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Clearly, in the pinched language of damage control, ``mistakes were made.'' Now comes the time for Enron's executives and the accounting firm that allowed its creative bookkeeping to explain sudden bankruptcy.

An auto loan company has been accused of overcharging minorities for interest on their cars in two federal lawsuits filed in four states and the District of Columbia.

None of the tickets sold for Friday's $7 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Big Money Ball. The next drawing will be Tuesday.

3M, which announced a 13 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings, said Friday it will cut 1,000 more jobs this year than had been previously announced.

Automobile industry experts call it ``the holy grail'' - a new type of fuel that would make gasoline obsolete and replace car fumes with a harmless mist.

Buy the company's stock, Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay urged employees a month after he was warned that the energy-trading giant faced potential accounting scandals.

A day after announcing a reshuffling in its top management, Kmart Corp. remained silent about its finances Friday.

The Transportation Department said that Delta Air Lines and three foreign airlines could coordinate flights, set fares and sell each other's tickets.

When Ted Turner began ``CNN Newsroom'' for students in public schools nationwide, he didn't do it to make a profit.

Dell Computer Corp. said Friday that surprisingly strong consumer sales will lift fourth-quarter earnings past Wall Street forecasts.