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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | What the Americans are sending us now | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/7 | What is a fund supermarket? Originally an American idea, it allows private investors to buy and sell a range of funds through one channel with a bit of help along the way. Are they successful? Fidelity is the largest player in the US, and thus the world, and has taken $177bn (£110bn) through its supermarket. How does i... | 247 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | money | For the sake of the children | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/07/observercashsection.theobserver2 | Donna McShane has spent the past 10 years training for her career as a paediatrician. Although she qualified as a doctor several years ago, her education continues as she trains to become a consultant. The process starts with a medical degree. The first two years are spent studying anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, ph... | 882 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | Brazil's landless to spoil big day | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/alexbellos | Tens of thousands of Brazil's rural workers will be hoping to obstruct the country's 500th anniversary celebrations tomorrow to culminate a week in which they stepped up an aggressive programme of land invasions. More than 100 private farms have been invaded since Monday by peasant families who are protesting against t... | 500 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | business | Health care returns to favour | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/14/ftse.stockmarkets | Calm returned to Wall Street as something approaching clarity returned to the US presidential race. So London was again in upbeat mood, allowing the FTSE 100 index to extend its three day rally by a further 12.6 points to 6,403. Nycomed Amersham, the health care firm which has seen its shares gradually slide from a yea... | 860 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | politics | 'When a man's got to go, he's got to go - but not quietly' | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/28/uk.thatcher2 | Michael Heseltine, scourge of miners, peace protesters and Lady Thatcher, announced yesterday that he was standing down from the Commons at the next election after 34 years as an MP. His party leader, William Hague, led the plaudits despite the snub of learning of the former deputy prime minister's decision from an int... | 779 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Villagers reject refugees | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices | Residents of a Somerset village with no shop, pub or post office expressed disbelief yesterday as the head of a religious charity claimed their hamlet was the perfect place in which to integrate 74 asylum seekers into British society. The public gallery of a Bridgwater planning inquiry filled with muffled laughter as t... | 156 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | politics | Symbol of state | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/28/uk.politicalnews | It was as potent a symbol of Margaret Thatcher's authority as Churchill's cigar, and was wielded so frequently, it became a byword for how she dealt with political opponents. The former prime minister's trademark handbag drove the dissident backbencher Julian Critchley to say of it: "She cannot see an institution witho... | 344 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Pact chief to leave | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/broadcasting.communicationsact | Pact chief executive Shaun Williams is to step down from the independent producers' alliance in January. Williams, 38, who by then will have been at the helm for three years, has no specific career plans. He said: "I wanted to announce a departure date months in advance to avoid a crisis." His successor will face key q... | 199 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Racist views widespread in Northern Ireland | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/northernireland.race | Racist views are twice as likely to be encountered in Northern Ireland as sectarian ones, according to the province's most comprehensive study of prejudice. A University of Ulster survey, based on 1,267 interviews, found twice as many respondents would be unwilling to accept or mix with members of ethnic minority commu... | 385 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | money | Caught in a web | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney3 | Internet share dealing has eased the route to riches - or in some cases ruination - for hundreds of thousands of stock market investors. It is simple, cheap and quick. But it is also a share scamster's delight with email and chatrooms offering an easy way for dishonest directors, brokers, PR people and shareholders to ... | 657 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | money | Banks put pressure on PO | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/07/personalfinancenews.business | The big high street banks are in talks with the Post Office to secure crucial changes to a contract held by Alliance & Leicester which is holding them back from offering key services to some customers in post offices. Banks such as Barclays and Lloyds TSB are being restricted to offering only banking services to re... | 688 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | How sleep can save your life | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/anthonybrowne.theobserver | Did you get an extra hour's sleep last night after the clocks went back? As the nights draw in, will you try to curl up in bed a bit earlier? If you do, you might gain more than being more alert at work. You could save your life. New research by doctors shows there is an epidemic of sleeplessness that has become as big... | 1,568 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | business | House price rises starting to wane | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/21/personalfinancenews.business | House sales jumped by a 10th in the last three months following a rush to complete purchases