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ny0170384 | [
"us",
"politics"
] | 2007/05/22 | McCain Counters Romney With a Three-Way Riposte | It doesn’t look much like there is a McCain-Romney ticket in the offing. Senator John McCain of Arizona, whose support of a bipartisan immigration proposal has drawn criticism from Mitt Romney , the former governor of Massachusetts, answered yesterday with a pointed riposte. “In the case of Governor Romney, you know, m... | McCain John;Romney Mitt;Illegal Immigrants;Hunting and Trapping;Abortion;Immigration and Refugees;Presidential Election of 2008;United States Politics and Government;Politics and Government |
ny0128484 | [
"world",
"americas"
] | 2012/06/11 | Priorities in Mexico’s Drug War | The following are excerpts from an interview with Enrique Peña Nieto, a former governor of Mexico State who is the front-running candidate in the July 1 presidential election in Mexico . The interview was conducted in Spanish last week and translated by The New York Times. On priorities in the drug war : “The adjustmen... | Mexico;Elections;Pena Nieto Enrique;Drug Abuse and Traffic;Police;Organized Crime |
ny0156824 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2008/06/01 | Course Requirements: Good Nose and a Taste for Wine | Stephanie Frederick’s lecture began with a toast to Robert Mondavi, the celebrated winemaker who recently died. “He was the true father of American wine, my hero,” Ms. Frederick said to her students, who sat before a map of Italy, each one peering over seven glasses of red and white wines in a room where the wafts of a... | Wines;Manhattan (NYC);Sommelier Society of America |
ny0211927 | [
"us"
] | 2017/01/09 | Women’s March on Washington Opens Contentious Dialogues About Race | Many thousands of women are expected to converge on the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. Jennifer Willis no longer plans to be one of them. Ms. Willis, a 50-year-old wedding minister from South Carolina, had looked forward to taking her daughters to the ... | Women's rights,Feminism;Civil Unrest;Race and Ethnicity;Donald Trump;Washington DC;Women and Girls;Black People,African-Americans;White People;US Politics |
ny0008374 | [
"us"
] | 2013/05/23 | Okla. Town’s Residents Stay Put in Tornadoes’ Cross Hairs | MOORE, Okla. — Along a nearly 20-mile path of caved-in buildings, upside-down cars and muddy rubble, there was a different sort of stunning sight on Wednesday — a homeowner, broom in hand, sweeping the driveway, trying to make at least one patch of land here the way it used to be. For more than a century, this Oklahoma... | Moore OK;Tornado |
ny0009572 | [
"business"
] | 2013/02/18 | Rem Vyakhirev, Former Chief of Gazprom, Dies at 78 | MOSCOW — Rem I. Vyakhirev, who as chief executive of the huge Russian energy company Gazprom during the 1990s resisted efforts by reformers to break up and privatize it, only to end his tenure a billionaire owning valuable pieces of the company himself, died on Feb. 11. He was 78. His death was confirmed by a Gazprom s... | Rem Vyakhirev;Gazprom;Obituary;Russia |
ny0012955 | [
"us"
] | 2013/11/19 | Louisiana: Political Newcomer Is Headed to Congress | Vance McAllister has never been to Washington, but he will make his first trip this week — as Louisiana’s newest congressman. The Republican political newcomer began to build his staff Monday after his 20-point victory on Saturday in the runoff election for the Fifth District seat. Mr. McAllister met with his predecess... | House of Representatives;Congress;Republicans;Louisiana;Rodney Alexander |
ny0182590 | [
"us"
] | 2007/12/28 | Military Paper Challenges Defense Dept. | WASHINGTON — Top editors at the military newspaper Stars and Stripes are asking for full disclosure of the paper’s relationship with a Department of Defense publicity program, called America Supports You, after disclosures that money for the program was funneled through the newspaper. The newspaper’s two top editors ha... | Stars and Stripes;Defense Department;America Supports You;Newspapers |
ny0043996 | [
"science"
] | 2014/05/13 | New Neurons Found to Overwrite Old Memories | The inability of adults to recall experiences from early childhood may be linked to the creation of new neurons in the brain. Throughout a person’s life, neurons are constantly made in the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with memory. To see whether this process, known as neurogenesis, could drive the loss... | Amnesia;Rodents;Brain;Memory;Science Journal |
ny0022165 | [
"sports",
"football"
] | 2013/09/21 | Giants Hope for U-Turn on Familiar Trip | EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The 0-2 Giants found a ray of hope this week in the knowledge that their last such start came in 2007, when they swept their next six games and went on to win Super Bowl XLII. The belief that they can repeat such a turnaround could hinge on how they fare Sunday against quarterback Cam Newton and... | Football;Giants;Carolina Panthers;Cameron J Newton;Andre Brown;Corey Webster;Aaron Ross |
ny0015746 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2013/10/17 | Trial Opens for Imelda Marcos’s Ex-Aide | When the former personal secretary to Imelda Marcos contacted a London gallery three years ago about selling a Monet masterpiece that Mrs. Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, had bought in the 1970s, the gallery was understandably leery. The ex-secretary, Vilma Bautista, possessed only one thing to prove ... | Art;Fraud;Vilma Bautista;Imelda R Marcos;Philippines |
ny0057868 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2014/09/12 | Budget Cuts Reshape New York’s Public Housing | The crushing news came less than a year after Diane Robinson and her 24-year-old son moved into an airy two-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. The city, which helps pay her rent, wrote this summer to say she would have to downsize into a one-bedroom apartment or pay $240 more a month in rent. A public school aide, Ms. Rob... | Public Housing;NYC;Real Estate; Housing;Rent;Affordable housing;Department of Housing Preservation and Development NYC;Housing Authority NYC;Budget |
ny0179874 | [
"science"
] | 2007/08/21 | Science of Magic | The reason he had picked me from the audience, Apollo Robbins insisted, was that I’d seemed so engaged, nodding my head and making eye contact as he and the other magicians explained the tricks of the trade. I believed him when he told me afterward, over dinner at the Venetian, that he hadn’t noticed the name tag ident... | Brain;Magic and Magicians;Psychology and Psychologists;Science and Technology;Teller |
