Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News articles from May 11 2003

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News archives from May 11 2003

GM, Auto Analysts Respond to Hummer's Poor Quality Survey Rating.
May 11, 2003... By Ashley McCall, South Bend Tribune, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Since its launch last summer, the Hummer H2 has been so ubiquitous it's giving Jennifer Lopez a run for her money. It's on the hit television show...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Jerry Heaster Column.
May 11, 2003... By Jerry Heaster, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--GEPHARDT HAS BAD IDEA FOR MEDICARE'S FUTURE: The fortunes of current Medicare beneficiaries and those close to eligibility probably would be harmed...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., At Your Service Column.
May 11, 2003... By Angela D. Curry, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--PENALTIES MAY BE LURKING IN MORTGAGE'S FINE PRINT--At Your Service: I live in Kansas, and I have been told that a mortgage company cannot charge a...

Chicago Tribune Auto Letters Column.
May 11, 2003... By Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--QUESTION: I bought a new Nissan Murano April 30. The next day I saw evidence that made me suspect that I bought a demo. I noticed scuff marks on the backs of the...

Chicago Tribune Bill Barnhart Column.
May 11, 2003... By Bill Barnhart, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--ANALYSTS TO WALK, TOE A FINE LINE; 10 BROKERAGES MUST SUPPLY `INDEPENDENT' RESEARCH ON STOCKS: James Tyree, chief executive officer of the Chicago-based...

Chicago Tribune Business Outlook Column.
May 11, 2003... By William Sluis, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CONSUMER SPENDING SALES CHUG ALONG: The dual personality of American consumers enables them to tell surveyors their confidence is near recession levels...

Chicago Tribune Boating Column.
May 11, 2003... By Mike Esposito, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CHICAGO--Victor L. Schlaeger, the Chicago Fire Department's fireboat, can pump about 12,000 gallons of water per minute onto a fire. That's the output of about...

Chicago Tribune Car Notes Column.
May 11, 2003... By Jim Mateja and Rick Popely, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--THE DETROIT AUTO SHOW is held every January in Cobo Hall, but in 2006 the National Football League will hold the Super Bowl in Detroit in January....

Chicago Tribune Binary Beat Column.
May 11, 2003... By James Coates, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--X10 MARKS THE SPOT WHERE DIGITAL MUSIC MOVES BEYOND 18-INCH LIMIT: We didn't need Apple's CEO-for-life Steve Jobs' boasting last week about his red-hot iTunes...

Deregulation Gains Mix with Some Pain.
May 11, 2003... By James P. Miller, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Times change. The loudest voices these days are calling to have the federal government free industries, including the media, from the burden of...

Chicago Tribune Download Column.
May 11, 2003... By Christine Tatum, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--SCHOOL DISTRICTS ADD RESOURCES WITH E-SITES: School districts throughout the nation are using Web services to maximize limited teaching resources,...

Chicago Tribune David Greising Column.
May 11, 2003... By David Greising, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Gov. Rod Blagojevich promised a new style of government in Illinois. This was supposed to be a good thing. The old way was driven by grubby politics...

Chicago Tribune Jim's Driveway Column.
May 11, 2003... By Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Jim's Driveway is capsules of Jim Mateja's auto reviews. 2003 --ACURA MDX TOURING w/Navi: Base price: $40,500; Engine: 3.5-liter, 260-h.p., 24-valve V-6;...

Chicago Tribune Media Talk Column.
May 11, 2003... Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Six weeks after Fox Television bought Chicago's WPWR-Ch. 50 last year, the new owner killed the station's only locally produced shows. It didn't matter that one of the shows,...

Chicago Tribune New Cars Column.
May 11, 2003... By Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CHICAGO--After five years, the marriage of Chrysler and Mercedes has produced its first offspring, a 3,000-pound, two-seat bundle of driving joy named Crossfire...

Media Giants Try to Put Local Touch on 13 Davenport, Iowa-Area Radio Stations.
May 11, 2003... By Kathy Bergen, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--DAVENPORT, Iowa--The cluster of towns hugging the banks of the Mississippi River on the Illinois-Iowa state line was home to the first commercial radio station...

