Photographers Look Inward, and Discover Self-Doubt
Date: 12 September 1996
By Alan Riding
Alan Riding
Article on controversy surrounding awarding of Visa d'Or prize for feature work to French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, whose photographs were previously published in Elle magazine, at International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan, France; says decision to award Goude the prize calls attention to profession's deep identity crisis at a time of shrinking outlets for photojournalism with strong political and social content, of growing numbers of young photographers entering the market and of uncertainty over impact of new forms of digital storage; holds awarding of prize to Goude raised immediate question: What is photojournalism today? Jean-Francois Leroy, director of festival, comments; photos (L)
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SPRINT PLANS SALES THROUGH RADIO SHACK
Date: 12 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sprint Corp and its Sprint Spectrum wireless venture will sell range of products from cellular and paging services to traditional local and long-distance calling through Sprint stores to be set up inside Tandy Corp's Radio Shack stores (S)
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GRUMMAN WILL HIRE MORE THAN 500 WORKERS
Date: 12 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Northrop Grumman Corp to hire more than 900 workers at its five commercial aircraft-parts factories because of surging orders for planes; Northrop is biggest subcontractor for Boeing Co, which has more than 400 firm orders for jets this year (S)
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AMF UNIT TO BUY BOWLING COMPANY
Date: 12 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AMF Bowling Centers, unit of AMF Group Inc, says it will buy Bowling Corp of America from Charan Industries for about $104 million (S)
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TEXTRON SELECTS AT&T UNIT FOR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
Date: 11 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
AT&T Corp beats out British Telecommunications PLC for $1.1 billion, 10-year contract from Textron Inc to link its 25 divisions worldwide through phones and computers (S)
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CORPORATE EXPRESS TO ACQUIRE UNITED TRANSNET
Date: 12 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corporate Express Inc agrees to acquire United Transnet Inc in stock transaction valued at $138 million (S)
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UNION PACIFIC TO ISSUE STOCK FOR SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Date: 11 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Union Pacific Corp says holders of over 60 percent of Southern Pacific Rail Corp shares chose to get stock in Union Pacific's $5.4 billion acquisition of Southern; says they will get shares and cash according to proration formula to be determined soon (S)
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WAL-MART EXPECTS $464 MILLION FROM SALE OF PLANTS
Date: 11 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wal-Mart Stores Inc says it expects about $464 million from its sale of six photo-finishing plants to Fuji Photo Film USA and long-term deal with Fuji (S)
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Campbell Soup Sets Terms for Buyback
Date: 11 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Campbell Soup Co sets price range of $69 to $80 a share for its 'Dutch auction;' expects to buy $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion in stock (S)
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Ascent's Bid for Spectravision Is Approved
Date: 12 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal bankruptcy judge approves plan by Spectravision Inc to be purchased by the On Command Video Corp for $225 million in stock, warrants and assumed debt (S)
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