Il 9 dicembre 1991 era una lunedì sotto il segno zodiacale del ♐. Era il 342 ° giorno dell'anno. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti era George Bush.
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Date: 09 December 1991
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Eighteen NBC News employees were laid off on Friday, and an official of their union said a grievance would be filed this week accusing the network of violating the union contract. The union may also charge NBC with sex and age discrimination, said John Clark, the president of Local 11 of the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians.
Date: 09 December 1991
By Deirdre Carmody
Deirdre Carmody
This fall, for the first time, U.S. News & World Report has consistently run more advertising pages than Newsweek. Indeed, U.S. News, a perennial third in a field of three, is poised to end the year in second place in terms of ad pages, behind Time. Time and Newsweek have both posted sharp advertising declines this year. Through their issues dated Dec. 2, Time showed a 21 percent decline in ad pages from a year earlier, while Newsweek was down 15 percent. In contrast, U.S. News was off only two-tenths of 1 percent.
Date: 09 December 1991
By David E. Sanger
David Sanger
Japan's semiofficial broadcasting giant, NHK, is abandoning its plans to start a worldwide 24-hour news service to compete with the Cable News Network and the British Broadcasting Corporation. NHK's proposal for a Global News Network had promised to become Japan's first journalistic voice around the world, an Asian counterpoint to Western-dominated broadcasts. While industry analysts were skeptical whether the broadcaster could assemble the journalistic talent for such an undertaking, few of them had doubted that NHK, formally known as Nippon Hoso Kyokai, could find the money to take on its American and European rivals.
Date: 09 December 1991
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
The Dallas Times Herald, the city's oldest daily newspaper, ceases publication today after slowly losing ground in advertising and circulation for more than a decade against its archrival, The Dallas Morning News. The A. H. Belo Corporation, the Dallas-based company that owns The Morning News, announced yesterday that it had bought most of The Times Herald's assets, including presses and circulation lists, for $55 million.
Date: 10 December 1991
By Steven Prokesch
Steven Prokesch
LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 10 -- A judge has imposed a freeze on the assets of Kevin Maxwell, the younger son of Robert Maxwell, of up to $:450 million ($815 million), marking one of the first legal actions taken against the sons since the Maxwell publishing empire started unraveling. The freeze, imposed on Sunday, suggests that Kevin Maxwell, who is 32 years old and had the leading role in running the Maxwell empire after his father's mysterious death, is under greater suspicion than his older brother, Ian, of having moved assets out of employee pension funds and the two main public companies in the empire: the Mirror Group Newspapers P.L.C. and the Maxwell Communication Corporation.
Date: 10 December 1991
The New York Times will begin selling single copies of its weekly large-type edition on newsstands in Miami, Tampa and West Palm Beach, Fla., on Mondays, starting Dec. 16, William L. Pollak, The Times's senior vice president for circulation, said yesterday. The copies will sell for $1.50 each. The weekly, which has been published since 1967, has been sold only through home subscriptions.
Date: 09 December 1991
By Steven Prokesch
Steven Prokesch
At the time of his mysterious death on Nov. 5, Robert Maxwell almost certainly knew he was about to be caught. He had drained hundreds of millions of dollars from his two flagship public companies and from employee pension funds in a frantic attempt to keep his heavily indebted publishing empire afloat.
Date: 09 December 1991
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
How could he get away with it for so long? That is the question posed by the collapse of Robert Maxwell's empire so quickly after his death. For years he ran what amounted to an international confidence game, borrowing more and more, covering up his accounts. An official British inquiry in 1971 found him unfit to be in charge of a public company. Yet politicians honored him; and newspapers printed his boasts, hollow though most of them turned out to be.
Date: 10 December 1991
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
In any courtroom drama, the journey of the defendant from defense table to witness chair -- much more common in fiction than in the courtroom -- naturally excites expectations in an audience whose reasonable or unreasonable doubts have been formed in part by television itself. The second week of the rape trial of William K. Smith in West Palm Beach, Fla., began with the strong prospect that the co-star, who has so far not uttered a word audible to television viewers inside the chamber, would take the stand. And, in accord with the rules of such dramas, through his words or his demeanor, the truth about what happened that night would finally out. At the close of yesterday's session it looked as though Mr. Smith would take the stand this morning.
Date: 10 December 1991
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company said it had signed a definitive agreement to buy interests in 600 oil and gas wells from a unit of the Mobil Corporation for $128 million. Parker & Parsley said it expects to complete the purchase Dec. 20. The wells are primarily in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Mobil shares closed at $64 today, unchanged on the New York Stock Exchange; Parker & Parsley shares lost 25 cents on the American Stock Exchange, to $12.375.