The May 9, 1993 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 128 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 32 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, May 9, 2025, 128 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, May 9, 2026, in 236 days. You have lived for 11,816 days, or about 283,607 hours, or about 17,016,423 minutes, or about 1,020,985,380 seconds.
9th of May 1993 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 9, 1993
TV Coverage of Unrest in Moscow: a Blurred Reception
Date: 09 May 1993
By Celestine Bohlen
Celestine Bohlen
THE raw film footage from Leninski Prospekt on the 9 P.M. television news was the first that most Russians knew of the violent clashes that day between Communist demonstrators and police in Moscow. After a brief introduction, the anchorwoman said grimly: "We think these scenes speak for themselves." There followed no commentary, just the noises and shouts picked up by the soundman as the camera followed the mini-riot: the fights, the beatings, the trucks on fire, the arrival of the mounted police. The film clip opened with a charge by young men wielding rods and clubs against the police. It closed with a chilling image of Leninski Prospekt, one of the broadest and cleanest of Moscow's six-lane avenues, littered with rocks, thick with smoke, scattered with people running about in anger and panic.
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Survey Details Job Gender Gap
Date: 10 May 1993
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
In a survey of 2,000 women and men in the advertising and media industries nationwide, 65 percent of the women said an old-boy network and a sexist cultural climate were inhibiting their chances to succeed. The survey, which was conducted recently by the Advertising Women of New York and released on Friday, said the median incomes of men in those communications industries continue to be higher than those of women -- roughly $7,000 more at the beginning of their careers and an average of $32,000 more after 20 years.
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Magazine Notes; This Marriage Can Be Saved . . . And Sold in Syndication
Date: 10 May 1993
By Deirdre Carmody
Deirdre Carmody
Can this marriage be saved? You bet it can. Not only saved, but rewritten, recycled, syndicated and -- if things work out -- even featured on cable television. "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" is The Ladies' Home Journal's true-life monthly column that has hooked millions of Journal readers for 40 years. Based on intimate details from the files of marriage counselors throughout the country, the column's most remarkable feature is that every marriage it writes about is saved.
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Plan to Get National Advertisers Into Papers
Date: 10 May 1993
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
What do Cadillacs, Budweisers and Wheaties have in common? The companies that make them spend a lot of money on advertising to tempt drivers, drinkers and eaters. But they, and national marketers like them, spend precious little of it for ads in the pages of the country's newspapers. National advertisers spent $76.3 billion last year. Of that amount, only $3.8 billion went to newspapers.
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New Version Of Lotus 1-2-3
Date: 10 May 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Lotus Development Corporation will introduce an upgrade of its most important spreadsheet, 1-2-3 for Windows, on Monday. The upgrade, called 4.0, has 120 new features and is faster than its previous versions, the company said, making it more competitive with Borland International's Quattro Pro and Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet.
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U.S. Inquiry At Scorpion
Date: 10 May 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Scorpion Technologies Inc., a software company, is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on suspicion that it inflated revenue to try to defraud investors, according to an F.B.I. affidavit. The document was filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco after a search of the company's headquarters by the F.B.I. last week. No charges have been filed.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 May 1993
International A3-10 NO RUSH TO ACT IN BOSNIA Whether prudent or fainthearted, there is no disposition on the American side to rush into military action in Bosnia. And in Europe, few believe allied arms can make a decisive difference. News Analysis. A1 U.N. TEAM REACHES ENCLAVE United Nations military observers reached the Bosnian enclave of Zepa and found most of the inhabitants have fled. A Bosnian Serb-Muslim cease-fire held, but Muslims and Croats fought in Mostar. A8
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 09 May 1993
International 3-15 U.S. AND EUROPE SPLIT ON BOSNIA
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Honors
Date: 10 May 1993
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
* Kerry E. Smith, the editor and publisher of Promo magazine, Wilton, Conn., was named Sales Promotion Man of the Year by the Council of Sales Promotion Agencies. * Girgenti, Hughes, Butler & McDowell, New York, was named the agency of the year by Med Ad News magazine.
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Date: 10 May 1993
"It's like watching a prize fight, but you only see one guy on the screen. War is hell, and there are atrocities on all sides. This has been reduced to a good-guy, bad-guy scenario. They have chosen to make the Serbs the black hats." -- NICHOLAS TRKLA, a Serbian-American businessman, complaining about news coverage. [ A12:5. ]
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