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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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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REGULATORS CLEAR PURCHASE OF AXENT BY SYMANTEC
Date: 07 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Symantec Corp, largest maker of computer security software, says plan to buy rival Axent Technologies has met with no objections from antitrust agencies (S)
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NORTHROP ACQUIRING CARLYLE'S FEDERAL DATA UNIT
Date: 07 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Northrop Grumman agrees to buy Federal Data Corp from Carlyle Group, private investment firm, for about $302 million to strengthen its information-technology business; Federal Data provides computer networking to government agencies (S)
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LITTON INDUSTRIES SAYS PROFIT WILL MISS FORECASTS
Date: 07 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Litton Industries, which builds ships for the Navy, says profit in current quarter and rest of fiscal 2001 will be below forecasts because of cost overruns on warships and tankers; company's shares plunge 24 percent (S)
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BB&T AGREES TO BUY FIRSTSPARTAN FINANCIAL
Date: 07 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BB&T Corp agrees to buy FirstSpartan Financial Corp for $103.9 million in stock (S)
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MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS BUYING REST OF MERIDIAN
Date: 07 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Martin Marietta Materials Inc will buy remaining stake in Meridian Aggregates Co, producer of crushed stone, for $193 million (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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NORDSTROM TO BUY FACONNABLE, A TOP SELLER IN ITS STORES
Date: 07 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nordstrom Inc will buy the French clothing company Faconnable SA (S)
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