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6th of May 1993 News
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17 Companies in Electronic News Venture
Date: 07 May 1993
By John Markoff
John Markoff
Some of the nation's biggest newspapers are taking another look at the electronic paperboy. A group of 17 companies, including the newspaper publishers Gannett, Knight-Ridder and Times Mirror, plan to announce Friday that they are forming a research consortium to explore new ways to use computers and telecommunications to deliver news. The possibilities might include electronic newspapers transmitted to pocket-sized wireless computers or personalized papers printed at home.
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NBC to Team Brokaw and Couric in Prime Time
Date: 07 May 1993
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
NBC News announced yesterday that it would put two of its best-known news anchors, Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, onto a new prime-time news-magazine program to start in late summer. The program, still untitled, will be under the supervision of Jeff Zucker, the 28-year-old executive producer of the "Today" show who has been credited with revitalizing that morning show's format. Mr. Zucker will leave "Today" to become the new program's executive producer. Mr. Brokaw will remain the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" and Ms. Couric will remain co-anchor of "Today."
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Nynex Link For Newsday
Date: 07 May 1993
Newsday Inc. and the Nynex Corporation said yesterday that they would work together to test a system that would provide access to news and other information by telephone. About 500 newspapers in the country, including Newsday, already offer various audio information services by telephone. But the Newsday-Nynex project is considered significant because it involves a partnership between a newspaper and a local telephone company.
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F.C.C. Asked To Deny Bid To Buy Post
Date: 06 May 1993
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
In the first of what is expected to be a series of efforts to stop Rupert Murdoch's attempt to buy The New York Post, a Connecticut businessman who bid for the paper in March asked the Federal Communications Commission yesterday to block the acquisition. The petition was filed by Mahmoud Wahba, owner of Champion Holdings in Greenwich, who argued that his bid for the paper was never given serious consideration by the bankruptcy court overseeing The Post's assets.
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INSIDE
Date: 07 May 1993
Comptroller Says She Erred Elizabeth Holtzman, the New York City Comptroller, said it was wrong for her office to recommend a bank company as a bond underwriter when she owed it money. Page B1. 2 Yonkers Officers Charged A Federal grand jury charged two Yonkers policemen with civil rights violations in three beatings. Page B5. Knicks Eliminate Pacers The Knicks beat Indiana in overtime, 109-100, and will face Charlotte in the second round of the National Basketball Association playoffs. Page B7.
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Political Memo; Hillary Clinton Is Back! Details Inside
Date: 07 May 1993
By Robin Toner
Robin Toner
Suddenly, Hillary Rodham Clinton is back, dominating the newsstands, from Family Circle to the cover of People and from Time to The Washington Post. Her aides insist that the timing is all coincidental, but some political professionals see it as a useful exercise in image-burnishing before the release of the Administration's long-awaited proposal for health-care reform. Sometime in June, after all, the health-care task force that Mrs. Clinton heads will come forth with a program to overhaul one-seventh of the nation's economy. As lawmakers are discovering in a series of private briefings, it will be complicated, it will be big and it will be expensive.
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CHRONICLE
Date: 07 May 1993
By Nadine Brozan
Nadine Brozan
RORY KENNEDY was born six months after her father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968, so when the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards were instituted 25 years ago, they were dedicated to her, she said yesterday. Tonight, she will be the speaker at the annual presentation of the awards at the offices of the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Va. The grand prize, one of 16 awards, will be given to Paul McEnroe and Allen Short, reporters for The Minneapolis Star Tribune, for a series on abuses in the Minneapolis foster-care system.
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NATIONSBANK ASKS FED FOR UNDERWRITING RIGHTS
Date: 06 May 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Nationsbank Corporation, based in Charlotte, N.C., the fourth-biggest bank in the United States, has asked the Federal Reserve to let it underwrite debt and stock offerings, The Charlotte Observer reported yesterday. Earnings from underwriting could supplement declining profit margins on traditional corporate lending. J. P. Morgan & Company and the Bankers Trust New York Corporation are the only two banks that now have the right to underwrite stock.
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ROBERTS PHARMACEUTICAL ACQUIRING GLAXO PRODUCTS
Date: 07 May 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Roberts Pharmaceutical Corporation said yesterday that it would acquire a line of pharmaceutical products from Glaxo Canada Inc., a unit of the giant British drug maker Glaxo Holdings P.L.C. The products are the anti-inflammatory steroid Betnesol, Prenavite prenatal vitamin supplement, the antibiotic Bacitracin, Glaxal moisturizing cream and Barrierre protective hand cream.
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VIRGIN ATLANTIC TAKES BRITISH AIR TO COURT
Date: 07 May 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. filed suit against British Airways P.L.C. in High Court in London yesterday, accusing its larger rival of copyright infringement, misuse of confidential information and breach of confidence. The suit, which contends British Air tapped into Virgin's computer reservation system for information, follows what Virgin calls a smear campaign by British Air.
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