TAKEOVER OFFER IS REJECTED
Date: 11 December 1999
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
News Communications and Media PLC of Britain rejects cash offer for whole company from Gannett Co; graph (S)
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11th of December 1999 News
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Underdog McCain Develops Anti-Campaign Style
Date: 12 December 1999
By Alison Mitchell
Alison Mitchell
Sen John McCain's quest for Republican presidential nomination defies conventions of modern campaigning; he does without a carefully scripted 'message of the day,' revels in free-wheeling town meetings, forswears polling and cultivates close relationship with the press; his underdog strategy is to damage George W Bush in early primary states, where personal appearances still count, before multi-state, coast-to-coast primaries set in on March 7; photo (M)
Ideas & Trends; Suddenly Hackers Are Sexy, Hip and Evil
Date: 12 December 1999
By Jesse McKinley
Jesse McKinley
Computer hackers, once portrayed in popular entertainment as nerds, are now shown as fashionably dressed villians; people who cover hacker world say negative depictions reflect media's and public's limited grasp of what computers and people who master them can do; photo (M)
The World: Giddy in New Hampshire; What if McCain Gains the World, but Loses the Party?
Date: 12 December 1999
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
Sen John McCain's popularity in New Hampshire raises question of whether Republican can win party's presidential nomination by bashing party; his image as maverick who dares oppose party on range of issues is boosting McCain with state's contrarian voters and press; Republicans, unlike Democrats, have rarely nominated insurgent, usually rallying behind frunt-runner, even if he stumbles; photo (M)
BRITISH ENGINEERING CONSULTANT TO PURCHASE BENHAM
Date: 11 December 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
W S Atkins PLC of Britain will buy Oklahoma City-based Benham Companies for $37 million in cash and assumption of $10.1 million of debt (S)
PRECEPT BUSINESS TO SELL TRANSPORTATION UNIT
Date: 11 December 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Precept Business Services will sell its transportation-services division to a management-led buyout group (S)
RELIANT ENERGY TO SELL LATIN AMERICA BUSINESSES
Date: 11 December 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Reliant Energy plans to sell its Latin American investments to pursue higher returns in deregulating markets of US and Europe (S)
DISNEY'S GO.COM REPORTS A LOSS OF $1.06 BILLION
Date: 11 December 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Walt Disney Co's Go.com, which combines Infoseek Corp with Disney's other Internet assets, loses $1.06 billion in its 1999 fiscal year, compared with $991 million a year earlier (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 12 December 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-30 Russia Still Vowing To Beat Chechen Rebels A top commander of Russian forces in Chechnya said that the Russian military was determined to destroy the Islamic militants in Grozny by the end of the winter. 28 With a week to go before Russia elects a new Parliament the national political debate is dominated by the war in Chechnya and political mud slinging. 1
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 December 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 European Union Considers Membership for Turkey The European Union accepted Turkey as a candidate for membership, reversing a thumbs-down vote of two years ago that was based largely on Turkey's human rights record. A1 Turkey accepted the European Union's offer and seemed to suppress impulsive anger at conditions attached to it. Turks were inclined to put the best face on the move and claim it as a victory, although they viewed the vote with suspicion. A6