Gore Has First News Conference in Months, Then Another
Date: 22 April 2000
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Seelye
Vice Pres Al Gore holds two press conferences in day, after two months of keeping his distance from journalists who travel with him; Gore aides reportedly worried about tension building up with traveling media, and campaign officials pledge that news conferences will be held more regularly; Gov George W Bush holds news conferences with his traveling press corps nearly every day; photo (M)
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News Media Debtors Barred From Traveling With Clinton
Date: 22 April 2000
By Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey
White House travel office bars dozens of journalists, mostly from foreign media outlets, from traveling with Pres Clinton because of their outstanding debts from previous trips; travel office wants news organizations that are not in arrears to pay the nearly $74,000 in bad debt from delinquent news organizations; that plan was endorsed by White House Correspondents' Assn, but several media outlets, including The New York Times, are balking at paying bills of others; White House threatens to bar The Times from future travel if it does not pay $5,777.52, which White House says is its share of other organizations' bad debt; Joseph Lelyveld, Times's executive editor, calls threat 'crude and almost childish' (M)
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All Eyes Are on Fort Lee
Date: 23 April 2000
By Robert Strauss
Robert Strauss
New Jersey-based CNBC cable television network is becoming epicenter of world of financial news, turning anchor Mark Haines and reporter Joe Kernen household names; photo (M)
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Images Are Everything in Media War
Date: 23 April 2000
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Caryn James's Critic's Notebook column on media coverage of volatile raid by armed federal agents on Miami home of Cuban relatives of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez to seize him and return him to father; photo (M)
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Journal; America Finds Another JonBenet
Date: 22 April 2000
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column says Elian Gonzalez is not a proxy for anti-Castro freedom fighters, but a pawn in culture's increasingly pornographic exploitation of children; says it is easy to blame Elian's exploitation on media, or on his Miami relatives, but complicit in equation is large and willing American audience that is too compliant when children are used as props to sell it something, whether entertainment, prurience or agenda of a politician; drawing (M)
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Giuliani Ahead in Poll
Date: 23 April 2000
By Elsa Brenner
Elsa Brenner
Poll by Iona College Center for Social Research shows 48 percent of Westchester residents would vote for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for US Senate, while only 36 percent would select Hillary Rodham Clinton; lastest statewide New York Times/CBS News Poll shows Clinton with lead of 49 percent to 41 percent over Giuliani (S)3
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BRUNSWICK TECHNOLOGIES WEIGHS SAINT-GOBAIN OFFER
Date: 22 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Brunswick Technologies will consider $41.8 million offer from Compagnie de Saint-Gobain; Brunswick says it is urging shareholders not to take action until board's recommendation (S)
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INTERDENT HIRES LEHMAN BROTHERS TO HELP IN FINANCING
Date: 22 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
InterDent Inc hires Lehman Brothers to help it pursue various strategic options, including finding alternative financing; company has refinancing and buyout agreement with Leonard Green & Partners, but transaction can be terminated by either company if not completed by April 30 (S)
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FRUIT OF THE LOOM SHARES SUSPENDED FROM TRADING
Date: 22 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fruit of the Loom Inc, which has struggled to emerge from bankruptcy, had its Class A shares suspended from trading on April 20 by New York Stock Exchange; company says it will sell assets and its licensed sports apparel division to try to return to profitability (S)
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JOHNSON & JOHNSON SELLS CANADIAN CONDOM BUSINESS
Date: 22 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Johnson & Johnson sells its Canadian business that makes Shields condoms to Pacific Dunlop's Ansell Healthcare Products unit for undisclosed amount (S)
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