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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | global | King William's college quiz 1999: the answers | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/21/features11.g25 | The 95th edition of the infamous general knowledge quiz was printed in G2 on Friday December 24. How did you do? 1 In 1899 1. Robert Wilhelm Bunsen's 2. Johann Strauss the Younger's 3. Trent Bridge, Nottingham (first Test match on this ground) 4. First Hague peace conference 5. Elgar (Enigma Variations) 6. John Rylands... | 1,768 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | Germany on verge of ditching nuclear power | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/2 | Germany is due to clinch a deal later today which aims to close down its 19 nuclear power plants. If it succeeds it will be the first major industrial nation to commit itself to withdrawing from nuclear energy, with incalculable implications for the rest of western Europe. Talks were due to start late in the evening be... | 589 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | uk-news | Football hooligans raise their game | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/14/footballviolence.football | Large scale football violence is becoming increasingly common with hooligans using the internet and mobile phones to arrange confrontations. Figures released by the national criminal intelligence service, show that violence is again marring the domestic game, much of it taking place away from grounds or after matches h... | 1,597 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/21/2 | Code targets oil firms A joint British-American code of conduct published yesterday says oil and mining companies must take human rights more seriously if they are to avoid controversies such as those faced by BP in Colombia, Shell in Nigeria and Rio Tinto in Papua New Guinea. The guidelines require companies to observ... | 522 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | uk-news | Low fat milk could be dangerous | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/28/2 | Drinking low fat milk could make people more vulnerable to food poisoning bacteria such as E coli, according to findings published yesterday. Large dairies that supply supermarkets use modern equipment which eliminates dangerous bacteria, but most smaller dairies use machines built before skimmed milk became popular. A... | 238 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | technology | Games watch | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/21/onlinesupplement3 | Health hazard Almost half of the top-selling US console video games contain "unhealthy" messages for girls, including unrealistic body images, provocative sexuality and violent behaviour, according to a study commissioned by Children Now, a "child advocacy organisation" in California. The group said that 38% of female ... | 599 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | technology | Oftel attacks BT over ADSL fees | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/08/money.efinance | BT was attacked by Oftel yesterday over its £40 monthly charge for high-speed internet access, after a survey by the telecommunication watchdog found consumers wanted cheaper web services. A survey by Oftel of 2,070 consumers found that those interested in asymmetric digital subscriber line technology - which delivers ... | 328 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | Global ad agencies to prosper | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/advertising1 | Global advertising agencies will continue to perform well next year even if there is no growth in the worldwide advertising market, according to a report from investment bank ABN Amro. But smaller local agencies will suffer as clients increasingly turn to single global agencies with a full range of marketing services. ... | 231 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | money | Take account of high interest | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney6 | Savers with less than £5,000 have little reason to look at high street banks and building societies. The top rates on £1 plus in a straightforward instant access account, with no restrictions on the number and size of withdrawals you make each year, come from internet banks. Egg, set up by the Prudential, is paying a f... | 733 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Ecstasy use could lead to brain risk | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/15/8 | Ecstasy users could permanently damage the mechanism in their brain responsible for learning and thinking quickly, research revealed yesterday. Former users who had not taken ecstasy for six months were equally affected. Michelle Wareing, who led the study, said: "We are talking about a brain mechanism that is involved... | 351 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | uk-news | Anger at threat to rural rail ticketing | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/07/ruralaffairs.jeevanvasagar | The isolation of the countryside could be worsened by the privatised rail companies' plans to strip many stations of the right to sell cheaper tickets, campaigners warned yesterday. It is feared hundreds of smaller, mainly rural, stations will be excluded from the introduction of new machines issuing advance tickets. P... | 526 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | Past is not enough for modern Poland | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/poland | "I'd prefer to go fishing, pick mushrooms, or have fun with my wife, rather than this," Lech Walesa maintains. He is sitting in an armchair in a pair of blue quilted slippers, answering questions on an internet chatline in his office in Warsaw. An assistant fastens his tie. Now and then a woman comes in with more herba... | 1,165 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | global | The guzzler | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/21/features11.g21 | Cheapskate ... where to eat out for under £15 The Royal Oak, Church Road, North Woodchester, Gloucestershire. Tel: 01453 872735. Rich and squidgy corned-beef hash with two perfectly poached eggs, £5.80; two fat brown