Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from November 1995:
THE 43 STOCKS.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Here is a list of the 43 stocks selected for the Times Union/Bloormberg Stock Index. Each is weighted to reflect the number of employees the company has in the Capital Region. The list includes locally based companies that are publicly traded, and the major out-of-town companies that have ...
VOICE TECHNOLOGY FEATURES EXPAND.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... AT&T's Bell Labs has come up with a new office phone system designed to link computer and voice networks to allow two people collaborating on a project using multimedia desktops to call each other via their computers. The system allows call transfer, voice mail, call waiting and other ...
NEW ITEMS OFF THE HIGH-TECH SHELF.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Here is a random sampling of new products recommended by reviewers at various technical magazines: A new, top-line sheetfed scanner recommended by Home Office Computing magazine's reviewers to keep costs down while improving your faxing capability and adding graphics to your ...
CALLING ALL EXTRATERRESTRIALS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: FAYE FLAM Knight-Ridder The plan is to divide up the sky. Then, have a different volunteer monitor each patch for radio broadcasts from distant planets. After all, the federal government won't do it anymore. The plan belongs to Paul Shuch, a ...
COMPUTER USE HAS LITTLE IMPACT ON NEWS CONSUMPTION.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAMES S. DERK I've noticed three things happening the deeper I get involved with computers. One, my eyesight really started to go downhill. Two, my waistline started to go uphill. And finally, I assumed everyone else was getting involved, too. A new survey ...
A LITTLE POETRY IN MOTION.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: CAILIN BROWN Staff writer ALBANY The days of reading a pocket-sized volume of poetry down by the riverside are being replaced by a more interactive kind of poetry reading, one that more fully absorbs its reader. The Little Magazine, a 20-year-old poetry and ...
ONLINE SERVICE PRICE WAR: BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA?(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... For a while it was America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy tinkering a little bit with monthly rates or access-hour rates as each tried to position itself with incoming consumers while waiting for Delphi Internet, GEnie and other weak sisters to go away. The ground rules have ...
RESTAURANTS ADDING VINEGARS TO BEVERAGE LIST.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: STEVEN PRATT Chicago Tribune Americans are no strangers to vinegar. They've splashed it on salads, pickled their cucumbers with it, mixed it with Easter egg dye and painted it over sunburned skin to soothe the pain. Most also are aware its flavor will ...
IDAHO OR NOT, THIS SPUD'S FOR YOU.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: EDWIGE LEE Knight-Ridder While Idaho claims Idaho potatoes can be grown only in that state, the variety is actually a russet. The russet is known as an Idaho no matter where it is grown, writes James McNair, in ``The Potato Cookbook,'' because Idaho leads ...
IN N.Y., CUP DOESN'T RUN OVER.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: MATT GRAVES Some passing thoughts on the Breeders' Cup: It was the third edition of the Cup to be held in New York, and whether or not anybody cares, it's still not a great place for racing's big day. Saturday's weather was tolerable after the ...
SITUATION UP NORTH BETTER NOW.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: DICK NELSON Before any deer hunters start rearranging their schedules regarding the opening of New York's Southern Zone deer hunting season, take note: It opens Monday, Nov. 20, not Nov. 27, as incorrectly reported last Wednesday. I must have had 200 phone ...
DEFENSEMAN TAKING OFFENSE.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: PETE DOUGHERTY Staff writer ALBANY If diminutive center Steve Sullivan is third among the Albany Rats in penalty minutes, then why can't bruising defenseman Cale Hulse rank second on the team in scoring? This helter-skelter start to the American Hockey League ...
SWIMMING SOLUTION TOO SIMPLE.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: STEVE CAMPBELL HUDSON Bill and Judy Hohmann have to be a couple of out-of-touch, out-of-control zealots. Rebels without a just cause. People who would give loose cannons and high school parents everywhere a bad name. I knew this with all the certainty of ...
SAINTS' PRACTICE DOWNRIGHT SCARY.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer LOUDONVILLE Tuesday was not the day to ask Siena College men's basketball coach Bob Beyer how things were going with his young team. That's because Beyer was none too happy with his Saints. With 20 minutes remaining in Siena's ...
RENSSELAER HAS D-SIGNS ON ANOTHER TITLE.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: BILL ARSENAULT Staff writer RENSSELAER The Rensselaer High football team's tradition carries on. The Rams have won four consecutive Section II Class D titles and will shoot for No. 5 against Warrensburg at 7 p.m. Friday at East Side Recreation Field in Saratoga Springs ....
BROKEN THUMB STOPS TYSON.(SPORTS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: ED SCHUYLER JR. Associated Press LAS VEGAS Mike Tyson broke his right thumb and was forced out of Saturday night's fight with Buster Mathis Jr. Mark Ratner, executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commissiion, confirmed the withdrawal Tuesday night. ...
