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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | business | Dead but refusing to lie down | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jun/07/4 | Industries are born, grow, mature and die, and for investors the most spectacular gains are to be had when an industry breaks through from immaturity to growth. This may seem a simple-minded truism to rank alongside "buy low, sell high" but, according to research by the investment bank Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, pl... | 997 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Words from the heart | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/schools.theguardian2 | Few would associate the realities of the inner city with a thriving community of young poets. But thanks to headteacher Dawn Peters, the collaboration of the Arvon Foundation and the sponsorship of author Susan Hill, this is what visitors to Ducie High School in Manchester's Moss Side can expect. Peters first took a gr... | 522 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | technology | Gaming's best bets? | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/21/onlinesupplement5 | The pill of choice for many people in 2000 was one that had no taste, and absolutely no effect on their digestive system: the Combat Boost. Other gamers will fondly remember the year as the one that first let them set up a love triangle in a virtual household, skate along the tops of bus shelters and deface police cars... | 1,571 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | world | The North Pole | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/aug/21/netnotes.derekbrown | 1. There's a bit of a problem at the top of the world. It's melting. 2. Global warming, caused by the so-called greenhouse effect, has already thinned the Arctic icecap by 50%. 3. It's not just the far north that is threatened. Further south there are melting glaciers and rising sea levels. 4. The implications are prof... | 219 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | Alliance support ready to rally | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/ruralaffairs.hunting | The Countryside Alliance is threatening to mobilise half-a-million rural campaigners in the biggest demonstration seen in post-war Britain if the Government bows to pressure to introduce anti-hunting legislation. The Alliance claims it has 400,000 members, but believes it could call on thousands more if it took to the ... | 379 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-27 | technology | How US copyright law threw open a Windows opportunity | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/27/microsoft.business | Microsoft was back in court last week, trying to persuade Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that the company hadn't really broken any anti-trust laws. Its lawyers produced a new rabbit out of their copious hat, namely an argument that Microsoft's legal copyright over the Windows operating system could not be infringed by a... | 797 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | technology | Accidental millionaires sell First Tuesday | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/21/efinance.business | It started as a drinks party in a Soho bar, organised by four friends intent on bringing a bit of Silicon Valley-style networking to London's nascent internet entrepreneur community. This morning, just 21 months after it was founded, First Tuesday is expected to announce that its founders are selling to Yazam, an Israe... | 659 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | money | Weaving a web to find your nest | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/14/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney2 | Turn on your television at peak viewing times and you may well see an Alan Whicker lookalike playing with plastic cups and a red ball. The advert is for Charcolonline, the web offering of Charcol, mortgage broker and independent financial adviser, and is a bid to persuade us that buying our mortgage over the internet w... | 838 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | Historic deal at North-South Korea summit | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/northkorea3 | The leaders of North Korea and South Korea signed an agreement at their historic summit today to work toward reuniting thousands of families who were separated by the Korean war, to provide desperately needed South Korean investment for the North's failing economy, and eventually to reunify the peninsula. However, the ... | 705 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | Byers approves ITV merger plan | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/14/towardsasingleitv.itv | Trade Secretary Stephen Byers today approved a merger between TV giants Carlton Communications and United News and Media. He also gave the go-ahead for Granada Media to mount a buy-up bid for either of the two other companies. The long-awaited announcement potentially paves the way for the eventual creation of a single... | 401 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | 'We've been sold down the river' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/paulkelso | The way John Ciba learned that his 30 years as a Vauxhall employee could end in 15 months time hurt almost as much as the message itself. "The phone rang yesterday at about one o'clock," he said. "I was getting ready for my shift and it was my daughter. She said: 'You'd better switch on the radio, dad, there's somethin... | 962 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | technology | The sec's files | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/feb/07/lifeonlineaguidetotheinternet.officehours | • Ringing the changes Has your firm starting using the new phone numbers? If not, you could experience problems when the dialling codes change on April 22. Although old and new codes will work in parallel for a while, the old codes will eventually be withdrawn and any phone systems that use pre-programmed numbers - inc... | 532 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | Women: Talking dirty | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/gender.uk1 | "I think women