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Date: 01 March 1996
A Talk With the I.R.A.
El 29 de febrer de 1996 era un dijous sota el signe estrella de ♓. Era el 59 dia de l'any. El president dels Estats Units era William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vas néixer aquest dia, tens 30 anys. El teu darrer aniversari va ser el dissabte, 28 de febrer de 2026, fa 107 dies. El teu proper aniversari és el diumenge, 28 de febrer de 2027, d'aquí a 257 dies. Heu viscut durant 11.064 dies, o unes 265.542 hores, o uns 15.932.554 minuts, o uns 955.953.240 segons.
Date: 29 February 1996
MICHAEL JORDAN and CHARLES BARKLEY were fined $10,000 each by the National Basketball Association for failing to show up for a media availability day on the Friday before the N.B.A. All-Star Game in San Antonio. Jordan and Barkley were reportedly playing golf at the time, either in Las Vegas or Phoenix. Jordan received a similar fine in 1993 for missing the obligatory session. (AP)
Date: 29 February 1996
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
I'm not taking the fall. Sure, I know what you're thinking. He's an Irish Catholic and a journalist. I'm an Irish Catholic and a journalist. Two peas in a pod. Chips off the old sod.
Date: 29 February 1996
To the Editor: Re Howell Raines's "Fallows Fallacy" (Editorial Notebook, Feb. 25):
Date: 01 March 1996
By Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
IN "Up Close and Personal," Michelle Pfeiffer morphs gorgeously from tacky would-be television-news talent at a local Miami station to sleek, glamorous network swan. Her transformation is overseen by Robert Redford, who might as well be saying "Here's looking at you, kid," with every appreciative gaze. These two stars, well matched and vastly charming, also happen to be playing actual grown-ups, with knowing dialogue supplied by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Ms. Pfeiffer, when the inevitable love affair is consummated: "Why didn't we do this before?"
Date: 29 February 1996
Hanson P.L.C., the British-American industrial conglomerate, said yesterday that it would sell forests and sawmills in the American South to the Weyerhaeuser Company for $500 million. Hanson said its Cavenham Forest Industries subsidiary would sell 661,200 acres of timberland in Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as four sawmills, to Weyerhaeuser, which is based in Tacoma, Wash. This is the first announced disposal since Hanson said in December that it would sell all of Cavenham's timber and sawmill operations in the United States. (AP)
Date: 29 February 1996
The Anheuser-Busch Companies announced the terms yesterday of the planned spinoff of its baking business. The company expects to distribute to stockholders one share in the business, Campbell Taggart Inc., for every 25 Anheuser-Busch shares held, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The new concern, to be renamed the Earthgrains Company, will distribute a total of 10.2 million common shares, based on the 254 million Anheuser-Busch shares outstanding as of Jan. 31. Based on the closing price Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange, the spinoff is valued at $684.7 million. Anheuser-Busch also agreed to sell its Cape Cod Potato Chips business, as well as the plant in Hyannis, Mass., where the chips are made, back to the founder, Steve Bernard. Terms were not disclosed. (Dow Jones)
Date: 29 February 1996
The British Petroleum Company and the Mobil Corporation plan to combine their European refining, gasoline-station and lubricants operations in a $5 billion deal, according to articles today in The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Under an agreement expected to be announced today, B.P. would control the refining and marketing businesses, while Mobil would handle the lubricants operation, the newspapers said. B.P. would have a 70 percent interest in the venture, which would have combined annual sales of $20 billion. The companies are expected to take charges totaling $400 million to start the venture. Company officials declined to comment last night. Separately, Mobil agreed yesterday to sell its Tucker Housewares subsidiary, which makes plastic containers and other products, to the Zeta Consumer Products Corporation for an undisclosed price. (Reuters)