sausages made from Gloucester Old Spot pigs with a dash of Uley bitter on a cloud of mash set in a wine... | 356 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | money | The low down: The job market | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/14/officehours2 | It may be high summer, but the job market is not in a holiday mood, according to July figures in the report on jobs issued by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Though it has slowed, growth is still lively. In particular, demand for temps outstripped supply, pushing pay up at the fastest rate for two y... | 376 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Testigo | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/schools.news1 | Cinco minutos después del atentado me llamaron al trabajo. Me informaron de la explosión de un coche bomba en el campus universitario de Vitoria. Me dijeron que la víctima era probablemente Fernando Buesa. Me parecía imposible. Tres horas antes había estado con él preparando un mitin para la campaña electoral. Salí cor... | 519 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | Cheney gets $20m oil job pay-off | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/uselections2000.usa2 | The Republican presidential candidate George W Bush said yesterday that he saw nothing improper in the weekend revelation that his running mate Dick Cheney has been given a "retirement" package worth $20m by the Texas oil multinational at which he has worked for less than five years. The payment was agreed by the Dalla... | 474 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | education | Portrait of fantasy writer Graham Joyce | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/07/highereducation.sciencefictionfantasyandhorror | The old argument about whether writing can be taught or not is "nonsense", according to Graham Joyce, a 46-year-old senior lecturer in creative writing at Nottingham Trent University who has just won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for an extraordinary fourth time. "It's the only art form where anybody would r... | 1,500 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | global | Two types of beauty | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/apr/21/artsfeatures | Brahms, the nostalgic classical-romantic, and Stravinsky, the sharp-edged, forward-looking iconoclast, seem to inhabit different musical worlds, and rarely turn up together in concert. But here, the combination of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Brahms's German Requiem worked surprisingly well. It was fascinating t... | 421 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | business | Clubhaus tees off golf merger round | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/21/4 | Clubhaus teed off the expected consolidation in the British golf course sector yesterday by announcing it was in the early stage of talks that may lead to a £60m takeover offer. Shares in the company climbed 8p to 48.5p after a statement said a mystery party was mulling an offer expected to be at least 60p per share. R... | 352 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | Hain lauds opposition result | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/zimbabwe.ewenmacaskill | The Foreign Office minister, Peter Hain, last night hailed the opposition performance in the Zimbabwe election as vindication of Britain's controversial diplomatic stance. The Foreign Office welcomed the achievement of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in going from almost a standing start to near parity with pr... | 726 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | A driving ambition | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/15/6 | It is an unusual sight to observe the chief executive of one of Britain's largest transport companies, FirstGroup, standing outside a smart, suburban school in Baltimore on a bright summer morning waiting for the children to arrive. Moir Lockhead is not there by chance. The reason for his presence becomes apparent as t... | 1,737 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | business | Durlacher joins £30m venture | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/28/5 | The man who created the Spice Girls has won £6m backing from technology boutique Durlacher to build a global pop website aimed at young music fans. Simon Fuller, who also manages pop groups Eurythmics and S Club 7 (pictured above at last year's Party in the Park in London) has teamed up with music marketing specialist ... | 313 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | media | Lockerbie TV trial appeal fails | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/apr/21/bbc.lockerbie | The BBC has lost an appeal to televise the Dutch trial of the two Libyans accused of causing the Lockerbie tragedy. Judges at the high court in Edinburgh rejected the corporation's argument that special CCTV footage of the court sessions, which will be transmitted in private viewings for relatives of the victims at rem... | 269 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | business | Anti-globalisation activists head for Prague | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/21/imf.economics3 | Anti-globalisation activists and international bankers are bracing themselves for a week of street action and possible confrontation planned to coincide with the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague. Hundreds of protesters have already gathered in the Czech capital and tens of thou... | 676 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | politics | Terminal decline | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/22/thatcher.uk | In the dying days of the Major era a senior Tory was asked if he knew how his party, afflicted with an ageing and dwindling membership, might be saved. "Yes I do," he replied. "Don't quote me, but it's called a Labour government." The calculation was simple: subjection to life under Labour would rally the troops and ge... | 553 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | us-news | Hillary senate race: funding clash leaves public cold | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/uselections2000.usa3 | It is one