Editors' Note
Date: 28 April 1998
 
April 24 article describing change in news organizations' responses to subpoenas from Federal prosecutors demanding notes or tapes named Wall Street Journal as one organization that had provided material to prosecutors; description of Journal case was omitted from some editions
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Topics of The Times; Kiss, Kiss, Grovel, Grovel
Date: 28 April 1998
 
Topics of The Times editorial criticizes White House Correspondents Dinner, contending that it has evolved into 'tasteless exercise of fawning celebrity worship' (S)
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Journal; Lame Lame Duck
Date: 29 April 1998
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column holds media focus on Pres Clinton's sex scandals distracts attention from hollowness of his second term; scores his unwillingness to fight conservative Republicans in Congress by providing Federal funds for needle exchange programs for drug addicts to curb spread of AIDS virus (M)
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KNIGHT-RIDDER WILL MOVE HEADQUARTERS TO CALIFORNIA
Date: 29 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Knight-Ridder Inc will move its headquarters to California's Silicon Valley from Miami in bid to remake its image into high-technology information provider from traditional newspaper company; some corporate functions will remain in Miami, along with about 90 of its 150 corporate employees; move is expected to be completed sometime in early 1999 (S)
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COMMERCIAL UNION PLANS TO ACQUIRE FARMERS UNION
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Commercial Union PLC says its US unit agrees to buy Farmers Union Insurance Acquisition Corp for about $118 million (S)
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EMPLOYER-SPONSORED CHILD CARE COMPANIES TO MERGE
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bright Horizons Inc and Corporateyamily Solutions Inc agree to merge in stock swap; new company will be formed called Bright Horizons Family Solutions (S)
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MEDIQ IN $50 MILLION CASH DEAL FOR CH INDUSTRIES UNIT
Date: 29 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mediq Inc agrees to acquire CH Industries' CH Medical unit for $50 million in cash (S)
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MICROSOFT BUYS MESA GROUP TO BOLSTER E-MAIL SOFTWARE
Date: 29 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Microsoft Corp acquires Mesa Group Inc, which helps electronic mail users move from IBM software to Microsoft software, in bid to take corporate E-mail customers from IBM; terms undisclosed (S)
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NPC TO SELL TONY ROMA'S UNIT AND REORGANIZE PIZZA HUTS
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
NPC International Inc will sell unit that operates Tony Roma's restaurants to Sentinel Capital Partners and unit's executives for $121.5 million, and will reorganize its Pizza Hut business; NPC will receive $118 million in cash and $3.5 million in stock for Romacorp Inc; company also plans to close 31 money-losing Pizza Hut restaurants, move 53 others to better sites and combine another 11 with current Pizza Huts (S)
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Japan Disciplines 112 Finance Officials
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga says 112 ministry officials will be punished for accepting excessive entertainment from banks, brokerage firms and insurers under their supervision; Atsushi Nagano, director general of ministry's securities bureau, and Takashi Sugii, deputy director general of banking bureau, have resigned over matter (S)
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