Athens Banner-Herald, Ga., Don Nelson Column.
May 11, 2003... By Don Nelson, Athens Banner-Herald, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--The mother of invention didn't miss a beat on John Keane, an Athens record producer/engineer who has done recordings for such musical notables as...

HealthSouth Fraud Case to Test New Corporate Accounting Laws.
May 11, 2003... By Patti Bond, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--When all is said and done in the fraud investigation at HealthSouth, a few people may have all but signed their lives away. Despite new laws...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ernest Holsendolph Column.
May 11, 2003... By Ernest Holsendolph, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--FORD SENDS NEW MODEL T TO SALUTE ATLANTA ROOTS: Detroit, the Motor City, is observing Ford Motor Co.'s 100th anniversary this year, but a...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Technology Queries Column.
May 11, 2003... By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--LET SOFTWARE WAGE THE BATTLE AGAINST VIRUSES, POP-UPS--QUESTION: I recently contracted for Internet access for my home office through my cable...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Technobuddy Column.
May 11, 2003... By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CHANCES ARE, THAT `OLD' COMPUTER IS PLENTY FAST ENOUGH: Despite mighty grumbles and a bit of smoke, the 90-horsepower outboard motor pushed my...

CalPERS Chief Gets Tough on Crime.
May 11, 2003... By David Whelan, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--SACRAMENTO -- The new face of corporate governance reform may be that of Sean Harrigan, a food workers' union leader from Southern...

Struggling Paterson, N.J., Bookstore Hopes to Be Story of Survival.
May 11, 2003... By Kevin G. DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Stacy Foster's enterprise is named for the Swahili word for self-determination. But the future of her Kujichagulia Bookstore in Paterson...

The Record, Hackensack, N.J., Your Money's Worth Column.
May 11, 2003... By Kevin DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--REDUCING ANNOYING SALES CALLS: Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court said telemarketers can't lie and cheat. Last month, the Federal Trade...

The Record, Hackensack, N.J., Investment Mailbag Column.
May 11, 2003... The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--HOW TO RECOUP FROM BROKER WHO KNEW STOCK WAS BAD: QUESTION. A broker advised me to buy a stock called InfoSpace about two years ago. This is one of the stocks that...

U.S. Cracks Down on Misleading Online Ads for SARS `Cures'.
May 11, 2003... By Kevin G. DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Regulators in the United States and Canada took aim Friday at marketers seeking to cash in on the SARS epidemic by selling bogus cures and...

Toys `R' Us Names Head for U.S. Stores.
May 11, 2003... By Joan Verdon, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Richard L. Markee, who created and built the Babies "R" Us stores into Toys "R" Us' most successful division, has been named to head the company's...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Careers Column.
May 11, 2003... By Diane Stafford, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF AGE BIAS: Age should almost never be a bona fide occupational qualification. Employment law attorneys and knowledgeable human...

Digital Photo Technology Expanding Its Reach.
May 11, 2003... By Mike Glynn, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--So you've mastered your digital camera, and now you have an unwieldy collection of CDs, each filled with digital photos of the children and your Florida...

Medford, Ore.-Area Plant Pathologist Fears Fungus Damage on Local Fruit Crops.
May 11, 2003... By Greg Stiles, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--While persistent spring rain has assured fruit growers plenty of summer irrigation water, it's also been a cause for concern. "A wet spring can...

The Miami Herald Gregg Fields Column.
May 11, 2003... By Gregg Fields, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--How could metropolitan Miami's job growth have gone from first to last among the state's major labor markets overnight? A look around the county -- replete...

The Miami Herald Money Matters Column.
May 11, 2003... By Harriet Johnson Brackey, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--WALL STREET SETTLEMENT DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH: The $1.4 billion Wall Street settlement? I'm already over it. Wall Street isn't going to pay...