also want to read about likeable men. They certainly want to marry likeable men. But we are all tempted by the bastards" Barbara Taylor Bradford on the enduring appeal of Heathcliff, Times "He's not the greatest lover by any stretch of the imagination. But he was nice to be with. He made me coffee the fo... | 321 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | Budget reaction | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/5 | "The chancellor is like a mugger who grabs your money, then wants you to thank him for giving you the bus fare to get home." Tory party leader William Hague "You stood up to address the House as a tax-raising chancellor and you sat down as a tax-raising chancellor. You sat down as the stealth chancellor who taxes more ... | 323 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | View from New York: Show me the money | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/worlddispatch.michaelellison | Some people will sidle up at a party and tell you about their liposuction before they ever let slip their name. Bob Dole, the defeated presidential candidate four years ago, is always on the television, telling you what Viagra has done for him (Al Gore should be keeping an eye on this one). And the daytime talk shows, ... | 965 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | money | Sainsbury's offers unsold food to charity | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/29/business.personalfinancenews | Sainsbury's aims to halt the widespread dumping of its supermarket food by donating 100,000 tonnes of it to homeless people through a newly created community resources manager. Martin Bowden, a former Hertfordshire store manager has been appointed by Sainsbury directors to take over national responsibility for coordina... | 317 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/07/internetnews.business2 | • Stake talk Media company Bertelsmann said yesterday it had an option to acquire a majority stake in music-swap firm Napster, but talk of a separate listing for the website was premature. Bertelsmann stunned the music industry last week when it signed an alliance deal with Napster and abandoned a lawsuit brought by fi... | 148 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | global | Proms review: ECO/Vengerov | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/21/artsfeatures.proms2000 | Not content with being perhaps the world's greatest violinist at the age of 26, Maxim Vengerov is seeking new challenges. As well as the usual recital and concerto appearances, he's been performing in chamber groups, and has even swapped his Stradivarius for a baroque violin. Now, with the assent of the English Chamber... | 372 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | EU says it will keep pledge to rebuild in Serbia | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/balkans | The European Union is ready to plough millions of pounds worth of aid into Serbia to shore up its new democratic government. Most of the EU sanctions imposed against the country are to be lifted on Monday. The foreign secretary, Robin Cook, said yesterday that it was time to be generous. A Foreign Office official said ... | 739 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | US elections: Tellers count their blessings | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/uselections2000.usa2 | The eyes of the world may be focused on Florida's turkey of an election, but later this week the eyes of Florida will be fixed firmly on the turkey on the dinner table, while the election and the world will both be strictly ignored. Everything in America stops for Thanksgiving - including the nail-biting recounts in Fl... | 363 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Lessons from Uncle Sam | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/highereducation.davidcohen | On an occasion when education officials and government ministers in this south-east asian city-state meet to discuss plans for welcoming newcomers from the United States to their campuses, the conversation isn't about visiting lecturers or fee-paying foreign students. It's about American institutions of higher educatio... | 1,098 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | uk-news | Schoolboys drown in Thames | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/rebeccaallison | Two boys drowned yesterday after being swept away by strong currents as they swam in the River Thames. The pair, aged 11 and 16, who have not been named, were playing in the water when they apparently got into difficulties at Hurley Lock, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, police said. The alarm was raised by a worker in a ne... | 214 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | uk-news | Pub landlady 'killed regular with drink' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/07/3 | A pub landlady and her husband killed a drunken customer by forcing him to drink a lethal cocktail of spirits during a bet, a court heard yesterday. Teresa Browning, 34, and her husband Kevin, 36, are on trial at Winchester crown court jointly accused of the manslaughter of Barry Gates. A jury was told how Gates, 44, c... | 571 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | money | Report jeopardises RBS-NatWest deal | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/21/business.personalfinancenews1 | The Cruickshank banking review could throw a spanner in the works of the £21bn Royal Bank of Scotland-NatWest merger announced last month. Don Cruickshank, head of the review team, yesterday called on the government to clamp down on "anti-competitive mergers" in the banking industry, and indicated he believed the RBS-N... | 447 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | education | Chris Woodhead's Resignation Day | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/07/schools.ofsted | In breaktime at Abraham Moss High school in Greater Manchester last Friday, staff threw a party to celebrate the resignation of Chris Woodhead, the chief inspector of schools. Copies of the Guardian's front page, "Woodhead sent packing", were neatly cut out and stuck up on the staffroom walls. Staff were whispering, "f... | 1,822 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | Orange