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train | Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor: "I'm gonna try march with a number of different groups. | The Hispanic population increased by 9.8per cent from the April 2000 census figures, despite less favourable social and economic conditions than in the 1990s. | 2.6 |
train | The index, which measures activity in the service sector, climbed to 50.7 last month from 47.9 in March. | An Ohio law that bans a controversial late-term abortion procedure is constitutionally acceptable and the state can enforce it, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. | 3.857 |
train | As part of a restructuring Peregrine sold its Remedy help desk software unit last year to BMC Software Inc. | Several shots rang out Wednesday night, but no gators were killed then. | 3 |
train | Licensing revenue slid 21 percent, however, to $107.6 million. | Former model Lady McCartney lost a leg in a road accident in 1993 and is understood to have steel plates fitted in her hips which would make natural childbirth difficult. | 5 |
train | London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters: "We condemn this raid, which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable." | Altria Group Inc. MO.N fell 50 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $41.81. | 2.5 |
train | Common side effects include nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and cough, the FDA said. | On Monday, EchoStar (DISH: news, chart, profile) shares shrank $1.40, or 4.4 percent, to $30.63. | 2.667 |
train | He was taken to a hospital for precautionary X-rays on his neck. | Israeli soldiers began tearing down settlement outposts in the West Bank yesterday - an Israeli obligation under a new Mideast peace plan. | 3 |
train | Waksal has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and is to be sentenced next week. | The Communications Workers Union, which represents more than 2,300 Comcast employees, called the executive pay package excessive when a typical union employee makes about $27,000 annually. | 4 |
train | Its former chief Mickey Robinson was fired for cause when he left in September, the company said. | The consumer-confidence index came in at 83.5 in June, down slightly from a revised 83.6 in May, the Conference Board said. | 3.6 |
train | Russ Britt is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for CBS.MarketWatch.com. | The union said it would reveal later which chain would be targeted. | 3.8 |
train | He also said the academy will get its own internal report next week detailing the seriousness of the remaining problem. | On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured when a munitions dump they were guarding exploded in southern Iraq. | 1.5 |
train | Peace Rules defeated Funny Cide in the Louisiana Derby. | CBS said the show "does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience. | 4.4 |
train | While some other parts of Africa have been used as staging grounds for the terror group, Malawi previously had not been a major focus of investigations into al-Qaida. | Consumer groups oppose the changes, saying they would concentrate too many outlets in too few media empires. | 1.273 |
train | Gemstar's shares gathered up 2.6 percent, adding 14 cents to $5.49 at the close. | Amnesty International said that over the past 20 years it had collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq. | 3.4 |
train | He said the attackers left behind leaflets urging staff at the Ishtar Sheraton to stop working at the hotel and demanding U.S. forces leave Iraq. | Further out the curve, the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR shed 18/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.24 percent from 3.17 percent. | 4.8 |
train | The Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's 2001 application to sell Erbitux, citing shoddy research. | Colgate shares were down 30 cents at $56 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange. | 3.75 |
train | The Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain, was forthright. | Asked if he felt any regret about theOctober 12 attack, the answer was an adamant "no". | 3.75 |
train | On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump exploded. | Shares of McDonald's and Wendy's continued their recent recovery Monday, rising more than 1 percent on the New York Stock Exchange in afternoon trade. | 3.6 |
train | Bulger's brother is now on the agency's ''10 Most Wanted'' list, sought in connection with 21 murders. | U.S. forces struck dozens of targets on Monday, killing six guerrillas and arresting 99 others during 1,729 patrols and 25 raids conducted over 24 hours. | 3.25 |
train | The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 19.72 points, or 1.98 percent, to 1,015.69. | Shares jumped almost 7 percent in pre-open trading, rising to $18.26 from $17.05 at Tuesday's close. | 4.5 |
train | "I'm real excited to be a Cleveland Cavalier," James said. | He refused to say what percentage of domestic flights had security officers on board. | 4.25 |
train | The drop in core wholesale prices in April reflected falling prices for cars, trucks, men's and boy's clothes and cigarettes. | "My understanding of this is that there is a lower percentage of successful impregnations with frozen," Ezzell said. | 3.2 |
train | At midnight on Wednesday, 68 percent of voters said "no" to the tax, with 97 percent of the votes counted. | Amazon and the New York attorney general's office have already settled with one of the alleged e-mail forgers. | 3 |
train | The only other person who had not been accounted for Sunday was a man from Fort Worth, Texas. | In Nairobi, the provost of All Saints Cathedral, the Very Reverend Peter Karanja, said the US Episcopal Church was alienating itself from the Anglican Communion. | 2.333 |
train | Once converted, BayStar will own an aggregate of approximately 2.95 million shares of SCO common stock or 17.5 percent of the company's outstanding shares. | A Caesarean had originally been planned in mid- November, two weeks early. | 5 |