The Orange County Register, Calif., Worth Your Wallet Column.
May 11, 2003... By Diana McCabe, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Y-ME PLATINUM VISA THE PITCH: Support Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization. REGISTER RATING: Three stars Here's a great idea:...

Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky., Business People Column.
May 11, 2003... Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--TONY GHOLSON has been promoted to factory manager of Swedish Match North America Owensboro operation. He has a bachelor of science degree in accounting and...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Analyst's Corner Column.
May 11, 2003... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--UBS REMAINS NEUTRAL ON PNC: UBS Warburg maintained its "neutral" rating on PNC Financial Services Group's stock [Ticker: PNC] last week after meeting with senior...

Owner of Pittsburgh-Area Video Outlets Tries to Keep Up in Changing Business.
May 11, 2003... By Teresa F. Lindeman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Video store owner Russ Homer wouldn't mind a second viewing of the 1980s, when customers waited in line for two hours just to get their hands on...

Role of Pittsburgh Businesses in War Effort Unclear.
May 11, 2003... By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--April 1, when U.S. commandos stormed an Iraqi hospital looking for 19-year-old Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, a camera man followed close behind,...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Personal Finance Column.
May 11, 2003... By Jeff Brown, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--"What? You think money grows on trees?" "I don't care who started it!" "Would you jump in a lake if he told you to?" On this Mother's Day, we...

San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Dan Gillmor Column.
May 11, 2003... By Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--FTC TARGETS 2 CORPORATE MISCREANTS: The Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. government's chief protector of fair competition, is mighty unhappy with...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn., Career Column.
May 11, 2003... By Amy Lindgren, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--If you're older than 40, you probably remember hearing that the art of letter writing had died, strangled slowly in the curly loops of the home...

Survey of Minnesota CEOs' Pay Packages Shows Little Change from Last Year.
May 11, 2003... By Dave Beal, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--The skyrocketing pay of Minnesota's CEOs tumbled back to Earth in 2002 because of the bearish stock market. But have CEO pay packages cooled off...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn., Real World Economics Column.
May 11, 2003... By Edward Lotterman, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Are CEOs paid too much? To most economists, that question does not involve fairness, justice, outrage or any of the other terms that many...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn., Investor's Eye Column.
May 11, 2003... By Gail MarksJarvis, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Charles Dill invested money in stocks for 50 years. But he's now keeping his nest egg in a low-interest, money market fund. Even though...

Disney Online Gets Down to Kid Business.
May 11, 2003... By John Schmeltzer, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--So much for the neighborhood lemonade stand. Instead, if the folks at Disney Online have their way, kids ages 9 to 12 will be spending even more time in...

Small Firms Get Shorted on Federal Contracts.
May 11, 2003... By Rob Kaiser, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--U.S. Rep. Don Manzullo and other legislators wanted to send a message a couple years ago by forcing the Army to stop ordering black berets from overseas. The...

Chicago-Area Home Builders Respond to Needs of Immigrant Homebuyers.
May 11, 2003... By John Handley, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CHICAGO--Immigration has been pumping new life into America since Colonial days. Just look at our historic architecture, with bricks, mortar and wood reflecting...

Immigrants Help Fuel American Housing Boom.
May 11, 2003... Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CHICAGO--"We came here to achieve the American dream," said Monica Morales. And that dream has come true for the native of Colombia and her husband, Mauricio, born in...

Chicago-Area Lake Life Lovers Have Magazine in Healthy Swim.
May 11, 2003... By Kathy Bergen, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Just as spiky grasses thrive and multiply on the shifting sand dunes edging Lake Michigan's southeastern shoreline, so a magazine aimed at lovers of the...

Chicago Tribune Real Estate Column.
May 11, 2003... By Mary Umberger, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CHICAGO--Our nation's homeownership feast has been the rental industry's famine. Well, maybe that's a stretch, but vacancy rates are at a 10-year high --...

Sweeping SBC Rate Law Gets Quick Approval in Illinois.
May 11, 2003

Chicago Tribune Small Business Notebook Column.
May 11, 2003... By Rob Kaiser, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--POSTAL SERVICE OFFERS ADVICE ON MAIL USE: The U.S. Postal Service has published a book to help small-business owners effectively use the mail for marketing and...

