MediaTalk; News Site Race Is Just as Clear as Election
Date: 25 December 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Comment on different rankings of top news and information Web sites for November by Media Metrix and Nielsen/NetRatings (S)
Replaying Monday, December 25, 2000
The December 25, 2000 was a Monday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 359 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, December 25, 2025, 191 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, December 25, 2026, in 173 days. You have lived for 9,322 days, or about 223,728 hours, or about 13,423,690 minutes, or about 805,421,400 seconds.
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25th of December 2000 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 25, 2000
Reality Dampening the Dot-Com Hoopla
Date: 25 December 2000
By Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli
Article by Lisa Napoli, Internet correspondent for MSNBC, discusses intense efforts of high-technology start-ups to uncharacteristically court technology media for publicity as dot-com hoopla fades; photo (M)
Police Feel Scorn on Beat And Pressure From Above
Date: 26 December 2000
By Kevin Flynn
Kevin Flynn
Second article in series on challenges facing New York Police Department, The Blues, focuses on causes for low state of morale on force; patrol officers believe that aggressive crackdowns that drastically cut crime were stretched too far and that push to punish infractions of every variety undercut their discretion and made them feel unpopular, even despised, in neighborhoods they helped make safer; result is that across every rank, police officers describe dispirited force that has watched hundreds of colleagues flee in recent months, retiring to take second careers or quitting in disgust long before they qualify for full pension; pay has also become enormous sore point; officers who were once among highest paid police in country now earn less than counterparts in far smaller cities; result is recruitment problem; Police Academy had open spots this year, for first time in memory; police officers also accuse news media of undermining public support by portraying isolated incidents of brutality as the norm; photos (L)
Japan May Turn To Generic Drugs
Date: 26 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Towa Pharmaceutical Co, Japan's biggest maker of generic drugs, says that sales of off-patent drugs in Japan are poised to increase as aging population continues to put pressure on the nation's health care budget; generic drugs have 10 percent of Japanese market compared with 42 percent in United States; many Japanese have poor image of generics and doctors do not prescribe them often; Towa is confident of change (S)
2 on Board Are Big Buyers of Mattel Stock
Date: 26 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Two Mattel board members, Ralph Whitworth and John Vogelstein, disclose buying more than $30 million in stock of the company, whose shares have jumped about 20 percent in last three months (S)
Bid Is Rejected By Mining Fund
Date: 26 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Income Fund dismisses takeover offer of 405 million Canadian dollars ($267 million) from Rio Tinto Group, world's second-largest mining company (S)
China Sharply Cuts Phone Rates to Prepare for Competition
Date: 26 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
China cuts telephone charges by as much as 60 percent, simplifying convoluted rate structure to help companies in Asia's largest phone market prepare for greater competition when it joins World Trade Organization; cellular phone rates will remain unchanged; cost of dialing to Internet will drop more than 50 percent; fees and rental charges on fixed lines will also be eliminated to encourage phone use (M)
Tianjin Will Make Late Bond Payment
Date: 26 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tianjin International Trust and Investment Corporation, state-run Chinese investment firm just two days from being declared in default on bond payments, asks Fuji Bank, its bank in Tokyo, to pay Japanese investors 150 million yen, or $1.3 million, in outstanding interest which was due in mid-December (M)
Nikkei Index Soars on Optimism Over Exports
Date: 26 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average posts biggest gain in 21 months, surging on optimism that cut in American interest rates as early as next month will spur demand for Japanese goods in United States market (M)
Internet Retailers Switch To Clearing Merchandise
Date: 26 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
EToys and other Internet retailers are cutting prices as much as 75 percent to get rid of unsold merchandise after mixed holiday sales season; clearance sales are most important for companies that need more financing to stay in business (M)