Stop Those Presses! Blonds, It Seems, Will Survive After All
Date: 02 October 2002
By Lawrence K. Altman
Lawrence Altman
World Health Organization disavows report in British and US media that it predicts blonds will become extinct in 200 years because recessive gene is dying out; says there is no such report or study (S)
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Arthur A. Lord, 60, Journalist With NBC
Date: 02 October 2002
Arthur A Lord, television journalist who covered world events for NBC News for more than three decades, dies at 60 (S)
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The Insider's Insider, Getting It Out on the Web
Date: 02 October 2002
By Robin Finn
Robin Finn
Public Lives profile of ABC's political analyst Mark Halperin; photo (M)
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Gurkenhobel: It Slices, Dices, Causes a Fuss
Date: 03 October 2002
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
German tabloids play up recent incident involving cucumber slicer, that has caused new set of sharp insults to fly between eastern and western Germans; 13 years after fall of wall and investment of nearly $1 trillion into east, much still divides so-called Ossies and Wessies, and vitriol is never more acid than between one Ossie who has made it in west and another who has not; photo (M)
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Walter Annenberg, 94, Dies; Philanthropist and Publisher
Date: 02 October 2002
By Grace Glueck
Grace Glueck
Walter H Annenberg, philanthropist, art collector and former ambassador to Britain who built Triangle Publications into vast communications empire that included TV Guide and Philadelphia Inquirer, dies at age 94; Annenberg was one of nation's biggest philanthropists, giving away more than $2 billion in cash to education, art and other causes, and pledging renowned collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces to Metropolitan Museum; photos (L)
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CHRYSLER EXPANDS INCENTIVES ON 2003 MODELS
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler is expanding availability of some no-interest loans and lowering interest rates on other 2003 models as it adjusts its strategy of offering fewer sales incentives than General Motors and Ford Motor in US (S)
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LIBBEY'S DECLINE IN PROFIT EXCEEDS FORECAST
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Libbey Inc says third-quarter profit fell more than forecast as sales declined and expenses increased; sales fell to at least $104 million from $107 million (S)
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GOODYEAR'S PRESIDENT TO BECOME CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Date: 02 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co's president and chief operating officer, Robert J Keegan, will assume added duties of chief executive on Jan 1; current chief executive, Samir G Gibara, will remain chairman; Goodyear forms executive committee of board, which Gibara will lead (S)
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SAKS WILL CUT AS MANY AS 295 JOBS IN CONSOLIDATION
Date: 02 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Saks Inc will cut 295 jobs as it combines headquarters of its Younkers stores with Carson Pirie Scott division offices as part of its cost-reduction measures (S)
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SEARS MOVES ACCOUNTING COSTS TO SECOND QUARTER
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sears, Roebuck & Co shifts $191 million in costs related to accounting change to second qaurter from first after discussions with Securities and Exchange Commission; increases first-quarter 2002 net income by $191 million and reduces second-quarter net income by same amount (S)
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