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train	Brendsel and chief financial officer Vaughn Clarke resigned June 9.	As Sayliyah was the command base for the Iraq war, but hundreds who ran the war have returned to the United States.	3.2
train	Additionally, the h2210’s cradle has room to charge a second battery.	Excluding patent litigation, RIM's loss for the quarter was $700,000, or 1 cent per share.	1.4
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.	The security personnel performed ``well within standards'' and the two staff aides were ``very sorry all this happened,'' Gainer said.	4
train	Lawyers and others familiar with the federal investigation say it remains focused on Campbell, though prosecutors declined to discuss the probe.	The British Foreign Office said it had mediated the two men's release.	3
train	Authorities said the scientist properly quarantined himself at home after he developed SARS symptoms Dec. 10.	The plant would employ 1,000 people when fully built out, the company said.	3.8
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.	"I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California, and I'm looking forward to it."	4
train	The Dodgers won their sixth consecutive game their longest win streak since 2001 as they edged Colorado, 3-2, Wednesday in front of a crowd of 25,332 at Dodger Stadium.	Hope is survived by his wife; sons Anthony and Kelly; daughters Linda and Nora Somers; and four grandchildren.	4
train	Linda Saunders pleaded guilty in federal court to six charges, including extortion, money laundering and conspiracy.	Kroger's Ralphs chain and Albertsons immediately locked out their grocery workers in a show of solidarity.	3.8
train	"The European Union is basically absent," said Tito Barbini, regional minister for agriculture in Tuscany, Italy.	Shares of Express Scripts ESRX.O fell about 4 percent to $66.73 on the Nasdaq in late morning trade.	2.4
train	According to market research from The NPD Group, the number of people downloading music dropped from 14.5 million in April to 10.4 million in June.	"Our outcomes are very encouraging," George Mason researcher Ken Alibek said.	3.4
train	The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.	Richard Miller, 57, survived a lifesaving liver transplant but remains hospitalized.	4.75
train	Several shots rang out in the darkness, but only one gator had been killed by 11 p.m.	Shares in BA were down three percent at 165-1/4 pence by 0933 GMT, off a low of 164 pence, in a stronger market.	3
train	Shares of Halliburton fell 71 cents, or 3 percent, to close at $21.59 yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange.	Supermarket chains are accusing union leaders of breaking off contract talks prematurely over the weekend as grocery clerks gear up for a possible strike.	2.5
train	In January 2000, notebooks represented less than 25 percent of sales volume.	While some other parts of Africa have been used as Al Qaeda staging grounds, Malawi had previously not been a major focus of investigations into the group.	3.4
train	The proportion of people covered by employers dropped from 62.3 percent in 2001 to 61.3 percent last year.	The union said it would reveal later which chain would be targeted.	3.5
train	Shares in EDS closed on Thursday at $18.51, a gain of 6 cents.	CELF's founding members are Hitachi, Matsushita, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Toshiba.	3.6
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.	The virus killed 44 people in the Toronto area, including one doctor and two nurses.	5
train	Complicating the situation is the presence of battle-hardened Liberians who have been fighting on both sides.	The attorney representing al-Halabi, Air Force Maj. James Key III, denied the charges, according to The Associated Press.	4.5
train	No. 2 HP saw its Unix server sales dropped 3.6 percent to $1.36 billion.	The federal courts have ruled that the monument violates the constitutional ban against state-established religion.	3
train	Meningitis is an infection of the spinal cord fluid and the tissue around the brain.	Former Phipps aides Linda Saunders and Bobby McLamb have both pleaded guilty to federal charges including extortion.	3.25
train	"It is about a third of what I owe in the world," he told reporters.	Sgt. Ernest Bucklew, 33, was coming home from Iraq to bury his mother in Pennsylvania.	3.8
train	This northern autumn US trainers will work with soldiers from four North African countries on patrolling and gathering intelligence.	In a show of corporate solidarity, Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertson Inc. locked out their workers the next morning.	1.273
train	MediaQ's customers include major handheld makers Mitsubishi, Siemens, Palm, Sharp, Philips, Dell and Sony.	The 27-year-old rapper's attorney in the civil matter, Mark Gann, did not return calls for comment.	1.75
train	In two weeks, he'll probably send out Peace Rules in the Preakness.	"I'm absolutely confident we're going to have a bill," Frist, R-Tenn., said Thursday.	2.25
train	The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.	The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	4.091
train	The first health-care worker in the country to die of SARS was a Filipina-Canadian who contracted the disease at North York General Hospital, the site of the second outbreak.	A woman who underwent such an abortion could not be prosecuted under the bill.	3.4
