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lead hisashi_shinto , once one of japan 's most powerful business figures , was convicted of accepting_bribes today in the first big court case to emerge from a scandal that rocked japan 's political world . hisashi_shinto , once one of japan 's most powerful business figures , was convicted of accepting_bribes today i... | 2 |
bickering this election year between democrats and republicans over a drug benefit for medicare enrollees has been shrill . but senator ron_wyden , democrat of oregon , and representative bill thomas , republican of california , two influential leaders on health_care , announced a set of principles last week that , by ... | 0 |
san_diego_padres third baseman gary_sheffield was released from jail on a 500 bond after being arrested early yesterday after arguing with a houston police_officer at an all night restaurant . sheffield was charged with the misdemeanor assault of a policeman after the argument about 3 a.m . sheffield spent about 14 hou... | 0 |
more than 73 million viewers tuned in to see president_bush 's speech to the nation on monday_night , a figure surpassed in recent years only by the super_bowl telecast and the president 's address after the terrorist attacks in september 2001 . the networks that benefited most were abc and the fox_news_channel . abc w... | 1 |
lead ''while these numbers look good , they are not as good as they look . '' l . william_seidman , f . d . i . c . chairman , on the strong third quarter bank earnings . ''while these numbers look good , they are not as good as they look . '' l . william_seidman , f . d . i . c . chairman , on the strong third quarter... | 0 |
in winning the democratic primary on tuesday to succeed edward g . rendell as mayor of philadelphia , john f . street held tightly to his issue oriented message in the face of personal attacks that nearly defeated him . while other candidates in the crowded field used attack advertising in their campaigns , mr . street... | 0 |
lead china 's most prominent dissident intellectual , breaking an imposed silence , today assailed harsh political controls on university students and teachers . china 's most prominent dissident intellectual , breaking an imposed silence , today assailed harsh political controls on university students and teachers . t... | 3 |
when silvio_berlusconi campaigned to be italian prime_minister in 2001 , he offered a series of promises about what he would accomplish in the next five years . at the time , it seemed safe . the idea that an italian prime_minister would survive for five years seemed absurd . no italian government since world_war_ii ha... | 9 |
to the sports editor i kept seeing this error in the stories on the olympics ''the united_states hockey team , '' referring to the men 's team . it would seem desirable to make the distinction between the men and the women since the united_states women 's team won gold and did not trash its quarters . elizabeth n . nor... | 2 |
germany endured a barrage of negative economic news today in particular , that unemployment soared in december creating a sense of gloom that has not been seen since the country began to climb out of its worst postwar recession more than two years ago . and if the conventional_wisdom is true that as the german economy ... | 6 |
the players in this complex tale include the man accused of masterminding what may be the biggest bank_fraud in history , a bulldog congressman who seems determined to prove that the president 's top aides engaged in a vast cover up , and a beleaguered president who cannot understand why the issue will not go away . as... | 1 |
sergei nemchinov had ice bags strapped to his 32 year old body and a big smile spread across his mature , veteran face . ''i 'm not as old as you think , '' nemchinov said , and his performance supported his words . nemchinov , the rangers' checking center , had just played left_wing on the top unit of the russian nati... | 5 |
insurgents unleashed a string of fierce attacks across central and northern iraq on thursday that left nearly a dozen iraqis and an american marine dead , while the militant group led by the country 's most wanted guerrilla posted a video on the internet showing the fatal shooting of a candidate from the prime_minister... | 1 |
lead chinese students at many colleges and universities across the united_states have signed a petition to their government on behalf of an american educated molecular biologist who was arrested nearly a year ago in shanghai during a crackdown on political_dissent . chinese students at many colleges and universities ac... | 3 |
for unbridled passion , there 's nothing like the soccer match between roma and lazio this month . by jeff z . klein in america , we take our sports rivalries seriously , as anyone who has been to a yankees red_sox game can tell you . but for pure operatic heat and spectacle and that special sense of menace you get fro... | 9 |
the bank of japan today lowered an important lending rate by three quarters of a point , a day after the government announced a package of measures to stimulate the sagging economy . but the stock_market , reflecting the sagging confidence of the business community , reacted coolly . after falling to a five year low on... | 2 |
