NEWS
By Liz F. Kay | April 22, 2007
Ingrid Mattson, a professor of Islamic studies at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, was the first woman, the first North American and the first convert to be elected president of the Islamic Society of North America, an umbrella group of student and religious groups across the United States and Canada. She took office last August and has been busy since attempting to explain her faith to Americans suspicious of Islamic fundamentalism in the post-Sept. 11 era and to women who question Islam's teachings on the role of women in society.
NEWS
By Bloomberg News | March 12, 2007
Halliburton Co., the world's second-largest oilfield services provider, will move Chief Executive Officer David Lesar to a new corporate headquarters in Dubai to help the company expand in the Middle East and Asia. The move is part of an effort to shift business outside North America, which provided 55 percent of Halliburton's profit last quarter, and to court national oil companies that pump most of the oil in the Middle East. The company will keep a corporate office in Houston, where it has its headquarters today, the company said in a statement.
NEWS
By COLIN NICKERSON | March 6, 1999
ST. PIERRE AND MIQUELON, France -- This tiny outpost of the Old World boasts that it will be the first place in the New World to officially ring in the next millennium -- a claim that rankles with its only neighbor, the Canadian province of Newfoundland.Newfoundland has staked exclusive claim to the millennial honor and is hoping to attract celebrants from across North America for a waterfront bash in the historic port city of St. John's.But denizens of St. Pierre, 12 miles off Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula, insist that the continent's new age will start on their wind-scoured remnant of the once-vast empire known as New France.
BUSINESS
By BLOOMBERG NEWS | December 8, 1998
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Lear Corp., the world's biggest maker of car seats, announced yesterday that it will cut about 2,800 jobs, or nearly 5 percent of its 60,000 workers, as it closes 18 plants in a previously disclosed plan to reduce costs in North America and Europe.Lear will take a pretax charge of about $133 million, or $1.37 a share, in the fourth quarter, which is expected to result in a loss for the quarter, analysts said. About $85 million of the charge will be in cash.The charge is greater than Lear's initial estimate of about $125 million.
NEWS
By Diana Sugg | May 25, 1998
The glory days of the roller coaster are back.This summer, 34 new roller coasters are opening across North America, the most in a single year since the Great Depression. One in particular is grabbing attention: a classic wooden roller coaster at Adventure World in Largo.Called ROAR, the ride incorporates elements from the most popular and scary roller coasters of the 1920s, considered the golden age of coasters.More to the point, ROAR careens over Southern yellow pine trees at 50 mph, crosses over itself 20 times, plunges into a 133-degree right turn, makes six reversals and rockets through a roofed section of track, all in 50 seconds.
SPORTS
By Peter Baker | April 29, 1998
The last of the transoceanic legs in the Whitbread Round the World Race is among the shortest, but it also is tactically challenging -- 3,390 nautical miles of the North Atlantic, where gales and calms, fog and possibly even ice in the sea are to be found between North America and Europe.On Sunday afternoon the Whitbread fleet will start Leg 8 just north of the Bay Bridge, work south through the Chesapeake Bay, turn north around Cape Charles and head offshore into the Gulf Stream.The Gulf Stream, a swift, warm-water current, flows north-northeast along the east coast of North America and deflects more easterly as it approaches the Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
BUSINESS
By BLOOMBERG NEWS | February 18, 1997
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- Staples Inc. and Office Depot Inc. said yesterday that they have agreed with a Federal Trade Commission request to extend the antitrust review in Staples' proposed $4.5 billion purchase of Office Depot.The Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period, which was to expire Feb. 25, was pushed back to March 5.That will give the office-supply retailers time to gather additional information the FTC requested, Staples said in a statement.The FTC is talking with other companies to see if they are interested in buying stores that might be sold in order for the transaction to get antitrust approval.
NEWS
By Frank D. Roylance | July 6, 1997
The first Americans came here from Asia about 11,500 years ago. All the old textbooks said so.They were a Mongoloid people who came on foot, tracking Ice Age game. They crossed the "land bridge" that joined Siberia and Alaska when glaciation lowered sea levels and exposed the broad shelf between the continents.But now new discoveries, and new techniques for dating archaeological sites and tracing human lineages, have raised big new questions. They suggest a far more complex and intriguing story of man's arrival in the New World.
BUSINESS
By BLOOMBERG BUSINESS NEWS | May 25, 1996
WILMINGTON, Del. -- General Motors Corp. Chairman John Smith Jr. says the automaker expects its annual sales outside North America to increase 50 percent in 10 years to 4.5 million vehicles, reflecting a booming global auto market.Speaking to shareholders at GM's annual meeting yesterday, Smith also said the company wants to mend relations with the United Auto Workers.The union has resisted GM's plans to cut costs by moving work to outside suppliers.Analysts said the world's largest automaker wants to squeeze more profit per vehicle sold in North America, where sales are expected to grow 1 percent to 2 percent this decade.
NEWS
By Vincent Fitzpatrick | June 2, 1996
"Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America," by John Keegan. 338 pages. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $30.The settlement of North America, John Keegan remarks early on in "Fields of Battle," is "the most stupendous achievement of military as well as human history." Keegan's book is a remarkable achievement as well - a warm and wise and witty volume that offers delight as well as instruction.Synthesizing a huge mass of material, ranging easily across continents and through centuries, he offers a compelling narrative that will be intelligible to the general reader and informative to the specialist.