ICAHN NOMINATES SLATE OF BLOCKBUSTER DIRECTORS
Date: 09 April 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Financier Carl C Icahn nominates himself, Edward Bleier and Strauss Zelnick to board of Blockbuster, where he is largest shareholder (S)
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GILLETTE TO CLOSE NORTH CAROLINA BATTERY PLANT
Date: 09 April 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gillette Co, which is being bought by Procter & Gamble Co, will close Duracell battery plant in Lexington, NC, because of declining demand for lithium batteries (S)
UNITED FLIGHT ATTENDANTS THREATEN TO SCRAP CONCESSIONS
Date: 09 April 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Flight attendants at United Airlines, who agreed in January to $131 million of concessions, threaten to terminate that contract in 20 days unless company provides details on givebacks by salaried employees (S)
CONAGRA DELAYS QUARTERLY FILING TO REVIEW TAX ERRORS
Date: 09 April 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ConAgra Foods delays filing of its quarterly earnings report to allow for more time to review accounting errors it disclosed in March (S)
JURY DECIDES WYETH NOT LIABLE IN DIET DRUG CASE
Date: 09 April 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Philadelphia jury decides that Wyeth is not liable for $5.5 million in potential damages for health problems suffered by two former users of its Pondimin drug, part of fen-phen diet combination (S)
CBS News Makeover, by Four Kibitzers
Date: 10 April 2005
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
NO one really knows how to develop a hit television show. How else to explain how a programming afterthought -- the relatively cheap summer-replacement show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' -- became a huge success in 1999, heralding the reality- TV revolution, while ''Father of the Pride'' -- created by DreamWorks at a cost of about $2 million an episode -- flopped last fall? This is the lightning-in-the-bottle world in which Leslie Moonves, the chairman of CBS, has said he wants to reinvent the network's evening news broadcast, which has aired fundamentally unchanged for more than 40 years.
Fresh News May Weaken the Dollar
Date: 10 April 2005
By Jonathan Fuerbringer
Jonathan Fuerbringer
Jonathan Fuerbringer Market Week column; dollar is up 4.8 percent this year against euro and 5.5 percent against Japanese yen; report on US trade deficit, due this week, is expected to show that it grew in February, to $59 billion; graph (M)
Scrushy Fights Use of His Testimony to S.E.C.
Date: 09 April 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
HealthSouth Corp founder Richard M Scrushy asks Judge Karon O Bowdre, who is presiding over his fraud trial, to exclude testimony he gave federal regulators that prosecutors contend proves he committed perjury (M)
Morgan Banker Quits
Date: 09 April 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vikram Gandhi quits as Morgan Stanley's co-head of investment banking for financial institutions to join Credit Suisse First Boston (S)