perhaps no minor party has shaped modern day politics in new york as profoundly as the state 's conservative_party , sending a little known candidate to the united_states_senate in 1970 and helping orchestrate the defeat of a democratic star , gov . mario m . cuomo , a generation later . but now , with the steady erosi... | 0 |
both companies have french roots , and both plan to go public in 2005 . but the similarities do not end there . both lazard , the financial firm , and lectricit de france , the state owned utility , are going public in large part because their managers concluded that operations could not continue as they were . and bot... | 8 |
the yen plummets . japan 's currency sank to a_10 week low against the dollar after japanese finance officials said they favored a weaker currency . in new york , the dollar settled at 118 . 74 yen , up from 114 . 21 on friday . | 2 |
the next american astronaut in line for a tour aboard the troubled russian space_station mir has been pulled from the mission because she is too small for the russian space walk suits , nasa announced today . the astronaut , comdr . wendy b . lawrence of the navy , had been scheduled to begin a four month stay on the m... | 5 |
american commanders say iraqi forces are reeling from almost three weeks of air and land attacks , and they are mounting a three pronged army assault on baghdad to try to force a quick end to the war . when the land campaign was first devised , american commanders envisioned a far more deliberate assault . the attack o... | 1 |
in an era of business deals and fervent consumerism , when the m.b.a . is hot among graduating_seniors , why do more and more of the better college students yearn to join a seemingly outdated club the communist_party ? at beijing_university , the country 's most eminent school , which draws an elite student body from a... | 3 |
either victory was at hand , or television had rewound news coverage back to the first , optimistic days of the war . a confident george_bush , hand in hand with the first lady , paid tribute to cheering marines at camp_lejeune , n.c. , while on the road to baghdad , soldiers from the advancing third infantry division ... | 1 |
the department of defense has identified 1 , 321 american service members who have died since the start of the iraq_war . it confirmed the deaths of the following americans yesterday lehto , jason a. , 31 , staff sgt . , marine_corps_reserve mount clemens , mich . marine wing support group 47 , fourth marine aircraft w... | 1 |
the drive for new and expanded convention centers stretches from new york to san_diego . in the last two years , high point , n.c. , built a showplace hall with 450 , 000 square_feet of exhibition space , while grand_forks , n.d. , erected the alerus center , with 123 , 000 square_feet . anaheim , calif . charleston , ... | 0 |
iraqi political leaders stepped up efforts to persuade the world that they were tackling the country 's thorniest problems on wednesday , highlighting crackdowns on militias , pressing for more rapid arming of iraqi troops , and underlining progress on a national oil law and new examples of reconciliation with former b... | 1 |
in the era of welfare downsizing , any steep drop in public assistance has become a politician 's signal to boast . in new york city the welfare_rolls listed 797 , 000 recipients last month compared with 1 . 16 million almost three years ago , and in his travels around the country , mayor rudolph_giuliani likes to trum... | 0 |
american_airlines bought 10 million worth of canadian routes and other assets from eastern_airlines . eastern sold its route authority for new york newark and montreal ottawa along with 10 gates at la_guardia airport in new york . the deal also includes gates at montreal 's dorval airport and at orlando , fla . , nashv... | 7 |
canada 's unemployment rate fell three tenths of a percentage point to 7.5 percent in september , the lowest level in more than nine years . the number of new jobs created 63 , 800 was more than had been added over the previous six months and twice what economists had expected . manufacturing accounted for more than a ... | 7 |
the acute angle on a corner of the lot on upper broadway on which a_20 story condo is rising dictated a form that has its designers reaching for a word not often heard in architects' offices a prow . ''that prow has become the major focus of the site , '' said randolph gerner , a principal at gerner kronick valcarcel ,... | 0 |
the phone call that changed peter hartz 's life came on a winter morning in 2002 , as he was speeding to a board meeting at the german carmaker audi . the caller was gerhard schrrated pg 13der , the chancellor of germany , and he got right to the point he was about to announce the formation of a blue ribbon commission ... | 6 |
elena collongues popova worked for years in silence , as the financial architect of parts of the early empire built by mikhail b . khodorkovsky , who controls yukos , the giant russian oil company . but she has since turned on mr . khodorkovsky , russia 's richest man , after french tax police fined her roughly 15 mill... | 5 |
confirming that it remains in the grip of a recession , hong_kong said its gross_domestic_product had shrunk 3.5 percent in the first quarter . weak consumer demand and a 5 percent decline in exports hobbled the economy . but officials pointed to a few rays of light , including a modest rebound in tourism and the resid... | 3 |
