Journalists in New Media Meet to Form an Association
Date: 10 December 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
New media reporters and newsroom expatriates hammer together framework of new association of on-line journalists; members will ideally help on-line world understand journalism and help hidebound journalists understand new media (S)
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Unfazed by Excess, the Pundits Chatter On . . . and On
Date: 09 December 1998
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman Critic's Notebook column on television's talking heads, and foolish, pointless, peculiar things they spout; notes that while politicians can be kicked out of office, corporate executives can lose their perks and athletes can be fined, the privileged cadre of chattering class goes on forever; holds programs that started out as discussions have slid down slopes of entertainment to sheer blather; comments on remarkably wrong predictions of regular panelists on ABC's This Week; photo of Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, Bill Kristol, George Will and George Stephanopoulos (M)
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TV NOTES; Tumultuous Era
Date: 09 December 1998
By Lawrence Mifflin
Lawrence Mifflin
ABC News to present two-hour documentary The Whole World Was Watching, a look back at tumultuous year of 1968 (S)
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Report Sees Media as Source of New Jobs
Date: 09 December 1998
By Leslie Eaton
Leslie Eaton
Report issued by Citizen's Budget Commission says that media and communications industries, which include everything from advertising to publishing to computer programming, will be major source of new jobs in New York City over next few years (M)
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CROMPTON AND IMPERIAL IN DEALS WITH CHRISTIAN HANSEN
Date: 10 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Crompton & Knowles Corp to sell its food and pharmaceutical ingredients unit to Christian Hansen Holding A/S for $103 million; Christian Hansen says it is buying food colorings business from unit of Imperial Chemicals Industries PLC for $55 million (S)
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GLOBAL TELESYSTEMS AGREES TO PURCHASE ESPRIT TELECOM
Date: 09 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Global Telesystems Group Inc, backed by billionaire George Soros, agrees to buy rival Esprit Telecom Group PLC for $757 million in stock; it will also assume $228 million in debt (S)
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HAUSER TO BUY THREE UNITS OF ZUELLIG FOR $45.8 MILLION
Date: 10 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hauser Inc to buy three units of Zuellig Group NA for $45.8 million in stock (S)
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PALOMAR TO SELL HAIR-REMOVAL LASER UNIT TO COHERENT
Date: 09 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Coherent Inc to buy Palomar Medical Technologies Inc's Star Medical Technologies unit for $65 million in cash (S)
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KINROSS GOLD TAKING CHARGE TO WRITE DOWN MINES' VALUE
Date: 09 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kinross Gold Corp to take fourth-quarter charge of $216.1 million, that includes cost of its acquisition of Amax Gold Inc (S)
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CORPORATE EXPRESS TO CLOSE 100 SITES AND CUT 1,700 JOBS
Date: 10 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corporate Express Inc to close or consolidate more than 100 sites and cut 1,700 jobs, or 6 percent of its work force (S)
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