of those issues that captivates the political junkies and leaves the ordinary voter cold. Or, as one Democratic consultant puts it: "Nobody gives a shit about this stuff." The "stuff" in question is soft money and it has dominated Hillary Clinton's campaign for a seat in the US senate since her first televise... | 955 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | media | The BBC is totally rethinking its ad campaigns | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/07/mondaymediasection.bbc1 | Three years ago the BBC set TVs aglow with an extravagant promotional spectacular, the much-celebrated Perfect Day video. The four-minute film starred a glittering cast, from Tom Jones to Elton John, each crooning a segment from the famous Lou Reed track which was then patchworked into a whole. It was dubbed one of 199... | 1,302 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | politics | Leader: Tory party drifts into being a narrow sect | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/27/leaders.thatcher | After a brief surge in the opinion polls, William Hague's leadership is once again in question and the Conservative Party in disarray. The setback is both encouraging and disheartening - encouraging because it suggests the public is not ready to endorse the glib right-wing populism to which he has recently resorted, di... | 507 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | £500m drugs fund to tackle killer diseases | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/futureofthenhs.health | Alan Milburn, the health secretary, will today announce a £500m increase in NHS spending over the coming year to tackle cancer and coronary heart disease, the biggest killers. Allocations for health authorities and NHS trusts in England for 2001-02 will unlock funds to buy new drugs that are expected be approved shortl... | 551 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | global | Close encounters | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/07/features11.g2 | For the loggers and rubber-tappers of the Javari Valley, the Korubo were a constant, hidden threat. Since records began, in 1928, at least 50 people had met their deaths - some by arrows, some clubbed, many with the flesh ripped from their bones - at the hands of the "undiscovered" Stone Age tribe. But the Brazilian se... | 2,255 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | money | This medium needs to transmit loud and clear | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/07/shopping.business | The first rools.com interview was for Dot TV, Sky's business technology channel. It was relatively straightforward, covering the Rools business, plans and the market. Because it was recorded for later transmission, the pressure did not feel great. Our second interview was more testing: a live spot on BBC TV's Breakfast... | 565 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | uk-news | Straw considers inquests into more Shipman patients | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/20/shipman.health | A coroner is seeking permission to open inquests into the deaths of 23 suspected victims of the serial-killing former GP Harold Shipman, it was announced today. South Manchester coroner John Pollard said he had written to the home secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday seeking permission to open the inquests into the deaths ... | 697 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Jails inspector backs US policy to halt suicides | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/claredyer1 | Prisoners are committing suicide in record numbers while ministers drag their feet on implementing a prevention scheme which has succeeded in the US, the chief inspector of prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham, said yesterday. Record numbers of inmates killed themselves for the second year running last year, with the toll ris... | 499 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | world | EU guilty of aid budget bungling | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/07/patrickwintour.michaelwhite | Clare Short, the international development secretary, is to challenge international institutions including the UN, the World Bank and the EU to reassess the way they manage their aid programmes in the wake of growing criticism of inconsistency, poor coordination and life-threatening delay. Ms Short's combative approach... | 886 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | Uniting a divided nation: the first task for President Bush | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections2000.usa7 | George W Bush had already heard that Al Gore was withdrawing his recount team from Florida when he arrived at the Capitol building in Austin, Texas, yesterday and was indicating that the theme of his response would be to "unite a divided nation". After greeting members of the media he spent yesterday working on his con... | 1,581 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Women: Tween mags | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/gender.uk1 | Although your average 13-year-old may have no obvious similarity to her counterpart of a century ago, they have more in common than you'd think. The Victorians treated children like little adults as soon as they were old enough to be sent up a chimney and the same is true today, as a Saturday visit to any high street a... | 1,999 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | business | Platform for growth | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/08/efinance.money | Abbey National will today launch an assault on its rivals in an attempt to lure their customers to its new internet banking service. The move, part of the bank's aim to have 1m customers banking online in 12 months, is also the thrust of its strategy to double its 2m current account customers in the coming years. It pr... | 450 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | business | Global net soars above legal eagles | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/28/columnists.theobserver2 | The news that a French judge has ruled that Yahoo France has to block access to US-based sales of Nazi memorabilia has occasioned much scornful