Wall Street ends lower as profits worries rise after Baghdad hope
Stocks slide with the Dow off 100.98 to 8,197.94 and the Nasdaq down 26.20 as investors shift from wartime optimism to corporate profit concerns. GM's Hughes stake sale to News Corp valued at 6.6 billion. P& G offers on Wella preferred stock. antitrust suit claims 21 airlines conspired to drop travel agent commissions since 1997.
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Iraq
Arthur Hogan
Jefferies & Co
Dow
New York Stock Exchange
U.S. District Court
San Francisco
Joseph Alioto
ADM Alcoa settle pollution charges in $680 million deal
ADM will spend 340 million to upgrade 52 facilities in 16 states and retrofit buses, plus 4.6 million penalty. Alcoa will spend 330 million on a new Texas power plant with advanced controls, 2.5 million on conservation easements, and 750 thousand on bus retrofits, plus 1.5 million penalty. Federal action spans Iowa and Texas cases under Clean Air Act enforcement.
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CRG
Archer Daniels Midland Co
Cedar Rapids
Washington
Decatur
Ill
Alcoa Inc
Pittsburgh
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Justice Department
ADM
EPA
Justice
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Alcoa
Rockdale
Texas
Austin
U.S. District Court
Central District of Illinois
Western District of Texas
Joe Martyak
SBA loan volume rises in fiscal 03 for Eastern Iowa
SBA data show Eastern Iowa small businesses received 102 loans in the first half of fiscal 2003, up 24 percent from 82 in the prior year. The total SBA guaranteed loan value climbed to 19.1 million dollars, with average loan size at 188 492 dollars. Linn County led with 13 loans totaling 3.2 million. Benton and Jackson counties also posted notable totals.
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George C. Ford
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S. Small Business Administration
SBA
Linn County
Benton County
Jackson County
Group names Harkin Porker of the Month for lab funding
A Washington watchdog labeled Sen. Tom Harkin the Porker of the Month for securing 98 million dollars for the USA National Animal Disease Center in Ames. Harkin defends the Ames lab funding as necessary for homeland defense while noting Sen. Grassley aided the effort and deserves recognition.
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Sen
Tom Harkin
Iowa
USA
Ames Animal Disease Labs
Harkin
Chuck Grassley
Grassley
Farm activist Denise O'Brien to speak at Cornell College
Denise O'Brien, Iowa activist and 2000 Iowa Women's Hall of Fame inductee, speaks on Women and the Politics of Food at 7 tonight in the Hedg es Conference Room The Commons Cornell College. The free talk covers women inheriting farms and shifts in land ownership amid industrial agriculture.
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Beijing
Iowa
O’brien
Hedges
Cornell College
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