ATTEMPT TO CREATE AN ELECTRONIC TELEVISION GUIDE FAILS
Date: 28 August 1996
By Dow Jones
Dow Jones
United Video Satellite Group Inc and News Corp drop plan to form TV Guide Prevue Networks, electronic television guide (S)
O dia 28 de agosto de 1996 foi um quarta-feira sob o signo de ♍. Foi o dia 240 do ano. O presidente dos Estados Unidos foi William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Se você nasceu neste dia, você tem 29 anos de idade. Seu último aniversário foi no dia quinta-feira, 28 de agosto de 2025, 293 dias atrás. Seu próximo aniversário é no dia sexta-feira, 28 de agosto de 2026, em 71 dias. Você viveu 10.885 dias, ou cerca de 261.262 horas, ou cerca de 15.675.751 minutos, ou cerca de 940.545.060 segundos.
Date: 28 August 1996
By Dow Jones
Dow Jones
United Video Satellite Group Inc and News Corp drop plan to form TV Guide Prevue Networks, electronic television guide (S)
Date: 29 August 1996
By Terry Pristin
Terry Pristin
Carmen Paul, sportswriter who says she was dismissed from Dorf Feature Service after complaining about supervisor's amorous advances, is awarded $200,000 settlement (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Date: 29 August 1996
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Liberia's fiesty press, put out of business by recent factional warfare, is printing again in what many residents of capital of Monrovia regard as hopeful sign of return to life in dispirited and ravaged city; photo (M)
Date: 29 August 1996
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column says Pres Clinton's recent loss of temper during questioning by news reporters is calculated to intimidate reporters who dare to raise Whitewater-related issues, display financial carrot and stick to aides under investigation and to begin denouncing independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, as partisan hack (M)
Date: 28 August 1996
By David E. Rosenbaum
David Rosenbaum
Democratic National Convention is big chance for Vice Pres Al Gore to dispel idea that his style is too flat and wooden to generate enthusiasm among voters in possible run for White House in year 2000; other obstacles that block path to Presidential nomination discussed (Man In The News); photos (M)
Date: 29 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Imation Corp agrees to buy Luminous Corp for undisclosed amount of cash and stock (S)
Date: 28 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Valujet Inc lays off 134 workers it had recalled in anticipation of resuming service by late Aug; airline, ordered to cease flying in wake of May crash, is not likely to resume operations until Sept (S)
Date: 29 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Reebok International Ltd says investors have tendered about 17 million shares for repurchase, fewer than 24 million its board has authorized; company will now buy 23 percent of its shares, rather than 33 percent (S)
Date: 29 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CKE Restaurants Inc agrees to buy Casa Bonita Inc, owner of 109 Taco Bueno fast-food Mexican restaurants, from Unigate PLC for $42 million in cash (S)
Date: 29 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Foamex International Inc says it will sell its JPS Automotive LP unit to subsidiary of Collins & Aikman Corp for $220 million, including $198 million of debt (S)