3 december 2004 was een vrijdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 337e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
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Date: 04 December 2004
By Gary Gately (NYT)
Gary NYT
Thomas M DiBiagio, US attorney for Maryland, is resigning to return to private law practice; Justice Department reprimanded him in July for e-mail messages he sent to his staff calling for 'front-page' indictments in political corruption cases (S)
Date: 04 December 2004
By GARY RIVLIN and JOHN MARKOFF
Gary RIVLIN
Hewlett-Packard executives reportedly greet news that IBM might sell its personal computer business to Chinese PC maker Lenovo with good cheer; Dell Computer executives offer no comment, but industry analysts speculate that they are happy over decision; many in computer industry are concerned that IBM withdrawal could accelerate competition in PC industry, where prices are already falling; photo; graphs (M)
Date: 04 December 2004
By BERNARD HOLLAND
Bernard HOLLAND
Bernard Holland Critic's Notebook column discusses Teatro Colon opera house in Buenos Aires and reviews its production of Britten's Death in Venice; photo (M)
Date: 04 December 2004
Former Disney directors Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, following board's promise that successor for chief executive Michael Eisner would be found by June and that Eisner would step down when process is complete, say they will not propose alternate slate of candidates for board next year (S)
Date: 04 December 2004
By Andrew C. Revkin (NYT)
Andrew Revkin
Alaska officials, facing warming trend that has halved frozen season when oil exploration can occur, say they have settled on new way to decide when tundra of North Slope is hard enough to withstand convoys of heavy vehicles (S)i
Date: 04 December 2004
By MELANIE WARNER
Melanie WARNER
New McDonald's Corp chief executive James Skinner, third in post this year, promises to continue positive momentum that company has had for last 18 months and make no significant departures from strategies of his predecessors; says Charles Bell, who has colorectal cancer and has resigned, has returned to his native Australia to be with family and friends (M)
Date: 04 December 2004
By Gretchen Ruethling (NYT)
Gretchen NYT
Chicago has had 26 percent fewer murders in 2004 than at same point in 2003, putting it on track for its lowest murder total since 1965; drop, to 418 murders from 564, results in part from police efforts to reduce violence (S)c
Date: 04 December 2004
By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER
Jonathan FUERBRINGER
Dow Jones industrial average rises 7.09 points, or 0.1 percent, to 10,592.21, up 0.7 percent for week; Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rises 0.84 point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,191.17, up 0.7 percent for week; Nasdaq composite index rises 4.39 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,147.96, up 2.2 percent for week; yield on Treasury's 10-year note falls to 4.25 percent, from 4.41 percent; price rises 18/32, to 100; chart on key interest rates; graph (M)
Date: 04 December 2004
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO
Diana SCHEMO
College Board, which owns SAT college entrance exam, demands that National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest) remove from its Web site data that breaks down scores by race, income and sex; accuses group of infringing on its copyright; FairTest has led opposition to exams, and releases results to support its accusation of bias in tests, claim rejected by test makers (M)