Corrections
Date: 30 June 2001
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Aphotograph with an article on Thursday about Alberto Fujimori, the ousted president of Peru, who now lives in Japan, carried an erroneous credit. It was obtained from Flash magazine in Tokyo; it was not taken by The Associated Press.
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BOSTON SCIENTIFIC TO ACQUIRE CARDIAC PATHWAYS
Date: 30 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boston Scientific Corp will buy Cardiac Pathways Corp for $115 million (S)
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INFO-QUEST REDUCES STAKE IN AREMISSOFT TO 14%
Date: 30 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Info-Quest SA cuts stake in AremisSoft Corp to about 14 percent (S)
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TOMMY HILFIGER AGREES TO BUY T. H. INTERNATIONAL
Date: 30 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tommy Hilfiger Corp will buy TH International, its European licensee, for $230 million (S)
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SAP AGREES TO RAISE STAKE IN COMMERCE ONE TO 20%
Date: 30 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SAP AG will raise stake in Commerce Onc to 20 percent (S)
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World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Revised Inflation Estimate
Date: 30 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Brazil's central bank raises its forecast for inflation this year to 5.8 percent from 4.8 percent, saying decline its currency may increase prices; cuts its estimate for economic growth to 2.8 percent from 4.3 percent; graph (S)
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World Business Briefing | Asia: Singapore: Bid For Bank
Date: 30 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Singapore's United Overseas Bank offers 10 billion Singapore dollars ($5.5 billion) for Overseas Union Bank, topping bid by DBS Group Holdings (S)
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World Business Briefing | Europe: Europe: Inflation Worries
Date: 30 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Otmar Issing, chief economist of European Central Bank, says bank is worried about inflation in 12 nations using euro and will do everything to bring it down, speech at Austrian National Bank; inflation in dozen euro nations rose to 3.4 percent in May; photo (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 30 June 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-7 U.N. War Crimes Tribunal Expands Milosevic Charges The war crimes tribunal in The Hague issued an expanded indictment against Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president, charging him with additional atrocities and naming more victims of war crimes during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo. Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor, pressed for the arrest of 38 other people indicted for war crimes who are still at large. A7
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 01 July 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Got Good English? Got! But Singapore Has Doubts Singapore's leaders have launched the Speak Good English Movement, a campaign to eliminate a rough-and-ready patois known as Singlish, one of many offspring of the English language known to linguists as Englishes. 1 Bush Meets Koizumi of Japan President Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met for the first time and agreed that their governments would ''explore'' restarting negotiations over global warming, months after Mr. Bush declared the previous accord ''dead.'' 12
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