bets on £300m cyber fund | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/14/efinance.internet | The mobile internet battle intensified yesterday when Orange launched a £300m cyber fund as part of its strategy to develop content on its web portal. Orange, Britains third biggest mobile phone operator, said the cyber fund would take equity stakes in small technology start-ups and set up research and development cen... | 517 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | Iranian hardliners accuse Britain of fomenting revolt | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/28/iran | Iran's ultra-conservatives are accusing the British government of trying to overthrow the Islamic Republic by encouraging students and others to revolt. A series of articles in two national newspapers which serve as mouthpieces for hardliners accuse Britain of seeking to replace the US in trying to foment a revolution ... | 480 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | media | View from here | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/15/newmedia3 | Most newspapers have comics pages for good reason: they're popular - they are the first pages many readers turn to. Internet publications and websites often embrace comic strips as well, and the online world presents a promising marketplace. But most of tomorrow's internet comic strips won't look like those in newspape... | 950 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Minister bars export of picture | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/fiachragibbons | The arts minister, Alan Howarth, last night stepped in to bar the export of a picture by John Russell, the last of the great Georgian pastel painters. Portrait of one of the porters at the Royal Academy, above, was described as a work of "major importance which provides a remarkable insight into the Royal Academy at th... | 193 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | politics | South MPs warn of 'prosperity crisis' as more jobs force up home prices | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/27/uk.britishidentity | Labour MPs in southern England have started lobbying government ministers to stop creating new jobs in their constituencies, warning of a crisis in prosperity. The lobbying has centred on the Thames Valley corridor where demand is pushing up house prices and leading to hundreds of vacancies in key public sector jobs, s... | 875 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | global | Who's cooking? | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/14/features11.g23 | Age: 40. Nationality: Greek. Restaurant: The Real Greek, 15 Hoxton Market, London N1, tel: 0171-739 8212. Past form: "I was one of the original owners of Livebait before it was sold to the Chez Gerard group. I've worked at St John Stepping Stone in London. The Real Greek opened almost four months ago, and I'm here all ... | 479 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | global | Testament to Tavener | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/22/artsfeatures4 | Total Eclipse St Paul's Cathedral, London *** The language of spirituality, struggling as it does to find words for the inexpressible, sometimes approaches the language of sexuality. John Tavener's Total Eclipse - given its world premiere on the opening night of the City of London festival - curiously shares its title ... | 604 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Pay now, save later | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/loans.personalfinancenews | The chance to repay your 25-year mortgage within 10 or 15 years, saving thousands in interest payments, is the best reason for the growing popularity of flexi-loans. A truly flexible mortgage allows you to make overpayments and underpayments without penalty and, if you have built up enough credit in your account, the c... | 618 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | business | A very British paradox | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/28/10 | And now, as the Two Ronnies may once have said, for the bad news. Britain owes the rest of the world about £100bn, and her workers are slacking off in a big way. Productivity growth since at least 1996 has been "abysmal". So Gordon Brown has abolished boom and bust? Ha! The balance of payments is estimated at £12.8bn i... | 894 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | uk-news | A Country Diary: The Lake District | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/14/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | We escaped from the holiday tourists swarming around the crash and thunder of Aira Force to the lonely quietude of Gowbarrow Fell. Just below us, on the Ullswater shore, was "the margin of a bay" where Wordsworth saw his host of golden daffodils, around the head of the lake clustered the Helvellyn heights and, across t... | 485 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | world | The myth of gold chains and no brains | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/20/race.uk1 | If you are a broadcaster, you should never go on any television programmes that offer the viewer the right to reply. The last time I did, to contest some long-forgotten point, I was confronted by a group of self-styled 'black youths'. Their response to all the arguments I made was simple: 'You don't know nuffink - you ... | 1,240 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | money | We can pay the bills and eat - that's it | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/28/observercashsection | Vital statistics Caroline Hooley AGE: 41 LIVES IN: Winchester OCCUPATION: Casework supervisor EARNS: £15,000 MORTGAGE: £52,000 DEBTS: Overdraft and student loan INVESTMENTS: None PENSIONS: None AIMS: To plan for the future while surviving now Caroline Hooley and Robert Larter have no credit cards, no store cards and no... | 1,245 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | uk-news | Our year at the Dome | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/28/dome.joannamoorhead | Daryl Atkins, 36. Dome host Daryl Atkins's job, this past year, has been to welcome the public to the different zones of the dome, and explain the exhibits. She remembers the early