10 december 1994 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 343e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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Date: 11 December 1994
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Is it lights out for the zipper? The zipper is the moving illuminated bulletin board that began carrying headlines around the triangular building at 42d Street and Broadway on Nov. 6, 1928.
Date: 11 December 1994
By Marjorie Kaufman
Marjorie Kaufman
ANDY WARHOL was wrong," Neal Gabler said. "He was right when he said everyone will be famous, but wrong about the 15 minutes. What we are going to see are more and more people getting famous for shorter and shorter amounts of time." As more people compete for fame and are anointed by the news media, the time will be more like one minute, he said, adding that today's society is a "celebrity society," in which gossip and fame equal power. "If people can't be famous, they want to read about it, watch it, listen to it, entrench their lives in it," he said. "It's a society obsessed and preoccupied with the O. J. Simpsons, the Woody Allens and the Mia Farrows."
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intelligent Electronics Inc. said today that the Securities and Exchange Commission had begun "a preliminary, informal inquiry" of the company. It did not disclose the topic of the inquiry. "I cannot clarify it at this time, pending review by our attorneys," said Evelyn Walker, vice president of investor relations.
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
USA Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. and Premiere Page Inc. yesterday rejected a three-way takeover offer from Metrocall Inc., saying the price was inadequate. Metrocall, based in Alexandria, Va., said on Wednesday that it had offered to buy USA Mobile and Premiere Page for $384.3 million in stock and assumed debt, provided the two companies ended a planned merger. A merger of USA Mobile and Premiere had been seen scheduled to be voted on yesterday by shareholders at each company, but the votes were postponed until next week.
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Panamsat L.P. suspended its initial public offering yesterday, one week after a rocket carrying one of its satellites into orbit crashed. Last week an European Ariane rocket, carrying a Panamsat telecommunications satellite that was to cover North America and South America, crashed into the southern Atlantic Ocean. Panamsat, an international provider of satellite communications, said it was fully insured. The company said it canceled the offering planned for next week because of "recent market conditions." It had hoped to raise about $275 million to finance the construction and launching of two satellites. Panamsat, 50 percent owned by the Mexican media company Grupo Televisa S.A., said it would try to find money some other way.
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The United Technologies Corporation's 1994 earnings may exceed analysts' expectations, the company's president and chief executive, George David, said yesterday in London. Mr. David also said he expected that the company "will achieve or be a little above" Wall Street expectations for 1994 earnings. Mr. David said the company, which owns Sikorsky helicopters, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines and Otis elevators, is also likely to match or better earnings per share estimates for 1995. Mr. David spoke before the Pentagon announced a round of Defense Department spending cuts, and the company's stock declined $1.25, to $58.125, on the New York Stock Exchange.
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Petrie Stores Corporation said yesterday that it had completed the sale of its retail operations to an investor group led by E. M. Warburg & Company and Pincus & Company for about $180 million in cash. The new owner, Petrie Retail Inc., said it had appointed Verna Gibson chairman. Ms. Gibson was earlier president of Limited Stores Inc. Before the sale of its retail operations, Petrie Stores, based in Secaucus, N.J., was one of the largest women's specialty retailers.
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The General Motors Corporation cut its estimate of fourth-quarter North American vehicle production yesterday by another 1.6 percent because of chronic new-model delays and parts shortages for its unexpectedly popular trucks. The latest cut, after an earlier 3.4 percent reduction in output plans since September, could shave $40 million more from G.M.'s fourth-quarter profit, the Lehman Brothers analyst Joseph Phillippi said. The earlier reductions slashed $130 million from estimated earnings. Yesterday's cut comes as demand for new vehicles, especially sport-utility trucks, remains robust despite rising interest rates. G.M.'s stock slipped 37.5 cents, to $37.25, in New York Stock Exchange trading of almost 3.2 million shares.
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Thermo Electron Corporation dropped its $24.50-a-share cash tender offer yesterday for the Puritan-Bennett Corporation, citing the respirator maker's "poison pill" takeover defense. The poison pill provision, which results in the issuance of more shares and makes a takeover prohibitively expensive, would have gone into effect if Thermo bought more than 20 percent of Puritan-Bennett's shares. Puritan-Bennett's board has refused to remove the provision or negotiate, saying the company is worth more than Thermo offered. As of midnight on Thursday, 8.4 million, or 72 percent, of Puritan-Bennett shares had been tendered to Thermo Electron. Puritan-Bennett's stock was unchanged yesterday at $18.75 and Thermo was down 87.5 cents at $41.50.
Date: 10 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
WLR Foods Inc. said today that it had won a final court judgment upholding the takeover defenses that it used to help fend off Tyson Foods Inc. earlier this year. In the ruling this week, United States District Judge James H. Michael Jr. declined to strike down various Virginia laws and rejected Tyson's claims against WLR and its directors, WLR said.