Murdoch Makes Offer to China
Date: 10 January 2001
By Craig S. Smith
Craig Smith
Rupert Murdoch, who once declare that satellite television posed 'an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere,' has asked Jiang Zemin to allow him to organize media summit meeting in Shanghai to coincide with gathering of regional leaders for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum; has worked hard to restore relations with China since angering country's Communist Party elders with his anti-totalitarian remark made in 1993 shortly after he bought Star TV satellite network that beams programming in English and Chinese across China; has quietly steered his media empire away from confrontation with China, potentially huge market that is still closed to foreign media; photo (M)
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2 Media Groups Move To Examine Florida Votes
Date: 10 January 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Organized effort by news organizations to examine uncounted Florida ballots results in two independent projects; consortium of eight news organizations, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Tribune Company and CNN, retain National Opinion Research Center to report on estimated 180,000 overvotes and undervotes; Miami Herald's effort, joined by USA Today, is examining undervotes by county; major accounting firms have refused to serve as independent third parties; John Broder of The Times notes logistical challenge and costs (M)
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Young British Ex-Convicts To Be Sheltered From Media
Date: 09 January 2001
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered two-year-old James Bulger when they were 10 years old after luring him from shopping mall in Liverpool, England, in 1993 complete sentences in government detention facility; High Court judge issue ruling prohibiting news media from revealing any details about them after release, citing concern for their future safety; photos (M)
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Foreign Affairs; My Favorite Teacher
Date: 09 January 2001
By Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas L Friedman Op-Ed column on his late journalism teacher Hattie M Steinberg, who taught him fundamentals that seem so relevant in current information age (M)
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EASTMAN KODAK WILL REORGANIZE CUSTOMER SERVICE
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Eastman Kodak Co will reassign most if its 3,500 customer-service employees to various business units to make service more effective; workers not reassigned will be part of central customer-service unit (S)
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CIPHERGEN SAYS QUARTERLY REVENUE WILL DISAPPOINT
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Ciphergen Biosystems fall 30 percent after company says fourth-quarter revenue will be as much as 15 percent below its expectations (S)
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GLIATECH HALTS DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL PRODUCT
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gliatech shares fall 38 percent after company voluntarily halts distribution of its anti-scarring gel because supplier recalled raw material used to make product; Gliatech says supplier recalled material because it might contain particles from aluminized-paper lid liner (S)
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I.B.M. SEES STRONG SALES OF DESKTOP COMPUTERS
Date: 10 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
IBM expects global sales of desktop computers to grow at percentage rates in mid-teens in coming years (S)
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MOTOROLA LIKELY TO REPORT LOWER EARNINGS IN QUARTER
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Motorola Inc is expected to report lower fourth-quarter earnings on Jan 10 (S)
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GENERAL MOTORS AGAIN CUTS PRODUCTION PLANS
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Corp will build 100,000 fewer cars and trucks in first quarter North American than it had planned last month, to try to reduce dealer inventories as sales slow; will produce 1.2 million vehicles, down 21 percent from last year's first-quarter output of 1.521 million; plans to produce 562,000 cars and 638,000 trucks (S)
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