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Date: 16 March 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Mike Barnicle, columnist who resigned from The Boston Globe last summer amid charges of plagiarism and slipshod reporting, will begin writing column for opinion pages of The Daily News's Sunday paper at end of March (M)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Terry Pristin
Terry Pristin
Management and labor sources say that arbitration ruling last week awarded sizeable wage increase to truck drivers at The Daily News and could also apply to other union workers, causing concern about tabloid's finances; arbitrator J J Pierson determined that members of Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union should receive 16.9 percent wage increase over three-year period (S)
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: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Treasury bond prices rise for second day, pushing yields to lowest in almost three weeks; price of 30-year Treasury bond falls 2/32, to 96 1/32; graphs (M)
Date: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ciena Corp, maker of equipment that increases capacity of phone networks, agrees to buy Lightera Networks Inc, maker of equipment that directs traffic on networks, and Omnia Communications Inc, whose products make it easier to carry both voice and data calls; Ciena will issue 20.6 million shares, valued at $552 million, for Lightera and 16 million shares, worth $429 million, for Omnia (S)
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: 16 March 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Haskel International Inc agrees to be bought by Tinicum Capital Partners LP for $12.90 a share in cash, total of $72.8 million (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: 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)