train	He claimed Red Hat and the Free Software Foundation with trying to undermine U.S. copyright and patent law.	But Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said the "somewhat ambiguous ruling" by regulators might be a setback for Static Control depending on how it developed its competing product.	3.8
train	By state law, 911 calls are not public information and were not released.	The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades endorsed Mr Dean several weeks ago.	2.8
train	The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index gained 2.90 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,606.87.	They underwent more tests over the weekend, and are now warded at Raffles Hospital.	3.75
train	The BlueCore3-Multimedia includes a 16-bit stereo audio CODEC with dual ADC and DAC for stereo audio.	Bulger's brother, a former FBI informant, is now on the law enforcement agency's "10 Most Wanted" list.	3.5
train	Kids, adults, booksellers and postal workers all are preparing for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	The other semifinal between Guillermo Coria of Argentina and Martin Verkerk of the Netherlands is also compelling.	3.4
train	Dennehy, who transferred to Baylor last year after getting kicked off the University of New Mexico Lobos for temper tantrums, had begun to read the Bible daily.	The consumer-confidence index came in at 83.5 in June, down slightly from a revised 83.6 in May, the Conference Board said.	2
train	Fighting erupted after four North Korean journalists confronted a dozen South Korean activists protesting human rights abuses in the North outside the main media centre.	BA said the second quarter, which included unofficial industrial action at Heathrow, had been difficult.	3
train	A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters.	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.	3.692
train	Wells’ other series include NBC’s ER and Third Watch.	In that case, the court held that the city of Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning, in the interest of aesthetics, only the advertising pamphlets.	2.4
train	Vice President Dick Cheney and Mississippi Republican gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour acknowledge the cheering crowd.	Vivendi shares were 0.3 percent up at 15.62 euros in Paris at 0841 GMT.	2.6
train	FRIENDS of Robert De Niro yesterday rallied around him after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.	Hickenlooper clobbered city Auditor Don Mares, 46, in the Tuesday runoff.	3.5
train	Advanced Micro Devices said Fujitsu Siemens Computers is offering a high-end workstation based on AMD's Opteron 200 Series.	The commission estimated California lost $937 million to corporate tax shelters in 2001.	1.6
train	The Nasdaq composite index advanced 20.59, or 1.3 percent, to 1,616.50, after gaining 5.7 percent last week.	The McLean, Virginia-based company said newspaper revenue increased 5 percent to $1.46 billion.	3.8
train	Entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the network's chokepoints and they are lobbying the FCC to aid and abet them.	To force a recall election of Davis, the valid signatures of 897,158 registered California voters must be turned in to election officials.	4.8
train	"Spin and manipulative public relations and propaganda are not the answer," it said.	He moved to Syria, where he underwent further religious training in traditional Islamic beliefs.	3.75
train	The procedure is generally performed in the second or third trimester.	Waksal pleaded guilty to insider trading charges last year, and he is scheduled to be sentenced June 10.	3.25
train	The union had not yet revealed which chain would be targeted.	The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	3.5
train	According to security sources, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens placed his force on its highest state of alert last week following the warning.	A convicted killer and two other inmates cut through two fences topped with razor wire and escaped from a state prison on a busy street.	2.5
train	Aventis, based in Strasbourg, France, is one of a handful of companies that still make the flu vaccine.	"I have acknowledged that I behaved inappropriately," he said.	3.6
train	Thirty-three of the 42 men had been arrested by Wednesday evening, said Daniel Bogden, U.S. attorney in Nevada.	Trouble flared when at least four North Korean reporters rushed from the Taegu media centre to confront a dozen activists protesting against human rights abuses in the North.	5
train	Such a step could put the issue before the UN Security Council.	She took the highly unusual step of skipping cabinet to attend a meeting with the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda.	3
train	The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 19.67, or 1.3 percent, to 1523.71, its highest since June 18.	Both studies are published on Thursday in Nature, the British weekly science journal.	3
train	Consumers still would have to get a descrambling security card from their cable operator to plug into the set.	Amazon and the New York attorney general's office have already settled with one of the alleged e-mail forgers.	1.8
train	Looking to buy the latest Harry Potter?	Wells' other series include NBC's "ER" and "Third Watch."	4.25
train	The ADRs fell 10 cents to $28.95 at 10:06 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading today.	Under NASD regulations, Mr. Young can file a response and request a hearing before an NASD panel.	3