the senate banking committee today approved the clinton_administration 's program for spurring lending in poor communities , adding provisions to make borrowing by small businesses easier and to protect consumers from exploitation by home_equity lenders . some republicans expressed doubts over the plan , pushed by the ... | 0 |
new york city 's bid to attract a world competition with thousands of athletes from more than 100 countries competing at stadiums , parks and other venues across the city and in nearby suburbs has succeeded , an international sports federation said yesterday . it is not the olympics . instead , after what has been a qu... | 0 |
as florida was cleaning up yesterday from its fourth hurricane in six weeks , insurance executives and analysts said they expected the cost of coverage to rise sharply for millions of homes and businesses in the state . with the industry expecting to have to pay roughly 20 billion in claims from the storms , the analys... | 0 |
many of the 17 soldiers who died when two black hawks helicopters collided on saturday had worked in iraq for nearly nine months , but two men had just arrived there , fresh from flight training school together . second lt . jeremy l . wolfe , 27 , graduated from the army 's pilot training school in fort rucker , ala .... | 1 |
lead new york city , whether melting_pot or mosaic , has now conferred its collective respect on another branch of the american family . by electing david_dinkins as mayor , new york has released a wave of pride in its citizens of african_american heritage and a sense of unity among the many white voters who rallied to... | 0 |
lead rallies were held across the united_states yesterday in support of china 's battered pro_democracy movement . rallies were held across the united_states yesterday in support of china 's battered pro_democracy movement . about 1 , 500 people gathered in downtown chicago , where sasa lu , a chinese_american student ... | 3 |
as construction work begins on 9 metrotech south , a 670 , 000 square_foot building that will house 1 , 300 employees of empire blue cross and blue shield , planning is under way to lay the zoning and other groundwork for other development in downtown_brooklyn . while the new building will complete development of the 1... | 0 |
on being told they were going to see ''dr . cat , '' some young patients would enter his office and question his pedigree . ''are you really a cat ? '' they would ask , or ''do you meow ? '' if it meant calming down an anxious child , the pediatrician would meow . sometimes he would conduct an examination on a stuffed ... | 0 |
european stock markets fell sharply and the weaker currencies plunged in value again today after investors apparently decided there was little chance that europe could pull out of its economic turmoil anytime soon . the heavy selling of stocks and the continued decline in the value of the british_pound , the italian_li... | 6 |
when anti american demonstrations erupted in chinese cities 10 days ago , executives at several united_states companies went into crisis mode and evacuated employees . in beijing and shanghai , some americans felt trapped inside their homes , fearful that angry students could turn into unruly mobs . as scary as the dem... | 3 |
all those games , all that experience , led to that moment this afternoon when kristine_lilly was in exactly the right place at the right time . ''that 's my spot , '' she said . she has played more international soccer games , 186 , than anybody else in history , male or female . sometimes she can perform by rote the ... | 3 |
dances for wave_hill wave_hill 249th street and independence avenue riverdale , bronx saturday , sunday , aug . 1 and 2 with its meadows , greenhouses and hilltop views of the hudson_river , wave_hill is a spectacle in itself . on saturday afternoon this beautiful city owned garden served as a backdrop for works by thr... | 0 |
canada 's exports shrank 4.7 percent in january , largely as a result of a decline in shipments of motor_vehicles and parts to the united_states , statistics_canada reported . with imports also falling , the over all trade surplus dipped fractionally to 5.2 billion_canadian_dollars ( 3 . 93 billion ) . the decline in e... | 7 |
the story of michael r . bloomberg , secret agent , is expected to play out in federal court in manhattan today when the mayor testifies about how , in 2000 before he became mayor , he helped officials build a case against a man who prosecutors say tried to extort money from mr . bloomberg 's media company . federal pr... | 0 |
a bleak top secret report by the central_intelligence_agency suggests that the situation in iraq is approaching a crucial turning point , with ordinary iraqis losing faith in american led occupation forces and in the united_states appointed iraqi_governing_council . the report , sent to washington on monday by the c.i.... | 1 |
lead emperor_hirohito became seriously ill late monday_night , and millions of japanese stayed up until the early hours of the morning watching television as the imperial palace here bustled with activity and speculation . emperor_hirohito became seriously ill late monday_night , and millions of japanese stayed up unti... | 2 |
patricia a . hurt , the essex county prosecutor who defiantly vowed to fight last month 's decision by gov . christine_todd_whitman to strip her of her powers , relented today and resigned . in a three paragraph letter to governor whitman , ms . hurt said that she had no alternative but to resign since it was clear tha... | 0 |
