26 augustus 2000 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♍. Het was de 238e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 27 August 2000
By K. A. Dilday
K. Dilday
K A Dilday article on what presidential candidates have to offer single people in campaign that stresses family values; notes polls by Voter News Service and Associated Press show single adults made up 34 percent of voters in 1996; photo (M)
Date: 27 August 2000
By Rick Marin
Rick Marin
Article on September issue of W magazine featuring nattily-attired journalists; photos (M)
Date: 26 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Aon Corp agrees to buy Actuarial Sciences Associates (S)
Date: 26 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Home Depot Inc acquires NCH Corp's apartment-maintenance business to expand in Southern US with its own Maintenance Warehouse (S)
Date: 27 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
First Union Corp agrees to buy closely held Tribus Cos for undisclosed price; logo (S)
Date: 26 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV says Gaston Bastiaens has stepped down as chief executive and John Duerden has replaced him (S)
Date: 26 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Commerce Department reports Gross Domestic Product grew in second quarter at 5.3 percent annual rate compared with revised rate of 4.8 percent in first quarter; National Association of Realtors reports sales of previously owned homes fell 9.8 percent in July to 4.79 million units at annual rate; median home price rose to record $143,300 (S)
Date: 26 August 2000
INTERNATIONAL A2-6 Barak Sees Bleak Future Without Peace Settlement Prime Minister Ehud Barak warned of ''a tragedy'' ahead for Israel and the Palestinians if they failed to reach a peace pact, and he hinted that he feared a return to the Islamic terrorist attacks of the sort that killed scores in the mid-1990's. A6
Date: 27 August 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-14 Clinton Visits Nigeria To Encourage Democracy President Clinton began a four-day trip to Africa, landing in Nigeria to help support the shaky transition of Africa's most populous country to civilian rule from 16 years of entrenched military dictatorship. 1
Date: 27 August 2000
By Denise Grady
Denise Grady
The incidence of diabetes increased sharply in the United States from 1990 to 1998, a consequence of rising levels of obesity. The trend is ominous: diabetes is already a major cause of blindness, kidney failure and leg amputations, and it greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, the leading causes of death in the United States. In a report published in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers predicted that the problems would only get worse in decades to come.