days as chaos "In the beginning everything just fell apart: it all went wrong. The queues were terrible. They solved them eventually by giv... | 2,087 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | Nazi camp guard on trial | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/philipwillan | One of the last trials for alleged war crimes during the second world war began before a military tribunal in Verona yesterday. A former concentration camp guard is accused of torturing and murdering civilians. Ukrainian-born Misha Seifert, 76, who as an SS corporal was a guard at a prison camp near Bolzano in northern... | 415 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | media | The Independent's financial editor quits to join PR firm | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/21/theindependent.pressandpublishing | Andrew Garfield has quit as financial editor of the Independent to join a leading City PR firm. Mr Garfield, 39, will move to Brunswick after the new year, continuing a trend of financial journalists moving into PR. "There is a little bit of adolescence about being a journalist, such as picking holes in what people do ... | 229 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/14/efinance.internet | Booked The firm formerly known as Scottish Telecom, Thus, said it is working with networking specialist Torex to supply WH Smith Travel with the first phase of a new retail data network. Thus gained more than a 160p in the first 20 minutes' trading in London after the announcement but closed down 27p at 383p. The compa... | 171 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | world | Footnote to Italy's fascist past | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/22/rorycarroll | With hindsight, it is obvious that she was embarrassed. The flickering eyes, the shrugging, the raised hands, the mumbled answer: "Early 20s, maybe earlier." She was the caretaker of my apartment block, had been for decades, so it seemed natural that she should know when it was built. Like many blocks in Prati, a distr... | 827 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-21 | business | Reuters braves volatility to push on with Instinet IPO | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/21/reutersgroup | Information group Reuters confirmed yesterday that it is pushing ahead with the partial flotation of its Instinet electronic business-to-business broking operation despite the turbulence that has recently engulfed technology stocks. Chief executive Peter Job said most of the preparatory work for the initial public offe... | 489 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | business | Dabble in Energy and you could get a nasty shock | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/14/columnists.theobserver3 | British Energy, like many of our traditional companies, likes to complain that its shares have suffered from investors' love affair with the new economy. But last week's results from the nuclear power company showed just why investors should be so desperate to buy into high-growth companies. It is not just that British... | 1,352 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Proof that knowledge is good for the brain | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/timradford | It's official. London taxi drivers have The Knowledge, and they have bigger brains because of it. London researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - a prestige-laden US journal - that they scanned the brains of 16 right-handed London cabbies and found that in all cases, the size of... | 514 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | global | Passnotes: Friedrich Nietzsche | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/aug/21/features11.g2 | Born: October 15 1844. Died: August 25 1900, 100 years ago on Friday. Nietzsche was a devout Christian, wasn't he? No: "One cannot refute Christianity. It is impossible to refute a diseased eyesight." Did Nietzsche share the religious faith of his pastor father? No: "If a God created the world, then he must have create... | 457 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | world | UK-Jakarta arms deal confirmed | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/21/indonesia.richardnortontaylor | Britain exported 10 Hawk aircraft to Indonesia last year, the government confirmed yesterday. Figures of the country's main weapons exports - including the heavily criticised arms trade with Indonesia - are contained in the government's annual return to the United Nations conventional arms register. The register also r... | 369 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | politics | The big ideas | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/21/uk.politicalnews | Frank Dobson, Labour Transport Backs government's public-private partnership plan for tube. London Underground would continue day to day running of service, while private sector would ensure that track, signals and stations were modernised and upgraded, take the risk and meet the cost of any over-runs. Once the improve... | 825 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Carphone shrugs off mobile gloom | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/nov/07/internetnews.business4 | Carphone Warehouse yesterday shrugged off the recent gloomy growth forecasts made by some of the world's largest mobile phone handset manufacturers. The retailer, which floated in July, forecast another storming Christmas for the mobile phone market and reported a 62% increase in sales to £448m during the first half of... | 686 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | media | Press regulation | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/qanda.privacy | What is the press complaints commission? The PCC is an independent watchdog that was set up in 1991 to ensure that British newspapers and magazines follow an ethical code of practice. The code deals with issues such as inaccuracy, privacy, misrepresentation and harassment. The commission resolves complaints about possi... | 649 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | money | Naive consumers don't shop around | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney5 | Financial consumers fail to shop around, have difficulty