The November 30, 1992 was a Monday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 334 day of the year. President of the United States was George Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 32 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, November 30, 2024, 313 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, November 30, 2025, in 51 days. You have lived for 12,001 days, or about 288,042 hours, or about 17,282,543 minutes, or about 1,036,952,580 seconds.
30th of November 1992 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on November 30, 1992
The Media Business: Press; Minority Hiring as a Financial Necessity
Date: 30 November 1992
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
This week, the chief executives of some of the most influential newspaper companies in the country are to meet in New York City in an industrywide "summit" conference with representatives of minority groups who work for them. The topic is the same theme sounded by some industry leaders who say that it is not just a social but a business necessity to have more minority-group members on the staffs, and in the pages, of newspapers. The topic was the same last year, at the first such annual meeting.
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SLAYING IN MEXICO SPOTLIGHTS PRESS
Date: 01 December 1992
By Tim Golden
Tim Golden
As President Carlos Salinas de Gortari arrived at the foreign press club here two weeks ago for a party, a magazine editor named Ignacio Mendoza Castillo stood across the street, protesting quietly with other journalists from the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo. "Mr. President," one of their banners read, "We Ask You to Investigate Aggression Against the Press by Miguel Borge Martin," the Governor of Quintana Roo. Among their many complaints were contentions that Mr. Borge wanted to kill Mr. Mendoza because he had printed articles criticizing corruption in the state.
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Union City and Miami: A Sisterhood Born of Cuban Roots
Date: 30 November 1992
By Evelyn Nieves
Evelyn Nieves
Roberto Moreiro wants his new restaurant to stand out among the dozens of others packed into this Cuban enclave in Hudson County. So he is serving the food and ambiance of a place his patrons know and love: Miami. His Union City Cafeteria serves "Miami-style Cuban sandwiches," with thicker cuts of ham than the competition offers, said Mr. Moreiro, a native Cuban who came here 27 years ago. The restaurant also offers both a formal dining room and a cozy doughnut-shaped counter like many in Miami but few in Union City.
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SHAREHOLDERS SUE COMPTRONIX AND SUSPENDED OFFICERS
Date: 01 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Seeking unspecified damages, shareholders have sued the Comptronix Corporation and three officers who were suspended last week for overstating profits. Ranier Partners, which owns 5,000 common shares of Comptronix, an Alabama electronics company that is incorporated in Delaware, also asked the Federal District Court in Wilmington, Del., on Friday to approve the suit as a class action.
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Dell Reports More Details In a Dispute
Date: 01 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Dell Computer Corporation issued a rebuttal yesterday that contained more details of its earlier responses to negative comments made by David R. Korus, a computer stocks analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Company. In November, Mr. Korus lowered his opinion on Dell to "underperform" from "neutral." Mr. Korus largely focused on the negative implications of Dell's currency trading over the last two years, and particularly during the second quarter ended in July. He also said that "Dell's earnings momentum has probably peaked" and that the "impact of cost cuts" would diminish the company's earnings momentum.
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SHELL PIPELINE FINISHES REPAIRS ON RUPTURED LINE
Date: 01 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Shell Pipeline Corporation yesterday finished repairs and resumed operation of a 24-inch crude oil pipeline that ruptured on Friday. The Rancho Line carries crude from McCamey in West Texas to a terminal in Pasadena, Tex., south of Houston. It is owned by Shell Pipeline, a venture of Shell Oil, Phillips Petroleum, Crown Central Petroleum, Amoco, Ashland Oil and ARCO. The line was shut down after it ruptured Friday morning, spilling about 8,500 barrels of a crude oil and water mixture, a Shell Pipeline spokesman, Dennis Winkler, said.
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BANC ONE COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF TEAM BANCSHARES
Date: 01 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Banc One Corporation said it had completed the acquisition of Team Bancshares Inc. of Dallas. Under terms of the stock swap disclosed in March, Banc One exchanged 1.6962 shares for each of Team's 9.3 million outstanding shares. Banc One said yesterday that the transaction's total value was $725 million. Team's 60 offices, combined with Banc One's current Texas franchise, make Banc One's Texas unit the state's second-largest bank, with $19 billion in assets and 200 branches. Ronald Steinhart, Team's chairman and chief executive, becomes president and chief operating officer of Bank One, Texas.
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WELLCOME DRUG IS AUTHORIZED FOR AIDS-RELATED ILLNESS
Date: 01 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wellcome P.L.C. said it had received United States and Canadian Government approval to market its drug Mepron as a treatment for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, or P.C.P. The illness affects more than 80 percent of AIDS patients, Wellcome said in a statement.
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GE CAPITAL BUYS TRANSAMERICA TRAILER BUSINESS
Date: 01 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The General Electric Company's GE Capital unit said it had bought the TransAmerica Corporation's over-the-road trailer leasing business in the United States for $200 million, making GE Capital the nation's largest truck-trailer lessor. GE Capital's Transport International Pool business will acquire about 19,000 truck trailers through the transaction, bringing its holding to about 62,000 trailers. The next-largest lessor is the Xtra Corporation.
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MCDONNELL STOCK FALLS IN ADVANCE OF U.S. REVIEW
Date: 01 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The price of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation's stock declined yesterday as the Department of Defense prepared to review an agreement that postponed collection of $1.35 billion in Federal claims against the company and the General Dynamics Corporation. General Dynamics has already written off $724 million in anticipation of paying its share of the Government's claim, but McDonnell Douglas so far has written off only $350 million -- making investors edgy. Today is the first annual review of a February 1991 agreement between the Defense Department and the contractors that deferred the Government's collection of claims stemming from cost overruns on the A-12 attack plane program.
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