laughter in Anglo-Saxon circles. How quaint, people say. The poor booby clearly has no idea of how the net works. And how very, very Continental to think that the French legal ... | 754 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | money | Trackers back on the move | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/07/personalfinancenews3 | Investors tracking the Britain's top 100 companies have seen precious little return in the past year. Words like "doldrums" are used to describe the FTSE-100, which measures the London stock market's 100 biggest players. But until a couple of years ago it provided consistently high returns. Since then, every boomlet ha... | 968 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | uk-news | Brady in court for right to end life | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/28/claredyer | The Moors murderer Ian Brady will launch a landmark high court battle today for the right to starve himself to death. He claims Ashworth hospital has no legal right to force-feed him by tube and foil the hunger strike he began 152 days ago. Brady, 61, is expected to attend part of the four-day hearing, which will be he... | 707 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | global | Having it both ways | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/feb/07/artsfeatures3 | WC Fields dubbed Mae West "a plumber's idea of Cleopatra". But she was also a substantial writer whose plays fell foul of the law. In 1926 Sex led to an obscenity trial and two years later The Pleasure Man was raided by the cops during its second performance. Unrevived until now, it's a ramshackle backstage comedy dram... | 329 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | business | Business: Euro | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/21/emu.theeuro | The ailing euro fell to a record low against the dollar yesterday amid mounting evidence that the currency's weakness is hitting the earnings of American corporations. McDonalds, IBM, Gillette and other big American producers have all issued profit warnings in recent days and, for the first time in recent history, busi... | 532 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | Chubais falls victim to oligarch purge | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/15/russia.ameliagentleman | Pressure on Russia's leading tycoons intensified yesterday with the decision by a parliament watchdog to investigate the legality of the privatisation the country's electricity monopoly - run by the former architect of Russia's economic reforms, Anatoly Chubais. The media in Moscow interpreted the Audit Chamber's decis... | 212 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | Search for 160 asylum seekers feared drowned off Australia | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/patrickbarkham | More than 160 people, mostly asylum seekers, are feared drowned in violent storms off Australia's north-western coast yesterday. A Japanese tanker reportedly picked up four people but hopes of finding other survivors from the two small vessels which were carrying a total of 167 people appear slim. The asylum seekers, t... | 682 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Military tribute for murdered brigadier | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/10 | Defence chiefs, a former prime minister and current ministers yesterday joined about 900 mourners at the funeral of the murdered military attache Brigadier Stephen Saunders at Salisbury Cathedral. Brigadier Saunders was shot dead by terrorists on June 8 while driving to work at the British embassy in Athens. Politician... | 280 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | uk-news | National Trust upholds stag hunting ban | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/07/hunting.ruralaffairs | The ban on stag hunting will continue on National Trust lands, the organisation's ruling council has decided after considering the Burns report on hunting. The decision ends the last hope of the deer hunts in the West Country to overturn the trust's ban, introduced in 1997 after an earlier report had condemned the spor... | 503 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | uk-news | Country diary: Wenlock Edge | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/27/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | Today is Saturnalia, apparently. The Roman midwinter festival of wild debauchery and unruliness. Like the pagan solstice, Christmas and festivals in other cultures which have to survive, physically and emotionally, through the long nights and cold weather of winter, Saturnalia seems like a good idea. Corresponding with... | 371 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | technology | Women in cyberporn revolution | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/06/internetnews.theobserver | A power shift is taking place in the traditionally male-dominated sex industry with the arrival of a new breed of entrepreneur: the webmistress. More than 50 per cent of websites in the booming online pornography business are now owned and operated by women - and the number is steadily rising. The new 'scarlet-collar' ... | 901 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/10 | Mutuals claim loans victory Building societies have outstripped the mortgage banks in the amount of home loans made and savings attracted over the past two years, according to the Buildings Societies Association. Last year building societies, led by the Nationwide and Bradford & Bingley, lent £10.6bn net compared with ... | 488 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | money | Anything you can do | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/22/workandcareers.officehours3 | Think you could do your boss's job with your eyes closed and one hand tied behind your back? Perhaps you'd like her to come and sit in your chair for a day, to appreciate what it's like trying to deal with 101 emails while having to answer a constantly ringing phone. You might just get your chance. Thursday is Learning... | 868 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | society | People's power | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement8 | They