train | That took the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR down 9/32, its yield rising to 3.37 percent from 3.34 percent late on Thursday. | The British Foreign Office said it had mediated the two men's release. | 3.4 |
train | Forecasters said warnings might go up for Cuba later Thursday. | The Federal Trade Commission asked Congress yesterday for broader powers to attack the rapidly growing problem of spam, which new studies show accounts for half of all e-mail traffic. | 3.75 |
train | Sayliyah was the command base for the Iraq war, but Central Command sent hundreds who ran the war back home to Tampa, Florida. | SCO changed its name to Tarantella, and Caldera later changed its name to the SCO Group. | 4.8 |
train | Women who eat potatoes and other tuberous vegetables during pregnancy may be at risk of triggering type 1 diabetes in their children, Melbourne researchers believe. | International rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam yesterday. | 5 |
train | Albertsons and Kroger's Ralphs chain locked out their workers in response. | The MSN Messenger 6 software will be available from 11 a.m. PST on Wednesday, according to Microsoft. | 3.6 |
train | The mother also alleged in the lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards. | While federal prosecutors refuse to discuss the investigation, lawyers and others familiar with it say it remains focused on Campbell. | 2.4 |
train | However, we have decided to opt for the European consortium's engine as the best overall solution and due to the substantial price efforts made". | But Itar-Tass news agency said four of his bodyguards were among those killed by the bomb. | 1 |
train | The army said the raid, which comes just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the Hamas leader in the city, targeted militants in Hamas. | DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of men contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian researchers has discovered. | 3.6 |
train | The others were given copies of "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" and told to follow it. | The new worm affects these Windows systems: 2000, XP, NT 4.0 and Server 2003. | 3.6 |
train | "It is about a third of what I owe in the world," he told reporters. | Prices for Treasury securities also rose, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year note falling to 4.19 percent. | 4 |
train | Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended the deadline to Oct. 17, and they are still working on it. | Wal-Mart has told its top 100 suppliers that they'll need to have radio-frequency ID systems in place for tracking pallets of goods through the supply chain by Jan. 25, 2005. | 3.2 |
train | Since early May, the city has received 1,400 reports of dead blue jays and crows, Jayroe said. | But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups, such as race, pushed the state onto the needs-improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. | 3.75 |
train | It exploded in his hands, but the former Italian prime minister was unhurt. | Maximum sustained winds were around 40 mph, with stronger gusts. | 4 |
train | The consumer group generated $4.47 billion of profit and $20 billion of revenue from January to June, 53% of Citigroup's profit and revenue. | The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." | 1.8 |
train | The elderly and those with weakened immune systems are also urged to protect against mosquito bites. | Since early May, the city has received 1,400 reports, he said. | 4.5 |
train | Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway. | Analysts polled by Thomson Financial First Call had been expected to see a loss of about 11 cents a share from continuing operations. | 3.25 |
train | The author is one of several defense experts expected to testify. | An audiotape aired last week by the Arab al-Jazeera television network may be the strongest evidence yet that Saddam survived the war. | 5 |
train | According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, "MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it. | "The average track error for the five-day (forecast) is 323 nautical miles. | 3.8 |
train | Graham is expected to be nominated and elected to a second one-year term today and will deliver the presidential address. | Both studies are published on Thursday in Nature, the British weekly science journal. | 4 |
train | The injured passenger at John Peter Smith Hospital died later Friday morning, Jones said. | The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 6.48 points, or 0.66 percent, to 990.51. | 3 |
train | The New York Mets then selected outfielder Lastings Milledge from Lakewood Ranch High School in Florida. | The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC shed 8 points, or 0.45 percent, to 1,645. | 3.4 |
train | ISRAELI soldiers knocked down empty mobile homes and water towers in 10 tiny West Bank settlement outposts overnight as part of a US-backed Mideast peace plan. | The central bank's policy board left rates steady for now, as widely expected, but surprised the market by declaring that overall risks were weighted toward weakness. | 5 |
train | Bremer, 61, is a onetime assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger and was ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism from 1986 to 1989. | But church members and observers say they anticipate that the decision here could pose doctrinal problems for some Episcopalians who believe the Bible prohibits homosexuality. | 1.6 |
train | The two-year note US2YT=RR fell 5/32 in price, taking its yield to 1.23 percent from 1.16 percent late on Monday. | Texas Instruments climbed $US1.37 to $US19.25 and Novellus Systems advanced $US1.76 to $US36.31, each having been raised to "overweight" by Lehman. | 2.769 |
