Brokaw in Moscow
Date: 17 March 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will travel to Moscow for another interview milestone, first American television interview with Yevgeny Primakov, Russia's current Prime Minister (S)
17 maart 1999 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♓. Het was de 75e 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 17 maart 2026, 97 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op woensdag 17 maart 2027, in 267 dagen. Je hebt 9.959 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 239.021 uur, of ongeveer 14.341.285 minuten, of ongeveer 860.477.100 seconden.
Date: 17 March 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will travel to Moscow for another interview milestone, first American television interview with Yevgeny Primakov, Russia's current Prime Minister (S)
Date: 17 March 1999
By Dan Barry
Dan Barry
New York City Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani blames partisan politics and an 'obsessive media concern' for results of New York Times poll released this week that showed sharp drop in his job-approval rating and widespread belief among city's black and Hispanic residents that police routinely use excessive force against them; suggests that numbers were skewed because of way news media and various black leaders have responded to fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo by police (M)
Date: 18 March 1999
By James Dao With Marjorie Connelly
James With
New York Times/CBS News polls shows that New York State voters hold strongly partisan opinions, but also nagging reservations, about Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani, indicating that Senate contest between them would be highly competitive; shows Mrs Clinton leading Giuliani in several categories; more voters view her favorably; 48 percent say they would vote for her if election were held today; 39 percent say they would vote for Giuliani; survey shows that 4 out of 10 voters think that Mrs Clinton would not be effective representative for New York in Senate because she has never lived in state; poll also shows that 6 out of 10 voters north of New York City suburbs are unable to give opinion of Giuliani; graph (M)
Date: 17 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lotus Pacific Inc to buy 81 percent of the cable modem maker Turbonet Communications for $80 million in restricted stock (S)
Date: 17 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lear Corp, world's largest maker of car seats and interiors, to buy the United Technologies Corp's auto-parts unit, UT Automotive, for $2.3 billion (S)
Date: 18 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Eli Lilly & Company fell 5.65 percent after securities analyst for SG Cowen & Company lowers his estimate for sales this year of Prozac, the drug maker's top seller; Prozac, which made up about 30 percent of Lilly's 1998 sales, is now facing more competition from Celexa, drug sold by Forest Laboratories Inc and Warner-Lambert Co (S)
Date: 18 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Plexus Corp to buy Seamed Corp, medical-instrument maker, for $67.4 million in stock; Seamed warns that its second-quarter earnings will fall short of analysts' estimates (S)
Date: 17 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Central Parking Corp, nation's largest operator of parking lots, to sell 74 lots in 18 cities to settle a Justice Department suit challenging its proposed $585 million purchase of Allright Holdings Inc (S)
Date: 18 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Insurance Auto Auctions Inc rise almost 12 percent after company rejects $152 million takeover bid from rival, Copart Inc (S)
Date: 17 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CSX Corp says it will split its Sea-Land Service Inc subsidiary into three units in move that may make it easier to sell (S)