ahead of feared rises in stamp duty in today's Budget, according to figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. But booming house prices in the south have tempted homeowners to put their houses on the market in g... | 376 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | uk-news | No land of plenty down on the farm | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/21/ruralaffairs.audreygillan | Wyndham Tranter's farm is to be sold this morning. The auctioneers will arrive early and, if the weather is fine, about 500 people are expected to pick their way round the site, which has been in the Tranter family for 62 years. Up on the hill they will cast their eye over a line of tools and equipment, a roller, tract... | 1,743 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | Whistleblowers forced to quit | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/14/2 | When seven former care assistants blew the whistle on colleagues who were abusing frail residents of a Bupa-run home for the elderly they were forced to resign, an industrial tribunal in Ashford, Kent, heard yesterday. Eileen Chubb, 41, of Orpington, Kent, described how whimpering residents of the 65 bedroom Isard Ho... | 439 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | politics | Labour stakes credibility on 5-year NHS revolution | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/28/labour.uk | Tony Blair yesterday staked the political credibility of a second Labour term in government on a five-year plan to slash NHS waiting times and create a patient-friendly health service to suit the consumerist values of the 21st century. He promised to recruit 7,500 more consultants by 2005, along with 2,000 extra GPs, m... | 957 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | Lastminute flotation soars ahead | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/internetipos.internet | Lastminute.com shares jumped ahead on their first day of trading on the stock market today, boosting the paper fortunes of the company's founders. The shares, placed at 380p, each leapt to 511p in the first hour of trading, boosting the value of the company from a starting point of £571m to £768m. The rise eased back t... | 641 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | money | Cyberbanks plan 2.4bn merger with First-e | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/07/personalfinancenews.business1 | Two European internet banks announced a €2.4bn (£1.5bn) merger yesterday, claiming it would result in the world's first global bank in cyberspace. Under the terms of the deal Uno-e, owned by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) of Spain and Terra Networks, will buy First-e, the Dublin-based internet bank. The combine... | 541 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | money | I'm retired, do I have rights? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/15/workandcareers.drwork | The problem I am 54 I have been in marketing all my life but I decided to retire four years ago. Retirement being not what it is meant to be, I decided I would like to go back to work. I was unable to get into my chosen career so I took a job with a private hire company. I am employed full time on the minimum wage and ... | 396 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | politics | How to put welfare cash on a new footing | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/14/election2001.politicalnews | Labour arrived in office with no clear strategy for the most expensive programme of all - the £100bn social security budget, which accounts for almost 30% of all government spending. Welfare reform became Labour's second dome, a goal to which they became committed without any clear idea of what they wanted. Worse still... | 1,564 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | media | Are these photos racist? | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/28/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing2 | On Wednesday, South Africa's human rights commissioners will gather in Johannesburg in the hope, rather than the expectation, of interrogating the country's editors on alleged racism in their news coverage. The commission has summonsed more than 30 journalists with threats of up to six months in prison if they refuse t... | 2,074 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | business | Share options | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/28/6 | Companies that dish out share options to staff like so much confetti were reminded yesterday of the threats from the main accounting regulator to make them pay now rather than later. The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) issued a notice detailing how the tax on share options, in the form of national insurance contributi... | 389 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | politics | Ken, you're such a Cockney teaser | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/27/londonmayor.london2 | It's the longest tantilize since Salome did her thing for Herod with the seven veils. Ken Livingstone shimmies before us. I wouldn't call the spectacle erotic, but it is driving the high commands of New Labour neurotic. The presence on the airwaves of his mocking, challenging nasal whine always infuriates them. Downing... | 1,632 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | world | Four feared dead in Moscow tower blaze | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/28/russia | Russian firefighters were today struggling to extinguish an inferno that gutted Moscow's giant television tower as officials said there was little chance of saving up to four people feared trapped in a lift. Brown plumes of smoke billowed from the 1,771ft Ostankino Tower, spreading out across northern Moscow as people ... | 669 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Minister offers help to church secondary schools | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/21/education.religion | The government has promised to help the Church of England find the money to set up 100 secondary schools over the next five years, capable of educating at least 100,000 teenagers in a religious environment. Estelle Morris, the education minister, wrote yesterday to Lord