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2005

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• Wal-Mart Slapped with $172M Ruling: A California jury orders the retail giant to pay $172 million to workers denied lunch breaks  - CNN (plus others) 22dec2005

• Calpine Files for Bankruptcy After Gas Costs Surge -  Bloomberg News (plus others) 20dec2005

• IT, Consumer-Electronics Sectors Face Collision With Trade Laws - Wall Street Journal 13dec2005

• Victoria's Secret Mails More Than 1 Million Catalogs Each Day -  Time 11dec2005

• The University of California and the Wal-Mart Effect -  Berkeley Daily Planet 6dec2005
• Verizon to Halt Pension Outlay for Managers - New York Times (and others) 6dec2005
  • Bain and Carlyle Vie For Verizon Phone Books Arm -  The Times (UK) 6dec2005
• Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales -  New York Times 28nov2005
• Merck to Cut 11% of Staff, Close or Sell Five Plants: 7,000 Jobs to be Cut - Wall Street Journal (and others) 28nov2005
• PetroChina: Harbin in China Digs Wells as Contaminated River Freezes Over -  Bloomberg 25nov2005
• GM to Cut 30,000 Jobs by 2008, Expects $7 Billion in Savings - GM Press Release & Wall Street Journal 21nov2005
• Wal-Mart Debate Intensifies -  Newsday 19nov2005
• Monsanto Sets Aggressive Target: 20 percent, year over year - over year -  St Louis Post-Dispatch 10nov2005

• Big Drug Makers See Sales Decline With Their Image -  New York Times 14nov2005

• Telefonica to Buy O2 For $31.4 Billion: Spanish Titan to Purchase U.K. Cellphone Operator To Expand European Reach -  Wall Street Journal 31oct2005

  • Mergers: Ranking Big Deals - Wall Street Journal 31oct2005

• Novartis to Buy Rest of Chiron In Deal Valued at $5.1 Billion - Dow Jones Newswires 31oct2005

• Taiwan Breaks Patent Law to Produce Generic Tamiflu -  ABC (Australia) 24oct2005 (including other articles)

• AT&T Returns to Profit With Net Of $520 Million for Third Quarter -  Wall Street Journal 22oct2005

• GM and Ford in Need of a Big Overhaul - The Economist (UK) 20oct2005

  • A Hole In GM's Safety Net Health Benefit Cut Seen as Bellwether -  Washington Post 20oct2005
  • UAW Initiates Legal Action Seeking Court Approval of Settlement with GM - UAW Press Release 18oct2005
  • GM Cuts Employee Health Benefits, May Sell GMAC - Consumeraffairs.com 18oct2005
  • GM, UAW Reach Deal to Cut Health Costs -  AP 17oct2005
  • Ron Gettelfinger, UAW International President Expects to Reach Health Care Agreement This Weekend - Bloomberg 15oct2005
  • UAW Tells GM Plant Leaders That Health Deal Possible -  Bloomberg 14oct2005

• Kodak Swings to $1.03 Billion Loss - Wall Street Journal 20oct2005

• Global Firms Snub Climate Change Survey: Carbon Disclosure Project -  Guardian Weekly (UK) 29sep2005

  • $21 Trillion Investor Coalition Spurs Greater Awareness of Climate Change Among U.S. Corporations -  Carbon Disclosure Project 14sep2005

• Intelsat to Buy PanAmSat for $3.2 Billion in Cash -  Bloomberg News (plus other articles) 30aug2005

• A Sober Wal-Mart Launches Drive Into Tricky Area: Liquor — Retailer Teams With Diageo, Adds Shelf Space for Booze - Wall Street Journal 17aug2005

• WorldCom: Scott Sullivan Gets Slap on the Wrist: WorldCom Rat Race  - Forbes 12aug2005

• Wal-Mart Shoplifting Suspect Dies In Store's Custody - KPRC TV (Houston) 8aug2005

• Wal-Mart Postage Error Dooms Appeal in Oregon - AP 8aug2005

• Wal-Mart Appeals Bias-Suit Ruling: Retailer Seeks a Reversal Of the Class-Action Status In Sex-Discrimination Case -  Wall Street Journal 8aug2005

• Wal-Mart Employee Accused Of Sexually Molesting Child In Store - KPRC Channel 2 (Houston) 7aug2005

• CIBC Pays to Settle Enron Case -  New York Times (and more) 3aug2005

• Gun Industry Bill Backed by Senate: The bill is backed by the National Rifle Association - BBC 30jul2005

• Carlyle Group Agrees To Buy SS&C Technologies - Dow Jones Newswires 28jul2005

• Monsanto: "America's Heartland" Television Show Criticized Over Its Sponsors - Sacramento Bee 26jul2005

• Wal-Mart Boss's Unlikely Role: Corporate Defender-in-Chief - Wall Street Journal 26jul2005

• Kimberly-Clark to Cut 6,000 Jobs - Reuters 22jul2005

• GM Reports $286-Million Loss, Much Worse Than Expected  - Los Angeles Times 21jul2005

• FDA Inspects Chiron Fluvirin Plant: Biotech Firm also Cuts Outlook for Begrivac Flu Vaccine - MarketWatch 15jul2005

• Nano: Environmentalists and Industry "Working Together" -  (a collaborative opinion article) Wall Street Journal 14jun2005

• Healthcare Industry Kills about 35,512 a Year in USA Just From Hospital-Acquired Infections - Wall Street Journal (Agency press release included) 13jul2005

