National Briefing | South: Florida: Call For Harris To Resign
Date: 09 August 2001
By Dana Canedy (NYT)
Dana NYT
Florida Democratic Party urges Sec of State Katherine Harris to resign, after review of data from computers in her office during presidential election recount in November 2000 showed her lawyers and aides used machines to send and retrieve election-related e-mail messages, conduct legal research and prepare her for questions from reporters; photo (S)
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CNN Studios Get Down to Rivals' Level: Midtown Streets
Date: 09 August 2001
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
CNN plans to open two studios on ground level of Time & Life building, hoping to capture some of street-theater energy that major television networks get from their Midtown Manhattan operations; move also appears to signal shift at CNN; company has had headquarters in Atlanta since its founding, but is now owned by AOL Time Warner, which wants it to have larger presence in New York; illustration of proposed design for CNN studios (M)
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World Briefing | Middle East: Turkey: Broadcast Ban
Date: 10 August 2001
By Douglas Frantz (NYT)
Douglas NYT
Turkish government's broadcasting watchdog orders Germany's Deutsche Welle and Britain's BBC to stop their Turkish-language radio broadcasts into country (S)
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IRAN LEADER VOWS TO ENACT REFORMS IN HIS SECOND TERM
Date: 09 August 2001
By Neil MacFarquhar
Neil MacFarquhar
Pres Mohammad Khatami, delivering inaugural address for his second term, vows to enact reforms clearly demanded by Iranian voters and warns formidable opponents that failure would reflect badly on very idea of Islamic government; Khatami garnered 77 percent of vote in June against nine mostly conservative opponents; Khatami, in theory second-most-powerful figure in country after supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, admonishes that hardening of factional positions risks alienating public from their faith; challenges he and his reformist allies face are in clear evidence; his inauguration itself was delayed for three days because of dispute between reformers and conservatives, and conservative judiciary shuts down another reformist newspaper; photo (M)
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SCHERING WINS APPROVAL FOR HEPATITIS TREATMENT
Date: 09 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Schering-Plough Corp wins approval for more effective hepatitis C treament that combines injection of extended-release form of its drug Peg-Intron with capsule of ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc's drug Rebetol (S)
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KIDS HOLDINGS TO BUY CHILDREN'S COMPREHENSIVE
Date: 10 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Children's Comprehensive Services Inc, juvenile-justice services provider, will be acquired by Kids Holdings for about $43.3 million (S)
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SONOCO PRODUCTS BUYS A RIVAL PACKAGE MAKER
Date: 09 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Sonoco Products Co to buy rival Phoenix Packaging Corp (S)
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EXIDE LOWERS EARNINGS ESTIMATE AND TRIMS JOBS
Date: 10 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Exide Technologies, leading maker of automotive batteries, will cut 1,300 jobs; says earnings for second-quarter and for fiscal-year will be lower than expected because of decline in orders (S)
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O'REILLY TO BUY MID-STATE AUTOMOTIVE FOR $46.2 MILLION
Date: 10 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
O'Reilly Automotive Inc, auto-parts retailer, will acquire Mid-State Automotive Distributors Inc, US parts retailing unit of London-based Mid-States PLC, for $19.5 million (S)
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MUTUAL INSURER CUTS 1,370 JOBS, MOST IN TEXAS
Date: 09 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Services Automobile Association, mutual insurance and financial services company, to cut 1,370 jobs, almost 6 percent of work force (S)
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