In Network News Battle, ABC Is Gaining Ground
Date: 21 November 2001
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings appears to be ending extended period of dominance by NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw; ABC's newscast beat NBC's by about 300,000 viewers last week, after winning by about 600,000 viewers week before and about 60,000 viewers three weeks ago; photo (M)
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A Struggle to Keep Up For TV Caption Writers
Date: 22 November 2001
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Errors in real-time on-screen television captioning increased noticeably after Sept 11 terrorist attacks as stenographers race to keep up with high volume of live news evenets; Holli Miller, who transcribes from home in Des Moines, became hero to her company, National Captioning Institute, when she kept working for many hours without break on Sept 11; photo (M)
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More Access but Less Security for Journalists
Date: 21 November 2001
By Felicity Barringer and Jim Rutenberg
Felicity Barringer
Hundreds of journalists in Afghanistan who had been confined to Northern Alliance territory have spread out into areas controlled by local warlords or by no one as Taliban's power wanes; wider access is bringing greater danger, with seven journalists killed in past 10 days; some American television news crews have begun to pull out of unstable areas; situation is tense even in Kabul; photo (M)
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BOLDFACE NAMES
Date: 21 November 2001
By James Barron With Alex Kuczynski and Glenn Collins
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Actress Alexandra Wentworth and her family learn some complicated Greek dances before her wedding to ABC news analyst George Stephanopoulos; rescue workers from Sept 11 attacks, many of whom smoke cigars while working at ground zero to obliterate acrid smell, descend on Marriott Marquis Hotel in midtown Manhattan for 'Big Smoke' event with more than 30 cigar manufacturers; Rupert Murdoch becomes father again when his wife Wendi Deng gives birth to girl; photo (M)
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VERIZON OFFERING BUYOUTS TO UNION WORKERS
Date: 22 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Verizon Communications offers buyouts to significant number of its 130,000 union employees to cut costs after profit dropped; Communications Workers of America says Verizon wants to trim 8,000 union jobs before year ends; Verizon has eliminated 7,500 jobs this year, mainly through attrition, and equivalent of 14,000 positions by reducing overtime and shedding contractors (S)
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GOODYEAR CUTS PRODUCTION FOR 10TH CONSECUTIVE MONTH
Date: 22 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co is reducing production for 10th consecutive month in November because of slowing sales; says sales of tires for passenger vehicles fell in October amid 10 percent industrywide decline (S)
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ELI LILLY RECEIVES GOVERNMENT APPROVAL OF SEPSIS DRUG
Date: 22 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Eli Lilly & Co receives Food and Drug Administration approval of its Xigris drug for severe sepsis, first treatment approved for often fatal overreaction to infection; analysts estimate sales for Xigris will top $1 billion per year within few years (S)9
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