For TV, a Story With Everything
Date: 19 November 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Florida election story is changing so rapidly that news readers and writers are being forced to make and remake their newscasts before viewers' eyes; viewership expands at MSNBC, CNN and Fox News Channel, which are happy that this story is free of the tabloid sensationalism that was attached to their other big stories in recent years; photo (M)
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Networks and Web Sites Keep Manual Tallies Off Screen
Date: 18 November 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Network news executives and Web site operators decide for time being to add only the new numbers from tabulation of overseas ballots--and not partial results from the continuing hand recounts--to their onscreen running tallies of the presidential vote in Florida; say this will provide the simplest and most accurate portrait of the vote totals; photo (M)
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Florida Sun Puts Ford in the Shade
Date: 19 November 2000
By Leslie Wayne
Leslie Wayne
Jacques A Nasser, Ford Motor president and chief executive, who has faced sharp press scrutiny over the Firestone tire debacle, manages a few jokes about it in an address to Columbia University's annual dinner for the business press (S)
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Spin the Battle: Fierce Contest To Woo Public
Date: 19 November 2000
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
Behind tedious struggle for legal advantage in presidential vote count in Florida is extraordinarily intense contest for public opinion; strategy of each camp is to portray other as trying to steal the election; news media are major battleground; aides to Vice Pres Al Gore are making major effort to convince network news anchors and editors of newsweeklies that outcome is still very much in doubt; Gore campaign's public-relations efforts underscore major objective of Democrats: to persuade public to be patient while several Florida counties conduct hand recounts; Bush campaign, by contast, seeks to make case that recounting ballots by hand is imprecise process, and that Democrats are engaged in political shenanigans to try to pick up votes in Democratic counties; photo (M)
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May the Best Man Lose
Date: 18 November 2000
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column says Americans are not upset over presidential vote count in Florida because they realize that neither Vice Pres Al Gore nor Gov George W Bush deserves to be president; says both will lose, no matter who is the nominal winner; says the one real civic crisis to emerge from Florida is the erroneous manipulation of the public by false and premature predictions on Election Night; cartoon (M)
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The Question of Liberty, And the Lure of America
Date: 19 November 2000
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
Young Vietnamese asked to comment on Pres Clinton's visit to their country express interest in America and civil liberties; Vietnamese newspapers focus on official face of Clinton's visit, not the rock-star reception he is receiving from people on the street (M)
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Front Lines in the Cocktail War
Date: 19 November 2000
New York State Exchange's annual holiday reception for the press will conflict with a coctail party being given by rival Nasdaq (S)
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Tale of Two Uprisings: This Time, the Palestinians Have Territory, and Guns
Date: 18 November 2000
By John Kifner
John Kifner
Palestinian uprising today and intifada of 1987 have certain similarities and differences; both erupted out of bitter, pent-up frustration, but anger today is directed at Palestinian Authority as well as Israel and Oslo agreement; biggest difference between the two insurrections is that Palestinians now have guns and control chunks of territory; another difference is the emergence of independent Arab satellite television stations that offer dramatic coverage of clashes and discussions from a variety of political viewpoints; photo (M)
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HEXAGON BUYS MEASURING INSTRUMENT BUSINESS
Date: 18 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hexagon AB buys measuring instrument business of Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co for at least $160 million as as much as $180 million (S)
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INVESTORS MAKE ANOTHER BID FOR GUEST SUPPLY
Date: 18 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Group of investors led by Barry W Florescue offers to guy Guest Supply Inc for about $139 million (S)
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