Paper Details Lewinsky Interview a Day Before Broadcast
Date: 02 March 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Daily News, in move that compromises exclusivity of what is expected to be biggest television interview of year, prints large portions of ABC's highly anticipated interview with Monica S Lewinsky, which is scheduled to be broadcast on March 3; interview, conducted in Feb by Barbara Walters, has been of enormous importance to ABC, which expanded its regular news program 20/20 to two hours from one hour and sold commercials in program for as much as $800,000 (M)
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Top Ad Post Changes Hands At The Times
Date: 03 March 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
New York Times Co president Janet L Robinson says Daniel H Cohen, senior vice president for advertising, is resigning to start television production company that will work in tandem with Times Electronic Media Co, developing programming to attract audience of young people more wedded to television than to print journalism; says Jyll F Holzman, advertising executive with wide experience in magazine publishing, will succeed him; Holzman has been vice president since 1995; Cohen is son of Dr Judith P Sulzberger, director of Times Co, and cousin of Arthur Sulzberger Jr, chairman of company; photos (M)
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QUANTUM SHARES SOAR ON NEWS OF TRACKING STOCK PLAN
Date: 02 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Quantum Corp, maker of computer disk drives, rise 19 percent after company announces plan to expand its computer network storage unit and split its shares into separate stocks to ease tracking of its two businesses (S)
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XYLAN SHARES RISE 33% ON ALCATEL ACQUISITION
Date: 03 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Xylan Corp rise $8.8125, or 33 percent, to $35.75, as investors react to Alcatel SA's acquisition of Xylan for $2 billion in cash (S)
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HARROW INDUSTRIES TO BE ACQUIRED BY INGERSOLL-RAND
Date: 02 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ingersoll-Rand Co to buy Harrow Industries for $160 million in cash and assumed debt (S)
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INTUIT TO ACQUIRE COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR $200 MILLION
Date: 03 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intuit Inc to acquire Computing Resources Inc for $200 million in cash and stock (S)
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UGI STOCK PLUNGES AFTER OFFER FOR UNISOURCE
Date: 02 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of UGI Corp plunge after company announces it will buy Unisource Worldwide Inc; UGI will issue $815 million in stock and assume $710 million in debt to buy Unisource; UGI also says it will sell its UGI Utilities Inc unit, valued at more than $220 million, cut its dividend by 49 percent, and buy back as much as 20 percent of its common stock (S)
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ADVANCE PARADIGM ACQUIRING ANOTHER BENEFIT MANAGER
Date: 02 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Advance Paradigm Inc to buy pharmaceutical management business of Foundation Health Systems Inc for $70 million in cash (S)
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MICROSOFT BUYS 5% STAKE IN DIALOGIC AND EXPANDS PACT
Date: 03 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Microsoft Corp will buy 5 percent stake in Dialogic Corp for $24.2 million and enter $20 million licensing and service pact with Dialogic to expand in telecommunications (S)
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DUKE REALTY INVESTMENTS TO BUY WEEKS, A RIVAL REIT
Date: 02 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Duke Realty Investments Inc acquires rival real estate investment trust, the Weeks Corp; Duke says it will swap 1.38 of its shares for each Weeks share, valuing Weeks stock and partnership units at $815 million; Duke will also assume $254 million of preferred stock and $654 milion of debt (S)
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