understanding the information they get, and often find it hard to identify products to match their needs, according to a new report from the Financial Services Authority published today. The watchdog found that three out of 10 failed to shop around - with the hig... | 760 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | business | Danes find euro referendum a swine of a dilemma | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/aug/21/emu.theeuro | Politics and economics; national sovereignty, the control of monetary policy or the impact of currency instability; these are the staples of the debate over the single currency. But global warming, mad cow disease and swine fever? Just where do they fit in? In Denmark actually, where in just over a month's time voters ... | 424 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | money | NatWest takes Step | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/14/personalfinancenews | NatWest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland, confirmed this week that it will meet the government deadline for banks to offer a basic current account to customers on low incomes. The banks's Step Account is fee-free and offers access to cash machines and branches, where they exist. But it has no overdraft facilities. L... | 189 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | UN blames west for lack of troops | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/sierraleone.unitednations | The ability of the United Nations to mount future peace-keeping operations is at risk because of a lukewarm international response to pleas for troops for Sierra Leone. A source at the UN in New York said yesterday that a resolution proposed in the summer by the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, to raise the number of UN ... | 700 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | politics | Dobson attacks Millbank 'mess' | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/28/londonmayor.uk1 | Frank Dobson yesterday made a last-ditch attempt to assert his independence from the Labour leadership in the London mayoral contest, as Tony Blair hailed him as "an unspun, unspoilt candidate" and party officials claimed the former health secretary has been gaining ground against Ken Livingstone. Labour's Millbank mac... | 498 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | politics | Poverty gap hits Labour boasts | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/14/uk.labour4 | Evidence yesterday that a widening gap between rich and poor pushed 500,000 more people below the poverty line in Labour's first two years in office marred Tony Blair's most sophisticated attempt yet to sell his government's record to sceptical voters. The government was accused of "sneaking out" the embarrassing figur... | 749 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | environment | Monsanto's name radically modified | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/jan/28/gm.food | The Monsanto company name, which has become synonymous with the genetically modified food business, is to be ditched, the company revealed last night. The beleaguered American biotech company is merging with the US-Swiss drugs group Pharmacia & Upjohn and the $50bn corporation will in future be known as Pharmacia. ... | 366 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | France to crack down on sects | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/paulwebster | France is to defy President Bill Clinton's appeal to be more tolerant of religious sects and introduce draconian laws, including an offence of "mental manipulation" - brainwashing - which will carry a two-year prison sentence. President Jacques Chirac has told Mr Clinton that religious freedom will no longer be a subje... | 451 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | money | UK output passes France | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/14/interestrates.business | Britain has overtaken France as the world's fourth biggest economy as the strength of sterling and the weakness of the euro have combined to boost the value of the UK's annual output, the European Union said last night. The government was studiously avoiding breaking out the champagne after Brussels said that only the ... | 646 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | global | When three become one | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/15/artsfeatures3 | One imagines that Raphael Saadiq, an ex-member of the under-appreciated R&B group Tony Toni Tone, pinches himself every night in disbelief. Not only has he managed to recruit Ali Shaheed Muhammed, the DJ from hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, to his new project, but Dawn Robinson, formerly of En Vogue, is also on... | 524 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | uk-news | Real IRA ends silence with call to arms | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/21/northernireland.johnmullin | The Real IRA last night issued a dramatic call to arms to republican terrorists who have doubts about Sinn Fein's approach to come under its banner and push for a united Ireland. The statement fell short of announcing an imminent return to violence, but it did indicate that the hardline group was considering ending its... | 627 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | Titian purchase | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/maevkennedy | The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has paid a record price of just under £2.5m for a portrait by Titian at the Christie's auction of old masters from the Wernher collection. The sombre but sumptuous painting of a Genoese merchant was one of many stars in the collection accumulated by Sir Julius Wernher in the late 19th cen... | 422 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | world | Guerrillas force Dakar rally airlift | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/14/sport.theguardian | Three enormous Antonov-124 planes flew over the Sahara desert yesterday shuttling into Libya more than 1,500 people and vehicles involved in the Dakar-Cairo rally, which had been interrupted by a threatened guerrilla assault. The rally's chief organiser, Hubert Auriol, told France-Info