ny0292872 | [
"sports"
] | 2016/06/11 | A Stirring Farewell to Muhammad Ali, Just as He Scripted It | LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Muhammad Ali spent the better part of a decade planning his funeral, his friends and family said, and by late Friday afternoon it was evident what had taken him so long. In a spectacle that fanned across miles of his hometown, in memories that stretched over some of 20th-century America’s most turbule... | Muhammad Ali;Boxing;Funerals;Louisville KY |
ny0038026 | [
"us"
] | 2014/03/22 | Border Patrol Seeks to Add Digital Eyes to Its Ranks | PHOENIX — Among the federal officials who gathered here this week for a conclave on border security, there was little talk of building a fence along the 2,000-mile Mexican border. Instead, the chatter was all about technology: about concentrating Border Patrol agents, equipped with late-model surveillance tools, in are... | Illegal Immigration;US Border Patrol;Mexico;Drones;Fence;Homeland Security;Arizona;Michael J Fisher |
ny0217291 | [
"world",
"asia"
] | 2010/04/13 | Fugitive Kyrgyz President Warns of Bloodshed | BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The provisional government that took power in Kyrgyzstan last week has drawn up plans to detain the country’s ousted president, a leader once close to the United States who fled a bloody riot in the capital to his ancestral homeland in the south of the country. The president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev , r... | Kyrgyzstan;Demonstrations and Riots;Bakiyev Kurmanbek S |
ny0257400 | [
"sports",
"baseball"
] | 2011/01/20 | A’s Bolster Bullpen With Fuentes | The Oakland Athletics added another proven arm to their deep bullpen, completing a two-year, $10.5 million contract with the left-hander Brian Fuentes. He had 24 saves and a 2.81 earned run average last year with the Angels and the Twins. Closer Andrew Bailey returns, and the A’s also signed Grant Balfour and Brad Zieg... | Fuentes Brian;Oakland Athletics;Baseball |
ny0267520 | [
"business"
] | 2016/03/24 | Joining Other Airlines, American Will Share Profits | Coming off record earnings, American Airlines says it will make profit-sharing payments to employees. Some American employees had complained that they did not participate in profit sharing, unlike their counterparts at other airlines. For instance, Delta shared $1.5 billion last year, and United paid out $698 million. ... | American Airlines;Airlines,airplanes |
ny0162438 | [
"politics"
] | 2006/02/02 | Senate Panel Rebuffed on Documents on U.S. Spying | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 - The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush's domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance of a hearing scheduled for next week, administration and Congressional officials said Wed... | NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY;BUSH GEORGE W |
ny0282654 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2016/07/10 | Familiar Pianist at Caramoor, and Beethoven’s Gravitational Pull | As an 18-year-old student at the Curtis Institute of Music , Jonathan Biss had little professional experience when he took part in the rising-star residency for instrumentalists at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah in 1998. But those who recall the tall, dark pianist during his residency say he radi... | Classical music;Caramoor;Jonathan Biss;Ludwig van Beethoven;Music;Katonah NY;Caramoor |
ny0133800 | [
"sports",
"ncaabasketball"
] | 2008/03/09 | North Carolina Pulls Away From Duke | DURHAM , N.C. — Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski and his North Carolina counterpart, Roy Williams, managed to add even more fuel to one of the most intense rivalries in college sports with a public dispute last month over the disclosure of injuries, of all things. With these men’s basketball programs, it’s always something. ... | Basketball;UNC;Duke |
ny0205995 | [
"technology",
"personaltech"
] | 2009/01/15 | PoGo, for Instant Gratification in Snapshots | The Polaroid film cameras may be dead, but you can still have instant photos with the company’s new PoGo Instant Digital Camera, a compact snapshooter with a built-in printer that lets you capture and immediately print 2-by-3-inch images. The $200 PoGo camera is a follow-up to Polaroid’s PoGo Instant Mobile Printer, wh... | Cameras;Photography;Polaroid Corp |
ny0105311 | [
"world",
"asia"
] | 2012/03/14 | Tibetan Monk Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Chinese Rule | An 18-year-old Tibetan monk, Gepey, died Saturday after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule in Tibetan areas, according to Free Tibet, an advocacy group based in London. Gepey was from Kirti Monastery in Sichuan Province, which is the epicenter of the wave of self-immolations that began in March 2011. Since... | Immolation;Monasteries and Monks;Sichuan Province (China);Tibet;China;Deaths (Fatalities) |
ny0190619 | [
"world",
"asia"
] | 2009/05/06 | Afghans Say U.S. Raids Killed 30 Civilians | KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — At least 30 civilians have been killed in bombing raids by United States forces in western Afghanistan during heavy fighting between Afghan troops and Taliban fighters, Afghan officials said Tuesday. Enraged villagers brought an estimated 30 bodies, including those of women and children, from th... | Afghanistan War (2001- );Civilian Casualties;United States Defense and Military Forces |
ny0231102 | [
"sports",
"baseball"
] | 2010/09/30 | Twins Miss Morneau, Still Out with a Concussion | MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly three months after sustaining a concussion in a game in Toronto, Justin Morneau often seems like a phantom. Minnesota Twins General Manager Bill Smith says he occasionally sees Morneau, the Twins’ four-time All-Star first baseman, running along the warning track at Target Field, foul pole to foul p... | Morneau Justin;Baseball;Concussions;Minnesota Twins;Gardenhire Ron;Smith Bill |
ny0015371 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2013/10/11 | Former Liu Associates Are Sentenced | Two former associates of John C. Liu, the New York City comptroller, managed to avoid lengthy prison sentences on Thursday for their roles in attempting to funnel money to Mr. Liu’s mayoral campaign through an illegal fund-raising scheme. Although Jia Hou, a former Liu campaign treasurer, and Xing Wu Pan, a fund-raiser... | Jia Hou;Xing Wu Pan;John C Liu;Fraud;Campaign finance;Criminal Sentence;Richard J Sullivan;NYC |
