Broadcasts On Terrorists Win Awards
Date: 19 December 2001
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Winners of Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Awards in broadcast journalism are announced, and they include several televised reports that looked forward to events of Sept 11 with unusual prescience (M)
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Treason Case In Russia Ends As Defendant Stays Defiant
Date: 19 December 2001
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Capt Grigory Pasko reportedly makes bitter and defiant closing statement in his secret treason trial; has spent four years fighting charges he betrayed Russia by helping Japanese television network report on navy's practice of dumping nuclear waste at sea; his lawyers say charges, based on secret laws, are vague at best and unrelated to facts, interviews (M)
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BOLDFACE NAMES
Date: 19 December 2001
By James Barron With Linda Lee
James With
Boldface Names column; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani parries question about just where he will go when he leaves City Hall after midnight on Jan 1; several people involved in movie The Shipping News have had or are expecting babies; director Lasse Hallstrom comments on that and on movie's sound effects; Nathan Lane reduces schedule in The Producers to six performances a week because of vocal problems; associates of Abe Hirschfeld, in jail for hiring hit man to kill former partner, plan 'silent 82d-birthday party' at Le Cirque; photo (S)
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Manchester Journal; The Spice Girl and the Soccer Idol: What a Team!
Date: 18 December 2001
By Warren Hoge
Warren Hoge
Victoria Adams, known as Posh Spice, and David Beckham, England's leading soccer player, are iconic husband and wife team of modern-day flash Britain; their union has received imprimatur of pop culture pre-eminence: book by Andrew Morton, biographer to Princess Diana; couple's every move is followed breathlessly in press and recorded on more than 60,000 Web sites devoted to them; photo; map (M)
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MYLAN LABORATORIES RAISES PROFIT ESTIMATE
Date: 18 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mylan Laboratories increases fiscal third-quarter profit projections (S)
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G.E. TO BUY INTERLOGIX FOR $777 MILLION
Date: 19 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Electric Co acquires Interlogix Inc for $777 million in cash and stock, adding commercial and residential security equipment to its line of products; GE says it will cut 3,000 jobs at its GE Capital unit and will exit some financing businesses to reduce expenses (S)
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CATERPILLAR IS SELLING TRACTOR LINE TO AGCO
Date: 18 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Agco Corp, farm equipment maker, will take over assembly and marketing of Caterpillar's Challenger tractor line (S)
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CENDANT IS ACQUIRING MARKETER OF TIME SHARES
Date: 18 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cendant Corp acquires Equivest Finance, operator of 29 resort facilities, for about $98 million to expand its time share business (S)
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