radio that the round-the-clock ai... | 481 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | world | Zimbabwe government 'deploying army' to help farm invaders | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/20/zimbabwe1 | The government of Zimbabwe has deployed its own army officers to direct farm invasions by war veterans and Zanu-PF supporters, a leading Zimbabwean newspaper claims today. The news comes as squatters' leaders announced a 'cessation of hostilities' - although attacks on white farmers have continued unabated. According t... | 730 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | Police warn doctor over trip to Iraq | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/iraq.world | The government was yesterday accused of trying to intimidate opponents of its policy on Iraq after it emerged that an Iraqi-born British doctor has been visited by a special branch officer in an effort to dissuade him from attending an expatriates' conference in Baghdad. A Thames Valley police spokesman confirmed yeste... | 309 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | media | John West Salmon in £1m TV ad campaign | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/21/advertising | John West Salmon made its return to TV advertising last night with a £1m campaign aimed at positioning the fish brand as the best in its market. In what is John West Salmon's first outing on TV for more than 10 years, the campaign features a Jim Henson bear costume with an animatronic face fighting with a fisherman ove... | 177 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | business | Horton back at helm of ports bid | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/07/theobserver.observerbusiness2 | Sir Robert Horton could soon return to the helm of a UK listed company - as chairman of Associated British Ports. The colourful former head of privatised rail operator Railtrack and oil giant BP is thought to have been approached by Japanese bank Nomura to spearhead its planned bid for the UK's largest port operator. H... | 254 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | money | A circus, Noah's Ark and two economists | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/07/workandcareers | • How do you kill a circus? Go for the juggler. • One day God calls down to Noah and says: "Noah me old china, I wants you to make me a new Ark" "No probs God, anything you want after all you're the boss!" replies Noah But God interrupts: "Ah but there's a catch this time Noah. I want not just a couple of decks
I want... | 359 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | money | How to get your home loan without going outside | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney4 | Taking the advice of a mortgage broker traditionally meant making an appointment and sitting in their office while they talked through your circumstances. They told you about the deal they thought suited your needs and you sat there nodding sagely. It sometimes felt as though they were holding all the cards. The intern... | 954 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Nannying | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/furthereducation.news | What is . . . (sniff)? A nanny? Yes, but please tread softly with this one. Why? Memories, old bean, just memories (sniff). Sure. Have a good blow. Feeling better now? Brave soldier! Yes. Do go on. A nanny is a nursery nurse who is based in a private home rather than a nursery. Apart from being utterly fantastic . . . ... | 643 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-20 | uk-news | Police braced for violence at 'hard core' protests | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/20/mayday.world | Up to 500 "hard core" protesters are planning to disrupt the May Day bank holiday by rioting in London during a series of anti-capitalist demonstrations and marches, police sources revealed yesterday. Three forces - the Metropolitan police, City police and British Transport police - have cancelled leave for uniformed o... | 625 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | As tension rises in Florida, five more states brace for recounts | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/martinkettle | A week after the closest US presidential election in decades, the results still remained in doubt in five other states, as well as Florida yesterday. The five states, with a combined 34 electoral college votes at stake, were bracing for the possibility of recounts and legal challenges which could leave the results unce... | 537 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | uk-news | Fewer trains run on time | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/07/transport.world | The 25 train companies and Railtrack were yesterday told to stop a "substantial and severe slide" in punctuality, after figures revealed an alarming decline in performance. Stewart Francis, chairman of the rail passengers' council, said the companies had to draw a line under the figures, which showed that the percentag... | 233 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | money | The office gossip | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/21/officehours1 | 'There's two great things about being involved with a small company," says Sophie Smith, who has worked part-time at the Catto Gallery in Hampstead for the past two-and-a-half years. "One is that you get to do a bit of everything: no two days are the same. The other is that you can practically invent your own job title... | 698 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | uk-news | Picture palace | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/apr/28/artsfeatures | By the time the culture secretary, Chris Smith, arrives for today's opening of the £106m Lowry, the shimmering steel and glass culture palace on the banks of the Manchester ship canal, the vibrant purple paint in the foyer should be dry. The foyer should have been painted earlier this week, but the wrong emulsion arriv... | 470 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | It's divine justice, Gore is told | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/uselections2000.usa1 | Al Gore may have lost America's presidential election not because of a badly