The November 13, 2000 was a Monday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 317 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, November 13, 2025, 230 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, November 13, 2026, in 134 days. You have lived for 9,361 days, or about 224,667 hours, or about 13,480,070 minutes, or about 808,804,200 seconds.
13th of November 2000 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on November 13, 2000
NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING FACES NAVY PENALTY
Date: 14 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
US Navy says profit for Newport News Shipbuilding Inc from building aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan may by cut by as much as $18 million because of cost overruns; higher labor costs after strike last year and delay in other shipyard work that lowered productivity have pushed expenses $89 million above original $2.31 billion cost estimate, and contract between Newport News and Navy calls for company to absorb part of overruns (S)
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Shaw, a CNN Original, to Leave Network in February
Date: 13 November 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Bernard Shaw, anchorman for CNN since its beginnings in 1980, tearfully tells his audience that he will retire in late Feb; resignation comes as CNN prepares programming and stylistic improvements to boost declining market share; photo (M)
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Problems Stir Calls to End '19th Century' Voting Process
Date: 13 November 2000
By Eric Lipton
Eric Lipton
Sen Charles E Schumer and House Democratic leader, Richard Gephardt, call for standardizing and modernizing nation's voting system; Schumer says he will introduce legislation to establish 'blueprint' for election procedures and help state and local governments pay for improvements to meet standards; Gephardt calls for closing polls nationwide at same time to avoid predictions by television networks as to which candidates are winning in some parts of country while people are still voting in others; suggests voting should be on Saturday and Sunday (M)
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Talk Turns Murky as Selection of President Lurches Into Uncharted Areas
Date: 13 November 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Representatives of Gov George W Bush and Vice Pres Al Gore aggressively press cases on Sunday morning television talk shows over whether it is desirable to have hand recounts of disputed votes in four Florida counties in which Gore did well against Bush; photos (M)
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Americans Patiently Awaiting Election Outcome
Date: 14 November 2000
By Richard L. Berke and Janet Elder
Richard Berke
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds Americans are polarized along party lines over whether Gov George W Bush or Vice Pres Al Gore should rightfully claim presidency, but are not panicked over uncertainty and expect battling to continue for days if not for month; finds public is not gripped by sense of urgency that has marked statements from some campaign officials, lawyers and academics, as well as in news media; six out of 10 Americans say lack of resolution is not colossal problem for country at moment; most are confident that own votes were counted properly; sentiment regarding outcome of election is as divided along party lines as in polls before election and on Election Day itself; other findings of poll discussed; photos; charts (M)
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Putin Critic Yields Control of His Media Empire to the Kremlin
Date: 14 November 2000
By Sabrina Tavernise
Sabrina Tavernise
Russian media mogul Vladimir V Gusinsky, fierce critic of government and deeply in debt, tentatively agrees to give up control of publishing and broadcasting empire to country's natural gas monopoly Gazprom, which is controlled by Russian government; agreement, subject to court review, raises questions about level of independence Gusinsky's company, Media-Most, will retain after gas company becomes its largest shareholder; Gusinksy is wanted for questioning by prosecutors in criminal case; left country in July after brief imprisonment for fraud, and warrant has been issued for arrest; he is perhaps single biggest target in campaign of legal and political pressure by Pres Vladimir Putin against prominent Russian businessmen who influenced politics in 1990's; is only one among Putin's opponents required to give up property; lawyers say he will not return to Russia to face questioning (M)
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GRIM REGIME: A special report.; For Burmese, Repression, AIDS and Denial
Date: 14 November 2000
By Blaine Harden
Blaine Harden
Generals who run Myanmar open new political fronts in ongoing efforts to ward off rise in democratic sentiment and to win popular support, special report, Grim Regime; junta has imprisoned nearly all political opponents, and is trying to woo Buddhist majority by sprucing up old pagodas and building new ones; has doubled size of armed forces to more than 400,000, even though country, with population estimated at 50 million, faces no serious foreign threat and has made peace with most of its armed ethnic minorities; in last five years, it has forcibly resettled tens of thousands of potentially restive poor people from city centers to distant slums; has closed most urban universities and sent students off to remote rural campuses; labor unions and private civic associations are banned; government has made it crime to own computer modem, to send e-mail, sign on to Internet, or to invite foreigner into private home; has stopped allowing foreign journalists into country
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OPPONENTS SEEK REFERENDUM ON CISCO COMPLEX
Date: 14 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
San Jose Mercury News reports group of environmentalists and advocates for homeless are seeking ballot referendum to kill Cisco Sytems plan for $1.3 billion campus in Coyote Valley; hope to force Cisco to halt construction until election is held, probably in second quarter of 2001; City Council votes unanimously to approve Cisco's plan to tranform 688-acre site, among last stretches of undeveloped farmland in Silicon Valley, into complex for 20,000 workers (S)
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US AIRWAYS SEES A MONTH'S DELAY IN MERGER APPROVAL
Date: 14 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
US Airways Group Inc anticipates that regulators will approve its acquisition by UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, during January 2001, one month later than initially expected (S)
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INVESTORS SEEK REMAINING SHARES OF CB RICHARD ELLIS
Date: 14 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Group of investors led by Blum Capital Partners offers to acquire 62 percent of CB Richard Ellis Services it does not already own for about $340 million in cash plus assumption of about $400 million in debt; Ellis is largest commercial real estate broker (S)
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