Tracking Whitewater Back to Arkansas
Date: 27 April 1998
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Newscaster David Shuster has risen from Little Rock to national television covering Whitewater probe of Pres Clinton; continues to revel in details of story; Susan H McDougal, in Little Rock to testify before Whitewater grand jury, seems to personify sense of deja vu that increasingly haunts independent counsel Kenneth W Starr's probe; photo (M)
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Editors' Note
Date: 28 April 1998
April 24 article describing change in news organizations' responses to subpoenas from Federal prosecutors demanding notes or tapes named Wall Street Journal as one organization that had provided material to prosecutors; description of Journal case was omitted from some editions
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Topics of The Times; Kiss, Kiss, Grovel, Grovel
Date: 28 April 1998
Topics of The Times editorial criticizes White House Correspondents Dinner, contending that it has evolved into 'tasteless exercise of fawning celebrity worship' (S)
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COMMERCIAL UNION PLANS TO ACQUIRE FARMERS UNION
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Commercial Union PLC says its US unit agrees to buy Farmers Union Insurance Acquisition Corp for about $118 million (S)
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EMPLOYER-SPONSORED CHILD CARE COMPANIES TO MERGE
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bright Horizons Inc and Corporateyamily Solutions Inc agree to merge in stock swap; new company will be formed called Bright Horizons Family Solutions (S)
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NPC TO SELL TONY ROMA'S UNIT AND REORGANIZE PIZZA HUTS
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
NPC International Inc will sell unit that operates Tony Roma's restaurants to Sentinel Capital Partners and unit's executives for $121.5 million, and will reorganize its Pizza Hut business; NPC will receive $118 million in cash and $3.5 million in stock for Romacorp Inc; company also plans to close 31 money-losing Pizza Hut restaurants, move 53 others to better sites and combine another 11 with current Pizza Huts (S)
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Japan Disciplines 112 Finance Officials
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga says 112 ministry officials will be punished for accepting excessive entertainment from banks, brokerage firms and insurers under their supervision; Atsushi Nagano, director general of ministry's securities bureau, and Takashi Sugii, deputy director general of banking bureau, have resigned over matter (S)
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Founder Is Resigning Over Troubles at Ascii
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ascii Corp, major Japanese computer-related publisher and software developer, says its founder-president Kazuhiko Nishi, will resign to take responsibility of poor earnings (S)
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Korean Jobless Rate Reaches 12-Year High
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
South Korean companies dismissed average of 5,000 workers a day last month, leaving record 1.38 million people out of work; jobless rate rose to 6.5 percent in March, a 12-year high, and may continue to climb as country slides toward first recession since 1980 (S)
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Campbell Drops Special Meals
Date: 28 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Campbell Soup Co drops its effort to market frozen foods to people with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes (S)
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