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29th of October 1992 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 29 oktober 1992
Fox Paid Diller Big Severance
Date: 30 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Barry Diller, former chief executive of Fox Inc., received about $34 million when he left the company earlier this year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document. Mr. Diller, who is worth about $100 million, received the $34 million "in satisfaction of his multiyear employment agreement with Fox Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.," according to a prospectus the News Corporation Ltd., the Australian parent of Fox, has filed with the S.E.C.
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Guilty Plea in Fraud of Delivery Company
Date: 30 October 1992
In a plea bargain, a man described by prosecutors as a major organized-crime figure admitted yesterday to running a scheme that extracted $1 million in unearned wages from a newspaper delivery company in the New York metropolitan area. The defendant, James Carmine Galante, was sentenced in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to 4 to 12 years in prison. The 56-year-old Mr. Galante had been indicted in July on charges that he was the head of a Bonanno crime family unit that placed nonexistent employees on the payroll of the Metropolitan News Company and collected their wages from 1986 to 1991.
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Editors' Note
Date: 30 October 1992
An article yesterday about Spike Lee, the director, described his relations with magazines, newspapers and television stations seeking to interview him about his coming film, "Malcolm X." The article reported that Mr. Lee said he preferred to be interviewed by black journalists.
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Times and Union in Accord on New Plant
Date: 30 October 1992
An agreement has been reached between The New York Times and the New York Stereotypers Union No. 1 in connection with the opening of the newspaper's $450 million printing plant in Edison, N.J., late last month, a spokeswoman for The Times, Nancy Nielsen, announced yesterday. The agreement, which also covers operations at the headquarters of the paper in Manhattan, faces a ratification vote by the union members. Stereotypers make the page plates for the presses.
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D'Amato Presses Appealto Black Voters
Date: 29 October 1992
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato has crafted an appeal to blacks, which, even if it does not win him many new votes, is intended to keep Robert Abrams off balance among black voters, one of his core constituencies. In today's issue, Mr. D'Amato won the endorsement of New York's largest black-owned newspaper, The Amsterdam News. He also announced he would meet this morning on the steps at City Hall with black ministers who support him -- one hour before his Democratic rival, Mr. Abrams, had said he would go there and receive the blessing of Mayor David N. Dinkins and other prominent black elected officials and city leaders.
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Year of the Factoid
Date: 29 October 1992
By Daniel H. Pink
Daniel Pink
Call it the Year of the Facts.
In 1992, the news media have gone to great lengths to to shine the harsh light of truth on political campaigns. Ads are scrutinized frame by frame. Minutes after a debate ends, pundits tell us not only who won and lost but also who had their facts straight.
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Spike Lee's Request: Black Interviewers Only
Date: 29 October 1992
By Bernard Weinraub
Bernard Weinraub
Four weeks before the opening of his widely anticipated film "Malcolm X," Spike Lee, the director, has laid down a challenge to newspapers, magazines and television stations around the country. He has told them that he prefers black journalists to interview him. The request has touched off a storm.
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Concurrent Computer's Net
Date: 30 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Concurrent Computer Corporation, which makes machines for "real time" processing of complex data, said it had fiscal first-quarter earnings of $1 million, or 11 cents a share, in contrast to a loss of $4.1 million in the year-earlier period. The company's stock soared on the news, up $2.50, to close at $4.50 in over-the-counter trading today.
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American Tobacco Chief
Date: 29 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American Brands Inc. today named Donald S. Johnston chief executive of the American Tobacco Company, its $1.7 billion subsidiary. Mr. Johnston replaces Charles H. Mullen, 65, who retires Saturday. Mr. Johnston, 54 years old, will retain the posts of president and chief operating officer.
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Chief at Nationsbank Is To Succeed Chairman
Date: 29 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Nationsbank Corporation's chairman, Bennett A. Brown, will retire at year-end and be succeeded by the chief executive, Hugh L. McColl Jr., the bank said today. "We knew it would happen eventually," said Peter W. Tuz, an analyst at Morgan Keegan. "The entire world expected it."
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