ny0275745 | [
"sports",
"football"
] | 2016/02/07 | After Revelation He Had C.T.E., Ken Stabler Is a Poignant Hall of Fame Addition | While generally a cause for celebration, Saturday’s announcement of the class of 2016 for the Pro Football Hall of Fame carried a somber tone as Ken Stabler, a Super Bowl-winning quarterback for the Oakland Raiders, was elected days after it was publicly revealed that he had had Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy... | Football;Pro Football Hall of Fame;Ken Stabler;Chronic traumatic encephalopathy;Super Bowl;Raiders |
ny0038325 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2014/04/04 | Brooklyn Boxer Rises, but Her Feet Stay on the Ground | Heather Hardy tugged at her skirt as she explained what happened to it. “The day after Sandy, we found this skirt floating around the living room,” said Ms. Hardy, 32, who was living on her mother’s couch at the time of the hurricane. The skirt had blood on it, she said, because “I’d fought in it three days before and ... | Boxing;Heather Hardy;Gleason's Gym;Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn;Brooklyn |
ny0008467 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2013/05/15 | Complaints Rise as Bike Share Program Nears | Bike share was easy for New York City to love in the abstract. It was not about adding bike lanes at the expense of something else; it was about sharing something that did not yet exist. But with the program two weeks away, many New Yorkers have turned against bike share, and for one simple reason: They did not expect ... | Biking;NYC |
ny0240027 | [
"technology"
] | 2010/12/09 | Hackers Defend WikiLeaks, Testing Online Speech | A hacking free-for-all has exploded on the Web, and Facebook and Twitter are stuck in the middle. On Wednesday, anonymous hackers took aim at companies perceived to have harmed WikiLeaks after its release of a flood of confidential diplomatic documents. MasterCard , Visa and PayPal, which had cut off people’s ability t... | null;Cyberwarfare;Freedom of speech;PayPal;Amazon |
ny0105946 | [
"us"
] | 2012/04/18 | Supreme Court Weighs Revisions in Cocaine-Case Sentences | WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday about an aspect of one of the greatest controversies in American criminal law: the differing treatment of crack and powder cocaine. “I’ve been a judge for nearly 20 years,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the only member of the current court who has served as a tr... | Supreme Court;Sentences (Criminal);Law and Legislation;Cocaine and Crack Cocaine;Discrimination;Mandatory Sentencing;Justice Department;Drug Abuse and Traffic |
ny0236469 | [
"us"
] | 2010/06/05 | Immigration Debate Defines G.O.P. Race in California | IRVINE, Calif. — Meg Whitman was almost at the end of a 30-minute town hall-style meeting here, responding to questions about taxes and spending, schools and unemployment. But one topic had not come up, so Ms. Whitman, a Republican candidate for governor, raised it herself, serving up a stern attack against illegal imm... | Whitman Margaret C;Poizner Steve;California;Immigration and Emigration;Elections;Republican Party;Primaries and Caucuses;Governors (US);Politics and Government |
ny0000768 | [
"business",
"global"
] | 2013/03/29 | Hong Kong Plan to Limit Public Data on Directors Put on Hold | HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government said late Thursday, just before the start of a four-day Easter public holiday, that it had put on hold its plans to block public access to residential address information and the identity card numbers or passport numbers of company directors. The decision by the Financial Services a... | Hong Kong;Regulation and Deregulation;Banking and Finance;Privacy |
ny0082694 | [
"us",
"politics"
] | 2015/10/29 | Republicans Nominate Paul Ryan as House Speaker | WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday nominated Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin to be the 62nd speaker of the House, turning to the young chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to replace John A. Boehner of Ohio, who was driven into retirement by an angry uprising of conservative hard-liners. Mr. Ryan,... | US Politics;Federal Budget;Paul D Ryan Jr;House of Representatives;Congress;Republicans |
ny0085024 | [
"world",
"europe"
] | 2015/10/22 | Marine Pilot Dies in Jet Crash in Britain | LONDON — An American Marine was killed on Wednesday when the combat jet he was piloting crashed shortly after taking off from a Royal Air Force base in Lakenheath, England, about 80 miles northeast of London, the authorities said. The jet, an F/A-18 Hornet, crashed in farmland between 10:30 and 11 a.m. The Marine Corps... | Plane Crash;Great Britain;Fatalities,casualties;US Military;US Marines;Military aircraft;Royal Air Force |
ny0122346 | [
"world",
"middleeast"
] | 2012/09/16 | An American Ambassador Who Plunged Into Arab Life | J. Christopher Stevens , the American ambassador to Libya who was killed in an assault on a diplomatic mission there last week, was happy to gossip, but was revered for listening. A northern Californian with a toothy grin, he had a passion for the Arab world and its language, and he went out of his way to use it, wheth... | Stevens J Christopher;Diplomatic Service Embassies and Consulates;United States International Relations;Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- );State Department;Libya |
ny0009944 | [
"world",
"middleeast"
] | 2013/02/28 | Construction of Disputed Turkish Dam Continues | ILISU, TURKEY — Mahmut Dundar raised a remote control toward a flat-screen monitor suspended from the ceiling of his office beside the Tigris River in southeast Turkey. “These are live,” he said, as he toggled between images of men and machines swarming over a dozen different building sites of the Ilisu Dam project. Th... | Turkey;Levees and Dams;Environment;Hydroelectric Power;Historic preservation;Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
