BOEING IS TAKING $994 MILLION WRITE-DOWN
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boeing Co has written down value of its leased aircraft and its aircraft and space businesses by $994 million in first quarter to reflect decline in air travel (S)/
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SPRINT PRESIDENT RESIGNS AMID TAX QUESTIONS
Date: 10 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sprint Corp's president Ronald LeMay
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CAMPBELL DROPS INTERIM FROM DIVISION PRESIDENT'S TITLE
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Campbell Drops Interim From
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FIRST FEDERAL CAPITAL AGREES TO BUY LIBERTY BANCSHARES
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
First Federal Capital Agre
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U.S. STEEL SAYS IT WILL CUT JOBS IF IT ACQUIRES RIVAL
Date: 10 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
US Steel Corp will cut 5,700 jobs, or about 20 percent of work force of combined companies, if it wins bid for National Steel Corp over rival AK Steel Holdings Corp; National Steel and bankruptcy judge have said they prefer AK Steel's $1.3 billion offer to US Steel's $950 million bid, but United Steelworkers of America objects to AK Steel's three-year lockout of workers at plant in Ohio (S)
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STATE STREET SAYS IT WILL ELIMINATE 1,800 MORE JOBS
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
State Street Corp will cut as many as 1,800 more jobs, bringing total to 13 percent of its work force this year (S)4
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The News We Kept To Ourselves
Date: 11 April 2003
By Eason Jordan
Eason Jordan
Op-Ed article by Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, says now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, world can expect to hear many gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about decades of torment; says he has tales as well, learned during 13 trips he made to Baghdad over last 12 years to lobby government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders; says he saw and heard awful things that he could not report because doing so would have jeopardized lives of Iraqis, particularly those on CNN's Baghdad staff; says secret police terrorized all Iraqis working for international press services; says some vanished forever, others disppeared and then surfaced later with tales of being tortured; says one of CNN's Iraqi cameramen was abducted, beaten and horribly tortured; says he is still haunted by story of woman captured by secret police after speaking with CNN on phone; says plastic bag containing her body parts was left on doorstep of her family's home; drawing (M)
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World Business Briefing | Americas: Uruguay: Bond Exchange Sought
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Uruguay asks bondholders to swap as much as $6.5 billion of debt due through 2027 for new securities that have longer maturities and are worth less (S)1
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World Business Briefing | Asia: Singapore: Economic Growth Slows
Date: 11 April 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Singapore's gross domestic product grew at annual 0.7 percent in first quarter, less than expected (S)1
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