Cablespeak: I Seeing the News Today, Oh Boy!
Date: 08 December 2002
By Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg article on new 'ing-lish' syntax of all-news cable television networks; notes Fox News Channel and CNN have begun to recite their leads to new participial rhythm, style increasingly audible on network news programs as well; sees bizarre abbreviated syntax, which leaves out all tenses and any helping verbs, reflecting fact that 'news of the day' is concept ill-suited to around-the-clock broadcasts; drawing (M)
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FOLLOWING UP
Date: 08 December 2002
By Joseph P. Fried
Joseph Fried
Following Up column; Croatian supporters of Zvonko Busic, sentenced to life in prison after hijacking US airliner in Sept 1976, call for his release, or at least transfer to Croatian prison; Street News, newspaper sold by homeless people in New York as alternative to panhandling, is publishing six issues per year (M)
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World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: U.S. Journalists To Be Fingerprinted
Date: 07 December 2002
By Nazila Fathi (NYT)
Nazila NYT
Iranian government, responding to American policy of fingerprinting and photographing Iranians entering US, asks airport security to fingerprint and thoroughly document American journalists entering country (S)
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RELEASE OF FOREST'S HYPERTENSION MEDICINE IS DELAYED
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Forest Laboratories Inc will not be able to sell new hpyertension treatment in United States before 2005 because regulators demand more research; Forest bought rights to medicine, called lercanidipine, from Recordati of Italy (S)
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OAKLEY, A MAKER OF SUNGLASSES, REDUCES OUTLOOK
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Oakley Inc, maker of upscale sunglasses and sports accessories, cuts its forecast for fourth-quarter sales and earnings; says it expects fourth-quarter sales of about $100 million and per-share earnings of break-even to 1 cent (S)
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TWO SENIOR MANAGERS AT MERRILL LYNCH RESIGN
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Two more senior managers are leaving Merrill Lynch & Co, latest departures in E Stanley O'Neal's first week as chief exec; they are Paul Roy and Michael Marks (S)
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MOODY'S CUTS RATING OF CABLE AND WIRELESS TO JUNK
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Moody's Investors Service cuts long-term debt rating of Cable and Wireless two levels to junk, on concern that company will spend too much to reorganize its biggest unit (S)
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World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Theme Park Planned
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vivendi Universal and two Shanghai companies owned by government plan to build first foreign theme park in Shanghai (S)
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World Business Briefing | Europe: Italy: Protests Over Fiat Cuts
Date: 07 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fiat, Italy's biggest manufacturer, faces strikes at plants across country after Prime Min Silvio Berlusconi's government approves plan to start laying off workers to stem losses at its auto unit (S)
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Court Sets Review of Mexican Truck Traffic
Date: 08 December 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Teamsters union and consumer groups will have at least 30 days to try to stop Mexican trucks from driving anywhere in the United States under rules authorized last month.
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