When Rape Victims Speak Out
Date: 11 August 2002
Editorial applauds decision of two rape victims to appear on national television to discuss their abduction by sexual predator; says they struck important blow against stigma still unfairly connected to rape victims, although less encouraging aspect was spectacle surrounding appearance on NBC's Today program
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BUREAU VERITAS TO ACQUIRE U.S. LABORATORIES
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bureau Veritas will buy US Laboratories Inc for about $83 million in cash to enter American construction consulting market (M)
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FLIGHT ATTENDANTS GIVE CONCESSIONS TO US AIRWAYS
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Flight attendants at US Airways Group vote to give company $78.5 million per year in concessions, moving airline closer to winning federal loan guarantee; airline agrees to cut no more flight attendant jobs if it enters bankruptcy (S)
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SUN EXECUTIVES BORROWED MONEY FROM THE COMPANY
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sun Microsystems Inc discloses that five executives and a director borrowed $6.3 million in personal loans that would be barred under corporate-accountability law enacted recently; two of loans, totaling $3 million, were made just prior to law's taking effect (S)
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EMULEX SAYS SALES WILL FALL SHORT OF ESTIMATES
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Circuit-board maker Emulex Corp says that sales in current fiscal year will be below analysts' estimates; company's stock plunges (S)
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DISNEY SAYS IT EMPLOYED RELATIVES OF 4 DIRECTORS
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Walt Disney Co says four of its independent board members had relatives who were employed by company in 2001; practice runs counter to proposed new standards of independence for directors (S)
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ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS COURT MUST DECIDE HERSHEY SALE
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pennsylvania Atty Gen Michael Fisher says state court must approve any sale of Hershey Foods Corp by charitable trust that controls company (M)
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L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS AGREES TO BUY WESTWOOD
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
L-3 Communications Holdings Inc agrees to buy Westwood Corp for $22 million to increase sales of controls and other equipment for United States Navy vessels (S)
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GOLDMAN SACHS MAY SEEK TO OFFER BANK SERVICES IN UTAH
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goldman Sachs Group may apply for license in Utah to provide bank accounts and related services to wealthy individuals (S)
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World Business Briefing | Europe: Italy: Slow Economic Growth
Date: 10 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Italian economy grows 0.2 percent in second quarter, half pace forecast by economists; Italian statistics office revises first quarter gross domestic product growth rate to 0.1 percent from 0.2 percent previously reported and revises annual growth estimate downward to unchanged from 0.1 percent (M)
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