The July 17, 1992 was a Friday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 198 day of the year. President of the United States was George Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 33 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, July 17, 2025, 88 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, July 17, 2026, in 276 days. You have lived for 12,141 days, or about 291,401 hours, or about 17,484,099 minutes, or about 1,049,045,940 seconds.
17th of July 1992 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 17, 1992
Beliefs
Date: 18 July 1992
By Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels
Every January the nation's religion reporters and other self-anointed authorities construct lists of the "Most important religion stories" of the year: conflicts over sexual ethics, the religious resurgence in Eastern Europe, the furor over the Dead Sea Scrolls, the latest encyclicals from the Pope. Big deal.
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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Overview; Poll Gives Clinton a Post-Perot, Post-Convention Boost
Date: 18 July 1992
By R. W. Apple Jr
R. Apple
With the 1992 Presidential race in ferment once more, both parties began intensive bids for former supporters of Ross Perot yesterday, and a new New York Times/CBS News Poll showed the Democratic nominee, Bill Clinton, as the main beneficiary of the independent candidate's sudden withdrawal. The survey, taken Thursday evening as the Democratic National Convention was ending, and yesterday as the delegates began leaving town, showed Mr. Clinton gaining the biggest post-convention "bounce" in the 50 years such measurements have been taken. He now leads President Bush among registered voters by 55 percent to 31 percent, with 13 percent undecided.
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Critic's Notebook; The Convention Images: Plenty for Both Sides
Date: 18 July 1992
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
Which of the barrage of images fired off at the Democratic convention will turn out to have hit home? Will it be the old-fashioned rouser of a nominating speech by Gov. Mario L. Cuomo or the acceptance speech by Bill Clinton or the painfully unprecedented appearance by two people with AIDS? Will it be the proud display of female candidates or the contrasting styles of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the event's foremost loser, and the party chairman, Ronald H. Brown, a big winner? Or will it be entertaining passages like those of the candidate and his family strolling through the gents' furnishings department of Macy's, beneath "Sale" signs and amid stern looking men whose earplugs indicated they were not just floorwalkers worried about Chelsea doing some shoplifting?
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I Owe It All to Mr. Baker
Date: 17 July 1992
By Art Buchwald
Art Buchwald
I have been asked by this paper to pay homage to Russell Baker, the Grand Old Man of American Humor Columnists. Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of his first column, which brought so much joy and happiness to millions of readers.
Every humor writer in America can remember exactly what he or she was doing the moment they met Russ Baker. I was 10 years old and watching the Hindenburg zeppelin land in New Jersey. I noticed off to one side a tall lanky man chewing on a piece of straw. I recognized him immediately because he was wearing his familiar trademark, a black patch over his left eye. I went up to him and blurted out: "Mr. Baker, I hope to follow in your footsteps when I grow up. To what do you attribute your success as a humorist?" He tousled my hair and grinned, "I never met a man I didn't like."
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Russian Parliament Votes to Increase Budget Gap
Date: 18 July 1992
By Celestine Bohlen
Celestine Bohlen
The Russian Parliament voted today to increase the state budget deficit by 100 billion rubles, a move that is likely to further complicate the Government's efforts to bring the economy under control. Parliament's increasingly combative approach was also asserted in an effort to take over Izvestia, the popular and respected daily, which established its independence last August.
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Drilling Rigs Up by 22
Date: 18 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Baker Hughes Inc. said today that the number of active rigs in the United States rose by 22, to 689. The latest gain follows an increase of 19 rigs in the week ending July 10. After four consecutive declines this spring, the rig count hit 596 on June 15, its lowest point since the drilling-services company began tracking the number of active rigs in 1940.
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COMPANIES TO SHUT 9 CAMPGROUNDS
Date: 18 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thousand Trails Inc. and an affiliate, the National American Corporation, said that they would close 9 campgrounds and operate 16 others on a seasonal basis only. The cutbacks are part of new marketing strategies adopted by the companies' management following a restructuring of Thousand Trails' debt in May. The closings and the switch to seasonal operations at some sites were based on occupancy at the campgrounds. The nine resorts represent about 4 percent of the companies' total occupancies last year and about 1 percent of their total memberships. The changes take effect Sept. 30.
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DURR-FILLAUER SPURNS BRUNSWIG FOR ANOTHER
Date: 18 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Durr-Fillauer Medical Inc. yesterday rejected a $26-a-share takeover offer by Bergen Brunswig Inc. and said it had agreed to merge with Cardinal Distribution Inc. in a stock swap valued at $30.50, or about $365 million. Under the agreement, Durr-Fillauer shareholders will receive $30.50 of Cardinal common stock provided that the price of Cardinal's shares is between $28.50 and $31. The merger is being treated as a pooling of interests, and would be tax free. Trading in both Cardinal and Durr-Fillauer stock was halted before the news came out. Durr-Fillauer's stock was at $27.375 unchanged. Cardinal Distribution was down $1.75, to $29.50, in over-the-counter trading .
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CINCINNATI BELL RESULTS SHOW IMPROVEMENT
Date: 18 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cincinnati Bell Inc. said second-quarter results improved from a year earlier, when it posted a net loss of $7.9 million after a charge of $16 million. Net income for the latest quarter was $11.4 million, or 16 cents a share, compared with the deficit a year earlier. Without the charge, net income would have been $8 million, or 11 cents a share. Revenue rose to $275.4 million from $256.3 million. In the second quarter of 1991, Cincinnati Bell took a one-time charge of $16 million, or 26 cents a share, for costs associated with developing the NS90 software package at its CBIS information management subsidiary and for an investment in the AT&E Corporation, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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KEYCORP IN AGREEMENT TO BUY SAVINGS BANK
Date: 18 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Keycorp announced that it had reached an agreement to buy National Savings Bank of Albany. The deal, which was reached Thursday night, has the approval of the boards of directors of the two Albany-based banks, Keycorp said in a statement. The deal, which needs shareholder and regulatory approval, is expected to take place within the first quarter of 1993. The value of the deal, including the cost of stock options, is estimated to be $69.3 million, Keycorp said. National has $637 million in assets and nine branch offices in northeastern New York state. Keycorp, with assets over $23 billion, has offices concentrated in the Northeast and Northwest regions of the country.
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