Le 1 mai 2000 était un lundi sous le signe astral du ♉. C'était le 121ème jour de l'année. Le président des États-Unis était William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Si vous êtes né ce jour-là, vous avez 26 ans. Ton dernier anniversaire était le vendredi 1 mai 2026, il y a 46 jours. Votre prochain anniversaire est le samedi 1 mai 2027, dans 318 jours. Vous avez vécu 9 542 jours, soit environ 229 031 heures, ou environ 13 741 896 minutes, ou environ 824 513 760 secondes.
Date: 01 May 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Princeton Research Associates survey for Web content distributor ScreamingMedia.com finds 89 percent of respondents have never paid for news or data on Internet and 83 percent are not willing to pay; few news organizations have been able to sustain pure subscription model on Web (S)
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: 01 May 2000
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Alexander Niemetz, anchor of nightly television news program, is at center of renewed debate over German television journalists taking part in paid corporate promotions; ZDF television network suspended him in dispute over his ties to public relations agency, but later accepted his claim that he never took money from agency or let it influence program; rebuked him for taking other side jobs; photo (M)
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: 01 May 2000
By Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey
Pres Clinton hosts annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington; spoofs himself as lame duck leader in videotaped skit and otherwise pokes fun at himself; lampoons Congressional critics; photo (M)
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
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
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: 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)