ny0044895 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2014/02/16 | A Review of ‘Art at the Core’ at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill | “Art at the Core: The Intersection of Visual Art, Performance and Technology” at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill feels more like an arbitrary collection of artworks than a specially curated show. Nonetheless, there is some attempt at binding the exhibition together with a common theme. Accord... | Art;Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art;Peekskill NY |
ny0067580 | [
"us"
] | 2014/12/18 | Montana: Man Convicted of Murder for Shooting of Garage Intruder | A man who killed a German exchange student trespassing in his garage was convicted of deliberate homicide Wednesday despite arguing that a “castle doctrine” law allowed him to use deadly force. The man, Markus Kaarma, 30, faces a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison for killing Diren Dede, 17. Mr. Kaarma fired four sh... | Murders and Homicides;Diren Dede;Markus Kaarma;Montana |
ny0229319 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2010/07/13 | Greenwich Village Fire Shows Hazards of Wood Decks | Flames licked over the parapet of a Greenwich Village building on Monday morning and black smoke billowed into the air after a wooden roof deck ignited. It was the second time in less than a week that a wood roof deck in Lower Manhattan had caught fire, underscoring the fact that such decking can be transformed into da... | Fires and Firefighters;Wood and Wood Products;Decks (Outdoor);Greenwich Village (NYC) |
ny0141093 | [
"world",
"europe"
] | 2008/02/25 | Born Irish, but With Illegal Parents | DUBLIN — Cork-born and proud of it, George-Jordan Dimbo is top to toe the Irish lad. He studies Gaelic, eats rashers, plays hurling, prays to the saints, papers his walls with parochial school awards, and spends Saturdays at the telly watching Dustin the Turkey, a wisecracking puppet, mock the powerful. If the Irish go... | Immigration and Refugees;Ireland;Illegal Immigrants;Families and Family Life;Asylum (Political);European Union;Citizenship |
ny0165666 | [
"business"
] | 2006/09/19 | Revlon Replaces Chief Executive | Revlon, the cosmetics maker controlled by the financier Ronald O. Perelman, has ousted its chief executive, Jack L. Stahl, after four years of losses, and replaced him with the finance chief, David L. Kennedy. Mr. Stahl, hired in 2002, will stay on as an adviser for 30 days, Revlon, which is based in New York, said yes... | Revlon Incorporated;Stahl Jack L |
ny0061618 | [
"technology"
] | 2014/01/18 | A Muted Beginning to Sales of Apple’s iPhone Through China Mobile | Apple is counting on a long-awaited agreement with China Mobile, the world’s largest cellular operator, to make major headway in China. But before Apple declares any major degree of success, the technology giant may need to overcome some significant hurdles. A hint of the challenges was apparent on Friday, when custome... | Apple;China;Smartphone;China Mobile;iPhone |
ny0135883 | [
"sports",
"hockey"
] | 2008/04/06 | Sharks’ Streak Raises Concern About Peaking | The San Jose Sharks have come streaking into the playoffs, winning 18 of 21 games since Feb. 20. Only in the N.H.L. could this be perceived as a problem. “Any hesitancy that you’re going to peak too soon?” Coach Ron Wilson was asked during a conference call last week. “Don’t you want to lose a couple of games before yo... | San Jose Sharks;Hockey Ice;National Hockey League |
ny0129802 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2012/06/06 | Justice Thomas D. Raffaele Says Police Officer Struck Him | Thomas D. Raffaele, a 69-year-old justice of the New York State Supreme Court, encountered a chaotic scene while walking down a Queens street with a friend: Two uniformed police officers stood over a shirtless man lying facedown on the pavement. The man’s hands were cuffed behind his back and he was screaming. A crowd ... | Raffaele Thomas D;Jackson Heights (NYC);Police Department (NYC);Police Brutality and Misconduct;Civilian Complaint Review Board;New York City |
ny0281929 | [
"world",
"asia"
] | 2016/07/02 | Mosha, Thai Elephant Wounded by Land Mine, Gets New Prosthetic Limb | BANGKOK — Mosha was 7 months old when she stepped on a land mine near Thailand’s border with Myanmar and lost a front leg. That was a decade ago. This week, she received her ninth artificial leg, thanks to the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation hospital in northern Thailand. Mosha is one of more than a dozen elep... | Elephant;Prosthesis;Explosive mine;Thailand;Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation |
ny0115284 | [
"us"
] | 2012/11/15 | Colorado: Interior Secretary Apologizes to Reporter | Interior Secretary Ken Salazar apologized Wednesday for threatening to punch a reporter who asked him about problems with the government’s wild horse program at a campaign event. Mr. Salazar called Dave Philipps, a reporter with The Gazette of Colorado Springs, to apologize and offer him an interview. The apology came ... | Salazar Ken;Apologies;Newspapers;Horses;Philipps Dave;Colorado Springs (Colo);Interior Department |
ny0233565 | [
"world",
"europe"
] | 2010/08/23 | Sweden Defends Reversal of Warrant for Founder of WikiLeaks | STOCKHOLM — The Swedish prosecutor’s office on Sunday defended its handling of allegations made by two Swedish women against Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks Web site, saying that a senior prosecutor withdrew the arrest warrant that had been issued for Mr. Assange on a rape charge after reviewing a judgment mad... | Assange Julian;Wikileaks;Sex Crimes;Sweden |
ny0262986 | [
"world",
"middleeast"
] | 2011/12/18 | Egyptian Soldiers Chase and Beat Unarmed Civilians in Cairo | CAIRO — Egypt ’s military rulers escalated a bloody crackdown on street protesters on Saturday, chasing down and beating unarmed civilians, even while the prime minister was denying in a televised news conference that security forces were using any force. In one of the most incendiary developments, video cameras captur... | Egypt;Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- );Defense and Military Forces;Elections;Demonstrations Protests and Riots;Ganzouri Kamal el- |
ny0220698 | [
"world",
"middleeast"
] | 2010/02/28 | Iran’s Leader of Opposition Assails ‘Cult’ of Rulers | One of Iran ’s opposition leaders, Mir Hussein Moussavi , said Saturday that a dictatorial “cult” was ruling Iran — one of his most critical statements against the country’s rulers since disputed elections last summer. “This is the rule of a cult that has hijacked the concept of Iranianism and nationalism,” Mr. Moussav... | Iran;Ahmadinejad Mahmoud;Moussavi Mir Hussein;Politics and Government;Demonstrations and Riots;Political Prisoners |
