The December 1, 2004 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 335 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 21 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, December 1, 2025, 218 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, December 1, 2026, in 146 days. You have lived for 7,888 days, or about 189,329 hours, or about 11,359,781 minutes, or about 681,586,860 seconds.
Date: 02 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Engelhard Corp, maker of pollution-control devices for autos, will consolidate its manufacturing operations in Georgia to cut costs; change will reduce number of workers and result in fourth-quarter expense of $1.5 million for severance payments (S)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Applied Extrusion Technologies files for bankruptcy protection (S)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of FirstEnergy Corp fall 6.5 percent after company says its profit might fall short of analysts' estimates in 2005 because of increasing costs (S)
Date: 01 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chubb Corp receives subpoenas from Securities and Exchange Commission and New York State Atty Gen Eliot Spitzer about insurance policies that couild be used to hide losses (S)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rockwell Automation says its president and chief executive, Keith Nosbusch, will take additional position of chairman in February, replacing Don Davis, who is retiring (S)
Date: 01 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goldman Sachs Group says group of private equity institutions it is acting for will not make offer from Warner Chilcott within next six months; Waren Acquisition, led by J P Morgan Chase & Co and Credit Suisse First Boston agreed on Oct 28 to acquire Warner Chilcott for $3 billion; Goldman Sachs Group includes Blackstone Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and Texas Pacific Corp (S)
Date: 01 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cigna Corp says 2004 earnings excluding some items will probably be $950 million to $975 million, higher than forecast in early November (S)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Johnson & Johnson abandons efforts to develop its Topamax epilepsy medicine as treatment for obesity and diabetes after studies show it is not effective (S)
Date: 01 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Briggs & Stratton Corp may buy some assets of Murray, lawn mower maker that filed for bankruptcy protection in November; Briggs has not been paid for about $40 million worth of engines it sold to Murray last spring (S)
Date: 01 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Honda Motor Co says Tom G Elliott, highest-ranking American manager at its sales unit in US, will retire in 2005 and will be succeeded by John W Mendel, former executive of Mazda Motor Corp (S)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wal-Mart Stores plans to open at least 10 stores in Brazil in 2005 (S)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
When Brian Williams slides behind the anchor desk of the ''NBC Nightly News'' tonight for the first time as its permanent host, the voice through his earpiece will be comfortingly familiar. It belongs to Stephen Capus, the executive producer of ''Nightly News'' since May 2001, who first worked with Mr. Williams in 1986 at WCAU, then the CBS station in Philadelphia. At the time, Mr. Williams was a reporter ricocheting across southern New Jersey in a van as he tried to prepare and submit two news reports a day.
Date: 02 December 2004
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column notes that Tom Brokaw, tall, white male who is retiring as anchor of NBC News, is being succeeded by Brian Williams, another tall, white male; says networks do not even give lip service to looking for women and blacks for anchor jobs, and feminists have been silent about this; says only way this will change is if women refuse to watch men; says problem is, women like watching men (M)
Date: 01 December 2004
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
British Home Sec David Blunkett tries to counter press reoprts that, in conducting now-ended affair with Spectator publisher Kimberly Fortier, he ordered speedier processing of visa for Fortier's nanny; Prime Min Tony Blair dismisses talk of resignation; newspapers are feasting on reports, denied by Blunkett, that he is claiming paternity of Fortier's two-year-old son and baby expected next year; other alleged misuse of perks noted (M)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh
Op-Ed article by Eugene Volokh, law professor, on whether journalists should be allowed to protect confidential sources, what scope of such privilege should be and who exactly qualifies as journalist; notes that because of Internet, anyone can be journalist; says First Amendment cannot give special rights to established news media and not to upstart outlets like so-called Weblogs, but such a broad journalist's privilege would be especially costly; says solution may be to limit privilege, so journalists are not protected when information facilitates crime or fraud (M)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Katie Zezima
Katie Zezima
Providence, RI, lawyer Joseph Bevilacqua Jr says he was source of FBI videotape that led to criminal conviction of television reporter Jim Taricani for refusing to identify source as ordered by court; tells special prosecutor that there was never promise of confidentiality between them and that he has urged Taricani to disclose him as source; says Taricani instead urged him to 'maintain his silence'; Taricani asserts Bevilacqua did ask for confidentiality; photo (M)
Date: 01 December 2004
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas
Nicholas D Kristof Op-Ed column expresses concern that China has become more repressive under its new leaders, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao; notes that repression has now engulfed member of New York Times's family, Zhao Yan, researcher for Beijing bureau of Times; says Zhao has been detained since September and is not allowed to communicate with his family or lawyers; notes Zhao is accused of leaking state secrets; says China's government may believe that he was behind September scoop by The Times's Beijing bureau chief, Joseph Kahn, that China's former leader, Jiang Zemin, was about to retire from his last formal position; contends Zhao is innocent of everything except being fine journalist (M)
Date: 02 December 2004
By Lola Ogunnaike
Lola Ogunnaike
Nancy Grace, the delightfully irascible star of Court TV, is never short on opinions -- fiery, unabashedly blunt opinions. Ask her about defense attorneys, and she'll offer the following: ''Their job is not to seek the truth; their job is to get clients off.'' But if you really want to get Ms. Grace's wide brown eyes rolling, and you really want to see her small nostrils flare, bring up the Scott Peterson trial. Better yet, ask her what should become of Mr. Peterson, who was found guilty last month of killing his wife and unborn son. ''I would seek the death penalty,'' she'll say in a voice that begins as a soft whisper and quickly swells into an indignant roar. ''You do not kill a defenseless pregnant lady, throw her body into the cold water and then let her family suffer for months, to have some hope that she'll come home alive, to keep their Christmas tree up waiting for the day. No. No. No.''