U.S. News Bid
Date: 10 January 1984
AP
U.S. News & World Report Inc. announced it had hired the New York investment banking firm of Morgan Stanley & Company to evaluate its worth and advise it on its alternatives in light of a bid to buy the publishing house. The company, which is employee-owned and publishes the newsweekly magazine U.S. News & World Report, disclosed last month that it had received a purchase offer from an unidentified third party.
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URBANE GUEST FROM PEKING
Date: 10 January 1984
By Christopher S. Wren
Christopher Wren
With his smart business suits and scholarly horn- rimmed glasses, Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang, who arrived in Washington today for the start of talks Tuesday with President Reagan, hardly looks like the tough administrator of the world's most populous nation. His talent, first in the provinces and now at the center of power, has been to dare to try something different.
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COMPANY NEWS Retailers Seek Growth Ideas
Date: 11 January 1984
By Isadore Barmash
Isadore Barmash
With the year's sales outlook already robust, retailers at a national convention in New York yesterday pushed for new ideas that could provide still more strength.
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PROFILES OF MISSING CHILDREN SHOWN ON TV By The Associated Press
Date: 10 January 1984
In a project inspired by ''Adam,'' the television movie about the abduction and murder of a 6-year-old Florida boy, five NBC television stations last night began showing weekly profiles of missing children.
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ACCORD ASKED ON REPORTING OF U.S. MILITARY OPERATIONS
Date: 11 January 1984
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
In a display of unity prompted by restraints on coverage of the invasion of Grenada, 10 major news organizations asked the Reagan Administration yesterday to affirm as a matter of principle that reporters will be allowed to cover United States military operations.
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BOSTON PUBLISHER APPOINTED TO HEAD CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Date: 10 January 1984
By Jonathan Friendly
Jonathan Friendly
Rupert Murdoch completed his $100 million purchase of The Chicago Sun- Times yesterday. He immediately appointed Robert E. Page, the head of his Boston paper, as president and publisher of The Sun-Times, a tabloid that is the nation's 10th largest-selling daily.
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ROZIER GOES TO U.S.F.L.
Date: 10 January 1984
The Pittsburgh maulers, a new team in the two-year-old United States Football League, have reportedly given Mike Rozier $1 million in advance salary and have signed the Heisman Trophy winner from Nebraska to a three-year contract reportedly worth almost $1 million a year.
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Quake Kills 2 Indonesians
Date: 10 January 1984
UPI
Upi
A strong earthquake jolted eastern Indonesia on Sunday, killing 2 people, seriously injuring 23 others and damaging buildings, the national news agency reported today.
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