ny0209356 | [
"business"
] | 2009/12/10 | CIT Leaves Bankruptcy With Less Debt but Many Questions | The CIT Group, which started out in 1908, financing horse-drawn carriages, survived for a century before sinking into bankruptcy. But it took just 38 days for the company, one of the biggest lenders to small and midsize companies, to pull itself out of bankruptcy, a feat that, only months ago, seemed almost impossible.... | Bankruptcies;CIT Group Inc;Obama Financial Stability Plan;Peek Jeffrey M;Treasury Department |
ny0186498 | [
"sports",
"ncaabasketball"
] | 2009/03/14 | Though Hobbled, North Carolina Gets by Virginia Tech | ATLANTA — On the grease board in the North Carolina locker room, written in blue, of course, was a simple message for the Tar Heels from Coach Roy Williams: “Find a way.” It could have easily said, “Find a different way.” The No. 1 Tar Heels (28-3) played their quarterfinal game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournam... | University of North Carolina;Basketball;Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;College Athletics |
ny0148179 | [
"sports",
"tennis"
] | 2008/09/03 | Two Top Men Are Pushed to the Limit at U.S. Open | By the end of the day, it seemed that all was as it should be. In the three marquee matches played during the day session at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the favorites defeated lesser-ranked opponents and advanced in the United States Open. But that did not mean that victory came easily. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, the s... | United States Open (Tennis);Federer Roger;Djokovic Novak;Tennis |
ny0169225 | [
"technology"
] | 2007/03/26 | Fuzzy Critters With High Prices Offer Lesson in New Concepts | IF the face of e-commerce 1.0 was the Pets.com sock puppet, will the new face of e-commerce be a Webkinz? The cuddly stuffed animals, which are in exceedingly high demand among the elementary school set, have also gained notice among Internet executives for their ability to bridge the online and offline worlds. And alt... | Toys;Computers and the Internet;Webkinz;Children and Youth;Computer and Video Games |
ny0046845 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2014/11/20 | Mayor Bill de Blasio Takes a Day to Pursue a National Profile | WASHINGTON — For Mayor Bill de Blasio , it was a day when New York City seemed very far away. He shared a morning flight to Washington with Loretta E. Lynch, the nominee for attorney general, before heading to the White House for a meeting with Valerie Jarrett, who is President Obama’s closest adviser. At a breakfast, ... | Bill de Blasio;NYC;US Politics;Washington DC;Democrats;Loretta E Lynch;Valerie Jarrett;Politics |
ny0289867 | [
"business",
"dealbook"
] | 2016/01/29 | Corporate Lawyers Say They Are Spending More In-House | Chief legal officers at corporations in 41 countries say they are spending more — and hiring more staff members — in-house, according to a new study by the Association of Corporate Counsel, a legal professionals membership group, that asked 1,300 corporate lawyers and chief legal officers. The rise is being driven by m... | Legislation;Outsourcing;Companies;Lawyers;Association of Corporate Counsel |
ny0191528 | [
"us"
] | 2009/02/20 | Geronimo’s Heirs Sue Secret Yale Society Over His Skull | HOUSTON — The descendants of Geronimo have sued Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University with ties to the Bush family, charging that its members robbed his grave in 1918 and have kept his skull in a glass case ever since. The claim is part of a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington on Tuesday, the 10... | Indians American;Geronimo;Suits and Litigation;Organizations Societies and Clubs;Tombs and Tombstones;Skull and Bones;Yale University |
ny0030614 | [
"business",
"media"
] | 2013/06/26 | Commercials With a Gay Emphasis Are Moving to Mainstream Media | WHEN Expedia decided to begin running on television this month a commercial it had introduced online in October, about a father’s trip to attend his daughter’s wedding to another woman, the media plan was drawn up to include Logo , the cable channel aimed at gay and lesbian viewers. But the commercial is also running o... | advertising,marketing;Homosexuality;Expedia;General Mills |
ny0020242 | [
"sports",
"baseball"
] | 2013/07/12 | Final All-Star Votes Are In, and Dodgers’ Puig Is Not | Atlanta first baseman Freddie Freeman won the fan voting for the last spot on the National League All-Star roster, meaning the Los Angeles Dodgers sensation Yasiel Puig will not get to play in the July 16 game at Citi Field unless he is added as an injury replacement. Puig is off to a terrific start in the majors (hitt... | Baseball;All-star game;Yasiel Puig;Braves;Dodgers;Freddie Freeman |
ny0039517 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2014/04/19 | Health Officials to Propose Tighter Monitoring of Water Tanks | In a reversal, New York City health officials are proposing stronger oversight of rooftop water tanks, which supply drinking water to millions of residents and workers each day but are often neglected by their owners. The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is proposing to change the health code to require b... | Water;NYC;Health and Mental Hygiene Department NYC;E Coli;Water pollution;HazMat;Buildings |
ny0239943 | [
"science"
] | 2010/12/07 | Teller Ponders an Enigma: Making the Mind Jump Through Hoops | I had just put another spoonful of succulent sweet potatoes, slow-simmered with apples and pecans, onto my plate. “I’ve been invited,” I said to the guests at the holiday dinner, “to write about puzzles.” (My memory of this dialogue may be blurred by carbohydrates .) “But I’ve never found puzzles attractive,” I went on... | Crossword Puzzles;Puzzles;Writing and Writers;Magic and Magicians;Science and Technology |
ny0070616 | [
"sports",
"ncaabasketball"
] | 2015/03/18 | Personal Triumph for Thad Matta, but a Trying Year for Ohio State | COLUMBUS, Ohio — Thad Matta, who had just secured the most victories in Ohio State men’s basketball history, was celebrated at halfcourt inside Chicago’s United Center after a flawed but gutsy victory against Minnesota in the Big Ten tournament Thursday. Matta was handed a pristine white No. 298 jersey. It was an appro... | College basketball;Thad Matta;Ohio State |