PAINTING DEPRESSES SELENA'S FAMILY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARIA F. DURAND San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO Artist Donell Hill is under fire from the family of slain Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Prez. The artist depicts Selena framed by white roses and skeletons. One of the skeletons is holding up a ...
ISRAELI SONGWRITER SHEMER TO PLAY AT TEMPLE ON SUNDAY.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Nov 01, 1995 ... ALBANY Naomi Shemer, one of Israel's most popular singers and songwriters, will perform Sunday at 3 p.m. in Temple Israel, 600 New Scotland Ave. An Israeli native born on a kibbutz in the Jordan Valley, Shemer has written popular Israeli songs including ``Jerusalem of Gold,`` ...
CBS CANCELS `DWEEBS,' HOLDS HUNT.(TELEVISION & R)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: Knight Ridder After several weeks of disastrous Friday night ratings, CBS has announced the cancellation of ``Dweebs'' and a vacation until mid-season for ``The Bonnie Hunt Show.'' The network, which in Monday night's late ...
THERE'S HIGH DRAMA ON AIRWAVES AS LOCAL NEWS HITS THE SWEEPS.(TELEVISION & R)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: KEITH MARDER This November, you'll be seeing more than the usual share of sex, gambling and twists on old storylines and that's just on the local news. It's sweeps time Thursday through Nov. 29, and the phenomenon is apparent on local newscasts as well as ...
TIME TO PICK COMPUTER GIFTS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: PETER MCWILLIAMS Gift time, again? It's already November, which means time to at least ponder what gifts to consider for a computer lover. Ideas are pouring in. Here are a few: ``Compton's Reference Collection'' ($49.95 list) While I've been quite ...
AGENCIES HANDLING ADOPTIONS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... More infants from China in the past were adopted by U.S. parents than from any other country. At least three agencies in the Albany or Boston regions can provide more information. Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany; Voice of International Development and Adoption in ...
DURLACHER'S SOUPS ARE DELICIOUS ANY SEASON.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: BARBARA DELANEY Staff writer DEAR CHEFS' SECRETS: I read your column and often try the recipes you print there. Please try to find the recipe for an especially good soup I tasted here in the Albany area. Durlacher's Delicatessan on Route 9 in Latham serves an ...
MONOPOLY PLAYERS CAN PROFIT FROM PLAYER'S HINTS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: AMY WILSON Knight-Ridder Robert Warners is a stockbroker. Dang convenient if you're the Michigan Monopoly champ and must demonstrate to your friends and to the rest of the nation that you know capitalism when you see it. Earlier this month, the Grand Haven father of ...
HEARST CORP. TO BUY FLORIDA TV STATION.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: Hearst News Service NEW YORK The Hearst Corp. has agreed to acquire WTMV (Channel 32) from Public Interest Corp. The television station is licensed to Lakeland, Fla., and serves the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Lakeland television market. The announcement ...
CIRCULATION FALLS AT 7 OF TOP 10 NEWSPAPERS.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK Weekday circulation fell in the latest six-month period at seven of the nation's 10 biggest metropolitan daily newspapers, and industry experts say newsprint price increases were a key factor in the declines. They said newspapers ...
DE BEER TO CUT 10 FROM BASEBALL UNIT.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: David Orenstein - ALBANY J. de Beer & Son Inc. will lay off 10 workers when it consolidates its baseball and softball stamping and shipping operations next spring, the company's president said Tuesday. The jobs will go to Tennessee, home of parent company ...
FIRM GETS STATE LOAN FOR HIGHWAY PROJECT.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: David Orenstein NORTH GREENBUSH Hartgen Archeological Associates Inc., a town firm with 10 full-time employees, has received a $100,000 loan from the New York state Transportation Loan/Bond program. The low-interest loan will help finance equipment and ...
AMSTERDAM FIRM EXPECTED TO REMAIN.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: James Denn AMSTERDAM Amsterdam Printing and Litho Corp. President Steven A. Singer said Tuesday he is confident the new owner would keep Amsterdam Printing up and running. The nearly 100-year-old firm is expected to be sold sometime after the first of the ...
CHAMBER TAKES IN SMALL-BUSINESS OFFICE.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: David Orenstein ALBANY The Capital Region's Small Business Administration office, which had been slated to close Friday, will instead move in with the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce in Colonie next month, U.S. Rep Michael R. McNulty said Tuesday. ...
CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... This almanac of community news provides coverage of local governments, local courts and police calls from selected communities in our region. Government listings focus on communities in Rensselaer and southern Saratoga counties, and police calls are taken from the actual police blotters ...
ANTI-DRUNKEN DRIVING GROUP RIPS ASSEMBLYMAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports ALBANY The state Assembly's failure to pass a zero-tolerance bill for teenage drinkers in 1995 was tied to campaign donations given by the liquor industry to Majority Leader Michael Bragman, an anti-drunken driving group contended Tuesday. ...