designed ballot, dubious counting practices in Florida or the defection of independents to Ralph Nader, but because of the criminal justice policy he and Bill Clinton have pursued for the past eight years. That policy appears to have robbed th... | 908 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | world | Luxembourg crowns new grand duke | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/07/stephenbates | This morning, to the strains of a trumpet blast from Luxembourg's national anthem, one of Europe's smallest monarchies will change hands. Grand Duke Jean, 79, head of state for the past 36 years, hands over to his eldest son, Prince Henri, 45. The grand duke, educated at Ampleforth and a former colonel in the Irish Gua... | 294 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | politics | PCC check on payment to Aitken | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/14/uk | The Press Complaints Commission confirmed yesterday that it would investigate the Sunday Times over the reported six-figure sum it paid for the memoirs of Jonathan Aitken, the disgraced former Tory minister. Lord Wakeham, PCC chairman, said the deal would be investigated after Peter Bradley, Labour MP for The Wrekin, c... | 293 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-06 | world | Gambling on a little Gallic flair | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/06/millennium.uk2 | While the Dome was still being built, Peter Mandelson, the Minister then in charge, visited Disneyland in Florida seeking inspiration. Two years later, the Government has gone back to Disney, seeking not inspiration, but salvation. They have given the job of running the Dome to a Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, a 34-year-old Fren... | 522 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-06 | law | New evidence shows record of war crimes suspect was not investigated | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/06/warcrimes.germany | The suspected Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs has not been properly investigated, according to the former head of Australia's war crimes unit, Robert Greenwood. Scotland Yard's investigation, which concluded there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him, was partly based on Australian files. The Guardian has also es... | 544 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | uk-news | Operation to separate conjoined twins will go ahead | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/28/4 | The operation to separate the conjoined twins Jodie and Mary will go ahead, the girls' official solicitor said today. Laurence Oates said the twins' parents had told him that they did not want to stop the operation by taking the court of appeal's decision to the House of Lords. Last week three senior judges unanimously... | 276 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Farmer claims compensation over Sarah search | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/21/4 | The farmer who has lodged a £10,000 compensation claim for damage caused to his cornfield in the search for murdered eight-year-old Sarah Payne today said his actions were "entirely proper". While a police source who has visited the Payne family said they had reacted with "disbelief" to the claim, farmer Paul Langmead ... | 449 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | Murdered exile's grave located at Paris mosque | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/paulwebster | Thirty-five years after the Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared after being kidnapped in Paris, his secret burial site has been located south of the capital. His body was buried under Europe's biggest mosque, built by his bitter foe, the late King Hassan II of Morocco. The operation to silence Ben Ba... | 827 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | business | C&W buys into Europe in bulk | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/14/efinance.internet2 | Cable & Wireless stepped up its assault on the market for data services supplied to business yesterday by confirming that it had bought eight European internet service providers. The deals, aimed at cementing the telecoms group's position as a provider of internet protocol services to business, bring C&W's inve... | 534 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-07 | politics | Labour's vital mission to carry on reforming | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/oct/07/constitution.comment | When the historians come to judge Labour's first term in office, they may well regard constitutional reform as its most radical achievement. A government condemned for control freakery in its handling of internal party management has in fact given away more power than any administration since Clement Attlee presided ov... | 991 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | education | Children's poetry books | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/21/schools.booksforchildrenandteenagers | Juggling with Gerbils Brian Patten, illus by Chris Riddell (Puffin £3.99, 7yrs to adult) Brian Patten gets better with each new collection. He can be anarchic, subversive and just plain silly but is also insightful, thought-provoking and highly original in his use of language and imagery. "Inside the dandelion seed is ... | 849 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Painful start to town hall revolution | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/modlocalgov.localgovernment | It's make or break time for town hall modernisers. With the Local Government Act rapidly coming into force, ministers and campaigners face the first test of the new political structures they have created to make town halls more open, efficient and accountable. Failure to make cabinet-style council leadership and direct... | 739 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | science | Cloned calves reveal 'fountain of youth' | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/apr/28/genetics.uknews | US scientists have cloned six calves with chromosomes that show evidence of a "fountain of youth" effect. One of the worries about previous clonings, such as Dolly the sheep, is that they are cloned from an adult