TV Rivalry Stifles the Debates
Date: 06 September 2000
By Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel Op-Ed article criticizes television networks for promoting their own programs and news personalities as alternatives to presidential debates proposed by Commission on Presidential Debates; says this puts networks' own short-term commercial interest over the long-term interests of their profession
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Russian Media Mogul Says Kremlin Is Trying to Silence Him
Date: 05 September 2000
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
Russian media mogul Boris Berezovsky says senior Kremlin official ordered him to transfer his holdings in Russia's primary state-owned television channel to state or face prospect of going to jail; makes assertion in letter to Pres Vladimir Putin, who was reportedly incensed over coverage of sinking of nuclear submarine Kursk by television station owned by Berezovsky; Putin's unrelenting campaign to take large holdings away from oligarchs who took them over under preferential conditions during past decade noted (M)
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Liberties; Minor-League Mouth
Date: 06 September 2000
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column scores Gov George W Bush's use of a vulgarity to describe Adam Clymer, a New York Times reporter who has written critically of Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney; says frat-boy talk undermines Bush's promise of a new civility in government (M)
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Journalists Under Siege
Date: 05 September 2000
Editorial decries 'epidemic' of government attempts worldwide to silence independent journalists, less through murders than through legal harassment and physical threats; says new repression, paradoxically, is in some ways sign of progress since most nations that now attack journalists have become quasi-democracies that must tolerate some form of independent media (S)
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INVESTMENT COMPANY WILL BUY WISE, MAKER OF SNACKS
Date: 06 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Palladium Equity Partners, private investment company, agrees to buy Wise Holdings Inc, maker of snack foods; Wise is owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (S)
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FISHER SCIENTIFIC SHARES JUMP AS PURCHASE IS CALLED OFF
Date: 06 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Fisher Scientific International Inc rise 44 percent on news that it has ended its plan to buy PSS World Medical Inc for $746.9 million (S)
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CIENA MAY TAKE A CHARGE FOR DEBT IT MIGHT NOT COLLECT
Date: 06 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ciena Corp says it might fail to collect up to $28.2 million from iaxis Ltd, forcing company to take fiscal fourth-quarter charge against earnings of as much as 13 cents a share (S)
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EARTHGRAINS SAYS MORE WORKERS JOIN SYMPATHY STRIKE
Date: 06 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Earthgrains Co says workers walked off job at eight more plants, bringing total to 15 plants honoring strike that began 10 days ago at bakery in Fort Payne, Ala; about 2,700, or 12 percent, of St Louis company's 22,000 employees in US are not working; about 680 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union walked out at Alabama plant on Aug 26, in part to protest mandatory overtime and lack of days off (S)
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CYTEC TO SELL PAPER CHEMICAL DIVISION TO BAYER AND CIBA
Date: 06 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cytec Industries plans to shed paper chemical operations through two sales to Bayer AG and Ciba Specialty Chemicals AG, totaling about $115 million; Bayer of Germany will pay about $90 million for parts of business, while Ciba of Switzerland will pay about 38 million Swiss francs, or $23 million, for the rest (S)
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GENERAL MOTORS WILL LAY OFF 200 WORKERS IN MICHIGAN
Date: 06 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Corp will lay off about 200 workers and dismiss another 20 at Michigan plant as company halves production of slow-selling Cadillac Eldorado coupes; plans to eliminate one of two shifts at plant, idling more than a third of 550 production workers (S)
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