?t So Scenic
What do we see when we step away from the turmoil of today?s subprime mortgage crisis and try to look into the future?...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Fundamentally: Don?t Paint Nest Eggs in Company Colors
Bear Stearns employees learned a valuable and painful lesson about pouring savings into company stock...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Everybody's Business: Time to Go on a Liquid Diet
In volatile times like these, cash is your best friend, aside from your dogs and cats...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
An Oilman Entices, and Investors Cry Foul
With oil prices topping $100 a barrel, con artists are eager to lure investors into suspect deals. State regulators say their powers to shut these schemes down are limited...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Essay: How to Cast a Mortgage Lifeline?
Any approach taken to address the subprime meltdown must not be too generous in shielding people and businesses from the consequences of their own bad decisions...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Market Maker: What ?the Bear? Meant for the Street
Bear Stearns?s storied reputation on Wall Street included a knack for hiring so-called P.S.D.s ? workers who were Poor, Smart and had a deep Desire to become rich...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Suits: A Google Friend Is Now Facebook?s
Google?s status as the coolest place to work may be waning, the company has lost another high-ranking employee to the social networking site Facebook...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
The Count: Does Recession Mean Doom for Restaurants?
When the economy is falling down all around you, it is only natural to want to protect yourself with some austerity measures...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
The Foreclosure Machine
As the number of foreclosures grows, a small army of law firms and default servicing companies, who represent mortgage lenders, have been raking in mounting profits...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
West Region: U.C.L.A. Rolls, Just Like in the Old Days
In beating third-seeded Xavier, 76-57, Coach Ben Howland has led his top-seeded Bruins to the Final Four for the third consecutive season...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Women's Tournament: Elite Women Prove That A&M No Longer Stands for ?All Male?
If one wants to gauge how far women have come in collegiate sports since the passage of Title IX, there may not be a more striking example than Texas A&M...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
News Analysis: In Treasury Plan, a Reluctant Eye Over Wall Street
A plan for the biggest change in financial regulation since the 1930s was born in an effort to limit Washington?s role...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Plea to Save Homes Puts Lawmakers in a Bind
Some Republicans in Congress find themselves stuck between constituents demanding protection from foreclosure and party leaders urging restraint...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Files From Colombians Point to Venezuelan Bid to Arm Rebels
If verified, the files would offer rare insight into Latin America?s longest-running guerrilla conflict...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Zimbabweans Vote, Desperate for Change
Lines at polling stations were long, but Zimbabweans have little hope that President Robert Mugabe might be ousted...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Wheels: Tata Strikes a Deal. Now What?
The Jaguar and Land Rover employees I?ve talked to recently -- the few still on the payroll -- say that Ford cut off financial life support for the brands a while back. The U.S. headquarters building in Irvine, Calif., for Ford?s crumbling Premier Automotive Group, of which Jaguar and Land Rover were key components, is eerily empty...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Shiite Militias Cling to Swaths of Basra and Stage Raids
Militias openly controlled many areas of the city as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Political Memo: Iraqi Offensive Revives Debate for Campaigns
The war?s return to the public consciousness poses new challenges and opportunities for the candidates, particularly Senator John McCain...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
East Region: Hansbrough Lifts Tar Heels Into Final Four
Tyler Hansbrough finished with 28 points and 13 rebounds, including 20 points in the second half, as North Carolina defeated Louisville, 83-73, to reach the Final Four...
New York Times - March 30, 2008
Chavez 'stifles Venezuelan media'
Private media firms from across the Americas accuse Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of stifling press freedom...
BBC News - March 30, 2008
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