BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION
Date: 02 September 2001
By Douglas A. Sylva
Douglas Sylva
Douglas A Sylva reviews book Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President by Robert Shogan (S)
Шувам Шреста (неп. शुवम श्रेष्ठ, романизовано Shuvam Shrestha; Трипурешвар, 1. септембар 2001) непалски је пливач чија специјалност су трке прсним стилом. Вишеструки је национални првак и рекордер у све три трке прсним стилом.
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Date: 02 September 2001
By Douglas A. Sylva
Douglas Sylva
Douglas A Sylva reviews book Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President by Robert Shogan (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
Eleven mine officials and four Nandan County, China, political leaders are arrested in probe of July flooding at tin mine in which 81 workers drowned and of attempted cover-up; mine officials are charged with mismanagement, illegal extraction, chaotic digging and illegal blasting; disaster attracted wide attention because of role of unusually dogged Chinese newspaper reporters in drawing lurid picture of local kingpin Li Dongming, reporting he got rich running mines with backing of armed gang and government officials he bribed; more arrests are expected (M)
Date: 02 September 2001
By
This week's letters addressed the Rolando Paulion All-Stars, coverage of the Little League World Series, and the signing of Eric Lindros to the Rangers
Date: 02 September 2001
By James Dao
James Dao
Major decisions due this fall on defense spending and defense contracts set off multimillion-dollar advertising and lobbying effort by contractors, including Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, Newport News Shipbuilding, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, TRW and United Defense; among weapon systems at stake are Joint Strike Fighter, DD-21 destroyer, mobile artillery system known as Crusader and V-22 Osprey aircraft; defense industry hoped Pres Bush would return spending to heyday of Reagan administration, but his tax cut and slowing economy have sharply squeezed fedral surplus, leaving little money for significant military spending increases for years to come; photos; graph (M)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SouthTrust Corp will buy Bank of Tidewater for $67.8 million in stock (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Maytag Corp sells its commercial-cooking business, G S Blodgett, to Middleby Corp for $95 million in cash and notes, less than Maytag paid for it four years ago (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PrimeSource Corp is in talks to buy Fuji Photo Film Co for $63.6 million (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corinthan Colleges Inc shares fall $13.50, to $39.35, after company forecasts fiscal first-quarter earnings will be at low end of analyst estimates (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Caxton Associates, leading investor in American Medical Security Group, calls for company to be sold or undergo change in management; Bruce Kovner, whoc controlls Caxton, says American Medical shares are undervalued (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Westvaco Corp, which has agreed to merge with Mead Corp, will take $26 million pretax charge in its fiscal fourth quarter to close paper mill in Tyrone, Pa, which employs 265 workers (S)