Boy's Death Underscores Britain's Urban Blight
Date: 27 December 2000
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
London's Peckham neighborhood has been focus of attention since Nov 27 murder of Damilola Taylor, 10, by group of youths at housing complex; Conservative leader, William Hague, has used case to attack government's approach to law enforcement, holding anti-racism policies bar police from doing their job in places with high minority populations, like Peckham; youth's family, who came from Nigeria four months ago, has denounced Hague's remarks; area residents are in shock, both from murder and from ensuing media onslaught; photo (M)
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Police Feel Scorn on Beat And Pressure From Above
Date: 26 December 2000
By Kevin Flynn
Kevin Flynn
Second article in series on challenges facing New York Police Department, The Blues, focuses on causes for low state of morale on force; patrol officers believe that aggressive crackdowns that drastically cut crime were stretched too far and that push to punish infractions of every variety undercut their discretion and made them feel unpopular, even despised, in neighborhoods they helped make safer; result is that across every rank, police officers describe dispirited force that has watched hundreds of colleagues flee in recent months, retiring to take second careers or quitting in disgust long before they qualify for full pension; pay has also become enormous sore point; officers who were once among highest paid police in country now earn less than counterparts in far smaller cities; result is recruitment problem; Police Academy had open spots this year, for first time in memory; police officers also accuse news media of undermining public support by portraying isolated incidents of brutality as the norm; photos (L)
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MARVELL TECHNOLOGY'S SHARES DROP SHARPLY
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Marvell Technology Group's shares fall sharply on first day that insiders are allowed to sell their shares (S)
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GENENTECH CITED BY F.D.A. FOR QUALITY CONTROL LAPSES
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Genentech is cited by Food and Drug Administration for a series of lapses in quality control, most of them related to Pulmozyme, a drug used by cystic fibrosis patients (S)
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ALUMINUM SMELTER TO REDUCE OUTPUT AND SELL POWER
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Golden Northwest Aluminum plans to cut production at smelters in Dalles, Ore, and Goldendale, Wash, by 83 percent through October 2001 because of power shortages on the West Coast; Bonneville Power Administration will resell the electricity to California; Golden Northwest will use profits from electricity sales to keep all its 1,225 employees on its payroll or to supplement unemployment compensation to match their salaries (S)
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VISX WARNS ITS EARNINGS IN 4TH QUARTER WILL DISAPPOINT
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Visx, dominant maker of vision-correction lasers, says fourth-quarter results will be much worse than forecast because a slowing economy is sharply reducing demand for elective eye surgery, which for many patients is not covered by insurance (S)
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IBP URGES SHAREHOLDERS TO AWAIT BETTER OFFER
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
IBP Inc, nation's largest beef processor, urges its shareholders to wait for a better offer before accepting an offer of stock worth $26 a share from Tyson Foods (S)
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THAI UNION TO BUY REMAINDER OF TRI-UNION SEAFOODS
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thai Union Frozen Products, a major tuna canner, will buy the other half of Tri-Union Seafoods for $38.5 million in cash from its partner, Tri-Marine International (S)
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LEVI STRAUSS GETS $1.5 BILLION IN BANK CREDIT
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Levi Strauss gets commitment for $1.5 billion in new bank credit to reduce its borrowing costs and allow it to avoid a $32 million penalty on its existing debt (S)
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BHP SAID TO CONSIDER LISTING STOCK IN U.S. OR BRITAIN
Date: 27 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BHP Ltd, Australia's largest natural resources company, is considering listing its shares on stock exchanges in Britain or United States out of frustration with the stock's lackluster performance on the Australian Stock Exchange (S)
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