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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)
Date: 17 May 1999
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Elisabeth Rosenthal
Public anger percolates in Beijing over NATO bombing of Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, even though both Chinese and American officials show signs that height of crisis has passed; US Amb James Sasser says relationship between both countries is not permanently damaged and can be repaired over time; comments by Chinese officials and in Chinese media noted; photo (M)
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)
Date: 17 May 1999
Editorial says few nations that have made transition to democracy have emerged with as solid a politicial system as South Africa has; praises Nelson Mandela's five-year presidency, expresses some concerns about likely successor Thabo Mbeki, and hopes Mbeki will overcome oversensitivity to criticism
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)
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)
Date: 18 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Charter One Financial Inc acquires St Paul Bancorp for $1.2 billion in stock (S)
Date: 18 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gateway 2000, direct seller of personal computers, is to open Gateway Country store in midtown Manhattan next week (S)
Date: 18 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hillsdown Holdings PLC chief executive Michael Teacher says he would support acquisition offer from Candover Investments PLC, breaking with other directors who back agreement to sell company for 750 million pounds ($1.2 billion) to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc (S)
Date: 18 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wal-Mart Stores Inc agrees to settle lawsuit that produced $624 million jury award over breakup of grocery distribution partnership with Valores Corp, Mexico's second-largest grocery wholesaler; jury finds Wal-Mart and its McLane Co unit acted with malice when they broke 25-year agreement with Valores (S)