The August 12, 1995 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 223 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 30 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 42 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, in 322 days. You have lived for 11,000 days, or about 264,011 hours, or about 15,840,663 minutes, or about 950,439,780 seconds.
12th of August 1995 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 12, 1995
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At NPR, All Things Reconsidered
Date: 13 August 1995
By Marc Gunther
Marc Gunther
THESE SHOULD BE GLORY DAYS FOR NATIONAL Public Radio. More listeners than ever tune into its much-praised news and cultural programs, and they are donating record amounts of money to the public radio stations around the country that carry those programs. NPR's flagship daily news magazine, "All Things Considered," has just been expanded from 90 minutes to two hours, with help from new corporate and foundation donors.
But Delano Lewis, NPR's 56-year-old president and chief executive officer, furrows his brow when he ponders the future of public radio. He has just carried out a series of austerity measures, canceling the minority-oriented news program "Horizons," dropping 9 out of 20 cultural programs and, early this month, eliminating 20 jobs, which will result in the first companywide layoffs at NPR in more than a decade.
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POLITICS UNUSUAL: The Alien's Endorsement
Date: 13 August 1995
The 1996 Presidential primaries are approaching, and while the candidates worry about CNN and influential newspapers, a lot of "real" Americans are getting their news in the checkout line, where the "Space Alien" wields the real influence. In 1991, Weekly World News, a Florida-based supermarket tabloid, stuck the image of an alien into an existing photograph of President Bush. Since then, the alien, in one composite photograph after another, has been seen with many American statesmen. Selected headlines include: "Space Alien Meets With President Bush!" (1991), "Space Alien Meets With Ross Perot!" (1992), "Alien Backs Clinton!" (1992), "Alien Dumps Clinton and Goes Back to Perot!" (1993) and "Space Alien Meets With Newt Gingrich!" (1995).
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WNYC Fans Fear Programming Loss
Date: 13 August 1995
By Vivian S. Toy
Vivian Toy
Mariko Niesi regularly switches on WNYC-TV, Channel 31, for "World Network Supertime" -- two hours of news and features in Japanese with English subtitles -- because the show is a bridge to her native Japan. Mrs. Niesi, a Japanese-American homemaker from Tuckahoe in Westchester County, is worried, however, that the show and other Japanese programs may go off the air because of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's recent announcement that the city-owned station will be sold, to be recast into a 24-hour financial news and sports channel by its prospective buyers, the ITT Corporation and Dow Jones & Company. While the city says it will help the foreign-language programs find time on Crosswalks, its cable network, viewers like Mrs. Niesi fear the pledge will be forgotten once the station is sold.
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Journal; Was Newt Borked?
Date: 12 August 1995
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
So much for Rupert Murdoch's loyalty to Newt Gingrich. When Gail Sheehy's profile of the Speaker surfaced in Vanity Fair this week, no one in American journalism did more to promote it than Mr. Murdoch -- devoting the front page of The New York Post, where he holds the title editor in chief, to the headline "Who's a Newty Boy?" along with the teaser "Aide: He made whoopee on office desk." And Mr. Murdoch did this even as Mr. Gingrich was touring the country hawking "To Renew America" for his own (as well as Newty Boy's) financial benefit. In case you missed The Post and haven't yet caught up with Vanity Fair, the passage in Ms. Sheehy's 12,000-word article that most caught Mr. Murdoch's expert journalistic eye was a brief interlude discussing Mr. Gingrich's alleged sex life during his first marriage. You almost have to feel sorry for Newt, especially when his then-young daughters are dragged into one particularly lurid scene. How did journalism reach this pass?
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Poll Shows Disenchantment With Politicians and Politics
Date: 12 August 1995
By R. W. Apple Jr
R. Apple
Profoundly disenchanted by politics and politicians, Americans are simultaneously attracted to and leery of the idea of a third party, according to a new New York Times/CBS News Poll. The poll, which was completed on the eve of this weekend's gathering in Dallas of supporters of Ross Perot's independent political movement, United We Stand America, suggested that Gen. Colin L. Powell would run more strongly than other potential third-party nominees against President Clinton and Senator Bob Dole, the Republican front-runner. In a trial race, the three finished in a virtual dead heat.
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In Prosperous Singapore, Even the Elite Are Nervous About Speaking Out
Date: 13 August 1995
By Henry Kamm
Henry Kamm
Singapore's astonishing economic boom is reflected in a cityscape that has been totally transformed in three decades of independence. What was a typical Asian port city, with stately buildings of colonial rule set apart from warrens of squalid quarters for most people, has been turned into a downtown devoted entirely to banking and business, dominated by skyscrapers and surrounded by vast, tidy blocks of public housing set among well-tended parks, ringed by superhighways.
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PC QUOTE STOCK SOARS ON NEWS OF MICROSOFT TIE
Date: 12 August 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The price on PC Quote Inc. shares almost tripled, closing yesterday at a two-year high, after the company said it would provide market data to the Microsoft Corporation's Microsoft Network. Microsoft Network is the on-line service set to be started in connection with the new Windows 95 operating system. PC Quote rose $4.125, to $7, in trading of 862,800 shares, about 41 times its three-month daily average. It was the seventh most actively traded stock on the American Stock Exchange. The Chicago-based provider of securities information and news said delayed market quotes will be available to Microsoft Network users beginning Aug. 21.
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HOME OIL FAVORS TAKEOVER BY ANDERSON EXPLORATION
Date: 12 August 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Home Oil Company said yesterday that it favored a $878.9 million Canadian, or $646.9 million United States, takeover offer from Anderson Exploration Ltd. over a $757 million Canadian bid from the Canadian unit of the Amoco Corporation. Anderson said it would offer 1.38 of its shares for each of the 45.9 million Home Oil shares outstanding. On June 26, the Amoco Canada Petroleum Company offered $16.50 Canadian a share for all of Home Oil's shares. All of the companies are based in Calgary, Alberta.
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GENENTECH WINS ROUND TO BAR GROWTH HORMONE SALE
Date: 12 August 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Genentech Inc. said yesterday that it won a court order preventing the Bio-Technology General Corporation from selling its human-growth hormone in the United States. Bio-Technology General was granted Food and Drug Administration approval on May 25 to begin selling the drug, Bio-Tropin, increasing competition for growth hormones made by Genentech and Eli Lilly & Company. The court order, handed down by a Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, was granted pending the outcome of a patent infringement suit that Genentech, of South San Francisco, brought against Bio-Technology General. Bio-Technology General said it would appeal the court order.
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BALLY GAMING SAYS JUDGE DENIES ALLIANCE'S REQUEST
Date: 12 August 1995
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bally Gaming International Inc. said yesterday that a judge had denied the Alliance Gaming Corporation's request for expedited discovery and access to information on Bally Gaming. Alliance Gaming is trying to upset the definitive agreement reached by WMS Industries, a Chicago-based maker of arcade games, to buy all of Bally for $12.62 a share in cash and stock. Last month, Alliance sued Bally to block the acquisition agreement with WMS and to gain access to Bally's nonpublic financial information.
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