chinese consumer prices rose in february , raising hopes that a two year bout of deflation was ending . the consumer_price_index edged up 0.7 percent compared with the 1999 month and was up 1.9 percent from january . craig s . smith world business briefing asia. | 3 |
after a three week sit_in protest by the opposition party , the lower_house of the japanese parliament passed a national budget today that includes funds to liquidate crippled lending institutions . passage of a budget had been stymied by opposition to the plan to allocate an initial 6 . 3 billion to help clear up bad ... | 2 |
long_island planting a new seed dom pellegrino had 13 tackles , 3 sacks and a fumble recovery as a linebacker and a 58 yard_touchdown as a tight_end as west_islip ( 6 0 1 ) upset the no . 1 rated team in the state and 23d in the nation , bellport ( 6 1 ) , 24 15 . the last time west_islip defeated the state 's no . 1 t... | 0 |
two groups of canadian indians have filed a lawsuit in toronto seeking 1 . 3 billion ( canadian ) in damages from the kimberly_clark corporation and the new york times company for the pollution of rivers in their native territory in northern ontario around james bay . the suit , which was filed on monday by the moose f... | 7 |
three months ago , we compiled a chart for this page on military and economic trends in postwar iraq . with president_bush 's assertion on sunday that ''a free iraq will make it easier for other children in our own country to grow up in a safer world , '' it seemed timet to revisit the numbers . there is no question th... | 1 |
two years ago , joel soler chose to go on a dangerous journey to the middle_east to shoot an irreverent biography of a dictator who was then , in mr . soler 's words , ''a dead story . '' now the subject of ''uncle saddam , '' which is being shown tuesday on cinemax , is probably the world 's most talked about person .... | 1 |
pointing to an unexpectedly robust economy , the bank of canada raised its crucial overnight interest rate today for the second time in less than two months . the central_bank 's lifting of the rate , from 2 . 25 percent to 2.5 percent , indicates that the bank is more concerned that accelerating growth will unleash ne... | 7 |
lead the american television rights to the 1992 winter_olympics in albertville , france , were awarded yesterday to cbs_sports , whose bid of 243 million exceeded the international_olympic_committee 's expectation by 43 million and nbc 's bid by as much as 68 million . the american television rights to the 1992 winter_... | 8 |
lead james kudelka , the 32 year old canadian choreographer , has been called the harold pinter of dance . a darkly intense man with short cropped black hair and restless eyes , his works teem with shadowy undercurrents of emotional ambiguity and inference . by critical consensus , he is a new voice in ballet , and on ... | 7 |
coached toward the curb by her own impromptu valet parking attendant in his actual job the well mannered executive director of working playground , an arts education nonprofit group that serves new york city schoolchildren the actress rosie perez halts her sporty black volvo station_wagon and hands him the keys . girl ... | 0 |
the ministry of finance said its survey of business sentiment showed that on balance big japanese companies remained optimistic about the business environment for a second consecutive quarter after 10 straight periods of overall pessimism . survey data also showed that business sentiment improved at small and medium si... | 2 |
china will ' 'resolutely oppose'' any moves to restore quotas on its textile exports to europe and the united_states , a chinese ministry of commerce official said on the ministry 's web_site yesterday . yi xiaozhun , one of china 's four assistant commerce ministers , said in a web posting that china was willing to en... | 3 |
lead italy 's inflation_rate this year is 5.1 percent , down a percentage point from 1986 , the government reported today . italy 's inflation_rate this year is 5.1 percent , down a percentage point from 1986 , the government reported today . | 9 |
the vote on a 23 billion plan for federal transportation aid that new york city has threatened to veto was postponed yesterday , for the second time in two weeks . the plan includes a request from the port_authority of new york and new jersey to begin work on a 1 . 5 billion train connection from the new york city subw... | 0 |
just five months ago , in a rococo conference room at the waldorf astoria hotel , a top official of the new york mercantile exchange bitterly complained to a british counterpart about mysterious developments in the copper market that british officials seemed to be ignoring . neal wolkoff , the new york merc 's executiv... | 4 |
after being held for two years in a detention center in los_angeles , five iraqis were freed today and reunited with their families here , where they will be allowed to find jobs and stay until another country agrees to give them permanent political_asylum . the five were among 7 , 000 iraqi dissidents brought to the u... | 1 |
the yen falls . the yen dropped on speculation that a business confidence survey would not prompt the japanese central_bank to raise interest rates . in new york , the dollar settled at 108 . 84 yen , up from 108 . 02 on friday . | 2 |
