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Date: 25 April 1997
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir, in TV Sports column, notes that Fuzzy Zoeller made his racial comments about Tigers Woods on final day of Masters golf tournament, but they were not broadcast until week later on CNN's Sunday golf show, Pro Golf Weekly (M)
Date: 25 April 1997
Corrections Corp of America agrees to sell nine of its correctional and detention centers to CCA Prison Realty Trust for $308 million; Corrections Corp manages prisons and detention centers for governmental agencies (S)
Date: 25 April 1997
Filenet Corp will take $6 million pretax charge in second quarter to dismiss 10 percent of its workers and close its office in Burlington, Mass; about 150 people will lose their jobs (S)
Date: 25 April 1997
Kenneth Cole Productions Inc will enter licensing agreement with Dickson Licensing Ltd of Hong Kong for Kenneth Cole New York and Kenneth Cole Reaction trademarks; financial terms undisclosed; Dickson plans to develop network of Kenneth Cole retail stores in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Indonesia and Malaysia; stores are to open by end of 1999 (S)
Date: 26 April 1997
Western Wireless Corp will acquire Triad Cellular Corp for $202.6 million (S)
Date: 25 April 1997
Comsat Corp sues Bruce Crockett, former chief executive, contending he leaked inside information to shareholders who have threatened to take over company; lawsuit, which seeks $20 million in damages, comes two weeks after Providence Capital Inc and Wyser-Pratte Inc said they would wage proxy fight to replace Comsat's directors because stock has fallen 27 percent the past year (S)
Date: 26 April 1997
Xerox Corp agrees to buy rest of Delphax Systems to gain access to its high-speed electronic printing technology (S)
Date: 25 April 1997
Unisys Corp says shareholders rejected proposal to sell or split off company's computer hardware unit (S)
Date: 26 April 1997
*Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp buys 54 percent in Instituto Dexeus, 110-bed hospital in Barcelona, Spain (S)