Dec 14, 2005 (The Mercury - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Telstra was in technical breach of the law when it gave a series of private briefings, Dec 14, 2005 (The Mercury - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Telstra...
12/27/2000 Daily Press Briefing The State Department web site below is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001. Please see www.state.gov for material released since President George W. Bush took office on that date. This site is not updated so external links...
12/20/2000 Daily Press Briefing The State Department web site below is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001. Please see www.state.gov for material released since President George W. Bush took office on that date. This site is not updated so external links...
12/11/2000 Daily Press Briefing The State Department web site below is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001. Please see www.state.gov for material released since President George W. Bush took office on that date. This site is not...
INTRODUCTION In recent years, many methods of processing the Electrocardiogram ECG signal were reported (1), (2). Since it is difficult to get an accurate real value of the measured property of the ECG signal due to the fluctuation of the surrounding environment effects of measuring methods...
Following the recent Supreme Court decision ruling the Washington, DC, handgun ban unconstitutional, officials in the District of Columbia are attempting to circumvent the high court by outlawing semi-automatic pistols in reluctant acceptance of revolvers. "The D.C. ban of semiautomatics is unjustified," said Smith & Wesson's Paul Pluff. "With all...
World in brief STOCKHOLM A clever trick borrowed from jellyfish has earned two Americans and a Japanese scientist the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The $1.4m prize recognises Osamu Shimomura, now of Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York,...
Savings rates slashed *Leading savings providers moved quickly in the wake of yesterday's Bank of England base rate cut by reducing their rates sharply. National Savings & Investments, the state-run bank, reduced rates by the full 0.5 percentage points, while private-sector providers including Halifax and Lloyds TSB...
News in brief ART A sketch by Peter Paul Rubens - painted to celebrate the union of Scotland and England in 1604 - is to be kept in Britain after 5.7m was raised. The oil sketch, created when the Flemish painter was at the height of...
Credit crisis in brief competition The UK has dropped from ninth to 12th place in an annual ranking of economic competitiveness. The World Economic Forum survey identified the "significant and increasing" government budget deficit as a key factor behind the ratings drop. Out of 134 economies...
News in brief health The number of women who gave birth after in-vitro fertilisation IVF treatment topped 10,000 for the first time in 2006, figures showed yesterday. A total of 12,596 babies were born to 10,242 mothers - up 13 per cent on the previous year,...
Local & state: K-State women cagers picked seventh in Big 12 Defending champion Kansas State was tabbed for the seventh spot in the Big 12 women's basketball coaches poll announced Wednesday. Oklahoma was the choice for No. 1, followed by Texas and Iowa State. ...
Business in brief SUPERMARKETS Sainsbury's delivered strong sales growth yesterday, but its shares plummeted nearly 15 per cent as investors fretted about a flight to rivals in a recession and the sale of 10 per cent of its shares. Britain's third-largest grocer delivered...
Business in brief SOFTWARE Symantec, the security software maker behind the Norton range, is expanding its internet services business by acquiring the online messaging and web security services provider MessageLabs for $695m (402m). MessageLabs has 19,000 customers, 512 staff and regional headquarters in Gloucester, New York...
Business in brief CAR-MAKING The Swedish car company Volvo, owned by Ford, plans to shed 3,300 jobs on top of cuts announced earlier this year, owing to a decline in sales. The group, which is grappling with weak demand and surging raw materials costs, said 2,700...
Briefing THE IMF became the latest body to predict a recession in the UK when it radically downgraded its forecasts for British economic growth and declared that house prices were 20 to 30 per cent over- valued. The Fund's World Economic Outlook warned yesterday that "the...
Business in brief The chocolate maker and retailer Thorntons has posted a 6.4 per cent rise in first-quarter sales and said its financial position remained strong. The 97-year-old group, which trades from 378 wholly owned stores and 252 franchises, said yesterday its sales rose to 45.7m...
Business in brief HOME FURNISHINGS Land of Leather blamed the economic downturn and weak consumer confidence for an 87 per cent drop in annual profits yesterday. The furniture retailer said its pre-tax profit for the year to 3 August was 2.3m - down from 18.5m a...
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