Dearing, head of a committee reviewing education ... | 288 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | business | Opec turns deaf ear to fuel pleas | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/14/9 | The 11-nation Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries yesterday dashed hopes of lower energy prices during the critical northern hemisphere winter when it rejected calls for another increase in output. Opec minsters, meeting in Vienna, decided not to raise their production quotas arguing that crude prices will so... | 468 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | money | Ministers plan more stable pensions | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/29/personalfinancenews.politics | Labour is considering linking the basic state pension with a new more stable index of inflation in an attempt to stop big annual variations in the scale of the increase. But the social security secretary, Alistair Darling, again ruled out increasing the pension in line with earnings, saying the measures introduced over... | 659 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | technology | Microsoft boss overlooks obvious trick | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/14/microsoft.business3 | There is something sad about the fact that, when a man who has played a pivotal role in shaping the way the developed world lives and works announces he is hanging up his executive boots, the knee jerk response is "oh, yeah?" The immediate assumption is that Bill Gates' move from chief executive officer at Microsoft to... | 567 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-06 | money | Unilever clinches Bestfoods deal | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/07/personalfinancenews.unilever | Unilever announced a $20.3bn (£13.5bn) agreed takeover of Bestfoods, the US food group, yesterday in a deal that marks the Anglo-Dutch consumer group's largest purchase yet. The takeover was announced after a month-long pursuit of its target. Bestfoods, which sells products such as Hellmann's mayonnaise and Knorr soup ... | 357 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | politics | Ministers try to transform 1940s system into modern, patient-centred care | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/28/uk.socialcare | The vision: a health service designed around the patient In 1948, every dropped bedpan was to reverberate around Whitehall, according to Nye Bevan, the then health secretary. Yesterday, the NHS plan shifted that central accountability away from the government's corridors of power and out into hospital wards, GPs' surge... | 2,675 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | Nato fears Karadzic is about to escape | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/warcrimes.richardnortontaylor | Nato governments are coming under renewed pressure to seize Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader indicted by a tribunal in the Hague for war crimes, amid rumours that he is planning to flee to Serbia. Mr Karadzic is believed to be hiding under heavy guard near Pale, in Serb-controlled eastern Bosnia-Herzego... | 265 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | business | Power list reflects business on the rise | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/15/society.theobserver | Power can prove short-lived. Currency dealer George Soros, model Naomi Campbell and former British Airways boss Bob Ayling are among those who have dropped out of the latest Observer/Channel 4 Power List. Four of the five highest new entries are businessmen. For the third year running, an expert panel has selected peop... | 1,050 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | global | Tate Modern gets a million visitors in just six weeks. Meanwhile, at poor old Tate Britain... | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/28/artsfeatures.tatebritain | In 1941, with bombs falling on London and nation's survival looking doubtful, George Orwell sat down to write about gardening. His essay The Lion and the Unicorn is an analysis of the British national character - written at a time when Britain and England were considered to be one and the same - that concludes with a p... | 2,136 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | The age of dissent | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/gender.uk | This year, we have spurned holiday snaps. We have holiday videos. Daughter makes them on her camcorder. We also have birthday videos, fiddling round the house videos, kissing the dog videos and people doing nothing in particular videos. I have waited months for Daughter to transfer them to big tapes, so I can watch the... | 432 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Gore: your country needs you more than it thinks | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness16 | If Al Gore had a coat of arms it ought to have a donkey with a hoof in its mouth as a prominent feature. The US Vice-President is prone to making daft statements about the internet. Rather like our own dear Prime Minister, come to think of it. When the Gore campaign website was first launched some years ago, it briefly... | 743 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Kamera snaps up BBC's Kaza | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/broadcasting.newmedia | The boss of BBC Worldwide's internet and interactive division has taken a non-executive board position at European internet TV firm Kamera. Drew Kaza will become a Kamera board member at the next annual general meeting at the start of 2001. The company's strengths are in interactive docu-soaps and it has recently signe... | 333 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | business | Flotation talk surrounds Arnault's Europ@web | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/21/efinance.internet1 | A senior executive of Bernard Arnault's 500m Euro internet investment vehicle, Europ@web, yesterday responded cautiously to reports that the company could be planning a stock market flotation, writes Mark Milner . Chahram Becharat, Europ@web's managing director for European technology investments, said that as his firm... | 296 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Calling