On Friday, about 125,000 members of the South African Municipal Workers Unionn ended their strike for a 15percentt pay increase, settling for a slightly smaller raise, news agencies reported.
Cable television dramas and movies helped raise News Corporation's revenues by 2 percent in the second quarter, offsetting the growing costs related to a phone hacking scandal at the company's British newspaper unit.
The foundations behind Wikipedia and the Firefox browser both recently announced important fund-raising news at the end of the year.
It's not even over, but there's already been enough eyebrow-raising news to fill an ordinary year three times over.
Re "Estimate of Ousters by H.M.O.'s Is Raised" (news article, July 25): The withdrawal of health maintenance organizations from Medicare shows that the claim that managed care plans save money does not hold true.
In the world of weird happenings in other sports, college basketball offers the eyebrow-raising news of how Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were at the root of secondary N.C.A.A. violations at Iowa, and a high school cross-country meet in Wisconsin produced a runner-deer collision that affected the outcome.
A lot of viewers will come to this film, as I did, after the most ordinary of days, punch-card-punching, office-meeting, kid-raising, news-watching days, days of seeing women being silenced, ignored, dismissed, threatened, undermined, underpaid, and underestimated, and, somehow, taking it.
I am presently beyond agnostic but having been raised Muslim; news of the New York Muslim community center and mosque being opposed and maligned brought back some of that familiar foul taste to my palate.
He said he hoped to help raise the news organization to "even greater heights".
It is a resentment felt generally at 5 Live, which is eager to raise its news profile, particularly after a summer dominated by so much extraordinary sport.
Sir Victor understood the message – the Prime Minister would find a way to get round the inevitable competition objections Lloyds' rivals would raise once news of a deal with HBOS broke.