LOW-COST POWER FOR PAPER RECYCLER.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer SOUTH GLENS FALLS The New York Power Authority Tuesday approved a low-cost power allocation to Encore Paper Co. Inc. to cut $21 million from the company's electric bill over a 10-year period. Encore, the state's largest independent ...
EVEREADY AUTO INSURER GETS BETTER.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press ALBANY A small New York City-based company zoomed from worst to first Tuesday in the state Insurance Department's annual rankings of auto insurers based on the number of customer complaints. A year after earning the dubious ...
STOCKS SOAR, NEAR RECORD, THEN DROP.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: KAREN GULLO Associated Press NEW YORK Stocks gave up early gains Tuesday as investors sought profits in a late sell-off of technology and cyclical issues that had been supported by mostly positive economic reports. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up ...
NEW INDEX EYES 43 CAPITAL REGION STOCKS.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: ALAN D. ABBEY Business editor The Times Union today starts a new business news feature, the Times Union/Bloomberg Index, a measurement of how 43 stocks of importance to the Capital Region are doing. The index, which will be featured Tuesday through Saturday on ...
GE THE LARGEST OF COMPANIES ON THE LIST.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: Alan D. Abbey - The 43 companies in the Times Union/Bloomberg Index are weighted to reflect the number of people they employ in the Capital Region. The largest single component of the new index is General Electric, the area's largest private-sector employer with about ...
GM CONTRACT LETS INSURER HIRE 35.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer COLONIE Jardine Group Services Corp. of Latham hired to manage the dental health plan for employees and retirees of General Motors Corp., plans to add more than 35 workers. Jardine will review, adjudicate and make payments for an ...
NEW HOME SALES REFLECT HEALTHY ECONOMY.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN D. MCCLAIN Associated Press WASHINGTON Fresh signs of economic vitality without inflation appeared Tuesday as the government reported the second-highest new home sales of the year and the smallest employment cost increase on record. Two private reports ...
$3 BILLION DIVESTITURE PAVES WAY FOR FLEET-SHAWMUT MERGER.(BUSINESS)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press WASHINGTON The Justice Department approved the merger of Fleet Financial Group and Shawmut National Corp. on Tuesday after Fleet agreed to sell 64 bank branches to maintain competition in New England banking. The 64 ...
EX-380-POUNDER SUES CHAIN OVER FATTY FOODS IN DIET AISLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer BALLSTON SPA As a onetime 380-pounder with an infatuation for treats and sweets, Robert Carrothers is so offended at the fat-filled munchies in Price Chopper's health foods aisle that he's taking the supermarket chain to court. ...
5 YOUTHS ARE CHARGED IN A BRAWL OVER GIRL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: CAROL DEMARE Staff writer RENSSELAER In what police have described as a fight over a girl, five male students at the junior-senior high school have been charged in connection with Friday's pummeling of an East Greenbush teenager as he was meeting his girlfriend after ...
DEMOCRATS TRY TO RETAIN TOWN BOARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer EAST GREENBUSH Candidates are trading punches over tax increases, landfills and business and commercial developments in this election campaign as Democrats try to maintain control of the Town Board. After breaking an 18-year Republican ...
SCHENECTADY ADOPTS $40.8 MILLION BUDGET.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer SCHENECTADY The City Council on Tuesday night adopted a $40.8 million budget for 1996 that includes a 4 percent property tax increase. Finance Committee Chairman Joseph Notar said the tax hike will amount to $29.13 for the average ...
NORTHUMBERLAND HAS ITS FILL OF LANDFILL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer NORTHUMBERLAND The major election issue in this rural town is the construction of the Saratoga County landfill. And it's a topic that everyone agrees on they're opposed to it. The county's plan for the dump off Kobor Road ...
ROTTERDAM POLICE LOOK FOR REVCO STORE ROBBER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... ROTTERDAM Police are looking for a man who robbed a drugstore Tuesday after handing a clerk a note saying he had a gun. The incident took place at 5:20 p.m. at the Revco Drug Store at 2617 Hamburg St., according to Detective Sgt. Wayne Calder of the Rotterdam Police. The man ...
HIGH SCHOOL RENOVATIONS FOCUS OF REFERENDUM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: WINIFRED YU Staff writer GUILDERLAND Residents will decide the fate of a $23.7 million bond next month that will pay for renovations at the Guilderland High School. On Tuesday, the Guilderland Board of Education voted 6 to 3 to hold the referendum vote on ...
CONNERS CAMPAIGN PLANS MEDIA BLITZ.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: SARAH METZGAR Staff writer ALBANY Michael Conners is ending his county comptroller campaign with a media blitz, airing three television ads and one radio ad in the final week. The TV ads started running Tuesday the same day his opponent, Republican Larry ...
