By Christopher Swann in Washington
Financial Times June 7 2006 |
By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
AP Business Writer June 7, 2006 NEW YORK - Fast delivery and same-day service, two favorite ways for small businesses to build relationships with customers, are becoming casualties of higher gas prices.
Some small companies that until recently sent their vans or trucks on several runs a day have been forced to cut back, sometimes to just one. Their customers, meanwhile, have to wait longer, or if they're in a rush, take their business elsewhere. |
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in New York
Financial Times 8 June 06 Broadcasters such as Rupert Murdoch's Fox and Sumner Redstone's CBS will be forced to dig much deeper into their pockets if they are found guilty of violating indecency rules following the passage of legislation on Wednesday in the House of Representatives.
The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act will increase the top fine the Federal Communications Commission, the media and telecommunications regulator, can impose on a broadcaster for each indecency violation from $32,500 (€25,380, £17,490) to $325,000. The FCC cannot fine a broadcaster in excess of $3m for any single act. |
By Simon Henderson June 7, 2006
In a June 4 speech marking the anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a warning to the United States in the crisis of over Iran's nuclear program. "If the Americans make a wrong move toward Iran, the shipment of energy will definitely face danger, and the Americans would not be able to protect energy supply in the region," Khamenei said. This raises questions about the strength of the Iranian military and how the United States could counter it, using military power, alternative export routes, or a combination of both.
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TOULOUSE, France, May 16, 2006 (AFP)
In the first case of its kind, the French state and the country's national rail operator, the SNCF, were fined 62,000 euros (80,000 dollars) on Tuesday for their role in the deportation of two Jewish men in World War II.
An administrative court in the southern city of Toulouse upheld a lawsuit brought by the family of Green party deputy Alain Lipietz, whose father and uncle were taken by train to an internment camp in Paris in May 1944. Both survived the war. Previous attempts to condemn the SNCF in criminal and civil courts have failed and the current case rested on claims that the French state authorities, the police and the SNCF failed in their duty to provide services to citizens. |
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