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Date: 11 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners agrees to buy coal-transfer terminals in Newport News, Va, and Charleston, SC, from AEI Resources Inc for $35 million in cash (S)
Date: 12 December 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Three big television broadcast networks faced with daylong debate on proposed article of impeachment against Pres Clinton, respond with collective shrug; while three all-news cable networks, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, along with C-Span and some PBS stations, carry comprehensive coverage of full debate over articles of impeachment proposed by House Judiciary Committee, ABC, NBC and CBS limit their coverage to actual votes on articles (M)
Date: 12 December 1998
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column on yearlong disconnect between the public and media gasbags who demand Americans pay attention to impeachment show put on in Washington by Repr Henry Hyde and his nattering crew of elves; says gap represents deeper rebellion, in which public is turning against not only moral homilies but media's sermonizing cultural potentates; points to Oprah Winfrey's film Beloved, which flopped despite heavy promotions by Winfrey and assorted publications (M)
Date: 12 December 1998
By Bill Perkins
Bill Perkins
Op-Ed page article by Bill Perkins, editorial page editor of The Dothan Eagle, recounts how his Alabama paper's editorial board long ago concluded that Pres Clinton ought to leave office (S)
Date: 11 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Florafax International Inc will merge with Gerald Stevens Inc; Florafax plans to issue about 26 million shares, valued at $250 million, to Gerald Stevens's owners, who would then control three-quarters of combined company (S)
Date: 12 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Prologis Trust agrees to buy French developer Garonor SA for $317 million (S)
Date: 12 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Revlon Inc., the biggest maker of mass-market cosmetics in the United States, said yesterday that it had sold its 85 percent stake in the retailer Cosmetic Center Inc. to a partnership controlled by York Management Services Inc. in return for a limited interest in the new company, Prestige Holdings I.L.P. Revlon, which is based in New York and controlled by the financier Ronald O. Perelman, will take a fourth-quarter charge of about $33 million related to the sale. Cosmetic Center, based in Colombia, Md., had 60 mall-based stores and 193 outlet stores as of Sept. 26.
Date: 11 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Illinova Corp is in talks with Peco Energy Co and Entergy Corp to sell its Clinton, Ill, nuclear power plant as part of its plan to concentrate on delivering electricity (S)
Date: 12 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stock of Telxon Corp, maker of bar-code transmitters, plunges 45 percent after company says it experienced second-quarter loss instead of profit and warns of third-quarter deficit (S)
Date: 11 December 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CBT Group PLC acquires Knowledge Well for $52 million in stock (S)