In Spanish, It's Another Story
Date: 15 December 1996
By Larry Rohter
Larry Rohter
Spanish-language television newscasts of Univision and Telemundo, Miami-based networks, track and explain developments in US and Latin America to potential audience of 25 million Hispanics in US; photo; they have become prism through which Latin Americans throughout hemisphere view their own countries, and offer US viewers less American-centered view of world (S)
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C-Span's Guardian of Beige
Date: 15 December 1996
Interview with Prof John Splaine, consultant for C-Span, who monitors politically neutral public-affairs cable channel for any hints of visual or verbal tilt; photo (M)
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MCGRAW-HILL TO CUT 340 JOBS IN HIGHER EDUCATION UNIT
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
McGraw-Hill Companies will cut 340 jobs at its higher education publishing unit in wake of purchase of a Times Mirror Company unit in October (S)
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WMX ORDERED TO PAY $91.5 MILLION IN LANDFILL DISPUTE
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal court orders WMX Technologies to pay $91.5 million to former owners of landfill in Emelle, Ala (S)
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NIPPON SANSO TO CLOSE U.S. THERMOS UNIT AND CUT JOBS
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nippon Sanso Corp will close its Thermos Co unit in US and a subsidiary in Netherlands to consolidate its household products division; will dismiss 400 workers at Thermos plant in Freeport, Ill (S)
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POOR EUROPEAN SALES BRING DROP IN ORACLE SHARES
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Oracle Corp posts disappointing second-quarter sales in Europe, and its shares fall in consequence (S)
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MARATHON TO SELL ALASKAN OIL INTERESTS TO FORCENERGY
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Marathon Oil will sell its interests in three producing Alaskan oilfields and in the Cook Inlet Pipeline Co n Alaska to Forcenergy Inc for $128.2 million (S)
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Genentech Chooses A New Chairman
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Genentech Inc names J Richard Munro, former head of Time Warner, to become chairman, succeeding Robert Swanson, a co-founder (S)
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American Express Denies Seeking Deal
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American Express Co denies that it is negotiating a possible sale of the company; Wall Street Journal has reported that company's talks with Citicorp foundered on issues of price (S)
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G.M. Recalls Cavalier Sedans in Japan
Date: 14 December 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Corp recalls three-quarters of the cars that Toyota Motor Co sold for it in Japan under Toyota nameplates; owners of Cavalier sedans complain that cars stall in Japan's stop-and-go traffic (S)
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