cell - and that their own cells showed signs of premature ageing from birth. But a team from a biotech comp... | 836 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | Debt: 2000 deadline brought sense of urgency | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/debtrelief.development1 | Jubilee 2000, whose task is the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000, has proved to be one of the biggest global campaigns ever; it is compared to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s and its reach has far outstretched campaigns for nuclear disarmament. It trounced al... | 865 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | uk-news | Buyer poised for property killing | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/07/dome.terrymacalister | The London arm of the Japanese bank Nomura International has become one of the City's biggest movers and shakers. Under the control of Guy Hands, a close friend of William Hague, Nomura has snapped up bargains across British industry. It took over 57,000 Ministry of Defence properties, bought over 5,000 pubs and took a... | 615 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | politics | Cook urged to explain MI6 role in Gadafy plot | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/14/politicalnews.politics | Robin Cook was under pressure last night to explain MI6 links to a plot to overthrow Colonel Muammar Gadafy, the Libyan leader, after a British secret intelligence report containing details of the plan were published on the internet. The report, headed "UK eyes alpha" said MI6 was told by a "delicate source" about the ... | 1,011 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | money | Why must I pay 17p for tea? | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/27/madeleinebunting | You are working for one of the few employers who charge for tea and coffee. A survey by recruitment consultant Select Appointments, published in Industrial Relations Services' Pay and Benefits Bulletin, suggests that free tea and coffee is one of the most common benefits in the workplace. A survey of 412 organisations,... | 220 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | business | Stockwatch | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/21/theobserver.observerbusiness8 | Sweet and sour Tate & Lyle mustn't half be bitter right now. Higher US interest rates, not to mention the search for the next Internet firm to go bust à la boo.com, are likely to tip the scales further in favour of old- economy stocks. But the sugar producer has missed out in the swing of sentiment that has already... | 769 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | politics | Every year I vow not to eat the food; every year I forget | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/sep/28/labourconference.labour2 | The old grumps from the trade unions risk undoing all the good done by Brown and Blair by forcing and winning a vote on restoring pension increases to wage inflation. The vote came despite promises of an increase in the state pension above wage inflation for the next three years when the pensioner credit comes in and a... | 278 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-07 | global | Proms review: NYO / Norrington | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/08/artsfeatures.proms2000 | Is the tale of a drug addict's obsessive passion for a coquette a suitable subject for a celebration of the Queen Mother's 100th birthday? Some might say not - but that's the starting point of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, with which the NYO and Roger Norrington chose to close their musical tribute to the orchestra'... | 482 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | world | Peres to run for Israeli PM | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/21/israel | The 77-year-old Nobel prize winner Shimon Peres entered the race for Israeli prime minister last night, driven by the belief that he has the credibility with the Palestinians to negotiate a peace deal. A perennial loser in Israel's elections, Mr Peres has failed to capture the office in five previous contests. The late... | 407 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | uk-news | Cook's guide puts torturers on trial | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/28/ethicalforeignpolicy.foreignpolicy | The foreign secretary, Robin Cook, will tomorrow take the unprecedented step of publishing a torture handbook aimed at bringing international justice to bear on regimes which abuse human rights. An unusual initiative for a government, it will revive Mr Cook's flagging '"ethical dimension" in foreign policy as well as r... | 529 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | business | NTL re-enters bidding for Premiership rights | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/dec/21/broadcasting.media | Cable company NTL is back in the bidding for the pay-per-view rights to Premiership matches - just months after withdrawing a £328m bid. The company, which is the UK's biggest cable operator, is understood to be offering a fraction of the cash it was originally prepared to put up and is bidding for the rights for cable... | 383 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-28 | global | Genetically modified foods | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/28/qanda | How did the prime minister announce the new line? In an article in the Independent on Sunday. He wrote: "There's no doubt that there is potential for harm, both in terms of human safety and in the diversity of our environment, from GM foods and crops." A year ago, Mr Blair was urging people to "resist the tyranny of pr... | 651 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | media | McDonald fuels ITV ratings victory | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/14/tvratings.broadcasting | The return of Tonight with Trevor McDonald on Wednesday night proved that the popularity of the veteran newsreader has not waned. The combination of Trev's star appeal and the insatiable demand for news on the fuel crisis helped the ITV show to attract higher ratings than Channel 4's Big Brother, broadcast at the same ... | 425 |
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