Liberties; Le Tout Swivet
Date: 01 July 1998
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column on US News & World Report owner Mort Zuckerman's dismissal of editor James Fallows (M)
1 juli 1998 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♋. Het was de 181e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 27 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op dinsdag 1 juli 2025, 349 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op woensdag 1 juli 2026, in 15 dagen. Je hebt 10.211 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 245.064 uur, of ongeveer 14.703.847 minuten, of ongeveer 882.230.820 seconden.
Date: 01 July 1998
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column on US News & World Report owner Mort Zuckerman's dismissal of editor James Fallows (M)
Date: 01 July 1998
By Dirk Johnson
Dirk Johnson
Special prosecutor issues subpoenas to some Cincinnati Enquirer employees in wake of apology by newspaper for illegally obtaining voice mail messages used in expose of Chiquita Brands International Inc; Enquirer publisher Harry M Whipple declines to identify who has received subpoenas or how many were issued; Enquirer, which has also agreed to pay at least $10 million to Chiquita, had accused company of bribery scheme in Colombia and imperiling public health in Central America with pesticides on its banana crops (M)
Date: 02 July 1998
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Elisabeth Rosenthal
Focus, Chinese television news magazine on which Pres Clinton gives interview, is wildly popular in China, drawing audience of over 300 million people; its hard-hitting probes and interviews show how far Chinese media has come since days when they provided little more than Communist Party dogma; sophisticated, state-owned show offers great drama and confronts wide range of sensitive topics, but is also in many respects a newfangled propaganda instrument (M)
Date: 02 July 1998
By Victor Mather
Victor Mather
Fans of the biggest American sports have certainly benefited from explosion of information provided by the World Wide Web, but it has probably made the greatest difference to enthusiasts of lesser-known sports that receive limited or no regular media coverage; several Web sites noted (M)
Date: 02 July 1998
By Tunku Varadarajan
Tunku Varadarajan
Times of London bureau chief Tunku Varadarajan Op-Ed article deplores overreaction by British fans and tabloids to foul by player David Beckham that cost Britian World Cup soccer game against Argentina (M)
Date: 01 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sunbeam Corp hires Deloitte & Touche LLP accounting firm to determine whether it must restate 1997 earnings; also weighs restating 1998 first quarter earnings (S)
Date: 01 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Carpenter Technology Corp sells John J McMullen Associates Inc, owned by its recently acquired Talley Industries, in leveraged buyout; agrees to sell Talley's Waterbury Cos to Waterbury's management team (S)
Date: 01 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Liberty Mutual Group to buy Summit Holding Southeast Inc for $222.4 million, including assumption of $14.3 million of debt (S)
Date: 02 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pulte Corporation, nation's biggest home builder, acquires closely held Florida builder DiVosta & Company; terms not disclosed (S)
Date: 02 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Eastman Kodak Co, in cost-cutting move, sells chain of 450 photography stores it bought 20 months ago to Wolf Camera Inc for undisclosed sum; move keeps business out of hands of archrival, Fuji Photo Film Co (S)