Vietnamese Paper Angers Its Competitors
Date: 13 September 1999
By Christian Berthelsen
Christian Berthelsen
Vietnamese-language publishers in Silicon Valley are angry with The San Jose Mercury News for creating free Vietnamese-language weekly, which publishers say unfairly undermines their businesses; there are more than dozen Vietnamese newspapers in San Jose, Calif, and surrounding Santa Clara County, region with large Vietnamese population; these publications say they dread idea of competing for advertising revenues with newspaper owned by media giant Knight Ridder; photo (M)
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FOOTLIGHTS
Date: 14 September 1999
By Kathryn Shattuck
Kathryn Shattuck
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to open its 31st season on Sept 15 at Alice Tully Hall; artistic director David Shifrin to be clarinet soloist in three Mozart works; photo; photography exhibition Eyewitness 1999 opens on Sept 14 on North Bridge of World Financial Center; will present 200 prize-winning entries from World Press Photo Foundation competition; budding jazz musicians can bring their own instruments and jam with trumpeter Chuck Mangione at Children's Museum on Sept 18; photo; National Academy of Design in Manhattan to present exhibition Prague Architecture Through the Centuries (M)
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Media Talk; A Cartoonist's Drawing That Drew Questions
Date: 13 September 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Reporters at The Indianapolis Star question involvement of Star's cartoonist, Gary Varvel, in political fund-raising event, for which Varvel had illustrated the invitation; Star's publisher, Dale Duncan, says it was inappropriate and Varvel himself saye he made 'stupid mistake'; cartoon (M)
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Otto A. Silha, 80, a Publisher Of a Minnesota Newspaper
Date: 14 September 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Otto A Silha, onetime copy editor and newspaper marketer who became president and publisher of The Minneapolis Star and Tribune in 1970's and after retiring in 1984 underwrote a program in media ethics at University of Minnesota, dies at age 80; photo (M)
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SOLECTRON TO BUY SMART MODULAR FOR $2 BILLION
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Solectron Corp to acquire memory chip maker Smart Modular Technologies Inc for $2 billion in stock (S)
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TYCO TAKES STAKE IN COMPANY BUILDING UNDERSEA CABLE
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tyco International Ltd joins Providence Equity Partners, DLJ Merchant Banking II Inc and GS Capital Partners III LP to take $345 million stake in Worldwide Fiber Inc (S)
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SYNAPTIC'S SHARES FALL AFTER DRUG PROGRAM IS SET BACK
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corp fall 34 percent after its development partner, Merck & Co, ends efforts to develop experimental Synaptic drug intended to treat common enlarged prostate condition (S)
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Top Executive Joins Univision
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Steve Solomon, National Hockey League's executive vice president and chief operating officer, resigns to join Univision Communications as president of Spanish-language television network's sports division (S)
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Kafelnikov And Agassi Qualify
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Andre Agassi and Yevgeny Kafelnikov are first two qualifiers for season-ending ATP Tour World Championship (S)
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Metro Business; CIT Buys Locomotives
Date: 14 September 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CIT Group Inc says that it will buy 90 locomotives from General Motors Corporation as it expands its leasing fleet to include new trains (S)
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