30 Years After Abortion Ruling, New Trends but the Old Debate
Date: 20 January 2003
By Kate Zernike
Kate Zernike
Supreme Court decision establishing women's right to abortion is now 30 years old, and debate over it continues even as new trends become evident; rate of abortions has declined to its lowest level since 1974, largely because of steady decrease among teenagers, who are avoiding pregnancy through birth control or abstinence; women seeking abortions today are predominantly poor and use birth control unevenly at best; access to abortion is neither 'on demand,' as opponents call it, nor closed off, as some supporters of abortion rights insist, but varies from state to state, subject to ever-shifting equation of geography, money, politics and personal sympathies; New York Times/CBS News Poll indicates that sentiment has barely budged since 1989, with 40 percent of Americans believing abortion should be legal, 20 percent thinking it should not be and another 40 percent saying it should be legal with stricter limits; intense round of anti-abortion legislation at state and federal levels is expected; photo; graphs (L)
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World Business Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Bid For Software Maker
Date: 21 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Irish educational software maker Riverdeep Group says chief executive Barry O'Callaghan and private equity firm Alchemy Partners bid $376.3 million to buy company; photo (S)
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Gap's New Financial Officer Is From Disney
Date: 20 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gap Inc chief financial officer Heidi Kunz resigns; Byron Pollitt, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts chief financial officer and executive vice president, replaces her (S)
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U.S. Division Chief Resigns at Toys 'R' Us
Date: 21 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Toys 'R' Us says Gregory R Staley, president of US division, resigns; search is under way for successor (M)
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Sega Chooses A New Chief At Its U.S. Unit
Date: 20 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sega Corp names Tetsu Kayama president and chief executive of Sega of America Inc; he succeeds Peter Moore, who resigned as president and chief operating officer (M)
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Counting the Votes
Date: 21 January 2003
Letter by Robert Flaherty, former director of Voter News Service, recalls that organization collected, tabulated and distributed votes in many American elections for almost 30 years (S)
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No News Is Bad News
Date: 20 January 2003
Editorial says Mayor Michael Bloomberg is right to ask for productivity concessions from New York City police union; says he and Gov George Pataki, both Republicans, should demand that federal government pick up at least part of cost of police antiterrorism work
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 January 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 U.S. Could Allow Safe Haven for Hussein Even as they rejected calls for delay before confronting Saddam Hussein militarily, three officials of the Bush administration hinted that they would consider allowing him to find a safe haven if that would avoid a war. A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 21 January 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 France Rules Out Voting To Support an Iraq War In unusually blunt terms aimed at preempting the United States, France said that it would not support any Security Council resolution for military action against Iraq in the coming weeks. France's foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, would not rule out the possibility that France would use its veto power if the United States presses the Council to authorize war against Iraq for failing to disarm. A1
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NEWS Analysis: OPEC grip on market weakens
Date: 21 January 2003
By Eric Pfanner, International Herald Tribune
Eric Pfanner
The surge in oil prices caused by the loss of production in Venezuela and the possibility of a U.S. attack on Iraq has created a rare spectacle: The president of OPEC, a cartel once feared for its ability to control prices, publicly complaining that curr
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