For Capital Pundits, Money for Speeches Is Scarce This Year
Date: 28 November 1997
By Jill Abramson
Jill Abramson
Capital's media celebrities no longer rake in lucrative speaking fees on lecture circuit; trade associations and industry groups are not as inclined as they once were to dole out $10,000 and more for hour of punditry; Mark Shields, who has seen his lucrative bookings disappear, attributes dry spell to 'status quo' nature of 1996 election; David Gergen says dip is seasonal, since there are no major political races in 1997; agents who book so-called 'buckrakers' confirm trend; Jay Callahan of Keppler Associates says that same apathy about Washington that is felt by public has spread to trade associations and companies that used to feel need to hear speech by bona fide Washington insider; photo (M)
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Diana's Brother Learns That the Tabloids Bite Back
Date: 28 November 1997
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Princess Diana's younger brother, Earl Charles Spencer, who bitterly denounced tabloid press during eulogy for his sister, is himself in midst of messy divorce, and press is having field day; one unflattering detail after another about him has emerged during court hearing in South Africa, where he lives, to determine if case should be heard there or in Britain; Earl's spurned mistress has joined forces with his estranged wife, and is telling press what a cad he is; photos (M)
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The Sun Sets on British Civility
Date: 29 November 1997
Editorial says debate by invective is back in Britain; says Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer, who lashed out at tabloid press during eulogy for his sister, is himself engaged in messy divorce in which his wife and former mistress have teamed up to paint him as ultimate cad; says noted writers Salmon Rushdie and John le Carre are also slinging accusations and insults at each other (M)
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Mexico Editor Hurt in Ambush; His Bodyguard and Gunman Die
Date: 28 November 1997
By Sam Dillon
Sam Dillon
Jesus Blancornelas, prize-winning Mexican newspaper editor who has crusaded against narcotics traffickers, is seriously wounded in Tijuana by gunmen who killed his bodyguard; one of gunmen is also killed; attack comes four months after gunmen in San Luis Rio Colorado killed Benjamin Flores Gonzalez, founder of another weekly that campaigned against drugs; mounting violence seen to reflect rising independence and assertiveness of Mexico's press, and increasingly brazen attitudes of country's network of organized crime (M)
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CONMED SHARES UP ON DEAL WITH BRISTOL-MYERS
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Conmed Corp shares rise 19 percent on Nov 28, after company says that it will buy Linvatec Corp, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's surgery equipment unit, for $370 million (S)
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SUBMICRON AGREES TO SELL IMTEC ACCULINE UNIT
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Submicron Systems Corp agrees to sell its Imtec Acculine Inc unit to group of senior managers for undisclosed amount (S)
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ENTREMED DRUG STUDY SENDS STOCK UP BY 28%
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Entremed Inc shares rise 28 percent after it reports that experimental drug, Endostatin, drastically shrank mouse tumors in study (S)
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Duane Reade Plans Initial Public Offering
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Duane Reade Inc files for $92 million initial public offering as part of plan to reduce debt (S)
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Credit Suisse Unit Is Fined in Spain
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Spanish stock market authorities fine Credit Suisse Financial Products 285 million pesetas ($1.9 million) for manipulating share prices that affected IBEX stock index in Spain (S)
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Richemont to Buy The Rest of Vendome
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cie Financiere Richemont of Switzerland plans to buy 30 percent of Vendome Luxury Group of Britain that it does not own for 1.036 billion pounds ($1.73 billion) (S)
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