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train	His lawyer, Pamela MacKey, said Bryant expects to be completely exonerated.	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.	3.2
train	Gartner's report said global WLAN equipment shipments reached 19.5 million last year, a 120 percent increase over 2001's 8.9 million units.	If draining the ponds in Maryland will further help establish Steve's innocence, we welcome it."	4
train	The new system costs between $1.1 million and $22 million, depending on configuration.	According to law enforcement officials, the individual decrypted passwords on the server.	3.5
train	Boeing said the final agreement is expected to be signed during the next few weeks.	The dollar was at 117.85 yen against the Japanese currency, up 0.1 percent.	2
train	They came despite what BA called a "difficult quarter", which it said included unofficial industrial action at Heathrow.	Spitz is expected to testify later for the defense.	2.8
train	Get it all out," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm based in New York City.	The heatwave was due to a mass of hot, dry air from the southeast, said Mario Almeida of Portugal's weather service.	5
train	"They were tossed around like feathers," Gordon said.	A long awaited report on the Hong Kong government's handling of the SARS outbreak has been released.	3.6
train	The officials did not say whether U.S. forces crossed into Syrian territory and were vague about how the Syrian border guards became involved.	"Our outcomes are very encouraging," George Mason researcher Ken Alibek said.	3.176
train	But JT was careful to clarify that it was "not certain about the outcome of the discussion at this moment".	AFTRA, on the other hand, approved the merger by a whopping 75 percent.	3.8
train	Allegiant shares rose $4, or $17.2 percent, to $27.43 in Thursday morning trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.	He refused to say what percentage of domestic flights had security officers on board.	4.8
train	Sayliyah was the command base for the Iraq war, but Central Command sent hundreds who ran the war back home to Tampa, Florida.	BlueCore3-Multimedia contains an open platform DSP co-processor and also includes a 16-bit stereo audio codec with dual ADC and DAC for stereo audio.	3
train	Of 24 million phoned-in votes, 50.28 percent were for Studdard, putting him 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.	The commission estimated California lost $937 million to corporate tax shelters in 2001.	1.4
train	Sources say agents confiscated "several" documents he was carrying.	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	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data.	The scientist also quarantined himself at home as soon as he developed SARS symptoms, officials said.	3
train	He had been arrested twice before for trespassing and barred from the complex - home to his mother and two children.	Excluding patent litigation, RIM's loss for the quarter was $700,000, or 1 cent per share.	4
train	The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 4.77, or 0.5 percent, to 929.62.	Vermillion, Posey and Madison County populations will decline.	3
train	State Education Commissioner Kent King said Wednesday that the scores on the Missouri Assessment Program tests disappointed him.	Frankel said Peace Rules will run in the Preakness Stakes on May 17.	4
train	Albertsons and Kroger's Ralphs chain locked out their workers in response.	Richard Miller, 57, survived a lifesaving liver transplant but remains hospitalized.	3.2
train	"Spin and manipulative public relations and propaganda are not the answer," it said.	"Reloaded" is the second installment of a trilogy; "The Matrix Revolutions" is slated for debut in November.	4
train	Colgate shares closed Monday at $56.30 on the New York Stock Exchange.	Mr. Powell told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.	4.2
train	WORLD No. 2 Lleyton Hewitt has accused the Association of Tennis Professionals of malice, including an alleged attempt last year to dupe him into refusing a drug test.	Charles Cullen, 43, was transferred from the Somerset County Jail in Somerville to the Anne Klein Forensic Center, a 150-bed psychiatric treatment facility in Trenton.	2.667
train	Officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, and Reyna dropped a knee into his back, according to testimony.	It may be dying because entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the Internet's choke-points and they are lobbying the FCC to aid and abet them."	3
train	The government recently shelved peace talks with the MILF, being brokered by Malaysia, after a string of attacks, including three bombings, on Mindanao.	In late-morning trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, Corixa was up 74 cents, or 10%, at $7.94.	3
train	Several shots rang out in the darkness, but only one gator had been killed by 11 p.m.	Each week 138 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart's 4,750 stores.	2.75
train	Tail wagging, Abbey trotted on stage with Conway before a crowd of more than 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference at the Anaheim Convention Center.	On Monday, EchoStar (DISH: news, chart, profile) shares shrank $1.40, or 4.4 percent, to $30.63.	4.25
train	The audiotape aired last week by the Arab Al-Jazeera television network appears to be an effort to incite attacks.	Shares of Allergan were up 14 cents at $78.40 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.	2.8
