Another Clinton War Room, Ready for Battle
Date: 15 September 2000
By Adam Nagourney
Adam Nagourney
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for Senate includes political boiler room teeming with dozen people who research Rep Rick A Lazio's background and record, write her policy pronouncements and, most important, seek to influence news coverage of her campaign through insistent barrage of e-mail messages; Clinton and James Carville, longtime adviser to her and Pres Clinton, asked that so-called war room be created in July, after her aides took days to decide how to publicize her denial of charge that she voiced anti-Semitic slur in 1974; operation is run by Howard Wolfson, advocate of aggressive and fast-paced politicking; Clinton advisers are wary of drawing too much attention to operation, for fear it would underline Clintons' reputation of being bellicose; photos (M)
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TUPPERWARE TO BUY BEAUTICONTROL TO ENTER NEW MARKET
Date: 14 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tupperware Corp agrees to buy BeautiControl Inc for about $60 million (S)
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FORMER KODAK EXECUTIVE NAMED PRESIDENT AT GOODYEAR
Date: 15 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goodyear Tire and Rubber names Robert J Keegan, former Eastman Kodak executive, as its president and chief operating officer; will assume posts on Oct 1; chairman-chief executive Samir F Gibara will give up titles of president and chief operating officer (S)
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SHERWIN-WILLIAMS EXPECTS TO MISS EARNINGS FORECAST
Date: 14 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sherwin-Williams Co says third-quarter earnings will probably miss estimates because of higher raw-material costs and price competition in South America (S)
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WELLS FARGO AND FIRST SECURITY AGREE TO SELL 37 OFFICES
Date: 15 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wells Fargo & Co and First Security Corp agree to sell 37b branch offices to win Justice Department approval of Wells Fargo's $2.9 billion purchase of First Security; merger still requires approval by Federal Reserve System's board of governors (S)
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BERTELSMANN'S CASH CACHE
Date: 14 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bertelsmann AG says it has 30 billion marks ($13.3 billion) available to spend on buying more media properties and online commerce units; does not specify what kind of companies it will look for; Bertelsmann reports net income in year to June 30 rose 45 percent, to 1.3 billion marks (S)
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Murdoch Reduces Stake in EchoStar
Date: 15 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SEC filing shows Rupert Murdoch sold seven million EchoStar Communications Corp shares worth $343 million on Sept 6 (S)
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G.M. to Double Stake in Suzuki Motors
Date: 14 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors will spend $653 million to double its stake in Suzuki Motor Corp to increase its share of fast-growing auto market in Asia-Pacific region; GM's chairman, John F Smith Jr, will become first non-Japanese member of Suzuki's board; in Sept 2001, two companies will start building jointly developed small car called YGM-1 at Suzuki's Kosai plant in Shizuoka, Japan (S)
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INFLATION IN CHINA
Date: 14 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
China's consumer prices rose 0.3 percent in August from year earlier, down from 0.5 percent increase in July and less than economists' expectations of 0.7 percent gain (S)
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NEW WINDOWS VERSION RELEASED
Date: 15 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Microsoft Corp begins selling new Windows operating system for consumers called Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me; new operating system replaces Windows 98 (S)
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