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Date: 25 August 1996
By Ward Just
Ward Just
Ward Just recalls his unsuccessful effort to develop then Chicago Mayor Richard J Daley as news source when he was reporter in 1959 in light of efforts of Daley's son Richie, now Chicago mayor, to cultivate press (M)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gary Mullin, chief financial officer of Borland International Inc, says he will leave troubled software company in mid-September after 10 months on job (S)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Amtran Inc says that its American Trans Air unit will discontinue some scheduled flights and trim its fleet size in effort to cut costs and concentrate on its charter service (S)È
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Iomega Corp says that it will begin charging customers $15 to $20 for assistance over the phone, in response to flood of calls from customers seeking help installing and servicing its disk drives; says it will bill customers per incident, meaning that repeated calls about same problem would be billed as one call (S)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Venezuela's Antimonopoly Commission says that it will study motion submitted by Pepsico Inc that a proposed joint venture between its former bottler--the Cisneros Group--and Coca-Cola Co would create soft drink monopoly, in violation of Venezuelan law (S)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc files with SEC to sell five million shares of new common stock, valued at more than $110 million, just one day after winning legal round as Federal jury rejects seven claims of securities fraud in class-action shareholder suit pending since 1987 (M)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Futures Markets column; cotton prices surge on New York Cotton Exchange over concern that Hurricane Dolly may bring unwanted rain to southern Texas and Arizona, possibly hurting crops (M)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Abercrombie & Fitch Company, which is a unit of Limited Inc, files to sell seven million shares for $14 to $16 each in initial public offering that could raise as much as $112 million (S)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bankers Trust New York Corp discloses in SEC filing that it gave its former chief exec, Charles Sanford, $2 million payment after he retired in April; in exchange, Sanford agreed not to criticize his former employer (S)
Date: 24 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Currency Markets column; dollar retreats, day after rallying strongly against German mark; tables (M)