train	Mr. Mask said Mr. Cullen would be taken from the Somerset County Jail by Thursday and moved to the Ann Klein Forensic Hospital just outside Trenton for psychiatric care.	The other semifinal between Guillermo Coria of Argentina and Martin Verkerk of the Netherlands is also compelling.	2.75
train	Mr. Turner transferred about 10 million shares to a charitable trust before they were sold.	A new worm has been spreading rapidly across the Internet, sometimes pretending to be an e-mail from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, antivirus vendors said Monday.	4.222
train	They also found shortness was associated with a family history of hearing loss.	He added: "There is no doubt about the chemical programme, the biological programme and indeed the nuclear weapons programme.	3.75
train	Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted.	Cavender did say: "I felt that if I disagreed with Rosie too much I would lose my job."	2.2
train	Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor: "I'm gonna try march with a number of different groups.	Six new Krispy Kreme stores were opened in the first quarter, bringing the total number of stores to 282.	4
train	An arrest warrant claimed Bryant assaulted the woman June 30 at a hotel.	That saw the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR slip 5/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.36 percent from 3.34 percent late on Thursday.	2.5
train	MEN who drink tea, particularly green tea, can greatly reduce their risk of prostate cancer, a landmark WA study has found.	By law, 911 calls are not public information in Rhode Island.	4.6
train	The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.	The helicopter was owned by Las Vegas-based Sundance Helicopters Inc., according to the sheriff's office.	3.25
train	He also recruited others to participate in the scheme by convincing them to receive fraudulently obtained merchandise he had ordered for himself.	Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Azdi, surrendered in June; his deputy was killed in a shoot-out with Saudi forces recently.	1.4
train	When fully operational, the facility is expected to employ up to 1,000 people.	Police used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse a downtown march and rally last night by activists protesting an annual police intelligence-training seminar.	1.8
train	Bulger's brother is now on the agency's ''10 Most Wanted'' list, sought in connection with 21 murders.	But company officials expect the costs of the replacement work to run into the millions of dollars.	4
train	The latest snapshot of the labor markets was slightly better than economists were expecting; they were forecasting claims to fall no lower than 410,000 for last week.	The report also claims that there will be up to 9.3 million visitors to hot spots this year, up again from the meagre 2.5 million in 2002.	3
train	VeriSign introduced its Site Finder service on Sept. 15.	The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	2.6
train	The commission estimates California lost $1.34 billion -- the most of any state -- to tax shelters in 2001.	The government did not identify the taikonauts -- a term coined from taikong, the Chinese word for space.	3.6
train	But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open to further bids and hoped to see bidders interested in individual assets team up.	"I am advised that certain allegations of criminal conduct have been interposed against my counsel, J. Michael Boxley,'' the Silver statement said. "	3.25
train	For the full 12-month period ending June 30, 2003, advanced services lines for ADSL increased by 37 percent and cable modem connections increased by 75 percent.	Bashir also felt he was being tried by opinion rather than facts of law, he added.	4
train	According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, "MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it.	The 30-year bond <US30YT=RR> firmed 24/32, taking its yield to 4.18 percent, after hitting another record low of 4.16 percent.	3.25
train	This led to the recovery of the 270-kilogram Cancuen altar, announced on Wednesday by the Vanderbilt University in Nashville and the National Geographic Society.	Waksal pleaded guilty to insider trading charges last year, and he is scheduled to be sentenced June 10.	3.6
train	Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment from beneath the concrete slab Thursday, but it turned out to be an animal bone, authorities said.	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 6.48 points, or 0.66 percent, to 990.51.	4
train	Vivendi shares closed 3.8 percent up in Paris at 15.78 euros.	License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.	3.2
train	During 2001 and 2002, Morgenthau said, wire transfers from just four of Beacon Hill's 40 accounts totaled more than $3.2 billion.	"I notice a mood change in their priorities," said one Iraqi politician after meeting with Mr. Bremer.	4
train	Four versions of Windows operating systems are targeted: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.	He said police had identified the bodies of seven of the 14 bombers who launched five almost simultaneous raids Friday night.	4.5
train	The House voted 425 to 2 to clear the bill, the first of 13 that Congress must pass each year to fund the federal government.	Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is in Denver today for a meeting about surviving cancer.	3.5
train	"What can I say to you?" he told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.	The MDC called the week-long protest to urge Mugabe either to resign or to negotiate a settlement of the crisis gripping the country.	2.25
