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Date: 29 August 2001
By Tara Bahrampour (NYT)
Tara NYT
Voter News Service, eight-year-old consortium that provides exit polling data for news organizations, will open corporate headquarters with 17,000 square feet of space next week in small Brooklyn neighborhood called Dumbo (S)
Date: 28 August 2001
By Thom Shanker
Thom Shanker
Iraqi opposition groups will open new front in battle to topple Saddam Hussein by beaming satellite television program financed by US throughout region; program will include news, political profiles, call-in shows and music videos; channel, under logo Liberty TV, will operate from London; official Baghdad news media reports US spy plane was shot down over southern Iraq; Pentagon confirms loss of unmanned drone, which it says could have crashed because of mechanical failure (M)
Date: 29 August 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Justice Department, apparently ignoring 21-year-old internal guidelines that have virtually eliminated federal subpoenas of reporters' phone records, has obtained home telephone records of Associated Press reporter John Solomon, who is covering federal investigation of Sen Robert G Torricelli; journalists' advocacy and professional organizations say such an effort signals attempt to undermine reporting; photo (M)
Date: 28 August 2001
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Belarus government, facing new charges of complicity in killing of leading pro-democracy politician, steps up crackdown on nation's independent press and threatens to have its principal opponent in September presidential election; opposition figures say effort shows Pres Aleksandr Luksshenkjo, in office since 1994, is trying to head off more surprises in what polls suggest is increasingly close election; Lukashenko government has been shaken by accusations that in 1999 government-run death squad kidnapped and killed at least two democratic politicians, Viktor Gonchar and Yuri Zakharenko and one of Gonchar's business associates, Anatoly Krasovsky (M)
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Staples Inc's shareholders approve plan to buy back shares of Staples.com held by venture capitalists and employees, ignoring opponents who complained that price is too high; investors and employees will receive equivalent of $7 worth of Staples stock for each Staples.com share they own (S)
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ryder System receives multiyear contract to manage delivery of Los Angeles Times from printing plants to distribution centers (S)
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler will add four lower-priced minivan models by October (S)
Date: 29 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Otis elevator unit of United Technologies Corp plans to cut as many as 580 jobs at plants in Indiana and Mexico as it consolidates production of high-rise elevators and cuts costs; will stop production in Mexico City and move work to Nogales, Mex (S)
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Australia's Westfield Holdings acquires quarter of Rodamco North America for $490 million from Stichting Pensioenfonds, Dutch pension fund, increasing its ownership of shopping malls in US (S)
Date: 29 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CVS Corp agrees to pay $4 million to settle allegations it submitted false prescription claims; Justice Department says CVS and Revco chain it acquired in 1997 were accused of dispensing partial prescriptions because of insufficient stock, while billing government health insurance programs for full quantities prescribed; money will go to federal government, District of Columbia and 20 states (S)