| Show BA Thursday February 4 1 Business 999 Jobless claims drop to The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The nume ber of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits fell by 9000 to 292000 last week the Labor Department said today The decline the fourth in five first-tim- weeks reduced the seasonally adjusted number of jobless claims during the week ended Jan 30 to the lowest level since the week Microsoft From7A US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson grabbed his brow and shook his head in exasperation to admonish James Allchin a Microsoft executive on the witness stand about the video Allchin a top scientist and a senior vice president was forced to explain that Microsoft had tested several computers with different software packages but edited together video segments so it appeared a single computer was being tested during the demonstration “This wasn’t in our lab trying to be incredibly precise” Allchin said “How can I rely on it if you can’t tell me whether it’s the same machine or whether any changes have been made to it?” the judge demanded “It’s very troubling Mr Allchin” Later in a private meeting with lawyers the judge said he did “not believe that (Allchin) deliberately falsified this but it day Also new orders to American factories rebounded in December but the gain wasn’t enough to labo- r-market prevent 1998 from entering the record book as the weakest year for manufacturing since the recession of 1991 six-we- Orders jumped 23 percent during the last month of the year to a seasonally adjusted $3435 28-ye- ar does cast serious doubt on reliability of that exhibit altogether” according to a court transcript ware Pitting its technical expertise against Microsoft - with its legions of brilliant programmers -the government hired as consultants Christian Hicks and Peter Creath both in their early 20s and their former computer pro- The judge added that Boies “has done a very professional job of discrediting those tapes” Struggling to recover its credibility following the courtroom fiasco Microsoft promised to re- fessor Edward Felten Princeton University create the demonstration overnight Wednesday in downtown of The three studied Microsoft’s demonstration video ever since the company handed over a pre- Washington with government perts watching They planned to play the new video for the judge today ex- view copy to government lawyers just over a week ago They noticed a subtle flaw in the video that Boies used to confront Allchin about on Tuesday with Perry Mason-styl- e fanfare then they discovered new problems when they reviewed the Microsoft had believed its demonstration would be an effective rebuttal of the government’s claims that its Internet browser software could be easily removed from Windows 98 The video shows its browser running dramatically slower after the government tried to disable most Internet functions in Windows demonstration again Wednesday Boies gave credit to his young computer experts While he’s nationally known for his legal skills Boies has proved less than adept tackling technical issues The issue is central because the government alleges that Microsoft illegally “tied” its browser to newer versions of Windows forcing consumers who use its popular computer operating system also to use its Internet soft er low six-we- ek department is scheduled to release the January report on Fri- ended Dec 19 Claims shot up during Christmas week to 372000 raising concern that conditions were deteriorating but the subsequent declines has calmed those fears A four-wee- k moving average of claims which smoothes weekly fluctuations fell by 16000 to low 317250 also a The year ended with the unlow employment rate at a of 43 percent in December The Standard-Examin- billion the Commerce Department said today It was the biggest increase in 13 months of However orders for all - $403 trillion - were just 21 percent higher than the year before That compared with a healthy 54 percent gain in 1997 and was the weakest year since orders posted a 23 percent decline seven years earlier 1998 ALL MARKERS AND MONUMENTS IN STOCK!! 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