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Date: 20 December 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dassault Aviation agreed to buy Alcatel-Lucent’s 20.78 percent stake in Thales, a maker of flight electronics, for about 1.57 billion euros ($2.24 billion).
Date: 20 December 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Sovereign Bancorp, a savings and loan that agreed to be acquired by Spanish Banco Santander, is cutting 1,000 jobs beginning immediately.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Clark Hoyt
Clark Hoyt
Re “Expert Opinions, From Neutral Observers” While I frequently appreciate your principled analysis, today’s thought process was an especially evenhanded discussion of a very complex issue.The complexity of the matters giving rise to and exacerbating this economic crisis is nearly beyond the understanding of even most New York Times readers. To do justice to The Times and its readers on most any of the aspects of the crisis would truly require broadsheet-sized news stories to supply the facts necessary for readers to really be able to arrive at informed opinions.While there is some continuity of theme to all these events — greed, absence of regulation, cheap money, irresponsible lending and management and so on — the nuance is massive and nearly impossible to explore in 1,000 words.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
CNN’s new less cluttered look is a tacit rejection of the information overload that has typified television news for much of this decade.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Timothy Williams and Atheer Kakan
Timothy Williams
In a letter addressed to Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the reporter apologized for the incident, calling it an “ugly action,” an Iraqi government official said.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Danny Hakim and Raymond Hernandez
Danny Hakim
Friends say Andrew M. Cuomo is quietly fuming that Caroline Kennedy is now the favorite for a Senate seat.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Micheline Maynard
Micheline Maynard
Planned changes at G.M. and Chrysler are necessary in the short term, but they offer few fresh ideas, and no company can keep cutting its way to prosperity.
Date: 21 December 2008
Readers respond to the public editor on recent columns.
Date: 20 December 2008
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
When greed trumps lust, and fraud is more fascinating than infidelity, it’s safe to say that the recession has arrived.
Date: 21 December 2008
By Tom Kuntz
Tom Kuntz
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