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AP Challenges Grow As Cost-Cutting Papers Look For Line Items To Slash
The Associated Press, a co-operative started by newspapers to share costs and news, has been getting cancellation notices from papers as large as the Minneapolis Star Tribune since its new rates were distributed in July and now the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., is challenging the two-year cancellation notice that's...
"Fireman" CEOs Rake in Bucks
It's time for another CEO pay survey. This one, by the Associated Press, shows that "fireman CEOs" -- those hired from the outside to pull a big corporation through a crisis -- get a lot of money. The AP came to its conclusions after surveying documents from...
AP's Copyright Lawsuit: Legitimate or Frivolous?
Yesterday's news that the Associated Press is suing Moreover Technologies (a news aggregator service that was acquired by Verisign for $30 million in 2005) seems to have been met with general eye-rolling from the 'sphere. I particularly enjoyed Rich Ord's perspective in "AP Suing Moreover Like It's...
Anti-Aging Medical Corp Invited to Hong Kong to Meet Alpha AP to Discuss Marketing Ideas for Flexogan and Explore Mutual Synergies and Interests
Anti Aging Medical Group Corp. (OTC: AAGM), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing, acquiring and commercializing innovative and scientifically proven products that offer both health maintenance and appearance enhancing benefits. Is invited to come to China and visit the corporate headquarters of Alpha AP to discuss the marketing...
PERSONS.(Rosanne Cheeseman joins Lee Enterprises Inc.)(Lorraine Cichowski joins the Associated Press)(Wesley Jackson joins Belo Interactive)
Executive suite: At Lee Enterprises Inc. of Davenport, Iowa, Rosanne Cheeseman has been named vice president of sales and marketing; previously she had been associate publisher of the North County Times in Escondido, Calif. a Lee paper. Cheesema Executive suite: At Lee Enterprises...
People & calendar.(multiple cable industry appointment briefs)(Brief Article)
AP The Associated Press named PHILLIP WHITACRE director of sales and marketing for its Broadcast Technology division. Whitacre previously served as director of sales for the United States and Canada for Wegener Communications. Cedar Poi...
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The safety may put someone's mind at ease that somehow the pistol is more "safe" now, thereby allowing some poor sap on the street to get a better pistol to defend themselves with. As far as new civilian-type shooters, the safety may appeal to them because, in their eye, the...
Yankees nearing the brink
NEW YORK -- At this rate, the relentless Boston Red Sox might eliminate the Yankees sooner than anyone thought. Jason Bay drove in four runs, Dustin Pedroia hit a grand slam and Boston routed the listless Yankees 11-3 on Wednesday night, putting an emphatic dent in New...
Jankovic advances; Roddick gets victory
NEW YORK -- Jelena Jankovic's leg cramped so badly, she couldn't take another step. Luckily for the No. 2 seed in the U.S. Open, the agony occurred during her post-match run on the treadmill. Anyone who watched could clearly see she left about everything she had out...
West increases pressure on Russia
TBILISI, Georgia -- Western leaders warned Russia on Wednesday to "change course," hoping to keep a conflict that already threatens a key nuclear pact and could affect the U.S. meat and poultry industry from broadening into a new Cold War. Moscow said it was NATO expansion and...
Poker
Next month sees the start of the fifth "season" of the European Poker Tour which now comprises 11 tournaments - nine events in major European cities, one in the Bahamas and a final in Monte Carlo. The series, sponsored by the planet's biggest online card room, PokerStars.com, seems set to...
Firm ignores $60 eye drug, pushes $2,000 option
WASHINGTON -- What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000? In the case of Genentech Inc., nothing. ...
Rules for ID'ing job-site hazards may change
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is proposing that workplace hazard standards be subject to more public and expert scrutiny before being adopted. Critics say the proposals could make it harder to limit worker exposure to carcinogens and other toxic materials. The Labor Department proposal to be posted...
Finance giant Fannie Mae shakes up management
WASHINGTON -- Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae shook up its executive ranks Wednesday, after shares in it and sibling company Freddie Mac rose for a third straight day as investors appeared less certain a government bailout of the two companies is imminent. Fannie Mae, the largest buyer...
Pakistanis repel attack by Taliban
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said Wednesday as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal belt along the Afghan border. As many as 49...
Judge says Mrs. Fields can pay workers, vendors
A bankruptcy judge said Wednesday that Salt Lake City-based Mrs. Fields Original Cookies Inc. can continue to pay workers and vendors in the normal course of business as the company's bankruptcy proceeds. The approval was part of the company's first-day motions, which a company makes near the...
Orders for durable goods take off
WASHINGTON -- U.S. factories saw a surprisingly hefty increase in their orders for big-ticket products in July, reflecting continued strength in export sales and a boost to business investment from the government's tax-stimulus package. Economists, however, remain worried that spreading economic weakness overseas and a rebound in...
Idaho boy's murderer given death sentence
BOISE -- A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated just three hours. The jurors' recommendation was binding on U.S. District...
Confidence in job market sags
NEW YORK -- American workers' confidence in the job market is as low as it was during the 2001 recession, according to a survey released Wednesday. When asked whether this is a bad time to find a quality job, 65 percent said it was, matching the...
Reviving the Dead Sea Scrolls
JERUSALEM -- Scientists using American space technology have started a huge project to digitally photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known version of the Hebrew Bible, and post it on the Internet for all to see, Israeli authorities said Wednesday. High-tech cameras using infrared photography are...
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