train	The elderly and those with weakened immune systems are also urged to protect against mosquito bites.	Another person, a man from Fort Worth, Texas, also was missing.	3.75
train	The valid signatures of 897,158 registered California voters must be collected and turned in to county election officials by Sept. 2.	At the Casa de Espaa, customers were eating dinner and playing bingo when a bomb went off.	2.75
train	Still, he said, "I'm absolutely confident we're going to have a bill."	The Arizona-based ISM reported Monday that its non-manufacturing index rose to 50.7 last month, from 47.9 in March.	4.2
train	Mr Pollard said: "This is a terrible personal tragedy and a shocking blow for James's family.	He ran last year for the Democratic nomination for Texas governor, but lost the primary to multimillionaire Tony Sanchez.	4.2
train	Rusch has also allowed five or more earned runs in each of his last three starts.	In addition, "fewer than 10" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to Islamic mosques, the Justice Department said.	3
train	"It was a little bit embarrassing the way we played in the first two games," Thomas said.	"The average track error for the five-day (forecast) is 323 nautical miles.	3.25
train	Get it all out," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm based in New York City.	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.	2.6
train	Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertsons Inc. bargain jointly with Safeway and locked out their union workers the next day.	The investment gives Larkspur, Calif.-based BayStar more than 2.9 million shares of SCO common stock, or 17.5 percent of the company's outstanding shares.	2
train	There are 103 Democrats in the Assembly and 47 Republicans.	But Itar-Tass news agency said four of his bodyguards were among those killed by the bomb.	2
train	It will also help reform the Royal Solomon Islands Police, strengthen the courts and prisons system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry from intimidation.	The Philadelphia Stock Exchange's semiconductor index .SOXX jumped 6.10 percent.	3.444
train	The military said it had killed 12 rebels and captured nine in the campaign so far, for the loss of six soldiers wounded.	Those talks have not taken place, according to an Oracle spokeswoman.	4
train	The bank's shares fell 45 cents in trading yesterday to $91.51 per share.	The company also said it would cut wholesale prices on cassettes and change the suggested retail price to $8.98.	1.75
train	Officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, and Reyna dropped a knee into his back, according to testimony.	The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJ: news, chart, profile) rose 56 points, or 0.7 percent, to 8,588.	4.222
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".	The government recently shelved peace talks being brokered by neighbouring Malaysia after a spate of attacks on Mindanao, including three deadly bombings, that it blamed on the MILF.	3.25
train	AirTran officials and a Boeing official declined to comment yesterday.	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.	4.25
train	Microsoft has identified the freely distributed Linux software as one of the biggest threats to its sales.	Shares of Fox Entertainment Group Inc., News Corp.'s U.S. media and entertainment arm, fell 45 cents to $26.85 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.	4.5
train	The commission estimates California lost $1.34 billion -- the most of any state -- to tax shelters in 2001.	Vermillion, Posey and Madison County populations will decline.	4.6
train	Young has 28 days to file a response and ask the NASD for a hearing.	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.	2.4
train	Of 24 million phoned-in votes, 50.28 percent were for Studdard, putting him 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.	Doctors concluded Erbitux, the cancer drug that enmeshed ImClone Systems in an insider trading scandal, worked just as well as an earlier company-sponsored study said it did.	4
train	The technology-packed Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> dropped 37.78 points, or 1.94 percent, to 1,912.36.	Junya Tanase, forex strategist at JP Morgan Chase, said "I expect Japan to keep conducting intervention, but the volume is likely to fall sharply."	3.75
train	The new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a "high level" outbreak status by Monday, according to security analysts.	He said the attackers left behind leaflets urging workers at the Ishtar Sheraton to stop working at the hotel.	3.333
train	Antonio Monteiro de Castro, 58, currently director of the group’s Latin America & Caribbean operations, will become chief operating officer from the same date.	According to law enforcement officials, the individual decrypted passwords on the server.	4
train	"If you pass this bill, Big Brother will be watching you," said Rep. John Mabry, D-Waco.	Corixa's stock barely flinched on the news, dipping 12 cents to close at $6.88.	3.667
train	Yes, from today Flash memory purchased from AMD or Fujitsu will be branded Spansion.	The missing workers, two men and a woman, were inside the building when the first blast occurred, Mayor Joe T. Parker said.	5
train	"But HRT should not be used to prevent heart disease or any other chronic condition."	He and the other lawyers planned to stay until the river starts receding.	3.5
