Metro Business Briefing; COMMUNITY NEWS ON THE WEB
Date: 24 October 2000
Two Manhattan community newspapers, Our Town and West Side Spirit, both owned by News Communications Inc, begin providing neighborhood news and cultural listings to EdificeRex.com, Web site that offers news and building services guides to residents of about 250 luxury apartment buildings in Manhattan (S)
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Bush and Gore Get 2 1/2-Minute PBS Forums
Date: 24 October 2000
PBS is offering major presidential candidates two-and-a-half minutes to address public on topics of their choosing after The Newshour With Jim Lehrer, beginning on October 25 and running through November 3 (S)
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ROCKWELL WILL ACQUIRE PARENT OF AEROSPACE COMPANY
Date: 25 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rockwell International's aviation unit agrees to buy K Systems, parent of Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics, for $300 million (S)
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USA NETWORKS WEIGHS REUNITING TICKETMASTER
Date: 24 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
USA Networks says it may seek to merge its Ticketmaster unit and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, affiliated Internet business that USA Networks brought public in 1998; USA Networks wholly owns Ticketmaster and still holds majority stake in Ticketmaster Online (S)
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EARNINGS AT INSURER LINCOLN NATIONAL BEAT FORECASTS
Date: 25 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lincoln National Corp says third-quarter earnings rose 48 percent; operating income rose to $190.7 million from $131.4 million (S)
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CONSTELLATION ENERGY PLANS TO FORM 2 COMPANIES
Date: 24 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Constellation Energy Group plans to split itself into wholesale power-generating business and retail-services company that will include Baltimore Gas and Electric Co utility; Goldman Sachs Group will invest $250 million in generation business and receive stake of as much as 17.5 percent; that business will keep Constellation name while retail buisiness will be called BGE Corp (S)
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WABASH NATIONAL AGREES TO ACQUIRE BREADNER GROUP
Date: 24 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wabash National Corp, maker of truck trailers, acquires Breadner Group, Canadian trailer and parts dealer (S)
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ESTEE LAUDER SAYS QUARTERLY SALES EXCEEDED FORECASTS
Date: 25 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Estee Lauder says profit from operations in fiscal first-quarter rose 15 percent, to $94.6 million; sales rose 7.7 percent, to $1.18 billion (S)
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TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE TO DISMISS 700, 16% OF WORK FORCE
Date: 25 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tenneco Automotive says it will eliminate as many as 700 jobs, or 16 percent of its work force, as third-quarter earnings fall 67 percent; profit from operations dropped to $9 million from $27 million a year ago (S)
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LINCOLN ELECTRIC SAYS OFFER FOR CHARTER HAS LAPSED
Date: 24 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lincoln Electric Holdings says its $565 million offer for Charter PLC has lapsed and will not be extended (S)
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