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Date: 28 January 2001
By Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn
World Trade Orgn's 2001 global trade summit will be held in Doha, Qatar; WTO got mostly polite rejections when it invited bids to host summit, after its 1999 meeting in Seattle became synonymous with arrested demonstrators, tear gas and gridlock; WTO says Qatar will welcome accredited media and watchdog groups, but protest groups are wary (S)
Date: 28 January 2001
By Laura Rowley
Laura Rowley
View column by former CNN reporter Laura Rowley describes her dismissal by company after merger between America Online and Time Warner, CNN's parent company, was approved by Federal Communications Commission; photo (M)
Date: 27 January 2001
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Pres Vladimir V Putin's allies smell victory in battle to control Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-Most press empire, last nationwide voice critical of Putin; Media-Most's largest creditor, state-controlled Gazprom natural-gas monopoly, says it will appoint its own board of directors for Media-Most, citing court decision it claims gives it control of company; at same time, government prosecutors are racheting up high-profile, if murky, criminal inquiry into Media-Most; they say Media-Most may have given 100 journalists large sums of foreign currency; this is not illegal, but prosecutors contend it needs investigation (M)
Date: 28 January 2001
By Joseph P. Fried
Joseph Fried
Following Up on news column; young doctor who pricked herself with needle and contracted HIV virus while in training at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1988 has not yet developed AIDS but suffers physical and emotional ailments and gave up plans for practice; Connecticut Supreme Court reversed her $12.2-million jury award and ordered retrial; May 1999 murder of Matthew Herman, 33-year-old ad executive, in Central Park remains unsolved; photo (S)
Date: 27 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
TROY, Mich., Jan. 26 — Delphi Automotive Systems , the auto-parts maker, said today that it would lay off about 5,000 workers for a week starting Monday because of production shutdowns by General Motors , its biggest customer and former parent. Most of the Delphi layoffs will be in plants in Ohio and Michigan, with smaller numbers in Alabama, New York and Indiana, a spokeswoman, Claudia Piccinin, said. Delphi had to furlough about 4,300 workers this week after G.M. shut down three assembly plants.
Date: 27 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 26 — The Sanmina Corporation, which makes electronic components, said today that it had agreed to buy Segerstroem & Svensson of Sweden for about $502.7 million in stock to add plants in Europe, Brazil and the United States.
Date: 27 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Nasdaq composite index rallied to finish its first three-week winning streak since September as investors bet that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates enough next week to lead to faster corporate profit growth.
Date: 28 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 27 — Like college football coaches recruiting high school stars, National Football League teams each year try to pry the University of Florida's football coach, Steve Spurrier, away from the program he has built in Gainesville.
Date: 27 January 2001
Correction of Jan 5 profile of Bill Beutel, former anchor of WABC-TV's Eyewitness News, regarding family information about him
Date: 28 January 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-9 India Tallies Death Toll After Devastating Quake The death toll from a severe earthquake that struck the western Indian state of Gujarat on Friday was confirmed to be 2,400. But that number was expected to grow by many thousands as battalions of soldiers dig through the ruins. It was the worst quake in India in half a century. 1