grow and sell organic produce, they are replanting mahogany in the Amazon, they even make jam - but the police treat them like criminals. This is MST, the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, Brazil's largest and most dynamic social movement, whose direct action tactics see them hoisting their red flag over farms, ... | 1,714 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | Elian heads for flight back to Cuba | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/cuba.usa | Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez began his journey home to Cuba on Wednesday after the US Supreme Court ended a custody war that came to symbolise four decades of bitterness between Cuban exiles and the communist country they fled. The 6-year-old and his family were accompanied in a motorcade from the estate where they we... | 1,048 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | I was framed, says people's poet | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/chrismcgreal | On the face of it the evidence against Mzwakhe Mbuli - the radical poet who performed at Nelson Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first black president - was overwhelming. When the police stopped his car just 200 metres from - and minutes after - a bank robbery in Pretoria three years ago, they found the stolen ... | 998 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | business | Business: SFO looks at CSG accounts | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/28/corporatefraud | The serious fraud office last night launched an investigation into accounting irregularities at recruitment firm Corporate Services Group, the recruitment firm which owns the Blue Arrow agency. The company said the investigation related to a period prior to a change of management last year, when institutional investors... | 544 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-27 | uk-news | Upbeat Trimble set for final showdown | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/27/northernireland.johnmullin | For a man under the most intense pressure, he at first appears remarkably upbeat as he snaps a chocolate digestive. He is relaxed, he explains, simply because he knows that he is doing the right thing. Yet his hands tell a different tale. When he lifts them to remove his glasses and wipe his eyes, they are shaking unco... | 1,767 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | uk-news | French dockers end Calais strike | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/28/1 | Cross-channel ferry travel was beginning to return to normal today after striking French dockers ended a strike that had closed the port of Calais. Following talks with their employers, the Calais Chamber of Commerce, the dockers agreed to go back to work and hold more discussions on their pay dispute later. P&O Stena ... | 429 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-27 | global | Inhale those vibes | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/mar/28/artsfeatures.popandrock | The ongoing debate about the decriminalisation of cannabis seems redundant when a substantial proportion of the 1,800 people shoehorned into the Astoria have voted with their weed and followed the exhortative directions to "get high, so high". Hazily visible through the pungent fog, Cypress Hill's helium-voiced mouthpi... | 550 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | business | British mining could fall to US group | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/14/3 | Britain's beleaguered coal industry could soon pass into American hands if Renco Group, a privately owned US industrial conglomerate, succeeds in buying RJB Mining. RJB Mining, owner of almost all the remaining deep mines, was picked as the successful bidder in the Tories' £815m privatisation of British Coal five years... | 738 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | Is Brown's brew special enough? | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/7 | For nearly an hour today, the Labour benches at Westminster bathed in bliss while the Tories sat in apprehensive silence as the chancellor of the exchequer lit up the lights all over the fruit machine. There seemed to be something for everyone; imposing increases in spending on health, a lot more for education, good ne... | 654 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | uk-news | Adams 'assassin' targeted by UDA | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/14/northernireland.gerryadams | The loyalist who shot Gerry Adams lives in fear of being murdered by former paramilitary comrades. An Ulster Defence Association member, John 'Grug' Gregg became a loyalist hero in 1984 for attempting to murder the Sinn Fein president. But now he faces the prospect of being shot by UDA colleagues from west Belfast. Acc... | 425 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Ad agencies bid for homeless campaign | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/advertising2 | The Department of Transport, Environment & the Regions, has shortlisted four agencies to pitch for a campaign aimed at reducing homelessness across Britain. M&C Saatchi, WCRS, BMP DDB and the Leith Agency all pitched yesterday for the task and a decision is expected within the next couple of weeks. The successful agenc... | 156 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | business | Who holds the reins of power in Britain? Part 3 | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/15/observerbusiness1 | Rod Eddington Chief Executive, British Airways (NEW). The Australian replaced Bob Ayling in May. The City expects him to deliver a return to profit, with a strategy that includes a link to a strong North American or European airline, preferably both. Ken Kutaragi Head of technical development, Sony Computer Entertainme... | 1,374 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Wolves stalker snaps up Oriental Restaurant for starters | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/07/8 | Robert Breare, the leisure entrepreneur stalking Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries, yesterday tabled a £14.4m agreed takeover bid for Oriental Restaurant Group with plans to roll out its Yellow River