lead richard_branson , the british entrepreneur whose holdings include virgin_atlantic_airways , urged the government today to refer a possible merger between scandinavian_airlines system and british_caledonian airways to the monopolies and mergers commission . lord young , the trade and industry secretary , is expecte... | 4 |
day or night , go to any bar in the ironbound with a satellite_dish when professional soccer is being played and chances are there will be a crowd tossing back a few and watching the game . ''they go crazy , '' said nanda cerquira , owner of tio pepe , where patrons were leaping from their seats , pumping their fists i... | 0 |
since its founding 22 years ago , st . michael the archangel , a roman_catholic congregation in the bronx , has had to make do with commercial basements and storefronts in co op city , where most of its parishoners live . but this fall ground is to be broken for st . michael 's first real church . " basements and store... | 0 |
japan is set to announce on friday a series of measures aimed at supporting an economy that is likely to be hurt in the near term by the government 's plan to speed up write_offs of bad_loans by the nation 's banks . with tax revenue falling and the national debt exploding , however , such measures may , at best , only... | 2 |
it was a leaky roof at a decrepit , 95 year old public_school in chinatown that led to the discovery that years and millions of dollars had been wasted on negligent or fraudulent asbestos inspections , that scores and possibly hundreds of city schools may still be contaminated with the cancer causing material . but lon... | 0 |
even in a combat zone , sometimes it 's the little things that count . in a recent e mail message , air_force tech . sgt . brian burke , stationed in balad , north of baghdad , wrote about a wounded female soldier who had arrived at the military_hospital there ''all she had was her small backpack and her clothes . so s... | 1 |
lead worried about having interest on their savings taxed at the source , west germans have joined foreign investors in a significant exodus out of mark deposits . worried about having interest on their savings taxed at the source , west germans have joined foreign investors in a significant exodus out of mark deposits... | 6 |
stocks traded lower here today . at the close , the nikkei index of 226 issues was down 119 . 77 points , or 0 . 67 percent , at 17 , 682 . 74 . on tuesday , the nikkei ended almost unchanged , rising 13 . 05 points . | 2 |
lead as hundreds of thousands of east_germans marched in protest today against bonn 's proposed currency conversion , the west_german government took the first legal steps toward monetary_union for the two nations but did not discuss the conversion rate , senior government officials said . as hundreds of thousands of e... | 6 |
lead set between the east haven salt marshes and the thimble islands is a rocky 10 acre peninsula that cuts deeply into the choppy waters of long_island_sound . on this outcropping , bounded by sandy beaches and festooned with dune grass , nolan kerschner , one of connecticut 's best known condominium developers , is b... | 0 |
to the editor , your article about co op city , " a city , bigger than many , within a city , " on nov . 20 on its surface looks bright but has a much much darker side . the opening of co op city in 1968 was the last hurrah for those solid middle_class renters who were watching their neighborhoods crumble around them .... | 0 |
lead the bank of canada stopped issuing dollar bills last week in a program to phase in the 11 sided gold colored coin bearing the image of a loon , the bird that makes its distinctive call in many northern canadian lakes . the royal canadian mint has 240 million in new 1 coins in circulation and reluctance among canad... | 7 |
the white house press corps should have seen it coming . ari_fleischer , the spokesman for the president , had warned them that once the war in iraq started , he would be even less forthcoming than usual . and their coming isolation was etched all the more vividly when a coincidental renovation on the press building se... | 1 |
alitalia needs a bailout this spring or risks not being able to pay salaries , according to domenico cempella , the executive appointed last month to save italy 's ailing national carrier . in discussions with other members of the airline 's management , the gist of which has been published here , mr . cempella said al... | 9 |
because of an editing error , an article yesterday about a deadline given to iraq for withdrawing its missiles referred incorrectly in some copies to the parties that declared the air exclusion_zone in southern iraq . the zone was established by the united_states and its allies on the security_council , not by the unit... | 1 |
japan 's global trade surplus shrank to 666 billion_yen ( 5 . 4 billion ) in april , an unexpectedly steep decline of 41 . 6 percent from april 2000 and the 10th consecutive month in which the surplus has contracted . the biggest factor in the decline was a strong increase in imports , which grew 13 . 2 percent . trade... | 2 |
haunted castle and sixth annual halloween parade and pumpkin sail , both sponsored by the central park conservancy . the castle is open tomorrow , 1 to 4 p.m. , at belvedere castle ( midpark at 79th_street ) , central_park , and is to feature vit horejs and his marionettes a story hour and ''bats in the belvedere . '' ... | 0 |