Germany's Don Kohleone to account | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/germany.comment | There is a certain historical piquancy in watching the public disgrace of Helmut Kohl just a week after Egon Krenz, East Germany's last communist leader before the fall of the Berlin wall, started a prison term. Not that there is a direct parallel between the two men and their various wrongdoings, let alone between the... | 1,430 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | business | Media diary | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/07/theobserver.observerbusiness5 | This lad's no Geordie We wonder whether Geordie Greig, the editor of the Tatler, might like to check into the exclusive Liary - Stephen Glover's retreat for the terminally confused on the castaway island of Talentfree - following a story in the Tatler that delighted the tabloids: Fergie and Andy may remarry. We would n... | 559 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | money | Cooling market lets buyers pile on the pressure | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney7 | I have spent the last four months haggling, hassling and cajoling in an attempt to buy a house. My experience fitted with the findings of building society researchers. Earlier this month they confirmed what estate agents have known for some time - that the heat has gone out of the market. The high prices in London and ... | 863 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | world | Test examiners driven to protest | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/14/jonhenley | Fearing for their safety, French driving test examiners have called a nationwide day of action to draw attention to the growing number of violent assaults they are suffering at the hands of unsuccessful candidates. "It's not funny. In fact it's fast becoming a very serious problem," said Laurent Grognu, the general sec... | 381 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | world | Zealots, criminals or amateurs - who are Cape Town's bombers? | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/21/chrismcgreal | What is happening in Cape Town depends on who you believe. Some say a bomb blast this week - the 21st in two years - was the work of highly trained religious terrorists bent on turning South Africa's "mother city" into Algeria as a means of overthrowing the government. Others portray it as a lame attempt by a bunch of ... | 1,386 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | Behind every star | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/15/officehours6 | 'If my work is challenging, I'm happy," says Donna Longstaff, production co-ordinator on ITV's celebrity impersonation show Stars in their Eyes. And with the live final looming on Saturday, the forthcoming week will certainly be a challenge. "This is a manic show at any time, but I'm already having sleepless nights." T... | 932 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | End of the Tesco run | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/tesco | Tesco has enjoyed a healthy run but analysts at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson believe further upward moves are unlikely. The broker, which describes itself as cautious about the supermarkets sector, is particularly concerned that Tesco could feel the pain of dull consumer spending, price competition and any regulatory chan... | 156 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | business | Joining euro 'is economics of the madhouse' | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/21/2 | Joining the eurozone would be a disaster for Britain's depressed regions which already feel neglected by interest rate decision makers in London, anti-euro campaigners said yesterday. The single currency is a "straitjacket" which will widen the differences between rich and poor areas in Europe, according to Professor T... | 489 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | Boo.com sale hopes suffer early blow | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/shopping | Efforts to secure a buyer for the remnants of boo.com have been dealt a blow by reports that its much-praised 'business-to-business' fulfilment capability is run by two external companies. The news came as liquidator KPMG held negotiations with a handful of companies hoping to realise value from boo's intangible assets... | 455 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | technology | Is Egg good enough to be worth the scramble? | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/may/28/efinance.business | Well done Prudential. While lesser e-businesses are cancelling their flotation plans and bemoaning the fickleness of investors, it is bravely pressing ahead with its plans to list Egg. The Pru is raising only a tiny amount of money and could easily afford to finance the £150 million that Egg itself will raise for futur... | 1,392 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | global | I drifted away | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/29/artsfeatures6 | Festival of Drifting* City Varieties, Leeds Rather than awarding medals for endeavour to people who rescue canoeists from fast-moving rapids or take on the Luftwaffe armed with a catapult, the Queen should bestow honours on anyone who manages to sit through the Festival of Drifting. Officially a touring gathering of va... | 583 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | technology | How Nasty Nick united two worlds | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/21/newmedia.mondaymediasection | People use all sorts of strategies to avoid working in August. Some go on holiday. Others are regularly "ill" on sunny workdays. But last Thursday, those who did drag themselves into work found another excuse for inactivity: Nasty Nick's looming departure from Big Brother. It was mayhem. Nobody did any work that day. E... | 1,027 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Fear of failure haunts the euro's banker | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/emu.theeuro | Eight years ago John Major's government was heading towards the battle with currency speculators that would permanently damage the Conservative party as a political fighting