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Date: 21 April 1998
Paula Corbin Jones and husband, Steve, have been invited as guests, along with Pres Clinton and hundreds of reporters, to White House Correspondents Association dinner (S)
Date: 20 April 1998
By Claire Smith
Claire Smith
Article contends that New York Mets, led by manager Bobby Valentine, are very sensitive when dealing with journalists (M)
Date: 20 April 1998
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire expounds on meaning of punditry in Op-Ed column celebrating his silver anniversary as columnist for The New York Times (M)
Date: 20 April 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer column on the kinds of journalism that win Pulitzer Prizes; finds tendency of Pulitzer judges to reward reporting of disasters and watchdog reporting that unearths corruption or abuse of power; finds few awards where business figures prominently; concludes that corrupt municipal government gets more scrutiny than corrupt brokerage house does; also finds few awards for coverage of Southern Hemisphere; photo (M)
Date: 21 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lucent Technologies Inc acquires Optimay GmbH of Germany for about $65 million in cash to add software to its line of products used to make wireless phones (S)
Date: 21 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Associates First Capital Corp agrees to buy SPS Transaction Services Inc from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and public shareholders for $896 million (S)
Date: 21 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Playboy Enterprises Inc raises its offer for Spice Entertainment Companies, adult television entertainment company, to about $100 million in cash, stock and assumed debt from $95 million (S)
Date: 21 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Clear Channel Communications Inc will buy six radio stations in West Palm Beach, Fla, for $85 million in cash from Fairbanks Communications Inc and then swap three of the stations as well as another one in Florida for WTPX-FM of Palm Beach, and $47 million in cash from James Crystal Broadcasting (S)
Date: 21 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kapson Senior Quarters Corp, unit of Lazard Freres & Co, agrees to buy Atria Communities Inc for about $750 million; among those selling shares will be Vencor Inc, which holds 42.8 percent of Atria (S)
Date: 21 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kmart corp plans to convert more than half of its 2,126 stores to the 'Big Kmart' format by end of 1998; discount retailer opened 117 of larger stores on April 19 at cost of about $70 million (S)