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lead hisashi_shinto , once one of japan 's most powerful business figures , was convicted of accepting_bribes today in the first big court case to emerge from a scandal that rocked japan 's political world . hisashi_shinto , once one of japan 's most powerful business figures , was convicted of accepting_bribes today i... | 2 |
bickering this election year between democrats and republicans over a drug benefit for medicare enrollees has been shrill . but senator ron_wyden , democrat of oregon , and representative bill thomas , republican of california , two influential leaders on health_care , announced a set of principles last week that , by ... | 0 |
san_diego_padres third baseman gary_sheffield was released from jail on a 500 bond after being arrested early yesterday after arguing with a houston police_officer at an all night restaurant . sheffield was charged with the misdemeanor assault of a policeman after the argument about 3 a.m . sheffield spent about 14 hou... | 0 |
more than 73 million viewers tuned in to see president_bush 's speech to the nation on monday_night , a figure surpassed in recent years only by the super_bowl telecast and the president 's address after the terrorist attacks in september 2001 . the networks that benefited most were abc and the fox_news_channel . abc w... | 1 |
lead ''while these numbers look good , they are not as good as they look . '' l . william_seidman , f . d . i . c . chairman , on the strong third quarter bank earnings . ''while these numbers look good , they are not as good as they look . '' l . william_seidman , f . d . i . c . chairman , on the strong third quarter... | 0 |
in winning the democratic primary on tuesday to succeed edward g . rendell as mayor of philadelphia , john f . street held tightly to his issue oriented message in the face of personal attacks that nearly defeated him . while other candidates in the crowded field used attack advertising in their campaigns , mr . street... | 0 |
lead china 's most prominent dissident intellectual , breaking an imposed silence , today assailed harsh political controls on university students and teachers . china 's most prominent dissident intellectual , breaking an imposed silence , today assailed harsh political controls on university students and teachers . t... | 3 |
when silvio_berlusconi campaigned to be italian prime_minister in 2001 , he offered a series of promises about what he would accomplish in the next five years . at the time , it seemed safe . the idea that an italian prime_minister would survive for five years seemed absurd . no italian government since world_war_ii ha... | 9 |
to the sports editor i kept seeing this error in the stories on the olympics ''the united_states hockey team , '' referring to the men 's team . it would seem desirable to make the distinction between the men and the women since the united_states women 's team won gold and did not trash its quarters . elizabeth n . nor... | 2 |
germany endured a barrage of negative economic news today in particular , that unemployment soared in december creating a sense of gloom that has not been seen since the country began to climb out of its worst postwar recession more than two years ago . and if the conventional_wisdom is true that as the german economy ... | 6 |
the players in this complex tale include the man accused of masterminding what may be the biggest bank_fraud in history , a bulldog congressman who seems determined to prove that the president 's top aides engaged in a vast cover up , and a beleaguered president who cannot understand why the issue will not go away . as... | 1 |
sergei nemchinov had ice bags strapped to his 32 year old body and a big smile spread across his mature , veteran face . ''i 'm not as old as you think , '' nemchinov said , and his performance supported his words . nemchinov , the rangers' checking center , had just played left_wing on the top unit of the russian nati... | 5 |
insurgents unleashed a string of fierce attacks across central and northern iraq on thursday that left nearly a dozen iraqis and an american marine dead , while the militant group led by the country 's most wanted guerrilla posted a video on the internet showing the fatal shooting of a candidate from the prime_minister... | 1 |
lead chinese students at many colleges and universities across the united_states have signed a petition to their government on behalf of an american educated molecular biologist who was arrested nearly a year ago in shanghai during a crackdown on political_dissent . chinese students at many colleges and universities ac... | 3 |
for unbridled passion , there 's nothing like the soccer match between roma and lazio this month . by jeff z . klein in america , we take our sports rivalries seriously , as anyone who has been to a yankees red_sox game can tell you . but for pure operatic heat and spectacle and that special sense of menace you get fro... | 9 |
the bank of japan today lowered an important lending rate by three quarters of a point , a day after the government announced a package of measures to stimulate the sagging economy . but the stock_market , reflecting the sagging confidence of the business community , reacted coolly . after falling to a five year low on... | 2 |
perhaps no minor party has shaped modern day politics in new york as profoundly as the state 's conservative_party , sending a little known candidate to the united_states_senate in 1970 and helping orchestrate the defeat of a democratic star , gov . mario m . cuomo , a generation later . but now , with the steady erosi... | 0 |
both companies have french roots , and both plan to go public in 2005 . but the similarities do not end there . both lazard , the financial firm , and lectricit de france , the state owned utility , are going public in large part because their managers concluded that operations could not continue as they were . and bot... | 8 |
the yen plummets . japan 's currency sank to a_10 week low against the dollar after japanese finance officials said they favored a weaker currency . in new york , the dollar settled at 118 . 74 yen , up from 114 . 21 on friday . | 2 |
the next american astronaut in line for a tour aboard the troubled russian space_station mir has been pulled from the mission because she is too small for the russian space walk suits , nasa announced today . the astronaut , comdr . wendy b . lawrence of the navy , had been scheduled to begin a four month stay on the m... | 5 |
american commanders say iraqi forces are reeling from almost three weeks of air and land attacks , and they are mounting a three pronged army assault on baghdad to try to force a quick end to the war . when the land campaign was first devised , american commanders envisioned a far more deliberate assault . the attack o... | 1 |
in an era of business deals and fervent consumerism , when the m.b.a . is hot among graduating_seniors , why do more and more of the better college students yearn to join a seemingly outdated club the communist_party ? at beijing_university , the country 's most eminent school , which draws an elite student body from a... | 3 |