Most Illinois Residents Likely to See Increase in Phone Bills.
May 11, 2003

Chicago Tribune Career Queries Column.
May 11, 2003... By Carol Kleiman, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--QUESTION: I'm a new manager and wonder how to deal with a brown noser. His attempts to ingratiate himself increasingly irritate me and he pipes up to support...

New Bridgeport, Conn.-Area Nurses Enjoying Generous Enticement Packages.
May 11, 2003... By Stephania H. Davis, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--While many college graduates are searching for companies that are hiring in spite of the slow economy, new nurses are enjoying lucrative...

Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif., People in Motion Column.
May 11, 2003... Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--DAVID SMITH, vice president of finance, has been chosen to serve as interim chief financial officer at Emeryville's Chiron Corp. Smith joined the...

Venture Funding near Six-Year Low.
May 11, 2003... By George Avalos, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Anybody who bet the venture capital market couldn't get any worse figured wrong. The Bay Area's market to finance fledgling...

GlaxoSmithKline Reaches Out to AIDS-Stricken Africans.
May 11, 2003... By Stella M. Hopkins, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--NAIROBI, Kenya--Every week, dozens of pleas for AIDS drugs land on Spencer Ochieng's desk here at GlaxoSmithKline's East African headquarters....

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Kids and Business Column.
May 11, 2003... By Steve Rosen, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--On a recent morning at Kansas City, Mo.'s Northeast Middle School, Natalie Lischer asked 12 seventh graders seated attentively in front of her to...

Occupancy Numbers Show Travelers Getting Back on Road in Macon, Ga., Area.
May 11, 2003... By Linda S. Morris, The Macon Telegraph, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--MACON, Ga.--When people are fearful, they don't travel and during the past the couple of years there has been a lot to fear -- a jittery economy,...

Royal Caribbean Head to Retire.
May 11, 2003... By Dale K. DuPont, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Ed Stephan made a bold pronouncement in 1969 when his new company, Royal Caribbean Lines, said it was building three luxury liners to sail out of Miami. ...

Kissimmee, Fla., Currency Trader Faces Civil Complaint.
May 11, 2003... By Willoughby Mariano, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--KISSIMMEE, Fla.--Tucked away in a strip mall next to a Kmart here is a tiny business whose exploits in global finance have drawn the ire of one...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Consumer Watch Column.
May 11, 2003... By Jeff Gelles, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Sometime tomorrow, if all goes according to the plan of FCC Chairman Michael Powell, agency staffers will deliver a confidential document to his four...

The News Herald, Panama City, Fla., Business People Column.
May 11, 2003... The News Herald, Panama City, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--AWARDS: RANDI TURPIN, branch manager at the Panama City office of Adecco, the world's largest staffing and human resource solutions company, has been named an...

Top Bay County, Fla., Homebuilders Put Skills on Display in Home Show.
May 11, 2003... By Dwayne Hartnett, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--PANAMA CITY, Fla.--The Parade of Homes sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Panama City-Bay County begins today and continues...

Parents of Special-Needs Children Find Relief in Lifetime Trusts.
May 11, 2003... By Joe Goldeen, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Going to school every day. Playing baseball and watching videos. Getting into a little mischief now and then. That's the world of Ryan Platt, age...

The Record, Stockton, Calif., Teresa L. Mandella Column.
May 11, 2003... By Teresa L. Mandella, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--CASHING OUT YOUR 401(K) CAN BE COSTLY: Americans have become increasingly concerned about job security -- and with just cause. Unemployment...

Angels Camp, Calif., Radio Shack to Change Location, Add Services.
May 11, 2003... The Record, Stockton, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--ANGELS CAMP, Calif.--The local Radio Shack dealership is changing hands -- and locations. Patrick McPherson is purchasing the local dealership and plans to...

