Dow Jones and Reuters Create Net Service for Professionals
Date: 18 May 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Dow Jones & Co and Reuters Group PLC, rivals in business of business information, are combining forces to create Internet-based service providing corporate news and information for professionals; new company will be called Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC (M)
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Columbia Giving Awards to Reporter and Novelist
Date: 18 May 1999
Charlie LeDuff, reporter for The New York Times, and Joan Didion, novelist and contributor to The New Yorker magazine and The New York Review of Books, are scheduled to receive awards from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism; LeDuff will receive Meyer Berger Award for distinguished reporting about New York and Didion will receive Columbia Journalism Award (S)
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O'SULLIVAN INDUSTRIES ACCEPTS A BUYOUT BY MANAGEMENT
Date: 19 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
O'Sullivan Industries Holdings Inc accepts $350 million buyout offer from senior managers and Bruckman, Rosser, Sherrill & Co (S)
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WASTE MANAGEMENT TO BUY ALLIED'S CANADIAN ASSETS
Date: 18 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Waste Management Inc to buy Canadian solid-waste operations of Browning-Ferris Industries Inc for $501 million in cash from Allied Waste Industries, which is buying Browning-Ferris (S)
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PRIZE ENERGY TO ACQUIRE PIONEER OIL AND GAS FIELDS
Date: 18 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pioneer Natural Resources Co to sell oil and natural gas fields in Texas and Oklahoma to Prize Energy Corp for $245 million in cash and preferred stock to reduce its debt (S)
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SUN INTERNATIONAL TO BUY DESERT INN FROM STARWOOD
Date: 19 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sun International Hotels Ltd acquires Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc's Desert Inn for $275 million in cash (S)
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EBAY TO BUY ON-LINE BILL PROCESSOR AND A CAR AUCTIONEER
Date: 19 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ebay Inc acquires Kruse International, auctioneers of collectible cars, and Billpoint Inc, provider of on-line payment services, for combined $275 million in stock (S)
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BANK ONE TO REPURCHASE UP TO $4 BILLION OF ITS SHARES
Date: 19 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bank One Corp says it will repurchase as much as 5.5 percent of its outstanding stock, worth about $4 billion at its current price (S)
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CHARTER ONE TO BUY ST. PAUL BANCORP FOR $1.2 BILLION
Date: 18 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Charter One Financial Inc acquires St Paul Bancorp for $1.2 billion in stock (S)
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Deal Involves Trade Shows
Date: 19 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Penton Media Inc acquires New Hope Communications Inc for $82 million, including $41 million in cash and about 2.1 million shares (S)
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