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Europe's largest clothing retailer, Hennes & Mauritz, says fiscal third-quarter profit rose 18 percent; net income rose to 1.59 billion kornor ($218 million); chief exec Rolf Eriksen comments; photo (S)
India's economy expands 7.4 percent in the quarter ended in June, driven by sizzling growth in manufacturing and services, but slowed a bit by uneven rains that reduced farm output; stop-and-start monsoon and rising global oil prices are expected to drag on India's economy this year, paring annual growth to around 6 percent after economy roared ahead by 8.2 percent last year; photos (M)
Canada's dairy and poultry farmers benefit from Canada's unusual system known as supply management; system allows only trickle of duty-free imports and otherwise imposes tariffs reaching 300 percent; country's 22,680 dairy, chicken, turkey and egg farmers produce fixed amount under quotas in system that maintains stable prices and assures markets; World Trade Organization's current attempt at overhauling global agricultural trade will most likely turn some of its attention to Canadian arrangement; photo (L)
Floyd Abrams column says process of enforcing kind of fiscal discipline on members of European Union that American states are expected to follow is under way even if some governments, notably Germany and France, either cannot keep their budget deficits under agreed-upon caps or resort to financial sleight of hand in order to do so; says EU members will need time to adjust to new power relationship with their central government, just as American states did in years before and shortly after adoption of US Constitution; chart (M)
Mayor Michael R Bloomberg asks New York City Investigation Dept to examine how Local Conditional Release Commission, little-known panel of mayoral appointees, decided to grant early jail release to former State Sen Guy J Velella; says commission should be abolished; Velella was released after he served only 3 months of 12-month sentence in conspiracy and bribery case (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 29, 2004, covering October 1, 2004.
Nelly
Nelly
Tim McGraw
Ray Charles
Various Artists
2004Richard Avedon, American photographer (born 1923)[†]
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".
2004Bruce Palmer, Canadian bass player (born 1946)[†]
Bruce Palmer was a Canadian musician best known as the bassist in the folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
2004Robert Vaidlo, Estonian journalist and author (born 1921)[†]
Robert Vaidlo was an Estonian journalist and children's writer.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]