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Flue-cured tobacco growers have complained for four years about government-mandated production cuts that slashed their profits.

There are now more places in this country to buy a B.M.T. than a Big Mac.

A group of antitrust lawyers is asking the judge hearing the Microsoft case to stop the settlement process until she decides whether the company disclosed all relevant lobbying contacts with the government.

Underscoring the Enron Corp. scandal's proximity to the White House, Justice Department criminal investigators are ordering President Bush's staff to preserve the paper trail of any contact with the energy trading company's executives.

CNN expressed resolve, regret and a bit of pique Friday after an influential Arab station cut its ties with the news network in a rift over an interview with Osama bin Laden.

None of the tickets sold for Friday's $19 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Big Money Ball. The next drawing will be Tuesday.

Air Jordan, the most successful brand of Nike basketball shoes, is taking a vertical leap with a price of $200 a pair.

An important gauge of manufacturing activity ticked higher in January, suggesting that the battered sector is poised to emerge from its 1 1/2 year-slump, an industry group said Friday.

Delta Air Lines today announced that its flight attendants have overwhelmingly rejected an attempt by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) to gain representation
rights at the airline.

Sales of Ford Motor Co. vehicles dropped 12.6 percent last month compared with January 2001, the automaker reported Friday.