• GM Wins Ground In U.S. Pension Suit A Federal Court Backs Effort To Recover $253 Million For an Underfunded Plan -  Wall Street Journal 6jul2005

• 20 Business Decisions That Made History - Fortune 27jun2005

• John Rigas: Adelphia Founder Is Sentenced to 15 Years - AP 20jun2005

• Big Paychecks Are Exhibit A at C.E.O. Trials -  New York Times 19jun2005

• Coca-Cola in India: Indian Village Refuses US Cola Giant Licence to Exploit Ground Water - Agence France-Presse 14jun2005

• Mad-Cow: Tyson, McDonald's Shares Fall on U.S. Mad-Cow Concern -  Bloomberg 13jun2005

• GM Plans to Close More U.S. Factories: Chief Exec Tells Shareholders that 25,000 Jobs Must Be Cut - Detroit Free Press (and more) 8jun2005

• Wal-Mart Rejects Shareholder Initiatives -  AP 3jun2005

• Wal-Mart Urged to Review Controls: Institutional Holders Press For Study of Its Standards On Regulation and Laws -  Dow Jones Newswires 2jun2005

• Despite Vow, Drug Makers Still Withhold Data -  New York Times 31may2005

• Wal-Mart's Hispanic Outreach: Retailer Does More to Woo U.S.'s Fastest-Growing Minority Group - Wall Street Journal 31may2005

• Mobile Phone Sales Rose 17 Percent in Q1 2005: Gartner raises forecast for 2005 Worldwide Sales as Q1 results set record - Softpedia 25may2005

• Buffett's Return to Big Acquisitions -  Wall Street Journal 24may2005

• Prisons: The Celling of California -  San Francisco Bay View 18may2005

• Wal-Mart: Exposing the Wal-Mart Empire -  Street Spirit (Oakland, CA) 1may2005

• Directors' Fees Soar: Monsanto Boosts Pay $20,000; Centene, MEMC jump 140% -  St. Louis Business Journal 6may2005

• I.B.M. to Lay Off Over 10,000 in Struggle to Keep Up Profits - New York Times 5may2005
• The Evangelical Roots of Economics -  Harper's Magazine 1may2005

• Wal-Mart: Federal Officials Asked to Probe Wal-Mart Firing  Wall Street Journal 28apr2005

• State Regulators to Probe AIG Over Workers' Compensation - Wall Street Journal 26apr2005

• Monsanto To Confirm Earnings, Cash Flow Guidance - Dow Jones Newswires 26apr2005

• Biopharming: Anheuser-Busch to Boycott State's Rice If Genetic Alterations Allowed - Kansas City Star 12apr2005

• Wal-Mart Legend's Trail of Deceit: Mr. Coughlin Told Others Bogus Expenses Hid Plot Against Unions Retailer Disputes His Claim -  Wall Street Journal 8apr2005

• ChevronTexaco to Purchase Unocal for $16.4 Billion - Bloomberg 4apr2005

• To Find Flashy Cars And Fast Money, Visit Fort Wayne, Indiana: As Steel, Commodities Boom, Some in Rust Belt Enjoy Wall Street-Style Wealth - Wall Street Journal 30mar2005

• Stocks Fall Before Consumer Confidence Data - AP 29mar2005

• MCI Accepts Raised Verizon Bid: Verizon Sweetens Offer to $23.50 a Share -  Wall Street Journal 29mar2005

• Coca-Cola Announces Changes To Marketing, Europe Groups - Wall Street Journal 23mar2005

• Whole Foods Shareholder Resolution to be voted on April 4, 2005: Labeling - 20mar2005

• Airlines Lobby for Pension Relief -  Wall Street Journal 17mar2005

• Iraq: Plowing for Profits U.S.: Agribusiness Eyes Iraq’s Fledgling Markets -  In These Times 15mar2005

• India: Soft Drinks, Hard Cases - Vandana Shiva / Le Monde diplomatique March 2005 14mar2005

• Wal-Mart 'Terrorism' in Montreal  - Socialist Action 1mar2005

• Viacom Posts Loss on $18 Billion in Charges - Reuters (and more) 24feb2005

• Novartis Aims to Corner Generics Market -  SwissInfo 21feb2005

• Michael Sears: Former Boeing Finance Chief Gets 4-Month Prison Sentence - Wall Street Journal 18feb2005

• Wal-Mart Fosters A Region's Rise, But Not All Benefit -  Wall Street Journal 10feb2005

• W.R. Grace Indicted Over Mine's Asbestos  - AP 7feb2005

• SBC, MCI, Qwest: Telecom Mergers Limit Choices Of Customers -  Wall Street Journal 4feb2005

• SBC to Cut 13,000 Jobs After Merger with AT&T - AP (plus many other articles)  1feb2005

• Qwest Is in Talks to Buy MCI, Further Roiling Telecom World -  Wall Street Journal 3feb2005

• Lee Enterprises to Buy Pulitzer In a $1.46 Billion Agreement -  Dow Jones Newswires 31jan2005

• Monsanto Sues Farmer Customers Over Piracy Issues: It's efforts to protect its technology often turn farmer against farmer -  Des Moines Register 30jan2005

• Boards of SBC and AT&T Approve $16 Billion Deal  - Wall Street Journal 31jan2005

• Monsanto Bribery Charges in Indonesia by USDoJ and USSEC - Third World Network Malaysia 27jan2005

• Central Banks Shun US Assets: Shifting reserves to eurozone will deepen Bush's difficulties in funding deficit - Financial Times 24jan2004
• Retailer Federated Is in Discussions To Buy Rival May - Wall Street Journal 20jan2005