force. Saturday is the actual anniversary of Black Wednesday, the moment the Bank of England took on George Soros in defence of the pound and lost... | 1,005 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | politics | MP Follett backs husband on 'sneer and smear' | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/07/uk.labour1 | The Labour MP, Barbara Follett, has publicly backed the outspoken attack on Tony Blair made by her novelist husband Ken, and called on the government and the Labour party to get rid of the "sneer and smear" culture in politics. Mrs Follett, until now a devoted Blairite MP, revealed that she argued for two weeks with he... | 592 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/14/5 | Courtaulds jobs at risk Courtaulds was last night on the brink of shutting two of its lingerie factories in the Midlands and Northern Ireland, with the loss of over 300 jobs. The company said it was about to start consultations to see if there were "any realistic alternatives" to closing its factories in Derby and in M... | 524 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | Mitrovice plant is Kosovo's own Gdansk | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/balkans.comment | For over a year, the Kosovo city of Mitrovice has been the worst symbol of violence, tension and ethnic intolerance in the war-torn territory. For the people who have to breathe its foul air, Mitrovice has also been notorious for the antiquated smelting plant in its north-eastern suburb of Zvecan. The two issues came t... | 688 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | Worldwide version of WI nudes | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/28/6 | Members of a Women's Institute group who posed nude for a charity calendar yesterday launched a worldwide version in America. Eleven women from the Rylstone and District WI in North Yorkshire posed for the British calendar last year, wearing nothing but pearl necklaces, hats and strategically positioned floral displays... | 253 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | media | Media diary | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/14/mondaymediasection | * What a good job Charles Allen has decided to sort out ITV's web presence as a matter of some urgency. News reaches the diary of a very senior ITV executive who is embracing the network's new enthusiasm for new media wholeheartedly. Let's not mention, then, his early forays into what the young people call "surfing" ba... | 1,055 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | business | Yes TV seals video deal for BBC shows series | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/28/efinance.internet1 | BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the broadcaster, yesterday announced a deal with Yes Television to provide up to 600 hours of programming for its nascent video-on-demand service. The two-year agreement worth "seven figures" to the BBC will allow subscribers to download series including Pride & Prejudice , Airp... | 257 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | education | Global money-makers burdened by more words | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jan/21/tefl6 | In today's multinational and multi-service financial sector, narrow job definitions have all but disappeared. Banking and finance staff need to be flexible and to be equipped with technical English that will enable them to work across a much wider range of sectors. As a result students who request a course in "English ... | 951 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | Serbian lawyers defy the regime | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/14/balkans1 | Leading lawyers in the home town of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have resigned rather than handle a highly political case involving a clash between members of the radical Serbian youth movement Otpor and bodyguards of the President's son, Marko. The fight between three activists of Otpor, which means Resistanc... | 855 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | Food inquiry into deaths of 136 cows | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/jamesmeikle | Government vets are investigating the deaths of 136 cows on one farm in a suspected food poisoning incident. Authorities are refusing to name the farm in Leicestershire, but milk and 2,000 litres of vanilla and chocolate ice cream have been destroyed to prevent risk to humans. Some of the remaining 28 cows and one bull... | 205 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | money | Plagued by error and inefficiency | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney | Overcharging, poor service, incorrect billing, inaccurate estimations, aggro. These were just some of the problems which Jobs & Money readers say they have experienced at the hands of the utility companies. Our article on switching suppliers last week prompted an unprecedented reaction from people frustrated and an... | 955 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | business | Options cashed in | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/21/14 | The recent revival in the fortunes of Durlacher, the internet investment specialist, could be over if investors follow the example of various directors. After touching 62p at the start of August, the Durlacher stock price has had a strong run, reaching 113p in the wake of annual figures published last Friday. According... | 170 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | uk-news | Republican feud fear as dissident is killed | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/14/northernireland.johnmullin | Police in Northern Ireland fear a bloody feud within Irish republicanism is about to erupt after a leading dissident linked to the Real IRA was yesterday shot dead in west Belfast. Although security sources initially suggested Joseph O'Connor, 26, was the victim of a row within dissident republicanism, he was murdered ... | 696 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | uk-news | Crown of discomfort | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/21/monarchy.comment | Happy Birthday dear William, happy birthday to you! I know, I know - today is going to be a frightful