Toledo, Ohio-Area Businesses Active in Reducing Corporate Debt.
May 11, 2003... By Homer Brickey, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Corporations locally and nationally have been scrambling to refinance debt to take advantage of low interest rates and to dress up balance sheets for...

Two Toledo, Ohio-Area Shopping Malls to Get Makeovers.
May 11, 2003... By Jon Chavez, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Shoppers can't see them, but behind-the-scenes maneuvers in the next few weeks could make over the faces of the Toledo area's major shopping malls. ...

Ohio Auditors, Agents Say Trees No Longer Add to Property Value.
May 11, 2003... By Jane Schmucker, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Twenty-seven years ago, Donald and Carol Shumer fell in love with the scores of ash, maple, pine, and oak trees on five acres in Swanton Township. ...

Erie County, Pa., Learns Lessons in Pursuit of Buffalo, N.Y.-Based Utility.
May 11, 2003... By Peter Panepento, Erie Times-News, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Erie's highly public effort to land National Fuel Gas Co.'s corporate headquarters started in the most mundane of settings -- a conversation between an...

Glory Days of Airlines Over as Novelty of Flying Wears Off.
May 11, 2003... By Pete Alfano, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Jeanette Grant has been flying for 37 years, all but the past two with TWA. Now she wears American blue, although not for much longer. Grant...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Business Buzz Column.
May 11, 2003... By Andrea Jares, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--BUSINESSES IN HURST GET CREDIT: An optometrist, a sign company, a supermarket, a pizza restaurant, a convenience store and an apartment complex...

Dallas Study Finds Benefits to Estrogen Patch.
May 11, 2003... By Jan Jarvis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--The estrogen patch might be more heart-friendly than estrogen pills taken by post-menopausal women who need hormone therapy, Dallas researchers...

Health Care Burdens Lead Union Agendas.
May 11, 2003... By Maria M. Perotin, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Forget pay raises and improved working conditions. This year, unions across the country are battling for cheap prescriptions and frequent...

Flower Mound, Texas, Hastens Subdivision Plan Designed to Protect Land.
May 11, 2003... By Kelly Melhart, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--FLOWER MOUND, Texas--A subdivision that will leave almost half its land permanently untouched is speeding through the town's approval process....

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Mitchell Schnurman Column.
May 11, 2003... By Mitchell Schnurman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Top executives aren't usually brought down by the problem they see coming, not when it's far away and as obvious as the light on an...

The Boston Globe Business Book Review Column.
May 11, 2003... By Carlo Wolff, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--TRAVAIL, TEARS, AND TRIUMPH IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM: Tom Barbash's spirited account of the perseverance of brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald in the aftermath of...

The Boston Globe Business Intelligence Column.
May 11, 2003... By D.C. Denison, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--The Combat Zone, or what's left of it, seemed to be the right destination given the topic under discussion. Eric Schlosser, the author of the recently...

Boston Catholics Want Change, Poll Finds.
May 11, 2003... By Michael Paulson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--Boston-area Catholics, increasingly alienated by the sexual abuse crisis that has rocked the church, say the characteristic they would most like to see in a...

The Boston Globe Consumer Beat Column.
May 11, 2003... By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--SUPPLY A PROBLEM WITH VIDEO ON DEMAND: Video on demand, the hot new product that local cable companies are just starting to roll out, is great. Unfortunately,...

Standard & Poor's Economist Speaks about Specter of Deflation.
May 11, 2003... By Scott Bernard Nelson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--The Federal Reserve appeared to end decades of preoccupation with inflation this week, releasing a statement signaling its concern about the opposite...

The Boston Globe Economic Life Column.
May 11, 2003... By Charles Stein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--In a previous century, when I majored in political science, politics was all about compromise. Democrats wanted to spend $4 billion on highways; Republicans...

School-Funding Lawsuit Renews Fight for Fairness in Massachusetts.
May 11, 2003... By Anand Vaishnav, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--BROCKTON, Mass.--The library at the Whitman Elementary School is also the room where the band practices twice a week. Portions of the attic-like space are...