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Date: 08 May 2000
By Mike Wise
Mike Wise
Tim Hardaway takes shot at national news media after Miami Heat's Game 1 playoff victory, wondering aloud why Miami is always viewed as underdog against New York Knickerbockers, irrespective of records and seedings (S)
Date: 08 May 2000
By Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer article on NBC/Wall Street Journal poll and Gallup Poll for CNN and USA Today showing that Gov George W Bush leads Vice Pres Al Gore by 5 percentage points despite robust economy; notes that the last time president's party lost White House in good times was in 1920; says economy has stayed strong for so long that most people are not worrying about it; says public is giving Pres Clinton and Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, credit for way things are, instead of Gore, whose weakness as candidate compounds problem (M)
Date: 08 May 2000
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column on recent Gridiron dinner and White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington at which members of political establishment, notably Pres Clinton and Vice Pres Gore, were roasted (M)
Date: 09 May 2000
By Sam Dillon and Julia Preston
Sam Dillon
Mexicans are optimistic over unprecedented openness of vote in upcoming presidential election, in which opposition candidate Vicente Fox Quesada has credible chance of victory, but fear governing Institutional Revolutionary Party may be quietly sabotaging country's costly, decade-long effort to level electoral playing field since old habits die hard; many incidents have raised concerns; clean-vote television campaign, aimed at persuading voters to resist coercive polling tactics that have helped governing party win every election since 1920's, has been blocked by pro-government media executives; foreign election observers, who will travel to Mexico to monitor voting, are facing delays in obtaining visas and lawmakers monitoring campaign finance have been stymied; electon laws still have loopholes; are vague in regulating efforts by political parties to pressure voters before election day; photo (M)
Date: 08 May 2000
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Elisabeth Rosenthal
China's leaders are trying to rein in growing and increasingly assertive liberal intellectual movement, criticizing prominent academics and authors in speeches, forbidding newspapers to run their articles and punishing or shutting down publishers who bring out their work; view liberal intellectuals as threat to their political power; Pres Jiang Zemin, for all his Western-leaning economics, has is constantly reiterating importance of standing fast by Communist ideology, overrun by dot-com startups; academics say that since economic reforms have spawned greater pluralism in ideas and means to express them, it is impossible to mount concerted old-style Communist Party campaign; photo (M)
Date: 09 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Williams PLC sells its North American paint companies and its Masterchem Industries unit for $453 million; Williams is selling Frazee Industries, Kwai-Howells, Parker Paint and General Paint of Canada through leveraged buyout with Jordan Co; will sell Masterchem to Masco Corp (S)
Date: 09 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vermont Pure Holdings agrees to buy Crystal Rock Spring Water Co for about $63 million in cash, stock and notes (S)
Date: 09 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AGL Resources acquires Virginia Natural Gas unit of Dominion Resources for more than $500 million in cash (S)
Date: 09 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Citigroup Inc to buy Taiwan-based Fubon financial group for about 23 billion new Taiwan dollars ($750 million) (S)
Date: 09 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Britain's Imperial Tobacco Group PLC says first-half profit rose 15 percent; profit rose more than expected to 151 million pounds ($231 million) in six months ended March 25, from 131 million pounds a year earlier (S)