Search for Finer Yarn Becomes a Trade Tangle (Stock Trading)
Search for Finer Yarn Becomes a Trade Tangle
This is a yarn about yarn, one that has a Georgia textile manufacturer tangled up with other domestic mills in an international trade dispute about its quest for a particular type of fine-spun cotton yarn.
Cindy Skrzycki
Ebbers's Prosecutors Questioned on Tactics
NEW YORK, Jan. 30 — Federal judges hearing former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard J. Ebbers's appeal of his fraud conviction sharply questioned prosecutors Monday about whether the government used the immunity process to take an unfair tactical advantage.
Brooke A. Masters
Jury Chosen for Lay, Skilling
Former Enron executives' trial, which starts Tuesday, caps an era of corporate scandal.
Carrie Johnson
Exxon Posts Record Profit
Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday reported the highest profit in U.S. history: $10.71 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005 and $36.13 billion for the entire year.
Justin Blum
Contacts With Lobbyists Curbed
Republican and Democratic lawmakers are canceling their regularly scheduled meetings with lobbyists as the fallout from the Jack Abramoff scandal continues to roil Capitol Hill.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Federal Mine Agency Considers New Rules To Improve Safety
After one of the deadliest months for coal mining in years, federal mine regulators last week began formally considering safety improvements to help miners survive underground fires and explosions. Among the proposals: mandatory caches of oxygen tanks and breathing masks inside every coal mine.
Joby Warrick