more than 13 years after they began , russia and the united_states have destroyed the last of 2 , 692 nuclear_missiles marked for elimination under the 1987 intermediate range nuclear forces treaty , the foreign ministry said . besides silos and other equipment , russia destroyed 1 , 846 missiles , and the united_state... | 5 |
with a combination of business acumen , ruthlessness , deep pockets and near obsession with winning , walter e . hussman jr . has made his arkansas democrat the dominant paper in little rock and seems poised to run the long dominant arkansas gazette out of business . since 1974 , when his family run communications comp... | 0 |
lead gatt has postponed a meeting to consider a bid by china to join the 96 nation trade forum ''because of difficulties in having meaningful discussions in present circumstances , '' a spokesman for the group said today . gatt has postponed a meeting to consider a bid by china to join the 96 nation trade forum ''becau... | 3 |
questions about the ethics of county executive andrew p . o'rourke multiplied today when he acknowledged that he sought a job for his son in law and an admission interview for his daughter at new york medical college , which has a 14 . 6 million contract to furnish doctors to the county hospital . the disclosures follo... | 0 |
the canadian government said today that it had postponed to sept . 9 a decision on a bid by a european consortium to buy the de havilland aircraft plant in toronto from the boeing_company . the extension was granted by the agency , investment canada , because progress had been made by the consortium in meeting conditio... | 7 |
the bush_administration sought sunday to allay concerns that a shiite religious state could emerge in iraq as a result of last weekend 's elections . speaking on television news programs on sunday , vice_president dick_cheney and defense secretary donald h . rumsfeld said that iraq 's most influential shiite_cleric , g... | 1 |
in a milestone announcement that pushed britain closer to joining europe 's single_currency , prime_minister tony_blair today offered parliament a tentative schedule for membership provided the british people agree and the economic terms are considered right . beyond hinting at possible entry between 2002 and 2005 at t... | 4 |
japan 's top banking regulator , heizo_takenaka , said the government would explore ways to help shareholders of the insolvent ashikaga bank , which has been nationalized . speaking in parliament , mr . takenaka , left , said regulators would try to minimize the impact on shareholders , whose stock fell to zero after t... | 2 |
continuing a recent trend in which the world 's richest religion prize has gone to scientists , john d . barrow , a british cosmologist whose work has explored the relationship between life and the laws of physics , was named the winner yesterday of the 2006 templeton prize for progress or research in spiritual matters... | 4 |
after negotiators failed to come up with a settlement in a nine hour session that ended shortly after 3 a.m . today , public_school teachers stayed off the job for a third day , leaving schools with few adults in charge and high absences . the city 's five high_schools remained closed , and district officials said they... | 0 |
members of a republican congressional delegation to iraq who were criticized by iraqis for portraying the security situation in baghdad as much improved said tuesday that they were realistic about the dangers that remain there . representative mike pence , republican of indiana , said a brief weekend tour of the shorja... | 1 |
young american men are not short on media outlets . for the last decade , they have been awash in video_games , internet sites , cable channels , radio shows and movies that are all designed to separate them from their disposable_income . but far from cashing in , american publishers surrendered to the conventional_wis... | 4 |
for the 414 days that he was america 's proconsul in iraq , l . paul_bremer iii was forever reacting to surprises sprung by others , often deeply jarring or violent ones , for america , iraq and mr . bremer . on monday , there was a surprise of a different kind , and it allowed mr . bremer to end america 's formal occu... | 1 |
the justice_department asked today that the banker at the center of a multibillion_dollar loan scandal involving iraq receive a heavy prison sentence because of his failure to cooperate fully with prosecutors . in a sentencing memorandum filed in federal district court in atlanta , prosecutors demanded that judge marvi... | 1 |
lead multimillion_dollar lawsuits between the national_basketball_association and donald t . sterling , the owner of the los angeles clippers , were averted when the parties reached an out of court settlement that will allow the clippers to remain in los_angeles , according to a report yesterday in the los_angeles hera... | 0 |
treasury_secretary john w . snow said today that he was encouraged by ''interim steps'' china is taking to modernize its financial system , but acknowledged that beijing had not committed itself to liberalize trading in its currency anytime soon . mr . snow is under heavy political pressure at home to talk tough to chi... | 3 |
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