กำลังเล่นซ้ำ วันอังคารที่ 16 พฤศจิกายน ค.ศ. 1993

Time Warner Plans to Test A News on Demand Service

Date: 17 November 1993

By Deirdre Carmody

Deirdre Carmody

Time Warner Inc. yesterday announced the creation of an interactive video "news on demand" servicecombining the news gathering capabilities of Time Inc. with the cable capabilities of Time Warner. The service, called News on Demand, will first be offered to participants in an experimental interactive system in Orlando, Fla., beginning early next year. Four thousand Time Warner cable subscribers participating in the test will be offered an array of services on their television sets ranging from video games to interactive catalogue shopping to movies on demand. News on demand will join those services later in the year.

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Newspapers' Coverage of Gay March

Date: 16 November 1993

"Front Page," a documentary exhibition in SoHo, measures the visibility of gay issues in the news by examining newspaper coverage of the gay-rights march in Washington in April. The show puts on display the front pages of more than 150 newspapers from Monday, April 26, the day after the march, which was attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Of the newspapers displayed, 87 percent had front-page articles on the march and 6 percent had front-page headlines or photographs referring to articles on inside pages.

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Bishops Assail Press on Sex Charges

Date: 16 November 1993

By Peter Steinfels

Peter Steinfels

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops gave a rousing show of support for Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago today as the group's president castigated national news organizations for their reporting on the Cardinal and on the Catholic Church generally. Speaking to Roman Catholic bishops gathered here for a semiannual meeting, the president of the group, Archbishop William H. Keeler of Baltimore, cited the reporting of accusations against Cardinal Bernardin as an example of press sensationalism.

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Poll Says People Expect Delay on the Health Plan

Date: 17 November 1993

By Adam Clymer

Adam Clymer

The American public doubts that Congress can pass health care legislation, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows. But, at least for now, the public blames the issue's complexities, not the lawmakers. The poll showed that 57 percent of the public expected Congress to fail to pass a health care plan by the end of next year as President Clinton hopes, while 36 percent said they thought it would succeed.

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Book Notes

Date: 17 November 1993

By Sarah Lyall

Sarah Lyall

Test of a Shield Law Joseph Bosco's new book, "Blood Will Tell" (William Morrow & Company), came out earlier this month and immediately caused a big stir in New Orleans, Mr. Bosco's home and the scene of the curious murder he writes about. In detail, the book describes the beating death in 1984 of Janet Myers, a young housewife, and the subsequent trials of her husband and her lover, each of whom sought to place the blame on the other and ended up with a substantial prison sentence for the killing. Of all the people interested in the book, few had more reason to be interested than the lover, William Fontanille, who was convicted of manslaughter and is serving a 21-year sentence in a Louisiana prison. Because of information hinted at in the book, Mr. Fontanille's lawyer, Nick Noreia, asserts that his client deserves a new trial, and he has subpoenaed all the tapes of Mr. Bosco's interviews with Kerry Myers, the husband, who was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.

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On My Mind; Nafta Hits Intellectuals

Date: 16 November 1993

By A. M. Rosenthal

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No need to worry. Nafta will not cost the job of a single American factory or agricultural worker. No plant or farm will be put out of business. However, because of various complicated Nafta tax and anti-subsidy provisions, some other Americans will experience inconvenience.

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The Free Trade Accord: The Mood; Americans Split on Free Trade Pact, Survey Finds

Date: 16 November 1993

By Gwen Ifill

Gwen Ifill

Americans are evenly split over the North American Free Trade Agreement and are uncertain about whether it would create jobs or cost them, a stance that closely mirrors the predicament facing Congress as it prepares to vote on the pact this week, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The telephone poll, conducted Nov. 11-14 among 1,334 adults nationwide, showed 41 percent opposed and 37 percent in favor of the pact, which would gradually erase trade barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico. The difference fell within the poll's margin of sampling error, which was plus or minus three percentage points.

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AEGON BUYING MONY'S PENSION UNIT

Date: 16 November 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

To broaden its presence in the pension market, Aegon U.S.A., the American arm of Aegon N.V. of the Netherlands, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy the group pension operations of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York for an undisclosed sum. Aegon will acquire $6.3 billion in assets and liabilities from Mutual of New York, known as MONY. Aegon said it would assume responsibility for the operations and staff of the acquired pension business in Purchase, N.Y. The acquired pension business will operate under the name Diversified Investment Advisers.

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PERFUMANIA SAYS IT IS IN TALKS WITH REVLON ON A MERGER

Date: 17 November 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Perfumania Inc. said yesterday that it was in talks with the Revlon Group about a possible merger with one of Revlon's units. Analysts expect that privately held Revlon will sell its 128-store Prestige Fragrances and Cosmetics unit to Perfumania in exchange for an unspecified amount of Perfumania stock. Those stores would then be combined with Perfumania's 125-store perfume chain. The two companies declined to confirm specific details of the merger, saying the talks were in a preliminary stage. Shares of Perfumania jumped $1.125, to $7.25, in Nasdaq trading, where its 18 percent gain was among the best of the day.

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TRAVELERS SELLS 11 PROPERTIES FOR $256 MILLION

Date: 16 November 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Travelers Corporation said yesterday that it had sold 11 properties to two real estate companies controlled by the Chicago investor Sam Zell for $256 million. Zell-Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity Partners L.P. 2 acquired 10 of the properties. They include office buildings mainly in the South and Southwest. Another Zell company, Equity Residential Property Trust, acquired an apartment complex in Texas. With these transactions, Travelers has now sold real estate and nonperforming mortgage loans with a book value of more than $1.4 billion so far this year.

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