On Language; The Non-Crash
Date: 23 November 1997
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire On Language column reviews words chosen by various newspapers to describe steep decline in stock market without encouraging a panic (M)
22 november 1997 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♏. Het was de 325e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 28 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 22 november 2025, 205 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 22 november 2026, in 159 dagen. Je hebt 10.432 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 250.384 uur, of ongeveer 15.023.070 minuten, of ongeveer 901.384.200 seconden.
Date: 23 November 1997
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire On Language column reviews words chosen by various newspapers to describe steep decline in stock market without encouraging a panic (M)
Date: 22 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corporate Express Inc acquires 17 companies to expand internationally; says it expects fiscal third-quarter earnings of 19 cents to 21 cents a share (S)
Date: 22 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dresser Industries and Ingersoll-Rand Co to cut about 7 percent of staff, or 900 jobs, at their two pump and natural gas compressor joint ventures; move is part of plan to increase profits (S)
Date: 22 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
St Joe Corp says it is no longer seeking to acquire 46 percent of Florida East Coast Industries that it does not already own; news follows decline in share price of both companies (S)
Date: 22 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Copper prices fall on Comex division of New York Mercantile Exchange on concerns that Asia's financial crisis will sharply depress demand (S)
Date: 22 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Barney's Inc, operating under Chapter 11, reports loss of $95 million for year ended August 2, compared with loss of $71.9 million in 1996 fiscal year (S)
Date: 22 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Louis V Gerstner Jr agrees to a five-year extension of his contract as chief executive of International Business Machines Corp; says he has still not completed his turnaround work at company; he will receive compensation package that includes two million stock options (M)
Date: 22 November 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-6 Russia Presses U.N. To Ease Sanctions on Iraq Russia asked the governing board of the United Nations commission in charge of disarming Iraq to declare Baghdad free of nuclear weapons and near compliance on prohibited missiles, as a first step to easing sanctions. A1
Date: 23 November 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-16 Pacific Rim Leaders Meet In a Humbler Mood Pacific Rim nations gathering in Canada do not have the swagger they showed at past meetings. Instead, President Clinton and most of his counterparts will be limping, wounded by global economic forces beyond their control and, in Mr. Clinton's case, undercut by domestic political defeats. On Friday, the financial turmoil that has been coursing through Asia claimed South Korea, the world's 11th-biggest economy. 1
Date: 22 November 1997
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
Mickey Mantle memorabilia auction will proceed at Leland's auction house on Nov 22 without most of personal items his estate sued to remove from the sale; Federal lawsuit had charged that Greer Johnson, former agent for Mantle, had stolen items from Georgia condominium Mantle had bought and deeded to her (S)