train | The meeting was scheduled to end Wednesday night, with attendees approving resolutions that express the denomination's view on issues but that are not binding on churches. | It added it had "co-operated fully" with police since November. | 3.25 |
train | On health care, the NDP says there will be no privatization and no health-care premiums. | Its safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of a cap....The level of it is to be debated. | 3.2 |
train | Mr Pollard said: "This is a terrible personal tragedy and a shocking blow for James's family. | In 2006, Asia Pacific will report growth of 7.9 percent to $81.8 billion. | 4.75 |
train | The ADRs fell 10 cents to $28.95 at 10:06 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading today. | The mother also contended that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards during the 1998 confrontation. | 3.4 |
train | Pataki praised Abraham's decision, and LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel said the cable should be kept in operation permanently. | Police believe Wilson then shot Jennie Mae Robinson once in the head before turning the gun on herself. | 4 |
train | Police using pepper spray arrested 12 people Monday night at a march and rally by about 400 activists protesting an annual training seminar of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit. | "I marched in the streets against Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War," she said. | 3.2 |
train | Aventis, based in Strasbourg, France, is one of a handful of companies that still make the flu vaccine. | "But at this stage, given the early detection, the outlook in such instances would be positive," he said. | 4.25 |
train | Meningitis is an infection of the spinal cord fluid and the tissue around the brain. | People who once thought their blood pressure was fine actually need to start exercising and eating better, according to new U.S. guidelines published on Wednesday. | 3 |
train | The tech-loaded Nasdaq composite rose 20.96 points to 1595.91, ending at its highest level for 12 months. | Later this year, the command will send trainers with soldiers from four North African nations on patrolling and intelligence gathering missions. | 3.6 |
train | Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted. | The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday. | 3.4 |
train | Shares in BA were down 1.5 percent at 168 pence by 1420 GMT, off a low of 164p, in a slightly stronger overall London market. | Selenski used the mattress to scale a 10-foot razor wire, Fischi said. | 3 |
train | The Episcopal Church ''is alienating itself from the Anglican Communion,'' said the Very Rev. Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral, in Nairobi. | Excluding patent litigation, RIM's loss for the quarter was $700,000, or 1 cent per share. | 0.889 |
train | Dixon was otherwise the class of the field at Pikes Peak International Raceway. | The judge scheduled another oversight hearing for late January. | 0.25 |
train | "It was a little bit embarrassing the way we played in the first two games," Thomas said. | The privately held Google is believed to be profitable. | 3 |
train | On Monday, as first reported by CNET News.com, the RIAA withdrew a DMCA notice to Penn State University's astronomy and astrophysics department. | In addition, "fewer than 10" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to Islamic mosques, the Justice Department said. | 3.6 |
train | The Winston-Salem, North Carolina company opened six stores during the quarter, bringing the total to 282. | The currency briefly weakened on Monday morning but rebounded to trade at 55.25/29, little changed from Friday. | 1.5 |
train | Shares in EDS closed on Thursday at $18.51, a gain of 6 cents. | Mr. Powell told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families. | 3.6 |
train | Florida's Supreme Court has twice refused to hear the case. | FirstEnergy Corp. should have determined that modernizing one of its plants would increase overall pollution emissions, U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus ruled Thursday. | 3.333 |
train | He had been arrested twice before for trespassing and barred from the complex - home to his mother and two children. | IBM shares closed up $1.75, or 2.11 percent, at $84.50 on the New York Stock Exchange. | 3.6 |
train | "Tomorrow at the Mission Inn, I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California. | There were 293 human cases of West Nile in Indiana in 2002, including 11 deaths statewide. | 4.5 |
train | Thirty-three of the 42 men had been arrested by Wednesday evening, said Daniel Bogden, U.S. attorney in Nevada. | Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday it will take time to locate die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq. | 3.8 |
train | INTEL TODAY disclosed details of its next-generation XScale processor for mobile phones and handheld devices here in San Jose. | "IT is the only vehicle on which established economies will be able to compete" with fast-growing economies such as China and India, Barrett said. | 3.667 |
train | "It is safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of cap," King said. | Vice President Dick Cheney says Mississippi Republican Haley Barbour would be a good governor because of his government and business savvy. | 2.6 |
train | Micron has declared its first quarterly profit for three years. | "Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant," Wyden and Dorgan said Monday in a letter to the Pentagon. | 2.75 |
train | Bashir felt he was being tried by opinion not on the facts, Mahendradatta told Reuters. | The results are to be published in Wednesday's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. | 2 |
train | On the other hand, if this will help further establish Steve's innocence, we welcome it." | Dennehy, who transferred to Baylor last year after getting kicked off the University of New Mexico Lobos for temper tantrums, became a born-again Christian in June 2002. | 3.75 |
