Detectives’ Union Punishes Daily News
Date: 25 April 2008
By Cara Buckley
Cara Buckley
The Detectives’ Endowment Association exacted revenge on The Daily News for what it called unfavorable coverage of Michael Oliver, one of the three detectives who was acquitted in the Sean Bell shooting trial.
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Generics and Job-Cutting Costs Lower Drug Makers’ Profits
Date: 25 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The drug maker AstraZeneca, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Bayer reported declines in first-quarter profit on generic competition and costs from cutting jobs.
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Obama to Appear on ‘Fox News Sunday’
Date: 24 April 2008
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
The show had debuted an “Obama Watch” graphic five weeks ago, complete with the tick-tock sound and split-screen effect used on the Fox counterterrorism drama “24.”
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U.S. Allows Sale of Drug to Treat Constipation
Date: 25 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Progenics Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth have won federal approval for the first drug to treat constipation caused by powerful opioid painkillers like morphine.
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Demand Lifts Boeing and General Dynamics
Date: 24 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boeing said its profits rose 38 percent, to $1.21 billion. General Dynamics said its net income jumped 32 percent, to $572 million.
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Darell Garretson, 76, Longtime N.B.A. Official, Dies
Date: 24 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mr. Garretson developed the concept of “refereeing the defense” and had a career that included more than 2,000 N.B.A. games and spanned 31 years.
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More Bad News for the Lasik Business
Date: 25 April 2008
By Mike Nizza
Mike Nizza
An F.D.A. hearing with some unhappy patients.
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Head of Goldman’s Mortgage Unit to Leave
Date: 25 April 2008
By Dealbook
Dealbook
The head of Goldman Sachs‘s mortgage division, Dan Sparks, is leaving after helping the firm avoid the worst of the subprime mortgage maelstrom.
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Zuckerman Said to Match Murdoch’s Newsday Offer
Date: 25 April 2008
By Dealbook
Dealbook
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the owner of The Daily News in New York, believes that he can snatch Newsday from Rupert Murdoch and the News Corporation without offering a dime more than the $580 million already on the table.
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Master of a fading craft
Date: 24 April 2008
By Beth Knobel
Beth Knobel
NEW YORK — If he hadn't smoked himself to an early death, Edward R. Murrow would have turned 100 years old on Friday. There couldn't be a better time to remember America's most famous reporter and his legacy - advocacy journalism.
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