Now Newshounds Have More to Watch
Date: 22 July 2004
By Eric A. Taub
Eric Taub
ABC is offering gavel-to-gavel coverage of Democratic and Republican conventions and 24-hour news programming until election on digital sub-channels; to see those channels, viewers must have digital TV with decoding equipment and receive digital signals; photo (M)
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Privacy Rights, Fair Trials, Celebrities and the Press
Date: 23 July 2004
By Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak
News analysis; judges in several high-profile cases struggle to reconcile rights and appetites of press, privacy of litigants and fair-trial rights of celebrity defendants, but judicial hostility to press may have reached tipping point and some are concerned for future of prior restraint law and reporters' privilege; in Kobe Bryant case, Colorado Supreme Court has forbidden news organizations from publishing information from transcript mistakenly e-mailed to them by court clerk; legal experts call decision bold, and at odds with US Supreme Court decisions; in Michael Jackson case, court has issued series of orders barring release of essentially all information concerning evidence and potential witnesses' identities; law concerning access to proceedings and documents is not as definitive as that concerning restraints on publication; implications of rulings on First Amendment law discussed; news organizations have begun proceedings in both cases to overturn decision to protect rights of access; photos (M)
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Microsoft Says It Is Exploring the Sale of Slate Magazine
Date: 23 July 2004
By David Carr
David Carr
According to company executives, Slate has little business salience in an age dominated by search applications.
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Woman's Mosque Protest Brings Furor in the U.S.
Date: 22 July 2004
By Laurie Goodstein
Laurie Goodstein
Asra Q Nomani is causing stir at her mosque in Morgantown, W Va, by opposing some restrictive practices against women; having child out of wedlock, publicizing her disobedience in several newspaper essays, using main mosque entrance and sitting in main prayer area have raised ire of executive committee, where her membership is being challenged following petition demanding her expulsion; female members are split over their support of her; photo (M)
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Metro Matters; Can G.O.P. Bear to See Naked City?
Date: 22 July 2004
By Joyce Purnick
Joyce Purnick
Joyce Purnick Metro Matters column questions plans for Republican National Convention in New York City, suggesting that city will try to impress visitors, journalists and delegates by destroying New York's character and trying to sell city as friendly homogenized and trouble-free place (M)
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Acquisitions Bolster General Dynamics Profit
Date: 22 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Dynamics Corp, largest maker of armored vehicles for Army, says second-quarter earnings rose 24 percent, to $300 million, as acquisitions lifted sales and margins from business jets improved (S)
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J.P. MORGAN TO CONTROL AMC ENTERTAINMENT
Date: 23 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
J P Morgan Chase & Co acquires 50.1 percent stake in movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Inc for $2 billion and plans to take company private; Apollo Management will hold other 49.9 percent share (S)
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ELI LILLY REPORTS 5% DECLINE IN EARNINGS
Date: 23 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly & Co says second-quarter net income dropped 5 percent; net income fell to $656.9 million from $692.2 million year ago; revenue rose 15 percent, to $3.56 billion (S)
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GUIDANT FORESEES JOB CUTS AND WEAKER SALES
Date: 23 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Guidant Corp reports second-quarter net income of $126.5 million; says sales for quarter will fall as company cuts jobs and loses market share in implantable defibrillators and heart stents; third-quarter sales will probably fall to $890 million to $930 million, from $937.8 million year ago; reports profit of $184.6 million (S)
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SEARS PROFIT OFF 83% AND FORECAST IS LOWERED
Date: 23 July 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sears, Roebuck & Co's second-quarter earnings fell 83 percent; net income fell to $53 million from $309 million year ago; revenue in three months ended July 3 fell 14 percent, to $8.78 billion (S)
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