Cafe brand nationwide. However, Mr Breare insisted that his attention was still focused on capturing the bigger prize, an... | 458 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | uk-news | Loyalist ceasefire is intact, says Mandelson | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/27/northernireland.politics1 | The Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Mandelson, yesterday insisted that the loyalist ceasefire is intact, despite growing evidence of a vicious turf war being waged between paramilitary organisations that has seen three murders and one attempted murder in less than a month. As the Ulster Volunteer Force and the rival ... | 779 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | education | University challenge | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/28/highereducation.theguardian5 | Globalisation will be as big a challenge for managers and administrators as for other university staff, Howard Newby, president of the College of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, is to tell university administrators at their annual onference in Nottingham later today. "Globalisation is a familiar feature of research pr... | 478 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Using what you've got | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/itforschools.schools20 | Here at St Thomas More we believe in using what we've got - not only the technology but also our pupils' ability to think. It's important that children are intellectually challenged, so we use ICT to access specialised websites. But we also explore what we can do in the computer programs we already use. For example, we... | 183 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | Rosie Boycott's letter in full | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/pressandpublishing.dailyexpress | Dear Richard, I want to register my dismay at hearing how the 'proposed redundancies' on Express Newspapers staff were handled yesterday. I understand that Sharon Harte, seven months pregnant, was asked to distribute 'in' and 'out' letters round the floor. She took the two bundles and then discovered that her name was ... | 477 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | society | A mother's crusade | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/28/guardiansocietysupplement5 | When she took off her dancing shoes after a decade with a troupe she formed to tour US military bases on the continent, Amanda Seivewright returned to the estate in South Shields where she grew up - and kicked her heels in frustration. Not for long. There was no safe place for her young daughter to play on Cleadon Park... | 507 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | money | Wound-up over work | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/08/workandcareers.madeleinebunting | Take a close look at your colleagues. If they are eating, emailing, or emitting a high-pitched whine in the manner of a mosquito, they are likely to be suffering from a condition that affects more than half of all office support workers. We all like to complain of stress - the classic ailment of the 21st-century office... | 1,438 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Why we can't afford to make a crisis out of a drama | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/michaelbillington | "Give us the tools and we will finish the job," said Churchill in 1941. And that seems to be the bottom line of Peter Boyden's report into regional theatre. We cannot, in short, expect our theatres to go on being play-producers, arts centres, educational resources and much else besides on the current meagre subsidies. ... | 591 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | Peoplesound seals MP3 music deals | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/newmedia | European MP3 download site Peoplesound.com has clinched distribution deals with five high-profile websites. The deals will give Peoplesound.com the reach and profile it needs to survive the expected shake-out of online music websites. Peoplesound's 10,000 artists and 30,000 free MP3 tracks will now be publicised and av... | 215 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | world | Lone Concorde cleared for takeoff | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/21/concorde.jonhenley | In what could be Concorde's final flight, an Air France jetliner will cross the Atlantic in lonely supersonic splendour in the next couple of days, arriving in Paris to an emotional welcome from ground staff. "We've all missed it and we'll be happy to see it back home again," said Lucien Guy, a mechanic at Roissy-Charl... | 456 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | politics | Fancy a seat in the Lords? Apply now | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/14/uk.lordreform | Anyone who believes they could do a better job of making laws in this country can now prove it after members of the public were yesterday invited to nominate themselves for a seat in the House of Lords. Would-be "people's peers" have until November 17 to put themselves or others forward for a seat in the upper chamber ... | 307 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | technology | Biography of David Kerr | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/apr/20/freespeech2 | David Kerr was appointed as the first chief executive of the IWF in October 1996 to set up and run the organisation. He has a masters degree in business administration, experience of policy review and management consultancy in local government and has worked in the private sector in the aircraft industry and manufactur... | 267 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | Rainy day might come in May | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/1 | One of the market's favourite old wives' tales - sell in May and go away - has new legs, thanks to the inland revenue. Around £4bn of new money is expected to flood into UK equities over a few weeks as small investors take advantage of the once-only chance to put £7,000 into a tax-free Isa ahead of the April end-of-yea... | 480 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | media | Press Gazette round-up | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/28/tradepressrounduppressgazette.pressandpublishing | Press Gazette leads on an eleventh-hour concession by the BBC not to lift stories from the Evening Star, Ipswich. The paper's lawyers threatened the BBC with a breach of copyright lawsuit after a splash on the settlement of a WPC's claims of sex discrimination was put out on Ceefax without the paper being credited. The... | 273 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | business | M&S does not need to cut jobs, says union | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/07/marksspencer | Marks & Spencer remains one of the most profitable store groups in the world and should abandon cost-cutting plans to source more goods from overseas which are causing thousands of UK job losses, the GMB union said yesterday. The union is mounting a campaign to save textile workers' jobs and yesterday staged a demonstr... | 196 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | money | Protecting planet Earth - from your cradle to your grave | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/21/ethicalshopping.shopping | Babies in the house Disposable nappies have changed the mucky job of wrestling with nappy pins, terry nappies (and unhappy babies) into something half-way acceptable. But unfortunately, disposables have an after-life. According to the Real Nappy Association, disposables now make up 4 per cent of household waste, with t... | 1,295 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | technology | Web watch | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/14/internet.onlinesupplement | Open Sorcery Open Sorcery is dedicated to the intersection of computer games and art. Although much of the material is available elsewhere on the web, what it has collated is something called a game patch: a hacked piece of code that subverts a commercially available computer game. A patch allows a game such as Quake o... | 997 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | technology | Confetti sweeps up wedding competitors | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/07/onlinesupplement | Organising any wedding is usually very stressful. Family rows can easily erupt over anything from the numbers on your guest list to who keeps an eye on granny's gin-drinking at the reception. But David Lethbridge, co-founder of Confetti, the UK's leading wedding site, believes the web can help to substantially reduce t... | 1,464 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | In fear of fruit and veg | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/schools.foodanddrink | Next time you hear a government official spouting about supporting organic farmers and "real food" initiatives, do not believe them. Their real attitude can be found in the health education authority's new initiative to raise schoolchildren's awareness of "safe food hygiene practices". Every primary school is being sen... | 924 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | global | Beach boy | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/21/features11.g23 | Leonardo DiCaprio was just 17 when he got his first big part, in This Boy's Life. "I had the big meeting with Robert De Niro," DiCaprio said. "I read a scene with him. To make an impression, I yelled some of the lines in his face. I was a smart ass in a lot of ways. Very over-confident." One day, Robert De Niro and Ell... | 1,170 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Cosgrove Hall to bring back Andy Pandy | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/broadcasting6 | TV favourites Andy Pandy and The Woodentops are set to return to our screens after animation company Cosgrove Hall revealed it is developing new versions of the shows. The news came as the BBC unveiled its winter schedule, which includes a new series of Bill and Ben. The much-loved flowerpot men are making their comeba... | 152 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | business | Unigate merger with Dairy Crest upset by rival bid | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/21/1 | An all-out battle for control of the Unigate cheese and milk business broke out yesterday when Scottish milk group Robert Wiseman slapped down a £225m bid, upsetting a £202m merger plan Unigate had already agreed with rival Dairy Crest. Just hours later Dairy Crest bounced back with a £235m offer. The Wiseman bid of £1... | 555 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | global | Venus with a violin | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jan/28/artsfeatures | Secret Passions is the title of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's new series of concerts, which runs from now until the end of May on London's South Bank. The subtitle - Alter Egos and Personal Obsessions - is even more eye-catchingly dramatic, though quite what this ballyhoo signifies is something of a myste... | 577 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | uk-news | FO pressure after Britons' jail 'torture' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/balkans | The Foreign Office yesterday said it had "no reason to doubt" reports that two British policemen who face spying charges in Yugoslavia have been tortured and paraded before jeering crowds. The FO also indicated that Yugoslav officials in Belgrade may be asked today by the British government to explain the latest allega... | 555 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | uk-news | Brighton bomber thinks again | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/28/northernireland.jamiewilson | On the rundown estates of Belfast and in other troubled corners of Northern Ireland, there has long been a saying: the only people with a decent education are those who have spent time in prison. Patrick Magee, PhD BA (first class hons), is a case in point. Fourteen years in top security jails gave plenty of opportunit... | 950 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | technology | One in 10 web dates ends in bed | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/28/internetnews.uknews | One in 10 women using the internet have made love to a man they first met online at work, according to a survey. Nearly 25% of