Shocked and Appalled
Date: 15 September 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
William J Bennett, former Federal Education Secretary, and Sen Joseph I Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, hold news conference in Washington to express their outrage at two new Fox series, Action and Get Real; they give their third Silver Sewer Award, laurel they invented to dishonor people whom they perceive as purveyors of cultural filth, to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, which owns Fox (S)
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FOOTLIGHTS
Date: 14 September 1999
By Kathryn Shattuck
Kathryn Shattuck
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to open its 31st season on Sept 15 at Alice Tully Hall; artistic director David Shifrin to be clarinet soloist in three Mozart works; photo; photography exhibition Eyewitness 1999 opens on Sept 14 on North Bridge of World Financial Center; will present 200 prize-winning entries from World Press Photo Foundation competition; budding jazz musicians can bring their own instruments and jam with trumpeter Chuck Mangione at Children's Museum on Sept 18; photo; National Academy of Design in Manhattan to present exhibition Prague Architecture Through the Centuries (M)
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From Britain, Mosquitoes Look Like Scourge of Death
Date: 15 September 1999
By Neil MacFarquhar
Neil MacFarquhar
Article discusses coverage of New York City's encephalitis problems in British press; examples; photo (M)
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Otto A. Silha, 80, a Publisher Of a Minnesota Newspaper
Date: 14 September 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Otto A Silha, onetime copy editor and newspaper marketer who became president and publisher of The Minneapolis Star and Tribune in 1970's and after retiring in 1984 underwrote a program in media ethics at University of Minnesota, dies at age 80; photo (M)
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KOHLBERG KRAVIS TO ACQUIRE ALLIANCE IMAGING
Date: 15 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, acquires Alliance Imaging Inc for $313.5 million; firm will also assume Alliance's debt and pay additional $17.8 million for its preferred shares (S)
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SWATCH TO BUY LUXURY BRAND
Date: 15 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Swatch Group AG to buy Swiss rival, Groupe Horloger Breguet, from Investcorp SA for undisclosed price; photo (S)
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SOLECTRON TO BUY SMART MODULAR FOR $2 BILLION
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Solectron Corp to acquire memory chip maker Smart Modular Technologies Inc for $2 billion in stock (S)
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SEAGATE, MAKER OF DISK DRIVES, TO CUT 8,000 JOBS
Date: 15 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Seagate Technology Inc to cut 8,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its workers, as part of plan to improve operations in face of falling prices; will take pretax charge of $200 million for the cuts (S)
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ONEX UNIT AGREES TO BUY NELSON METAL PRODUCTS
Date: 15 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Onex Corp says its J L French Automotive Castings Inc unit has acquired Nelson Products Corp for $180 million (S)
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TYCO TAKES STAKE IN COMPANY BUILDING UNDERSEA CABLE
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tyco International Ltd joins Providence Equity Partners, DLJ Merchant Banking II Inc and GS Capital Partners III LP to take $345 million stake in Worldwide Fiber Inc (S)
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