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Date: 15 December 2000
By James Barron With Elisabeth Bumiller and Linda Lee
James With
Some, but not all, of television networks begin taking down sets they built for election night; CNN says it will not remove its 'Election 2000' logo from behind Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff on late-afternoon program Inside Politics until after Electoral College votes on Dec 18 (S)
Date: 14 December 2000
By Richard Perez-Pena
Richard Perez-Pena
Tallahassee, Fla, ratchets down several notches from frenetic scenes that made it center of world's attention for past few weeks; makeshift offices that were Bush and Gore headquarters for recounts and lawsuits are emptied by weary campaign workers; circuit court has taken custody of more than 1.1 million punch-card ballots cast in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties; several news organizations, including The New York Times, are in talks about coordinating hand count, not to proclaim anybody the winner of popular vote count but to lay out data, according to Times's managing editor, Bill Keller; other news organizations are Associated Press, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Time magazine (M)
Date: 14 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dow Chemical says it will not bid for control of Petroquimica do Nordeste, Brazil's petrochemicals plant, at auction (S)
Date: 15 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Harveys Casino Resorts and Pinnacle Entertainment, in separate statements, say Harveys Casino is delaying takeover of Pinnacle; neither company gives reason (S)
Date: 15 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Maytag Corporation says fourth-quarter profit will fall by about half because sales of large appliances are shrinking; it is third profit warning this year from company (S)
Date: 15 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Delaware Chancery Court judge, while refusing to block WorldCom Inc's acquisition of Intermedia Communications, says that actions by some Intermedia executives might expose WorldCom to $2.5 billion in damage claims if deal is completed; says Intermedia executives serving on board of Digex, company that Intermedia controls, might have violated their legal duties to Digex shareholders by waiving anti-takeover defenses to smooth path for Worldcom's acquistion of Intermedia (S)
Date: 14 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Carlsberg agrees to stop selling Coca-Cola products in Sweden to win antitrust approval for its purchase of Orkla's breweries (S)
Date: 15 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Abbott Laboratories agrees to buy Knoll, pharmaceutical unit of BASF AG of Germany, in transaction worth about 13 billion marks ($6 billion) (S)
Date: 15 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing buys out some of its partners in WaferTech, joint venture that operates wafer plant in Camas, Wash; will pay $350 million for 23 percent stake belonging to Altera Corp, $60 million for 4 percent stake belonging to Analog Devices and $40 million for 2.7 percent stake belonging to Integrated Silicon Solutions; Taiwan Semiconductor will have about 97 percent ownership of WaferTech (S)
Date: 14 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
UtiliCorp United Inc announces details of two-stage plan to spin off Aquila Energy, its naturalgas and electricity trading unit (S)
Date: 15 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
HSBC Holdings of London is in talks to acquire Demirbank, a Turkish bank seized last week by regulators; before seizure, HSBC had offered $1 billion for 50 percent stake in Demirbank; now it is said to be offering that figure for all of it; government is under pressure to sell 11 seized banks to keep its losses, which total $7 billion, from mounting much higher (S)
Date: 15 December 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gaumont SA, French film producer, distributor and theater owner, and rival Pathe SA, will combine their movie theater networks into single company called EuroPalaces; Pathe, owned by Jerome Seydoux, will control 66 percent of EuroPalaces, while Gaumont, whose chairman is Nicolas Seydoux, Jerome's brother, will own the rest; EuroPalaces will have 700 screens in four countries and annual sales of about 2 billion French francs ($270 million) (S)