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NEWS MOVES ABC announced it will move 20/20 from Friday to Wednesday nights in the fall. Unhappy star Barbara Walters responded that she might bolt the show when her contract allows. Are schedule shifts worth all this fuss? In the world of ABC's rival news divas...
...Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe has an amendment drafted to allow Navy shipyards to pay taxes on the profit from a ship contract after the vessel is built instead of while it's under construction. That would mean Bath Iron Works, the shipyard in her state, would have more cash on hand during the years a ship is being built. Snowe insists her measure "would not reduce the amount of taxes ultimately paid by a shipbuilder. It simply would defer payment until the profit actually is known...
...Airlines. Of all the major carriers, this summer had to be better for the Chicago-based airline than 2000. Last year United, then the country's largest airline, suffered with historically high delays and cancellations largely because the pilots and the airline's management couldn't agree on a contract. Finally, the flyboys took home the best package in the business...
...solemn speech to the nation, Berlusconi promised to work for "all the Italians, even those who voted against me." Waving the one-page "contract with Italians" that he had histrionically signed before TV cameras days before the polling, he repeated his vow to withdraw from politics if he failed to accomplish at least four of its five promises - tax cuts, higher pensions, 1.5 million new jobs, major public works and a reduction in serious crimes. Despite Berlusconi's toothy assurances, big questions remained about his conflicts of interest, the composition of his future government and the policies he would pursue...
...Throughout the year-long search process, students had hoped a new ART director would give the University an opportunity to renegotiate its contract with the company...