The May 2, 2000 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 122 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 26 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, May 2, 2026, 40 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, May 2, 2027, in 324 days. You have lived for 9,536 days, or about 228,875 hours, or about 13,732,516 minutes, or about 823,950,960 seconds.
Date: 02 May 2000
Television news divisions owned by Walt Disney Co and Time Warner Inc give prominent coverage to companies' feud, describing thoroughly the positions of both sides and potential impact on ABC's ratings and Time Warner's relationship with its subscribers (S)
Date: 02 May 2000
By James Barron
James Barron
Public Lives column; Miramax co-chairman Bob Weinstein marries Annie Clayton, former Miramax receptionist; Fiona Conway is named to oversee domestic coverage for ABC's World News Tonight; recap of celebrity edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for subscribers of Time Warner cable system; tenor Andrea Bocelli performs outdoor concert in Rome despite death of his father (M)
Date: 03 May 2000
Committee to Protect Journalists includes Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran and Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leone rebel leader, among 'Top 10 Enemies of the Press' for 2000 (S)
Date: 02 May 2000
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman NYC column discusses use of Nazi metaphors to describe evil; New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's calling Federal agents who grabbed Elian Gonzalez in Miami 'storm troopers', Giuliani being depicted as 'Hitler-like' in his opposition to art exhibit at Brooklyn Museum of Art, St John's basketball coach Mike Jarvis comparing National Collegiate Athletic Assn to 'Gestapo' and Ted Turner likening Rupert Murdoch to 'late fuhrer' (M)
Date: 02 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Great Plains Software Inc agrees to buy Solomon Software for about $142.3 million in stock and cash (S)
Date: 02 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Howmet International Inc tells its shareholders to reject tender offer of $20 a share from Alcoa Inc because price is too low; Alcoa wants to buy remaining 15 percent of Howmet for about $300 million once it completes purchase of Howmet's parent, Cordant Technologies Inc (S)
Date: 03 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
J C Penney Co, whose shares have lost $15 billion in value in two years, says it will consider sale, joint venture and other options for its direct-marketing business; hires Credit Suisse First Boston for advice on unit (S)
Date: 02 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Policy Management Systems Corp rise as much as 45 percent after Electronic Data Systems Corp offers to buy Policy Management for $18 to $20 a share, topping bid by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; Policy Management shares rise $5.375, to $18.625; EDS offer values Policy Management at $640.6 million to $711.8 million (S)
Date: 02 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CMS Energy Corp is canceling initial public offering of Consumers Energy, its Michigan electric and natural gas utility, because of weak demand for utility stocks and says it will instead increase its asset sales by $700 million to reduce debt; CMS, reversing decision announced in February, says it has also decided to keep its annual dividend at $1.46 a share rather than cut it to 40 cents (S)
Date: 03 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lamar Advertising Co will pay as much as $255.1 million for three companies, including Advantage Outdoor Co, that will give it 6,500 more signs in Texas, Northeast and Southeast; Lamar will assume as much as $79 million of Advantage's debt; names of other two companies being acquired undisclosed (S)