GOP HIDES TROY TAX HIKE, CANDIDATE SAYS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer TROY The proposed 1996 budget, which Republicans say will lower taxes slightly, actually hides a 25 percent increase for the average homeowner, a mayoral candidate charged Monday. Michael Rourke, the Liberal Party candidate for mayor, ...
JUDGE TOSSES OUT SUIT FILED AGAINST DONOHUE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... TROY A lawsuit filed against District Attorney Mary O. Donohue by her opponent is being tossed out of court. Kevin O'Haire, the Democrat running against Donohue in next week's election, had sued, charging that she was violating the state Freedom of Information Law by not ...
TROY CANDIDATES AT FORUM TONIGHT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... TROY City residents will get to meet their mayoral candidates at a forum tonight. The session will feature all four nominees: Republican and Right to Life candidate Kathleen Jimino; ...
SCHENECTADY TO TAKE UP GAS DETECTOR IDEA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer SCHENECTADY Mayor Frank J. Duci's proposal to install carbon monoxide detectors in all city buildings will be discussed by the City Council next week. ``There are smoke detectors all over the Capital Region, but not a single ...
GOP WANTS TO REDUCE PARKING METERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer SCHENECTADY Republican City Council candidates said Tuesday if elected they would work toward eliminating at least some of the 800 parking meters they insist are driving business out of downtown. ``We have to seriously devise a plan ...
BYNG CHANGES ATTORNEY AND HIS BATTLE PLAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer ALBANY Now doing time in Albany County jail, former Public Works Commissioner Kevin Byng has dropped his plan to resign his city job, forcing the city to move to fire him. In a quick and quiet series of events, Byng dropped his ...
PARKING LOT MUST PASS HISTORIC REVIEW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer ALBANY With the once-historic building on the site gone, a Broadway property owner plans to replace it with a parking lot. Burton Fisher, however, will first have to undergo a review by the city's Historic Resources Commission, ...
BUST OF MANTLE FOUND AFTER 20 YEARS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press A bronze bust commemorating Mickey Mantle's 500th home run was recovered after a former Yankees security guard allegedly tried to sell it on the Internet after the slugger died, authorities announced Tuesday. The bust had been missing for ...
WOMAN SUES OVER BREAST SURGERY ERROR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK A 50-year-old woman has sued a Queens hospital after doctors mistakenly diagnosed her with cancer and removed her right breast, leaving her emotionally devastated, her attorney said Tuesday. ``It's a nightmare,'' the woman, a married ...
SUNY COMES TO DEFENSE OF LIBERAL ARTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: CHRISTOPHER RINGWALD Staff writer ALBANY An early-morning roundtable on the future of the State University of New York plodded along until supporters found themselves defending the most basic of assumptions: the value of a liberal arts education. ``We need ...
DEC SETS HEARINGS ON HIGH PEAKS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: MARY ESCH Associated Press ALBANY New York's ``forever wild'' mountains have been forever free. But campers may soon find their freedom curbed in the Adirondack High Peaks, in the interest of saving the summits. All sides will have their say at a series of ...
MCCALL USED OFFICE TO TRY TO SWAY VOTE, COURT RULES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer ALBANY An appellate court ruled Tuesday that state Comptroller H. Carl McCall had no business using his office to promote a politically and fiscally controversial debt-reform measure. The unanimous ruling by the Appellate Division of ...
RECYCLER TAKING HEAT OVER TIRES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: YANCEY ROY Staff writer GREENPORT Adjacent to the Claverack Creek and the Columbia County Jail and just a quarter-mile from a hospital, an estimated 8 million used tires sit in stacks up to 40 feet high, creating a major fire hazard, according to the state. ...
SWIM DECISION AWAITED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Staff writer HUDSON Swimming against a current of legal challenges, Ichabod Crane High School junior Ben Hohmann on Tuesday lost what may be his last two individual races on the school's girls swim team. Today, state Supreme Court Judge Thomas ...
BOYS GET THE BOOT AFTER PUTTING ON HEELS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: CAILIN BROWN Staff writer RAVENA The age-old tradition of dressing up for Halloween took a particularly eerie twist Tuesday when two male students were sent home from school after they dressed up as women. Senior Jed Sherman, 17, and sophomore Sean Ostrander, ...
THERE WASN'T A PUNCH LINE THAT I RECALL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: DAN LYNCH You might recall that when Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin got together last week at Hyde Park, Clinton broke into a conspicuous fit of laughter at a remark Yeltsin made during the joint press conference that followed. The President almost split a ...
SARATOGA COUNTY PROMISES 10% TAX CUT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Nov 01, 1995 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer BALLSTON SPA Since January, Saratoga County officials have promised a tax cut, and Tuesday they delivered a 10.1 percent reduction in property taxes in a proposed 1996 budget. The county's tentative budget of $129,881,815 ...