train	The Senate agreed Tuesday to lift a 10-year-old ban on the research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons.	DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of men contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian researchers has discovered.	4.5
train	"It appears from our initial report that this was a textbook landing considering the circumstances," Burke said.	Nine seconds later, SpaceShipOne broke the sound barrier, the company said.	1.4
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.	Missouri Education Commissioner Kent King said he was disappointed by the scores.	3.6
train	U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus ruled that the Akron-based company should have determined that changes at one of its plants would increase overall pollution emissions.	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
train	The American decision provoked an angry reaction from the European Commission, which described the move as "legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful".	The matter could then be sent to the U.N. Security Council.	1.75
train	Shares of Littleton, Colorado-based EchoStar rose $1.63, or 5.3 percent, to $32.26 at 10:55 a.m.	Innocent or not, "she's damaged goods," said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm in New York.	3
train	Doctors have speculated that the body’s own estrogen protects against cell damage and improves blood flow.	The panel will not begin a formal investigation because the statute of limitations has expired, Plofsky said.	3.25
train	The nation's largest retailer has told its 100 top suppliers they have to start using electronic tags on all pallets of goods by Jan. 25, 2005.	Amnesty International said that over the past 20 years it had collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq.	3.75
train	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> gave up 11.91 points, or 1.19 percent, at 986.60.	The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.	3.2
train	Against the Japanese currency, the euro was at 135.92/6.04 yen against the late New York level of 136.03/14.	The hearing came one day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer - Dallager - for failing to address the scandal.	2.75
train	Florida's Supreme Court has twice refused to hear the case.	"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.	1.333
train	The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI ended up 56.79 points, or 0.67 percent, at 8,588.36 -- its highest level since January 17.	The intervention force will confiscate weapons, reform the police, strengthen the courts and prison system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry.	3.4
train	Still, he said, "I'm absolutely confident we're going to have a bill."	For the 12-month period ending June 30, high-speed lines installed in homes and businesses increased by 45 percent.	3.75
train	The American Stock Exchange biotech index .BTK surged 5 percent.	The New Democrats also renewed their commitment to no health-care privatization and no premiums.	1.667
train	The updated products include Pylon Pro, Pylon Conduit, Pylon Anywhere, and Pylon Application Server.	The director of the Office of Medical Access, Cindy Cripps-Prawak, left her job after the department introduced a plan to distribute marijuana through doctors' offices.	3.8
train	Microsoft has identified the freely distributed Linux software as one of the biggest threats to its sales.	Of the 24 million phone votes cast, Studdard was only 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.	3
train	Wal-Mart estimates more than 100 million Americans visit their stores every week.	Bush said U.S. and European Union leaders, at an annual Washington summit, agreed on the need to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.	4.25
train	"We put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching process, probably later than we should have and now we're just gaining incredible speed.	At the Casa de Espaa, customers were eating dinner and playing bingo when a bomb went off.	1.75
train	The router will be available in the first quarter of 2004 and will cost around $200, the company said.	Druce last night was held in isolation at the same prison.	3.75
train	"Unlike many early-stage Internet firms, Google is believed to be profitable.	Shares of EDS closed Thursday at $18.51, up 6 cents on the New York Stock Exchange.	3.6
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.	Allegiant's stock closed Wednesday at $23.40, up 64 cents, in trading on the Nasdaq market.	3.333
train	The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX inched up 3 points, or 0.32 percent, to 970.	The missing workers, two men and a woman, were inside the building when the first blast occurred, Mayor Joe T. Parker said.	3
train	The report also claims that there will be up to 9.3 million visitors to hot spots this year, up again from the meagre 2.5 million in 2002.	Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had expected Kodak to earn 68 cents a share for the quarter.	4
train	They were at Raffles Hospital over the weekend for further evaluation.	"We condemn this raid which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable," London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters by telephone.	3.5
train	The Sunshine Group LTD represented the developers, The Related Companies and Apollo Real Estate Advisors LP, on the deal.	Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday it will take time to locate die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq.	3.6