train | The government did not identify the taikonauts — a term coined from ‘‘taikong,’’ the Chinese word for space — who would travel on the second mission. | Following California's lead, several states and the federal government passed similar or tougher bans. | 3 |
train | "People are obviously inconvenienced," said Dr. Jim Young, Ontario's commissioner of public safety. | Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users. | 3.8 |
train | Mr. Turner transferred about 10 million shares to a charitable trust before they were sold. | The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach. | 2.4 |
train | Heather, 35, who lost a leg in a road accident, is thought to have steel plates fitted in her hips, which would make natural childbirth impossible. | The virus spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain familiar headings like "Thank You!" and "Re: Details". | 3.4 |
train | Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages. | Thousands of revellers, celebrating the decision, vowed to push for more legal rights, including same-sex marriages. | 4.2 |
train | Hispanics, the fastest growing ethnic group in the US, have overtaken blacks to become the largest minority in the US, according to newly released government figures. | The product also streams Internet radio and comes with a 30-day free trial for RealNetworks' Rhapsody digital music subscription service. | 2.75 |
train | GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. Annika Sorenstam drew the crowds, Michelle Wie got the publicity but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory. | The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI tacked on 97 points, or 1.14 percent, to 8,699. | 1.75 |
train | Revenues for "The Hulk" came in well below those of last month's Marvel Comics adaptation, "X2: X-Men United," which grossed $85.6 million in its opening weekend. | "He hasn't got much choice," said the Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain. | 1.8 |
train | Now, with the agency's last three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia disaster, that wait could be even longer. | "Reloaded" is the second installment of a trilogy; "The Matrix Revolutions" is slated for debut in November. | 3.667 |
train | "These changes may affect a large number of existing Web pages," the statement continued. | The royal household was bracing itself for any more revelations in A Royal Duty, based on the former servant’s time with Diana, Princess of Wales. | 4.2 |
train | The American Stock Exchange biotech index .BTK surged 5 percent. | More than 130 people have been arrested and $17 million worth of property seized in an Internet fraud sweep announced Friday by three U.S. government agencies. | 3.273 |
train | Advanced Micro Devices said Fujitsu Siemens Computers is offering a high-end workstation based on AMD's Opteron 200 Series. | Klarman was arrested by FBI agents Monday morning at his home in New York. | 4.176 |
train | The upcoming second-quarter earnings season will be particularly important in offering investors guidance, they say. | "Saddam is gone, but we want the (U.S.) occupation to end." | 4.4 |
train | Captain Robert Ramsey of the US 1st Armoured Division said a truck had exploded outside the building about 11am, and that one of the compound's outer walls had collapsed. | Bremer, 61, is a former assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger. | 3 |
train | The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data. | License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million. | 3.25 |
train | Kollar-Kotelly has scheduled another antitrust settlement compliance hearing for January. | Ankara says all four suicide bombers were Turkish. | 2.6 |
train | The Portuguese weather service said Europe's heatwave was caused by a mass of hot, dry air moving from the southeast. | Twenty-four players broke par in the first round, the third highest figure in U.S. Open history. | 4.6 |
train | According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population increased by 9.8 percent from the April 2000 census figures. | The arrests came just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the militant group's leader in Hebron. | 3.8 |
train | The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was 0.46 points lower, or 0.05 percent, at 997.02. | She took the highly unusual step of skipping cabinet to attend a meeting with the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda. | 2.8 |
train | Amnesty International has said that over the past 20 years it has collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq but the actual figure may be much higher. | Early Monday, insurgents threw a homemade bomb at a U.S. convoy in northern Baghdad, killing an American soldier. | 3 |
train | A search for three missing teenagers uncovered at least two bodies buried beneath freshly poured concrete in the basement of a house, authorities said Wednesday. | They say second-quarter earnings reports will be key in giving investors that guidance. | 4 |
train | The camp hosts summer religious retreats for children and other events year-round, according to its Web site. | Hickenlooper clobbered city Auditor Don Mares, 46, in the Tuesday runoff. | 4 |
train | The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86. | Bishop O'Brien, aged 67, had told police he thought he had hit a dog or cat. | 3 |
train | It later emerged that he had broken his right thigh and bones in his right wrist and elbow. | Wells' other series include NBC's "ER" and "Third Watch." | 3 |
train | The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 19.67, or 1.3 percent, to 1523.71, its highest since June 18. | GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. >> Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie drew the crowds, but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory. | 1.75 |
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