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Unilever says first-quarter profits dropped by almost fifth; reports 515 million euros ($615 million) in net profit, down from 637 million euros year ago; worldwide sales were down 8 percent, to 9.36 billion euros; sales of company's leading brands grew 1.3 percent, below forecasts of 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent (M)
Chinese government officials are expected to sign off on joint venture with DaimlerChrysler to assemble Mercedes-Benz cars in China; agreement may be delivered by China's Prime Min Wen Jiabao when he visits Berlin next week; DaimlerChrysler's chief executive Jurgen E Schrempp has seen bulk of his Asian strategy undermined last week, when board voted not to bail out Mitsubishi Motors of Japan with injection of $1.8 billion or more in new capital; decision hobbled Schrempp's global ambitions and stirred speculation that Schrempp might be pushed out, or at least pushed aside; photo (M)
Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House is set to open to public and remain on display until May 31; most prominent designer among 25 involved with project this year is Thom Filicia, star of television's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; photos (M)
William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column contends that NCAA's plan to approve academic incentive proposal, which promises to penalize college programs where athletes are performing poorly academically, is right for stressing importance of athletics to educational experience, but will not likely change way many college presidents use athletics to bring money to their schools (M)
New York Yankees defeat Oakland Athletics, 5-1; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 28, 2004, covering April 29, 2004.
Usher
Various Artists
Hoobastank
Janet Jackson
Guns N' Roses
2004John Henniker-Major, British diplomat and civil servant (born 1916)[†]
John Patrick Edward Chandos Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, known as Sir John Henniker-Major from 1965 to 1980, was a British peer, civil servant, and diplomat.
2004The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.[†]
Oldsmobile was a brand of American automobiles, produced for most of its existence by General Motors. Originally established as "Olds Motor Vehicle Company" by Ransom E. Olds in 1897, it produced over 35 million vehicles, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan, factory alone.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]