bore, what with all that revision for the history of art exam tomorrow - but I just thought I'd sneak in a quick "many happy returns" for your big day. No, don't worry. I'm not going to wade through all that tedious "W... | 1,586 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | Nato urged to join star wars shield | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/richardnortontaylor | The United States is stepping up the pressure on its European allies to embrace its plans for a national anti-missile protective shield - dubbed the son of star wars - against "rogue" states and is urging them to develop a similar system of their own. In his most enthusiastic backing yet for the project, William Cohen,... | 451 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | science | The rock art from 6,000 years ago | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/dec/27/archaeology.internationalnews | Discoveries that open a new window on the prehistory of ancient Egypt have been made by British archaeologists who have found 30 sites rich in art chiselled into rocks up to 6,000 years ago in the desert east of the Nile. The rock drawings show cattle, boats, ostriches, giraffes, hippos and the men and women who lived ... | 1,263 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | world | K-For weapons search continues | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/21/balkans2 | Peacekeepers from a dozen nations completed their search for illegal weapons in the town of Mitrovice today, as some 10,000 ethnic Albanians began their march from Kosovo's capital Pristina to Mitrovice to protest the division of the town along ethnic lines. "I've searched all the sectors I wanted to search," said Pier... | 552 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | world | Tragedy at the opera: A tradition dies as La Scala evicts its balcony critics | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/14/rorycarroll | Opera lovers are mourning the end of an era: La Scala has abolished its standing-room-only balconies, traditional home to fans whose catcalls or cheers could dictate a show's fate. Protesters are holding candle-lit vigils and collecting signatures outside the Milan theatre to try to save a feature that terrified some p... | 328 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Women: Dirty talk | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/gender.uk | "It would have required a woman of serious character to turn her back on the celebrity circuit. Besides she'll tire of it in the end. And there'll be back-biting from other women. I was sitting in a West End restaurant when a mature TV star - not Miss Vorderman - hobbled past on kitten heels, showing rather more flesh ... | 515 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Fans' fury at Subbuteo send-off keeps game in toyshop league | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/mattwells | It worked for salad cream, and if the outcry that followed the announcement that Subbuteo was to be shown the red card is anything to go by, it should work for the table football game too. Hasbro, the toymakers, humbly gave in to fans' pressure yesterday and granted a reprieve, after admitting having underestimated the... | 556 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | politics | Chirac visit adds to euro pressure | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/14/uk.eu | Tony Blair is to meet the French president Jacques Chirac tomorrow night in Downing Street in a bid to test the extent of Franco-German determination to run the euro, and the European economy, without formally consulting the British. Mr Chirac is also expected to outline plans to extend the principle of majority voting... | 481 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | uk-news | MPs urge delaying reading and writing | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/28/education.schools1 | MPs will next month press for the formal teaching of reading, writing and maths to be postponed well beyond the nursery stage, to the point where the "foundations" of a child's early education are established. The recommendation, to be included in a long-awaited report on early years education written by the influentia... | 478 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | politics | Labour conference gives rapturous welcome to Mandela | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/28/labourconference.labour5 | The west must do more to halt the spread of aids and global inequality, Nelson Mandela said in a closing address to the Labour party conference in Brighton today. Mr Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, thanked the party for the support they gave to the anti-apartheid movement. But he warned that globali... | 627 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | Tyson can enter UK, Straw rules | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/vivekchaudhary | Mike Tyson is to be allowed to enter Britain, despite his conviction for rape, after an intervention by the home secretary last night. After two days of insisting that the boxer's case could only be considered by the immigration service and was not a matter for the government, Jack Straw said it would be "invidious" to... | 591 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Occupational therapy | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/furthereducation.theguardian5 | What do occupational therapists do? They assess and treat people with a wide variety of psychological and physical afflictions, which may be temporary or permanent. Sort of super doctors, by the sound of it. Not exactly, although you'll certainly find them working in hospitals. They also operate within social service d... | 793 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/28/2 | Ticketing firms' deal called off Britain's second largest ticketing company, First Call International, and Tickets.com called off their merger yesterday after a sharp fall in the US dot.com's share price. Tickets.com had announced at end-February - just weeks ahead of a steep fall in internet shares - that it had agree... | 393 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | Byers attempts to ward off curse of the DTI | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/5 | The Department of Trade and Industry has long been the graveyard of ambitious politicians. Apart from Michael Heseltine and, peculiarly, given his short stint, Peter Mandelson (still grieved over in Victoria Street), its incumbents have had rapid, inauspicious stopovers on the way, normally, to political nadir. Is Step... | 1,026 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-28 | technology | English 'may not be language of internet' | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/28/newmedia.mondaymediasection | James Murdoch, the youngest son of the media magnet Rupert Murdoch, warned yesterday that English will not become the language of the internet by default, and international businesses had to take account of the decline in its status. Speaking at the Guardian Edinburgh international television festival, Mr Murdoch, an e... | 662 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | world | Sunken ferry's captain charged with murder | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/28/3 | The captain and three crew members of a Greek ferry that sank killing at least 65 people have been charged with multiple counts of murder, a prosecutor said today. Investigators were focusing on reports that the ship, carrying more than 500 passengers, was apparently on automatic pilot minutes before it hit a well-mark... | 568 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | global | What a glorious screening | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/14/artsfeatures | At the start of the 21st century, theatre is at last beginning to face up to new technology. The past month alone has produced Blast Theory's Desert Storm, a performance/installation piece on the Gulf war in which audience members are active participants inside a computer game; Fuzzy Logic, a play written entirely on t... | 1,166 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | world | Islam and Black Label hit brewery | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/22/rorymccarthy | Business has always had its hazards for Minoo Bhandara, selling beer in an Islamic country where alcohol is formally banned. But lately sales at Pakistan's only brewery have fallen badly. Since military officers seized power in October the few remaining licensed alcohol outlets in the liberal streets of Karachi have be... | 649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Broad welcome for debate on monarchy | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/monarchy.politicalnews | Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, yesterday voiced support for a new legal challenge to the Act of Settlement which bans Roman Catholics from succeeding to the British throne. As MPs from all parties debated the future of the monarchy in the wake of the Guardian's campaign, Mr Kennedy made clear that he bel... | 940 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | media | And I love her | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/21/uknews | Sir Paul McCartney has spoken publicly for the first time about his romance with Heather Mills, describing how he fell in love when they met at an awards ceremony. The former Beatle surprised his girlfriend while she was taking part in an ITV show, televised tomorrow, for which she had earlier pledged not to discuss he... | 479 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | global | Jeanette Winterson | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/07/livechats | ruthlouise Have you ever thought about writing poetry? Jeanette Winterson I use densities of poetry in my work - if poetry is the best words in the best order, then that is what I try to aim for. I read poetry all the time - if you want something fantastic, try Alice Oswald. She's great. rgsharp What are your plans for... | 2,234 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Sports stars score again | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/efinance.internet2 | Two of the entrepreneurs who transformed Sports Internet from a tiny cash shell into a £300m business in just over one year yesterday saw the shares in their latest venture soar to a fivefold premium on the first day of dealing. Sports Resource, the new vehicle for Chris Akers and Rodger Sargent, placed its shares at 2... | 421 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | world | Buddhist leader flees Tibet to join Dalai Lama | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/07/1 | A young boy regarded by Tibetans as a living Buddha of equal political and religious status to the Dalai Lama has escaped from a monastery in central Tibet, despite being kept under permanent surveillance by Chinese minders. Senior lamas from the Tibetan exile community have confirmed that 14-year-old Urgyen Trinley Do... | 576 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | media | Grey panthers can save the paper tigers | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/28/business.mondaymediasection | Quite the oddest new thing in national newspapers this spring is your 'dotcom.telegraph' every Thursday. It is just so hectically, desperately young. How do you top a feature on eight 'Rich Kids' who made an internet million before they left university? With another, of course, on those who did it while they were still... | 1,206 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | education | Drama courses that may cause a crisis | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/21/furthereducation.dramaanddance | Since government started funding colleges and universities according to the number of students they attract, the country has been awash with courses in media and performing arts. Further education has literally thousands of them. The Higher Education Funding Council funds over 700 degree courses with the drama or theat... | 539 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | BT moves into web entertainment | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/citynews.broadcasting | BT is to produce its own entertainment programmes for the internet and could sell them to terrestrial TV stations. The telecoms giant has been negotiating with major US film studios and independent television companies with a view to creating