train	A tropical storm rapidly developed in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and was expected to hit somewhere along the Texas or Louisiana coasts by Monday night.	The Bush administration blames the wave of bombings and guerrilla attacks on Saddam loyalists and foreign Muslim militants who have entered Iraq to fight U.S. troops.	5
train	After Freitas' opening statement, King County Superior Court Judge Charles Mertel recessed trial until after the Thanksgiving weekend.	Maximum sustained winds were around 40 mph, with stronger gusts.	3.6
train	London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters: "We condemn this raid, which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable."	British Airways plans to retire its seven Concordes at the end of October.	0.889
train	Five-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong had a few words of advice for other cancer survivors in Denver on Friday.	The damaged area of the garage was not stable, with ``the real potential for a secondary collapse,'' McGreevey said.	4.6
train	Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, went on trial Monday, charged with first-degree murder.	The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 86.56 points, or 0.94 percent, to 9,109.99, after giving up more than 1 percent earlier.	3.643
train	As part of a restructuring Peregrine sold its Remedy help desk software unit last year to BMC Software Inc.	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> climbed 19.11 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,615.02.	4
train	He had been arrested twice before for trespassing and barred from the complex - home to his mother and two children.	HP fell to second place with server sales growing 0.4 percent to $2.9 billion.	3.333
train	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 7.60 points, or 0.46 percent, at 1,653.62.	Rich Media interactive ad formats doubled their share from 3% in second quarter of 2002, to 6% in the second quarter of 2003.	3
train	International rescue workers are scouring flattened debris for survivors in Iran's shattered ancient Silk Road city of Bam after a violent earthquake killed more than 20,000 people.	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	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.	Edie Falco was not nominated for "Frankie and Johnny."	4.75
train	The report by the independent expert committee aims to dissipate any suspicion about the Hong Kong government's handling of the SARS crisis.	One man had brandished an English-Turkish dictionary and pointed to the word "refugee".	3
train	Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor: "I'm gonna try march with a number of different groups.	The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC shed 8 points, or 0.45 percent, to 1,645.	3.25
train	The American decision provoked an angry reaction from the European Commission, which described the move as "legally unwarranted, economically unfounded and politically unhelpful".	Playwright George Axelrod, who anticipated the sexual revolution with The Seven Year Itch and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?	3.2
train	The meat, poultry, butter, cheese and nuts were impounded a year ago at a LaGrou Cold Storage warehouse in Chicago.	Emile Laroza, 51, contracted SARS while working as a nurse at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the second SARS outbreak.	5
train	Chavez said investigators feel confident they've got "at least one of the fires resolved in that regard."	Allegiant's stock closed Wednesday at $23.40, up 64 cents, in trading on the Nasdaq market.	4
train	On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump exploded.	In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average a gauge of 30 blue chip stocks was up 3.29 points or 0.04 per cent to 8,585.97.	5
train	Jim Williams, director of the US-VISIT project, said that by the middle of November, many arriving passengers in Atlanta will be fingerprinted and photographed.	The fire spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them as deputies held back firefighters.	2.4
train	The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.	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.	3.75
train	When fully operational, the facility is expected to employ up to 1,000 people.	Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users.	3.2
train	The company didn't detail the costs of the replacement and repairs.	In 2006, Asia Pacific will report growth of 7.9 percent to $81.8 billion.	3.75
train	It later emerged that he had broken his right thigh and bones in his right wrist and elbow.	For the 12-month period ending June 30, high-speed lines installed in homes and businesses increased by 45 percent.	4.8
train	The Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's 2001 application to sell Erbitux, citing shoddy research.	On Wednesday, attendees will vote on resolutions that express the Southern Baptist view on issues, but are not binding on individual churches.	3
train	"City-grown pollution, and ozone in particular, is tougher on country trees," says Cornell University ecologist Jillian Gregg.	Academic achievement -- including grades, test scores and high school curriculum -- are given the highest priority.	3.6
train	It was the best advance since Oct. 1, when the index gained 22.25.	On Thursday, a Post article argued that a 50 basis point cut from the Fed was more likely.	2.4