either victory was at hand , or television had rewound news coverage back to the first , optimistic days of the war . a confident george_bush , hand in hand with the first lady , paid tribute to cheering marines at camp_lejeune , n.c. , while on the road to baghdad , soldiers from the advancing third infantry division ... | 1 |
the department of defense has identified 1 , 321 american service members who have died since the start of the iraq_war . it confirmed the deaths of the following americans yesterday lehto , jason a. , 31 , staff sgt . , marine_corps_reserve mount clemens , mich . marine wing support group 47 , fourth marine aircraft w... | 1 |
the drive for new and expanded convention centers stretches from new york to san_diego . in the last two years , high point , n.c. , built a showplace hall with 450 , 000 square_feet of exhibition space , while grand_forks , n.d. , erected the alerus center , with 123 , 000 square_feet . anaheim , calif . charleston , ... | 0 |
iraqi political leaders stepped up efforts to persuade the world that they were tackling the country 's thorniest problems on wednesday , highlighting crackdowns on militias , pressing for more rapid arming of iraqi troops , and underlining progress on a national oil law and new examples of reconciliation with former b... | 1 |
in the era of welfare downsizing , any steep drop in public assistance has become a politician 's signal to boast . in new york city the welfare_rolls listed 797 , 000 recipients last month compared with 1 . 16 million almost three years ago , and in his travels around the country , mayor rudolph_giuliani likes to trum... | 0 |
american_airlines bought 10 million worth of canadian routes and other assets from eastern_airlines . eastern sold its route authority for new york newark and montreal ottawa along with 10 gates at la_guardia airport in new york . the deal also includes gates at montreal 's dorval airport and at orlando , fla . , nashv... | 7 |
canada 's unemployment rate fell three tenths of a percentage point to 7.5 percent in september , the lowest level in more than nine years . the number of new jobs created 63 , 800 was more than had been added over the previous six months and twice what economists had expected . manufacturing accounted for more than a ... | 7 |
the acute angle on a corner of the lot on upper broadway on which a_20 story condo is rising dictated a form that has its designers reaching for a word not often heard in architects' offices a prow . ''that prow has become the major focus of the site , '' said randolph gerner , a principal at gerner kronick valcarcel ,... | 0 |
the phone call that changed peter hartz 's life came on a winter morning in 2002 , as he was speeding to a board meeting at the german carmaker audi . the caller was gerhard schrrated pg 13der , the chancellor of germany , and he got right to the point he was about to announce the formation of a blue ribbon commission ... | 6 |
elena collongues popova worked for years in silence , as the financial architect of parts of the early empire built by mikhail b . khodorkovsky , who controls yukos , the giant russian oil company . but she has since turned on mr . khodorkovsky , russia 's richest man , after french tax police fined her roughly 15 mill... | 5 |
confirming that it remains in the grip of a recession , hong_kong said its gross_domestic_product had shrunk 3.5 percent in the first quarter . weak consumer demand and a 5 percent decline in exports hobbled the economy . but officials pointed to a few rays of light , including a modest rebound in tourism and the resid... | 3 |
the senate banking committee today approved the clinton_administration 's program for spurring lending in poor communities , adding provisions to make borrowing by small businesses easier and to protect consumers from exploitation by home_equity lenders . some republicans expressed doubts over the plan , pushed by the ... | 0 |
new york city 's bid to attract a world competition with thousands of athletes from more than 100 countries competing at stadiums , parks and other venues across the city and in nearby suburbs has succeeded , an international sports federation said yesterday . it is not the olympics . instead , after what has been a qu... | 0 |
as florida was cleaning up yesterday from its fourth hurricane in six weeks , insurance executives and analysts said they expected the cost of coverage to rise sharply for millions of homes and businesses in the state . with the industry expecting to have to pay roughly 20 billion in claims from the storms , the analys... | 0 |
many of the 17 soldiers who died when two black hawks helicopters collided on saturday had worked in iraq for nearly nine months , but two men had just arrived there , fresh from flight training school together . second lt . jeremy l . wolfe , 27 , graduated from the army 's pilot training school in fort rucker , ala .... | 1 |
lead new york city , whether melting_pot or mosaic , has now conferred its collective respect on another branch of the american family . by electing david_dinkins as mayor , new york has released a wave of pride in its citizens of african_american heritage and a sense of unity among the many white voters who rallied to... | 0 |
lead rallies were held across the united_states yesterday in support of china 's battered pro_democracy movement . rallies were held across the united_states yesterday in support of china 's battered pro_democracy movement . about 1 , 500 people gathered in downtown chicago , where sasa lu , a chinese_american student ... | 3 |
as construction work begins on 9 metrotech south , a 670 , 000 square_foot building that will house 1 , 300 employees of empire blue cross and blue shield , planning is under way to lay the zoning and other groundwork for other development in downtown_brooklyn . while the new building will complete development of the 1... | 0 |
on being told they were going to see ''dr . cat , '' some young patients would enter his office and question his pedigree . ''are you really a cat ? '' they would ask , or ''do you meow ? '' if it meant calming down an anxious child , the pediatrician would meow . sometimes he would conduct an examination on a stuffed ... | 0 |
european stock markets fell sharply and the weaker currencies plunged in value again today after investors apparently decided there was little chance that europe could pull out of its economic turmoil anytime soon . the heavy selling of stocks and the continued decline in the value of the british_pound , the italian_li... | 6 |
when anti american demonstrations erupted in chinese cities 10 days ago , executives at several united_states companies went into crisis mode and evacuated employees . in beijing and shanghai , some americans felt trapped inside their homes , fearful that angry students could turn into unruly mobs . as scary as the dem... | 3 |
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