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10th of January 2001 News
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Murdoch Makes Offer to China
Date: 10 January 2001
By Craig S. Smith
Craig Smith
Rupert Murdoch, who once declare that satellite television posed 'an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere,' has asked Jiang Zemin to allow him to organize media summit meeting in Shanghai to coincide with gathering of regional leaders for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum; has worked hard to restore relations with China since angering country's Communist Party elders with his anti-totalitarian remark made in 1993 shortly after he bought Star TV satellite network that beams programming in English and Chinese across China; has quietly steered his media empire away from confrontation with China, potentially huge market that is still closed to foreign media; photo (M)
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2 Media Groups Move To Examine Florida Votes
Date: 10 January 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Organized effort by news organizations to examine uncounted Florida ballots results in two independent projects; consortium of eight news organizations, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Tribune Company and CNN, retain National Opinion Research Center to report on estimated 180,000 overvotes and undervotes; Miami Herald's effort, joined by USA Today, is examining undervotes by county; major accounting firms have refused to serve as independent third parties; John Broder of The Times notes logistical challenge and costs (M)
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China Attacks the Falun Gong in New Public Relations Effort
Date: 11 January 2001
By Craig S. Smith
Craig Smith
China begins fresh news-media campaign to discredit banned spiritual movement Falun Gong ahead of gathering of devotees in Hong Kong; Communist Party newspaper calls movement 'cheap tool' of forces in West trying to change China's political system; for first time, national television broadcasts heavily edited videotape of Falun Gong followers protesting in Tiananmen Square, without showing violence with which protesters are often apprehended by police (M)
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LAZARD HIRES CHAIRMAN OF AMERICAN EXPRESS AS ADVISER
Date: 11 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lazard Freres hires Harvey Golub as senior adviser (S)
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I.B.M. SEES STRONG SALES OF DESKTOP COMPUTERS
Date: 10 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
IBM expects global sales of desktop computers to grow at percentage rates in mid-teens in coming years (S)
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ROSS PEROT'S COMPUTER COMPANY TO CUT 200 JOBS
Date: 11 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Perot Systems Corp, computer company founded by Ross Perot, will cut 200 jobs, or 2.7 percent of its work force, to focus on selling services to finance, health care and manufacturing companies (S)
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REVLON CREDIT RATINGS CUT, AND BOND PLAN IS ATTACKED
Date: 11 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Revlon's credit rating is cut by Standard & Poor's Corp, which says Revlon's plan to exchange some bonds would be 'tantamount to a default' (S)
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NURSING HOME OPERATOR CLOSES ITS FLORIDA BUSINESS
Date: 10 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Extendicare Inc, operator of nursing homes in US and Canada, pulls out of Florida market because of rising insurance costs; sells one home in Tampa to buyer it does not name for $3.7 million, and has leased 15 Florida properties to Tandem Health Care or Senior Health Properties-South (S)
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RELATIVES OF 3 CONCORDE CRASH VICTIMS FILE SUIT
Date: 10 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Air France, Continental Airlines, and companies that helped build their aircraft are named in new lawsuit stemming from last year's crash of Concorde supersonic jet; complaint, filed by estates of three German travelers who died in crash, contends that two events thought to have caused crash--16-inch metal strip falling off Continental DC-10's thrust reverser, and blowout of Concorde tire that hit strip on runway, were such common occurrences that crash could and should have been prevented; Goodyear Tire and Rubber, General Electric, MRA Systems Inc, BAE Systems PLC and European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co are named as defendants (S)
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HYUNDAI MOTOR HOPES TO INCREASE SALES 23% IN THE U.S.
Date: 10 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hyundai Motor Co hopes to expand its sales in US by 23 percent this year, helped by improved brand image and wider range of vehicles (S)
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SUPPLIER OF LEASED COMPUTERS LAYS OFF 96 EMPLOYEES
Date: 10 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Comdisco Inc, supplier of leased computers and management services, will stop providing computer network-management services and will lay off 96 employees (S)
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ADVANCED MICRO IS SEEKING PARTNER FOR $4 BILLION PLANT
Date: 10 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Intel Corp's main rival in computer microprocessor market, plans to find partner and build new factory costing as much as $4 billion by 2004 (S)
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