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...news section's contents is sketched out. The trade story is still developing, and Mitchell weighs in with his contacts, putting in a few calls to Labor Party people. But today, even a message from this media heavyweight won't open doors in Canberra. "All the pricks rang back this morning. I think that's a concerted 'no comment,' " he says with a grin the next...
They begin with Patrick, a longtime confidant of Stewart's. A former McKinsey consultant, she helped Stewart craft a multimedia lifestyle conglomerate out of her cookbooks, television specials and endorsement deals. Patrick stood by her side when Stewart rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 19, 1999, the day the company went public. At its peak, the stock reached nearly $40 a share, but it has dipped close to $5 since news of Stewart's sale of ImClone, a biotech-company stock, surfaced in June 2002. That sale triggered a federal investigation and her subsequent...
Even a whopping settlement is unlikely to hobble Wal-Mart, which rang up $9 billion in profits for the latest fiscal year. Nonetheless, its bottom line is likely to be redrawn by the suits. The sex-discrimination case alone could result in a multibillion-dollar settlement, says plaintiffs' attorney Joseph Sellers. Wal-Mart's reputation as a harsh employer, along with concerns about unfair competition, has spurred communities in Chicago, Dallas and Inglewood, Calif., to block construction of new stores. The outcome of the cases, thanks to the retailer's prominence, could affect how companies all over the world treat...
...moment the building was evacuated, TIME was mid-way through a meeting in the convention center with a U.S. Army civil affairs officer, Major Martha Boyd, who works on projects attached to Iraq's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Her telephone rang with an urgent call from a local official in Baqubah, telling her that a ministry employment office had been besieged by insurgents, who took control for several hours of the government's main building, known in the city as the Blue Dome. "They have taken it over," Boyd said...
...protect our country's sovereignty." Many interpreted that to mean Chen was flirting with the idea of a referendum on independence-an action that China has consistently warned will lead to war. The next day, according to one U.S. source, a furious Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, rang the AIT office in Taipei and demanded to know what was going on and why the U.S. had not been forewarned. "[Powell] was not a happy camper," says the source...