Ideas & Trends; Zombies and Other Creatures of the Media
Date: 12 July 1998
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Article on disgraced journalists--some of whom have managed to find new careers; photos (M)
The July 11, 1998 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 191 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 27 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, July 11, 2025, 361 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, July 11, 2026, in 3 days. You have lived for 10,223 days, or about 245,370 hours, or about 14,722,210 minutes, or about 883,332,600 seconds.
Date: 12 July 1998
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Article on disgraced journalists--some of whom have managed to find new careers; photos (M)
Date: 12 July 1998
By E. Kyle Minor
E. Minor
Article on CBS-TV news weatherman Ira Joe Fisher, whose avocations are poetry, entertaining and essay writing; photo (M)
Date: 12 July 1998
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column on thunderous news that Tina Brown is leaving The New Yorker to become 'Miramax Multimedia Prncess'; muses on meaning of media's babble about 'synergy' and 'content' (S)
Date: 11 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Parcel Service of America Inc tells teamsters' union it will not create 2,000 full-time jobs as promised in accord that settled national strike last year because number of package deliveries has not returned to pre-strike levels (S)
Date: 11 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Laidlaw Inc to dismiss 700 employees of its American Medical Response Inc unit, about 3 percent of staff, by end of Aug to cut costs (S)
Date: 11 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Softbank Corp acquires 27.2 percent of E*Trade Group Inc for $400 million (S)
Date: 11 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sunbeam Corp reaches accord with lenders to avert default on $1.7 billion in loans until at least end of year (S)
Date: 11 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Scotts Co to buy Rhone-Poulenc SA's law and garden unit, Rhone-Poulenc Jardin, and ASEF for total of about $220 million (S)
Date: 11 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Roche Holding AG's implied second-quarter sales rose 37.7 percent, to 6.69 billion Swiss francs ($4.33 billion) (S)
Date: 11 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SAP AG releases data showing profit growth slowed in second quarter to 26 percent from 71 percent in first quarter; second-quarter pre-tax profit rose to 504 million marks ($276 million); SAP expects pretax profit for full year to rise 30 percent to 35 percent (S)