ny0233184 | [
"sports",
"global"
] | 2010/08/31 | Luis Scola Helps Argentina Remain Unbeaten | Luis Scola scored 32 points to help Argentina beat Angola, 91-70, in a Group A game Monday in Kayseri, Turkey, essentially securing the Argentines a place in the second round of the world basketball championships. Scola, a Houston Rockets forward, scored 17 of Argentina’s 23 points in the first quarter as the South Ame... | Basketball;International Basketball Federation |
ny0225908 | [
"business",
"global"
] | 2010/10/19 | E.U. Finance Chiefs Near a Deal on Budget Sanctions | BRUSSELS — European Union finance chiefs appeared close to a deal on Monday to sanction countries that spend beyond their means — and, in so doing, threaten the stability of the euro — but it remained unclear how long governments would have to adjust their budgets before the measures would be imposed. Germany and the E... | European Union;Budgets and Budgeting;Credit and Debt;Embargoes and Economic Sanctions |
ny0163412 | [
"politics"
] | 2006/02/01 | Mine Safety Nominee Fields Tough Questions From Senators | WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 - The Bush administration's nominee to be the nation's top mine safety regulator faced tough questioning on Tuesday at a Senate confirmation hearing that reflected competing visions of a proper oversight role. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the ranking Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensio... | SENATE;KENNEDY EDWARD M;BUSH GEORGE W;STICKLER RICHARD M;ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY;LABOR;MINES AND MINING;COAL;BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION;REGULATION AND DEREGULATION OF INDUSTRY |
ny0197966 | [
"world",
"europe"
] | 2009/07/02 | School Built on Cemetery Provides Lesson in History | TOLEDO, Spain — As this medieval hilltop city baked in the afternoon heat, a group of Jewish leaders gathered beside a freshly dug grave and lowered into it small bundles of flaking, ancient bones. With prayers and a plea for forgiveness for disturbing the peace of more than 100 medieval souls, they laid them to rest i... | Toledo (Spain);Jews and Judaism;Cemeteries;History |
ny0281063 | [
"sports",
"hockey"
] | 2016/10/06 | To Enhance Scoring, N.H.L. Looks to Shrink the Goalie | BUFFALO — At 6 feet 5 inches and 235 pounds, Buffalo Sabres goaltender Robin Lehner is big even by N.H.L. standards, able to block much of the net by using his bulk. Yet he has noticed during the past several seasons that his counterparts tend to eclipse the net, too. “I know what all the goalies around the league look... | Ice hockey;NHL;Jaroslav Halak;Robin Lehner |
ny0237295 | [
"technology",
"personaltech"
] | 2010/06/10 | A Custom Wardrobe Is Available Online | A few weeks ago, FedEx dropped off an enormous box of clothes picked out for me by Carrie Harrison, my personal style consultant. Though we’ve never met in person, Ms. Harrison, a former clothing retailer who recently became a personal shopper, had somehow chosen several items perfectly suited to my tastes. There were ... | Computers and the Internet;Shopping and Retail;Fashion and Apparel |
ny0039475 | [
"world",
"europe"
] | 2014/04/10 | Berlin’s Over-Budget, Behind-Schedule Airport Becomes an Attraction | BERLIN — In the early days of aviation, it was common for people to visit airports simply to stand on observation decks and watch the planes come and go. This city’s new airport is attracting tourists for the opposite reason: a conspicuous lack of passengers and planes after a series of delays and bungles that have dri... | Berlin;Airport;Construction;Travel,Tourism;Willy Brandt;Germany |
ny0226576 | [
"business"
] | 2010/10/08 | Stock Prices Slip Ahead of September Jobs Report | Stocks edged lower Thursday, backing away from early gains, as uncertainty built up ahead of a crucial report on the labor market. The Dow Jones industrial average came within two points of 11,000 before turning lower for most of the day. The Dow hasn’t traded above that level since May 4, about a week after reaching i... | Stocks and Bonds;Currency |
ny0239170 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2010/12/27 | Christie, Cuomo and Malloy Have Much in Common | They’re not exactly a matched set, but when life as we know it resumes after the New Year, the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will have a lot in common. All will have backgrounds as prosecutors — Gov. Chris Christie as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey, and the incoming governors of New York and Con... | Governors (US);Democratic Party;Christie Christopher J;Cuomo Andrew M;Malloy Dannel P;New Jersey;New York State;Connecticut;Politics and Government |
ny0154651 | [
"world",
"asia"
] | 2008/01/08 | North Korea Given Time to Send Data | TOKYO (Reuters) — North Korea ’s failure to meet a deadline to declare its nuclear activities should be confronted with patience and perseverance, a senior American envoy said here on Monday. North Korea said Friday that it had already accounted for its nuclear arms program as required under a multilateral disarmament ... | Atomic Weapons;North Korea;Hill Christopher R;United States;Tokyo (Japan) |
ny0050157 | [
"world",
"asia"
] | 2014/10/11 | Political Rally in Pakistan Ends in Deadly Stampede | ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least seven people were killed and 43 injured in a stampede after a political rally for an opposition politician, Imran Khan , on Friday evening in central Pakistan , according to rescue workers and officials. The victims were suffocated as people pushed their way out of a gate at Qasim Bagh St... | Pakistan;Imran Khan;Stampede;Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf;Nawaz Sharif |
ny0289778 | [
"sports",
"golf"
] | 2016/01/11 | Spieth Wins at 30 Under | Jordan Spieth cruised to victory at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions on Sunday, closing with a six-under-par 67 for an eight-shot victory over Patrick Reed in Kapalua, Hawaii. Spieth, who led by five entering the final round, finished at 30-under 262. He and Ernie Els, who won at Kapalua in 2003 with a score of 31 u... | Golf;Jordan Spieth |