game shows and comedies for its BTopenworld broadband service. A BT spokesman... | 301 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | us-news | Comment: Hugo Young on the US elections | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/07/uselections2000.usa19 | Once upon a time, politics was easy. Two rules governed almost every move. First, the choice could be defined as left versus right, and allegiances arranged themselves accordingly. In the 1951 British election, when 83% turned out to vote, 97% of them voted Labour or Conservative. Second, economic competence, as proved... | 1,473 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | politics | Home Office dismisses 'Megan's law' call to name abusers | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/07/uk.childprotection | The government yesterday closed the door on introducing a US-style "Megan's law" into Britain that would give the public automatic right to know the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders. Although the News of the World threatened to resume its campaign of identifying people unless parents were given "controlle... | 736 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | media | Fresh delay to AOL/Time Warner deal | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/28/citynews2 | AOL and Time Warner face another agonising wait to find out if their £70bn merger will get the go-ahead, after watchdogs delayed a key ruling that is potentially deal-breaking. The US Federal Trade Commission is threatening to scupper the deal over concerns that AOL would offer its internet service through Time Warner'... | 296 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | technology | As the lesson ended, Brian said, 'I've never met anyone with a less natural feel for driving' | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/07/motoring2 | It was my New Year's resolution, and I've achieved it already, so as you can imagine I'm feeling fairly smug. When I tell you that my New Year's resolution list has read "Learn to Drive" for three consecutive years, you might not think my achievement quite so impressive; but the fact that it's taken over two years and ... | 1,393 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Labour faces election dilemma on taxes | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/health | Earmarked taxes are winning the support of some senior ministers as the government grapples with the dilemma of whether to go into the general election with a repeat of its 1997 election pledge of no increases in income tax in the next parliament. Earmarked taxes are seen by some, including Home office minister Charles... | 1,125 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | New rules after 'name and shame' campaign | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/childprotection.society | The press complaints commission is to draw up new guidelines on the identification of criminals in the community following the controversial "name and shame" campaign by the News of the World. An extensive consultation exercise is to be launched, at the request of the probation officers' professional body. Newspapers, ... | 232 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | society | The Punch and Judy show lives on | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/27/guardiansocietysupplement | The engraving of central Liverpool shows the Victorian scene in minute detail. St George's Hall, that grand neo-classical building with its mighty columns testifying to the city's shipping wealth, stands opposite the main railway station, prime entrance to the city for those sailing to the New World. And at the centre ... | 1,349 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-06 | uk-news | Fusco wins judicial review in extradition case | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/06/northernireland.marktran | Former top IRA man and convicted killer Angelo Fusco was today granted leave by the High Court in Dublin for a judicial review into a court order for his extradition to Northern Ireland. His victory follows protest today outisde the Irish high court by Republicans including Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. Mr Adams' pr... | 636 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | politics | Mowlam 'left ministerial papers unguarded' | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/28/uk.politicalnews4 | It is the dream of every backbencher to lay their hands on one. But Mo Mowlam appears to have grown blasé about owning a coveted ministerial red box after she owned up to leaving one unattended on a recent train journey. The large red leather box, decorated with a gold crest on the side, was spotted by a passenger on a... | 539 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | business | Antonov bid puts MoD on the line | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/feb/21/4 | A small, privately-owned British air charter company has joined forces with the Ukrainian aeroplane maker, Antonov, to offer the government a low-cost transporter for ferrying troops and armour to the world's crisis regions. A key ministry of defence committee will today consider competing bids for the £500m short-term... | 587 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | world | Fiji coup nears end | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/21/fiji | Fiji's temporary military regime and the rebels who have been holding 31 people, including the prime minister, hostage, claim to be nearing an agreement to end the month-long crisis. Indigenous rebel leader George Speight said today that he expected to sign a deal with the Fijian military by the end of this week. An ag... | 654 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | business | Oxford gets its sums wrong | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/14/9 | Shares in Oxford Instruments plunged in early trading yesterday after it reported an £800,000 annual loss. Three months ago its management predicted the company would break even. Analysts are used to nasty surprises from this group. Over the past two years Oxford has issued four profit warnings including one in March. ... | 409 |
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