Fox and NBC May Drop Poll Group Over Fiasco
Date: 30 November 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Fox News and NBC News say they will not renew service in Voter News Service, which conducts voter surveys, unless it corrects problems that that led them to erroneously project winner in November 7 presidential election (S)
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As the Battle Between the Tabloids Intensifies, So Do The Post's Labor Woes
Date: 01 December 2000
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
New York Daily News announces that it will continue giving away afternoon Daily News Express; meanwhile, labor problems at competing New York Post intensify with lawsuit filed by six white pressman who claim discrimination in hiring practices (M)
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TV Follows Truck With Crucial Cargo
Date: 01 December 2000
By David Stout
David Stout
Yellow rental truck carrying more than 462,000 paper ballots from West Palm Beach to Florida's capital, Tallahassee, is closely tracked by journalists in cars and helicopters, and waved at by people on overpasses as it makes it way up Florida Turnpike; two more trucks with 654,000 Miami-Dade County ballots are to travel to Tallahassee next (M)
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PUBLIC SPLITS ON PARTY LINES OVER VOTE AND LONG DELAY
Date: 30 November 2000
By Richard L. Berke and Janet Elder
Richard Berke
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds that Americans are not overwhelmingly distressed but remain deeply divided along party lines over who should be president, even though Gov George W Bush asserts that they are chafing over contested election; public expressed reservations over whether Bush or Vice Pres Al Gore would have ability to put partisanship aside and unite nation; restlessness over lack of president-elect three weeks after election is concentrated among Republicans, while Democrats say they are willing to wait as legal appeals and political machinations play out; charts (M)
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Essay; The Telltale Heart
Date: 30 November 2000
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column discusses poor handling of disclosure of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Dick Cheney's heart attack; holds that because Bush staff failed to press doctors for accurate assessment in plain words, Governor Bush was embarrassingly misinformed; he passed on that reassuring information to public on television; says incident shows that Cheney and Bush staff need new attitude toward full disclosure in crises situations (M)
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CADBURY TO TAKE A CHARGE FOR ABSORBING ACQUISITIONS
Date: 30 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cadbury Schweppes will take $71 million to $78 million charge each of next two years to cover costs of integrating recent acquisitions into the company (S)
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GILLETTE TO MAKE NEW ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSHES
Date: 30 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gillette Co will introduce line of three new electric toothbrushes in 2001 (S)
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PBOC HOLDINGS IS CONSIDERING SALE OF COMPANY
Date: 30 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PBOC Holdings, parent of People's Bank of California, is considering liquidation (S)
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USX IS CONSIDERING CHANGES, INCLUDING A SALE
Date: 01 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
USX Corp considers changes in its stock structure to appease frustrated shareholders; has not ruled out selling company (S)
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VIRGIN AIRWAYS TO BEGIN TORONTO-LONDON FLIGHTS
Date: 30 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Virgin Atlantic Airways will begin flying between Toronto and London in 2001 (S)
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