ny0077991 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2015/05/12 | Mayor de Blasio’s Days on the Road Fuel Criticism at Home | A rally by the steps of the United States Capitol. Fire-up-the-base speeches in Iowa and Wisconsin. Cross-country political trips, paid for with private money, and a Silicon Valley fund-raiser hosted by tech moguls, with tickets going for up to $10,000 apiece. Clinton? Rubio? Bush? No. De Blasio. After 16 months as may... | Bill de Blasio;NYC;Democrats;Mayor;Income Inequality;Liberalism US |
ny0220756 | [
"business",
"economy"
] | 2010/02/17 | Federal Reserve Officials Openly Voice Deficit Concerns | WASHINGTON — Wading deeply into fiscal policy is not normally the domain of the Federal Reserve , but several central bank officials have begun speaking out in forceful terms about the dangers of the expanding deficit. Though only a minority so far, the officials are warning that a failure to bring the budget under con... | National Debt (US);United States Economy;Federal Reserve System;Interest Rates;Inflation (Economics) |
ny0147948 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2008/07/22 | M.T.A. to Seek Higher Fares to Help Close Budget Gap | The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will propose a substantial increase in transit fares and bridge and tunnel tolls next year to help close a widening budget gap of nearly $900 million, according to an official at the authority. Though the precise amount of the fare and toll increase has yet to be determined, th... | Prices (Fares Fees and Rates);Metropolitan Transportation Authority;Transit Systems |
ny0077196 | [
"us"
] | 2015/05/31 | U.S. Paid Residents Linked to Nazi Crimes $20 Million in Benefits, Report Says | WASHINGTON — The American government paid $20.2 million in Social Security benefits to more than 130 United States residents linked to Nazi atrocities over the course of more than a half-century, with some of the payments made as recently as this year, according to a federal investigation. The millions of dollars paid ... | Holocaust and Nazis;Social Security;Social Security Administration;Justice Department;Carolyn B Maloney;US |
ny0086275 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2015/07/10 | Three Men Charged in Fatal Shooting of Manhattan Shopkeeper | Three men were charged on Thursday in connection with the murder of a shopkeeper, who was fatally shot last month and found by a customer behind the register of his family’s odd-and-ends store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The men, Michael Adams, 29, of the Bronx; his brother Stephen Adams, 27; and Zubearu Betti... | Murders and Homicides;Robbery;Bubacarr Camara;Upper West Side Manhattan;Michael Adams;Stephen Adams;Zubearu Bettis |
ny0222560 | [
"us",
"politics"
] | 2010/11/27 | Obama Gets 12 Stitches After Basketball Game | WASHINGTON — President Obama had to get 12 stitches in his lip after getting a blow from an opponent’s elbow during a basketball game Friday morning, White House officials said. “After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player’s elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the president rece... | Obama Barack;Basketball;Sports Injuries |
ny0051500 | [
"us"
] | 2014/10/08 | Delaware: Toddler Takes Heroin to Day Care | A 4-year-old girl mistakenly took hundreds of packets of heroin to her day care center and began passing them out to classmates, thinking it was candy, the state police said Tuesday. Several children who received the packets Monday went to the hospital as a precaution, the police said. But no packets were opened, and a... | Delaware;Heroin;Drug Abuse;Children;Day Care |
ny0045246 | [
"world",
"europe"
] | 2014/02/19 | German Village Resists Plans to Strip It Away for the Coal Underneath | ATTERWASCH, Germany — A grove of apple saplings grows on the lee side of Ulrich Schulz’s barn. He did not plant them for the fruit, he said, but as an act of rebellion against a nearby mining company that wants to raze his farm, which his family has owned since 1560, to get at the coal beneath his land. “A nod to Marti... | Germany;Coal;Mining;Angela Merkel;Renewable energy;Nuclear energy;Atterwasch Germany;Janschwalde Germany |
ny0065091 | [
"business",
"media"
] | 2014/06/17 | Dean Baquet, Top Times Editor, Has Tumor Removed | Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, had a malignant tumor removed from his kidney on Saturday and will spend about a week away from the office while recovering, he said in an email to the newspaper’s staff on Monday morning. Doctors discovered the tumor on Thursday, Mr. Baquet said, and felt that i... | Dean Baquet;The New York Times;Cancer |
ny0069131 | [
"sports",
"football"
] | 2014/12/01 | Giants Blow 21-Point Lead and Lose to Jaguars for Seventh Straight Defeat | JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Giants’ season may already have been lost, but grim realities remain in the shocking and absurd ways they can pivot so quickly from bad to worse. Sunday, they were forced to endure yet another indignity, this time squandering a three-touchdown lead and falling to the Jacksonville Jaguars, 25-24... | Football;Josh Brown;Eli Manning;Rashad Jennings;Geoff Schwartz;Jacksonville Jaguars;Giants |
ny0085215 | [
"business",
"media"
] | 2015/07/03 | BBC to Cut 1,000 Jobs as License Revenue Falls Short | LONDON — The BBC said Thursday that it was cutting 1,000 jobs to help plug a budget gap of 150 million pounds caused by a larger decline than expected in the number of households owning televisions, as viewers increasingly choose to watch content free online. The BBC is financed in part by a license fee system in which... | BBC;TV;Great Britain;Layoffs;News media,journalism |
ny0191881 | [
"business"
] | 2009/02/28 | Desperately Protecting A.I.G.’s House of Cards | Next week, perhaps as early as Monday, the American International Group is going to report the largest quarterly loss in history. Rumors suggest it will be around $60 billion, which will affirm, yet again, A.I.G.’s sorry status as the most crippled of all the nation’s wounded financial institutions. The recent quarterl... | Subprime Mortgage Crisis;American International Group;Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (2008) |
ny0247566 | [
"sports",
"golf"
] | 2011/05/29 | Ryan Palmer Leads the Byron Nelson After ‘Hard Day of Golf’ | Ryan Palmer sat down after finishing his third round Saturday and put his head down on the table. He was exhausted — and still leading — after a three-over 73 on a gusty day at the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Tex. Palmer, a Texas native who had made the cut only once in his first seven appearances at the tourn... | Palmer Ryan;Garcia Sergio;Golf |