the 2,000 secretaries, executives and students asked on the website newwomanonline.co.uk had formed a "romantic friendship" over the web. The women, average age 27, would typically devote 102 m... | 211 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | world | Taiwan warning as China steps up defence spending | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/07/johngittings | China's military leaders fired their heavy propaganda weapons across the Taiwan strait yesterday, counteracting the more restrained language used by the prime minister, Zhu Rongji, on the previous day. A thundering editorial in the Liberation Army Daily said that "millions of troops stand in combat readiness and are on... | 311 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | Flu figures undermine claims of epidemic | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/sarahboseley | The flu figures yesterday edged just over the norm for the time of year, but the official statistics got nowhere near the epidemic levels that the health secretary, Alan Milburn, has claimed are to blame for cancelled operations and hospital bed shortages. The latest figures collected by the Birmingham research unit of... | 716 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | global | Sex on the edge | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/14/features11.g21 | Nigel Wrench is used to taking risks. Before an awards ceremony where his radio show was up for a gong, he decided to use the acceptance speech to reveal he was HIV-positive. Given that the programme was up against two rivals, there was only a one-in-three chance that his BBC bosses would find out. They did. Wrench, no... | 2,214 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | politics | How Ashdown turned John Bunyan into a ladies' man | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/nov/07/uk.politicalnews | Paddy Ashdown's school-leaving report said: "The boys in his [boarding school] house would have followed him anywhere." Only yesterday did the ex-Liberal Democrat leader reveal exactly where he had led some of them one dark night nearly 50 years ago. He confessed an offence which could, if disclosed earlier, have jeopa... | 440 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | US presidential battle moves to the courtrooms | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/uselections2000.usa | Al Gore was yesterday still clinging to an outside chance of winning the White House when a federal judge in Miami threw out a Republican bid to halt a manual vote recount in the pivotal state of Florida. But the week ahead looks fraught with legal battles, after Florida's Republican secretary of state, Katherine Harri... | 404 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | global | Prom review: Millennium Youth Day | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/15/artsfeatures | Music for young people - new works for a new generation of performers - is one of the themes of Proms 2000. The most spectacular showcase for this wealth of upcoming talent was Saturday's double-decker event, which brought together all of the country's national youth-music ensembles as part of the UK-wide Millennium Fe... | 498 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | global | Arts: The new Sam Shepard's play | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/dec/07/artsfeatures1 | San Francisco's Theatre on the Square is no stranger to media attention. But it has been at the centre of a rare feeding frenzy in recent days. Not only is it hosting the world premiere of Sam Shepard's play The Late Henry Moss, but the show brings together some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Shepard himself direct... | 1,396 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | No split on euro, Blair tells MPs | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/emu.theeuro1 | Tony Blair told MPs this afternoon that there was no cabinet divide on joining the euro in the face of William Hague's claim that Labour factions were "at each other's throats" over the issue. At a stormy prime minister's question time, Mr Blair insisted that the government's policy on the European single currency rema... | 468 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | business | AVRC on the move | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/28/11 | Recently launched Advance Value Realisation Company (unchanged at 100.5p) is causing a stir in the small cap world. It has obtained sizeable stakes in about a dozen out-of-favour old economy stocks. The latest is Energy Technique (down 0.75p at 5.25p) where it yesterday appeared on the share register with a 20.48% stak... | 190 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | world | Rich pickings that fuel African wars | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/sierraleone2 | In a small, dingy room above the Diamond Bourse in Antwerp, one of the biggest dealers expressed regret over the mutilations and deaths in the African civil wars in Sierra Leone and Angola. But business was business. "Human beings are greedy. I am among them. If you have £100, you want to make it £200," said the vetera... | 1,022 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Speech highlights crime as Labour sets sights on May election | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/uk.monarchy2 | Tony Blair yesterday defended his government's legislative programme from accusations of blatant electioneering by challenging voters to demonstrate the "individual responsibility" needed to make Labour's vision of the good society become a reality. During brutal exchanges across the Commons dispatch box after the ritu... | 1,102 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | business | Torrid time assured | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/14/5 | British insurers are having a torrid time, with the stock performance being generally poor. The past four weeks have seen Britannic, CGNU, SJPC, Prudential and Allied Zurich all suffering. A portfolio of those five quoted insurers would have lost an investor between 7% and 15% of its value. A broker note from Morgan St... | 218 |
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