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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 4, 2000
Is This For Real?
Television Portrayals of Working Women
Wednesday, April 5th 4:30-5:30 p.m. Regionalist Room, Kansas Union
Join us for a discussion on how television and the rest of the media portray working women and how this may affect perceptions of women.
Sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, 22 Strong Hall, 864-3552, www.ukans.edu/~etwrc
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6. It is designed for students with undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, engineering, journalism computer science,and other nonbusiness fields.
9. The median starting salary for 1999 KU MBA grads was $56,000.
20. You can choose study-abroad programs including Italy, France, and Mexico.
13. College algebra is the only math prerequisite.
25. The career path for KU MBA's is wide open Choose private industry,the public sector, or entrepreneurship.
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Nation/World
Nasdaq suffers record plunge
The University Of Kansas School of Business
NEW YORK — Microsoft devastated the Nasdaq composite index yesterday, falling sharply as Wall Street anticipated a federal judge's antitrust ruling against the software company. The plunge in Microsoft set off another stampede away from technology stocks and sent investors searching for blue-chip issues.
Microsoft decision hurts tech stocks
The swing toward financial, retail and drug stocks helped the
The Associated Press
Dow Jones industrials soar 300 points.
The Nasdaq plunged 349.15, or 7.6 percent, to close at 4,223.68. It was easily the Nasdaq's worst point drop in history, surpassing a 229-point plunge Jan. 4.
Microsoft fell 15 3/8 to 90 7/8 as the company appeared poised for harsh penalties. After the close of trading, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson delivered his verdict that Microsoft violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Although Microsoft also is a component of the Dow, Wall Street's best-known indicator gained on the strength of financial
stocks, drug companies and retailers. The Dow ended the session up 300.01 at 11,221.93.
Microsoft, which has traded places with General Electric and Cisco Systems as the world's largest company according to stock market value, affected the Nasdaq because it gives more significance to larger companies. The Dow gives equal weight to each of its 30 components.
Japan's leader on life support after stroke
its 30 companies
With yesterday's decline,
Microsoft shed more than $60 billion in stock market value, a decline that sent the software maker tumbling to No. 3 behind GE and Cisco.
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was on life support yesterday after a stroke, leaving the Japanese government to grapple with a leadership crisis and the possibility of dissolving the Cabinet and finding a successor.
Despite assurances from officials that Japan would not veer from its economic and political course, speculation was rife that Obuchi's illness could plunge Japan into turmoil and possibly lead to early elections.
However, the political establishment appeared to be moving quickly to name a successor to the prime minister, with media reports saying the Cabinet could resign as early as tomorrow so a new one could be formed. With that as a possibility, it appeared likely that Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, who took control as acting prime minister yesterday, would be able to keep the government together until then.
Media reports were widespread that Yoshiro Mori, the secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was the likely successor.
obuchi, 62, was hospitalized earl
Sunday after complaining of fatigue. His condition deteriorated rapidly, and Aoki announced yesterday that Obuchi had suffered a stroke and was in a coma.
meanwhile, Aoki defended the timing on the reporting of Obuchi's illness to the public. The government waited nearly 24 hours to announce that he had been hospitalized, leaving the public in the dark about the seriousness of his condition for 12 more hours.
Besides Mori, another name that has come up as a possible successor is that of Foreign Minister Yohei Kono.
SUA presents Saturday Night Live stand up comedian
april 29
8 p.m.
120 budig hall
tickets: $ 8 with KUID
$ 15 without
tickets available at the SUA box office level 4 of the Kansas Union
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