ny0002530 | [
"us",
"politics"
] | 2013/03/12 | Florida Senate Committee Rejects Medicaid Expansion | MIAMI — Rebuffing Gov. Rick Scott’s support of Medicaid expansion, a Florida Senate committee on Monday rejected the idea, all but ending the possibility that the state would add more poor people to Medicaid rolls. But the Senate panel debating the expansion proposed a compromise: to accept the federal money but use it... | Obamacare,Affordable Care Act;Medicaid;Rick Scott;Florida;Health Insurance;State legislature |
ny0014446 | [
"business",
"media"
] | 2013/11/14 | HSN Joins With Univision to Reach the Hispanic Market | HSN, the home shopping network, is turning its sights toward Hispanic consumers with the announcement of a new e-commerce partnership with Univision Communications that will begin on Thursday. The three-year partnership will take the form of a shopping portal on Univision.com called Boutique Univision that will feature... | Univision;advertising,marketing;Hispanic Americans;E Commerce |
ny0220558 | [
"sports",
"olympics"
] | 2010/02/11 | Plushenko, the Quad King, Is Back for More | TALLINN, Estonia — Yet another gold medal was in his possession, and with a sly smile, Yevgeny Plushenko extended his right arm and let his hand tremble. The hand represented his rivals at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. “I’m going to take any result, but I think I did something already for figure skating, to come ba... | Olympic Games (2010);Figure Skating;Plushenko Yevgeny |
ny0116952 | [
"world",
"africa"
] | 2012/10/17 | Nigeria: 24 Killed in Fighting | Fighting between Nigeria’s military and the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram killed at least 24 people in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, officials said Tuesday. | Nigeria;Boko Haram |
ny0002383 | [
"sports",
"ncaabasketball"
] | 2013/03/23 | Gonzaga Hears Cheers That Used to Be Theirs | SALT LAKE CITY — The N.C.A.A. tournament unfolded here as if in some sort of parallel universe: the conversation dominated by Gonzaga, the spotlight stolen by Harvard. The Zags, long darlings of college basketball’s postseason, entered this year ranked among the favorites, stumbled against a No. 16 seed in Southern and... | NCAA Men's Basketball,March Madness;College basketball;Gonzaga;Harvard |
ny0048992 | [
"world",
"americas"
] | 2014/11/12 | Brazil: Police Killed 11,000 People Over Five-Year Period, Report Says | The Brazilian police killed more than 11,000 people from 2009 to 2013, for an average of six killings a day, a public safety organization said Tuesday in a report. The study by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety , which is based in São Paulo, said police officers nationwide had killed 11,197 people over the past five... | Brazil;Police Brutality,Police Misconduct,Police Shootings;Murders;Brazilian Forum on Public Safety |
ny0189659 | [
"business"
] | 2009/05/28 | A ‘Safe Haven’ Looks Less Secure | With a flight to quality last year pushing up Treasury bond prices and risky loans looking like losses waiting to happen, banks plowed money into government bonds. And until about mid-May, when prices of 10-year securities topped 100 cents on the dollar, that looked like a good bet. Now, however, this safe haven does n... | Government Bonds;Treasury Department;Banks and Banking;Federal Reserve System |
ny0014178 | [
"sports",
"hockey"
] | 2013/11/15 | Kings’ 3-Goal Rally Sinks Isles | Tyler Toffoli scored the winning goal on a deflection with 1 minute 27 seconds left to cap the Kings’ three-goal rally in the third period as Los Angeles defeated the host Islanders, 3-2, on Thursday night. Toffoli tipped Jake Muzzin’s drive past goalie Kevin Poulin. Aaron Ness gave the Islanders a 2-0 lead in the seco... | Ice hockey;Los Angeles Kings;Islanders |
ny0103404 | [
"world",
"africa"
] | 2012/03/18 | Ex-Libya Intelligence Chief Captured in Mauritania | TRIPOLI, Libya — Abdullah el-Senussi, the former intelligence chief and brother-in-law of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was arrested Saturday at an airport in Mauritania, the authorities there said, in the most significant capture of a former official of the Qaddafi government since the apprehension of the dictator’s son Se... | Libya;War Crimes Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity;Qaddafi Seif al-Islam el-;Qaddafi Mohammed el-;Senussi Abudullah el- |
ny0131275 | [
"nyregion"
] | 2012/12/11 | A Boy Full of Quirks Learns to Curb His Aggression | When Jaren Aponte, 4, wants to show someone affection, he seeks out an ear. “He has a specific tic,” his mother, Mary Viera, said. “He’ll grab somebody’s ear, rub it, and also rub his own ear. That’s him telling you ‘I like you.’ ” Jaren’s method of demonstrating fondness is not always understood, or reciprocated, by h... | Philanthropy;New York Times Neediest Cases Fund;UJA-Federation of New York;Educational Alliance;Viera Mary |
ny0100445 | [
"sports",
"rugby"
] | 2015/12/18 | Uncertainty Clouds New Super Rugby Franchises | WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Super Rugby’s bold new era is due to kick off in less than three months, but there is a growing concern that at least two of the new teams could be more of a liability than an asset to the new-look Southern Hemisphere competition. Next year the number of teams will increase to 18 from 15, with... | Japan;Argentina;New Zealand;South Africa;Australia;Sanzar |
ny0269483 | [
"sports",
"horse-racing"
] | 2016/04/10 | Ogden Mills Phipps: A King of the Sport He Helped Make Better | Dinny Phipps was as much a part of the landscape of the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga Race Course as the oak trees that Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons planted nearly 100 years ago and continue to shade the family’s barn. Most August mornings, Phipps sat out front in a golf cart and talked horses with jockeys and exercise ... | Horse racing;Ogden Mills Phipps |
ny0047639 | [
"business"
] | 2014/11/10 | Treasury Auctions Set for This Week | The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week includes Monday’s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Wednesday. At the close of the New York cash market on Friday, the rate on the outstanding three-month bill was 0.03 percent. The rate on the six-month issue was... | Stocks,Bonds;Municipal bond;Auction |
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