train	This is America, my friends, and it should not happen here," he said to loud applause.	The rally overshadowed ceremonies marking the sixth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China on 1 July 1997.	3.4
train	This year the Audubon Society once again hosts its annual Christmas Bird Count.	"I'm not going to be sponsoring it because it's not our proposal, but I'm not responding to it in a negative way," he said.	4.75
train	The film is the second of a trilogy, which will wrap up in November with The Matrix Revolutions.	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
train	He claimed Red Hat and the Free Software Foundation with trying to undermine U.S. copyright and patent law.	Altria Group Inc. MO.N fell 50 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $41.81.	0.75
train	Linda Saunders pleaded guilty in federal court to six charges, including extortion, money laundering and conspiracy.	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> shed 2.38 points, or 0.24 percent, at 995.10.	2.8
train	Oracle Corp's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison didn't rule out sweetening the company's unsolicited offer to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc.	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> climbed 19.11 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,615.02.	3.5
train	Sobig.F spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain such familiar headings as "Thank You!," "Re: Details" or "Re: That Movie."	The fire spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them as deputies held back firefighters.	2.5
train	The new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a "high level" outbreak status by Monday, according to security analysts.	We don't need a little bitty tax relief plan.	3.643
train	In that case, the court held that Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning only the advertising pamphlets in the interest of aesthetics.	While federal prosecutors refuse to discuss the investigation, lawyers and others familiar with it say it remains focused on Campbell.	5
train	Vice President Dick Cheney and Mississippi Republican gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour acknowledge the cheering crowd.	The Telegraph can reveal that Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, placed his force on its highest alert last week.	4.5
train	U.S. forces struck dozens of targets on Monday, killing six guerrillas and arresting 21 others, the military said.	The European Commission, the EU's powerful executive body, described the move as "legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful."	2.75
train	The weakness exists in the way that VBA looks at the properties of documents passed to it when the document is opened by a host application.	"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.	5
train	Bashir felt he was being tried by opinion not on the facts, Mahendradatta told Reuters.	Micron's numbers also marked the first quarterly profit in three years for the DRAM manufacturer.	3.25
train	The Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain, was forthright.	The Philadelphia Stock Exchange's semiconductor index .SOXX jumped 6.10 percent.	4.75
train	Texas Instruments climbed $1.37 to $19.25 yesterday and Novellus Systems Inc. advanced $1.76 to $36.31.	Also hurting was news General Motors GM.N was to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan.	3.4
train	National Breast Cancer Centre chief executive Professor Christine Ewan said it was too early to quantify the risk to women.	Gemstar shares moved higher on the news, closing up 2.6 percent at $5.49 on Nasdaq.	3.8
train	Doctors had planned to deliver him two weeks early, on or around November 14.	Dusty had surgery for cancer in 2001 and had a kidney removed.	3.8
train	Police then called a bomb squad, but the device exploded, killing Wells, before bomb technicians arrived.	Along with chip maker Intel, the companies include Sony, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines, Gateway, Nokia and others.	4
train	The Conference Board reported its U.S. Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 83.5 in June from 83.6 in May.	Shares of Express Scripts ESRX.O fell about 4 percent to $66.73 on the Nasdaq in late morning trade.	1.4
train	"I expect Japan to keep conducting intervention, but the volume is likely to fall sharply," said Junya Tanase, forex strategist at JP Morgan Chase.	Bishop O'Brien, aged 67, had told police he thought he had hit a dog or cat.	4.2
train	He playfully chided the Senate's "little bitty tax relief plan."	Corixa's stock barely flinched on the news, dipping 12 cents to close at $6.88.	4.4
train	Kids, adults, booksellers and postal workers all are preparing for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	Today, Dean ends his four-day, 10-city "Sleepless Summer" tour in Chicago and New York.	3
train	Russ Britt is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for CBS.MarketWatch.com.	Organizers established a Web site, http://defacerschallenge.com, listing in broken English the rules for hackers who might participate.	2.25
train	At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.	Dynes has been at UC San Diego since 1991 after spending 22 years with AT&T Bell Labs, where he worked on superconductors and other materials.	2.4
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.	She took the highly unusual step of skipping cabinet to attend a meeting with the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda.	3.75