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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Stock Market Report.
(New York: Anne Thompson) The fifth worst point loss on the Dow Jones Index and the worst bear market for NASDAQ reported; details given of the mixed economic messages. [UBS PaineWebber Mary FARRELL - comments.] [Economist Stephen ROACH - says there could be a shallow recession.] [In Chicago, Anita GUSTAFSON - talks about high energy bills.] [Home Bank Mortgage Shannon BECK - says interest rates affect sales volume.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Ron Insana) Low earnings reports from some companies such as Ericsson, Cisco, Intel and Motorola noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: David Gregory) President Bush's efforts to defend his tax cut plan reported; scenes shown of Bush at a rally in Florida. [Former Treasury Secretary Robert RUBIN - talks about a rolling tax cut.] Democratic television ad shown. [BUSH - says Americans want to move forward.] Areas of compromise outlined on screen.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Jim Miklaszewski) Six deaths after a bomb was dropped in the wrong place during military exercises in Kuwait reported. [President BUSH - requests a moment of silence.] [Military expert Ken ALLARD - explains the risks of live-bomb training.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The cutting off of roads around Ramallah, West Bank, due to terrorism concerns reported; scenes shown of a roadblock in Ramallah.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Chicago: Jim Avila) Advice for small investors concerned about the stock market declines given. [Investor Brian BURKE - says he made a nice profit off his dot-com stocks.] [Financial planner Vincent BLUME - talks about keeping funds in money market accounts.] [Griffin, Kubick, Stephens, and Thompson Brian WESBURY - says the market is close to panic; says money markets do better than the stock market.] Examples of safe stocks cited. [Market analyst John BOLLINGER - says it is too late to sell.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) A record-high Hispanic population, roughly equal in size to the African-American population, and growing numbers of people of mixed racial ancestry reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) The rising costs of health care and predictions of still higher prices reported; statistics cited. [Patient Rick MENDOZA- GLEASON - talks about the costs of his medicines.] [Health Care Financing Administration Katharine LEVIT - says prescription drugs will rise even faster than overall health care costs.] [Washington, DC, pharmacist Harold KRAMM - comments on prices.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Kelly O'Donnell) The kidnapping of a child after a failed adoption attempt featured; details given of the arrest of Barry Smiley for kidnapping and the reunion of missing son Matthew Propp with his birth father. [PROPP - says his parents planned to turn themselves in; talks about meeting his siblings.] [In 1984, birth mother Deborah RUSSINI - says she is sick of waiting.] [Birth father Anthony RUSSINI - says he thought about his son every day.]
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