Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News articles from February 4 2005

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News archives from February 4 2005

Bill would assess retail fee for disposal of electronic devices.
February 4, 2005... By Richard Lee, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Electronics retailers and a computer industry group are watching the progress of a bill in the state Legislature that would add a fee to the price...

Allied Domecq president's Irish roots, Guinness experience serve him well.
February 4, 2005... By Julie Fishman-Lapin, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Jim Clerkin's future was supposed to be about pigs, not adult beverages. After growing up on his family's pig farm in a small village in...

Developers to submit plan for retail, residential on Norwalk Co. site.
February 4, 2005... By Richard Lee, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The developers of the former Norwalk Co. site on Water Street in South Norwalk expect to submit a plan for their property in about a month. Owned...

Canadian firm to buy locally owned gas station chain.
February 4, 2005... By James Gallagher, The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--One of the last locally-owned gas station chains is being sold. QVS, Inc., and Brosious & Holt Properties LLC, which own the 19 area Pump 'N...

Sunday night alcoholic drinks rule is bonus for area restaurants.
February 4, 2005... By Adrian Burns, The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Local bars rule the roost when it comes to getting a stiff drink, most of the time. But no matter how popular an establishment might be Monday...

Ravenna, Ohio, man's invention detects chemical warfare in water.
February 4, 2005... By Jessica Coomes, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--James Woodruff's newest invention is being designed to sniff out attacks on water supplies. The Ravenna man is developing a handheld detector...

Amtrak to lease 8 trains to state.
February 4, 2005... By Rob Varnon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Amtrak's board of directors on Thursday approved a deal to lease eight locomotives to Connecticut for more than $1.9 million for the first year as...

Union, Cingular Wireless seek pact.
February 4, 2005... By Rob Varnon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The president of a union that represents 400 Cingular Wireless workers in Connecticut said Thursday that negotiations for a new contract are hung...

State Losing Defense Jobs, Report Says.
February 4, 2005... By Pam Dawkins, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Connecticut has lost about half of its defense-related jobs since 1988, according to a report released Wednesday, but a change in the way...

House barely defeats bill that would have cleared way for off-track betting.
February 4, 2005... By Geoff Pender, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--JACKSON -- The House on Thursday, after fierce debate, barely defeated a bill that could have cleared the way for Mississippi casinos to have...

First data-sharing project includes police, fire departments in 3 counties.
February 4, 2005... By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--BILOXI -- It's one more down and a final agency to go before all police and fire departments in Harrison, Jackson and Hancock counties are...

Mississippi Democrats reaffirm their support for Howard Dean as party chairman.
February 4, 2005... By Elana Schor, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--WASHINGTON -- Mississippi Democrats reaffirmed their support for Howard Dean on Thursday, as the former presidential candidate gained momentum in...

Armed Forces Retirement Home probe sought by Sen. Trent Lott.
February 4, 2005... By Tracy Dash, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--GULFPORT -- Sen. Trent Lott has asked Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to probe alleged problems at the Armed Forces Retirement Home...

World Ag Expo expected to draw 100,000.
February 4, 2005... By Steve E. Swenson, The Bakersfield Californian Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--If you go to the World Ag Expo next week in Tulare, you won't be alone. Based on last year's attendance, you will be among more than...

Realtors group, brokers file suit against Bakersfield Listing Service.
February 4, 2005... By Jennifer Plotnick, The Bakersfield Californian Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The Bakersfield Association of Realtors and nine real estate brokers filed suit against the Bakersfield Listing Service on Wednesday,...

Illinois 15 at Frank Scott seen as next hot spot.
February 4, 2005... By Scott Wuerz, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--BELLEVILLE -- An engineer has told city officials she believes the intersection of Illinois 15 and Frank Scott Parkway West will go from a...

Manatee boat makers are hiring, but workers aren't plentiful.
February 4, 2005... By Tilde Herrera, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--MANATEE -- As the local marine industry expands, companies are facing the challenge of finding skilled workers to support their growth at a time...

Residential development near Alamance County line closer to reality.
February 4, 2005... By James Moffat, Times-News, Burlington, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--A Greensboro company is moving closer to building a 100-home development near the Alamance County border. In December, the Guilford County...

TriPath Imaging revenues for year increase 27 percent.
February 4, 2005... Times-News, Burlington, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--TriPath Imaging Inc. has reported that revenues for the year ended Dec. 31, 2004 increased 27 percent to $68.5 million from $53.8 million for the previous year....

Carolina Panthers player from last year's Super Bowl will sign autographs.
February 4, 2005... By Isaac Groves, Times-News, Burlington, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--MEBANE -- Local football fans who can't get to Jacksonville, Fla., for Super Bowl XXXIX Sunday, can meet Dante Wesley, corner back for the...

Millions may have been overspent on port bridge project.
February 4, 2005... By Emma Perez-Trevino, The Brownsville Herald, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--BROWNSVILLE -- An accounting into how millions of dollars were spent to develop the Port of Brownsville's rail-and-truck bridge reveals...

The Baltimore Sun Eileen Ambrose column.
February 4, 2005... By Eileen Ambrose, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--We know more about President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security than we did before the State of the Union address. We know, for...

Bargain retailer to close Forest Hill, Md., store.
February 4, 2005... By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--C-Mart, the bargain emporium of Harford County that had cultivated a wide following, is giving up its Forest Hill, Md., storefront after more than two...

Baltimore event planner Fandango scores big with Super Bowl suite for Reebok.
February 4, 2005... By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The Super Bowl isn't all about football. Reebok International, for one, will wine and dine its clients and celebrity endorsers -- from rapper Jay-Z to...

Baltimore's GM plant gets final vehicle orders.
February 4, 2005... By Stacey Hirsh, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--General Motors accepted final orders this week for the last vans to be manufactured at its Baltimore plant, moving the 70-year-old Broening Highway factory...

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers to change store sales calculation method.
February 4, 2005... By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc., the Hampstead, Md.-based chain that has faced questions about its accounting methods, announced yesterday that it will alter...

MedImmune post loss for year despite boost in FluMist sales.
February 4, 2005... By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--MedImmune Inc., the Gaithersburg, Md.-based maker of the FluMist nasal-spray vaccine, yesterday reported a drop in fourth quarter earnings and a loss for...

Bank of America to offer 'instant' accounts on Web site.
February 4, 2005... By Binyamin Appelbaum, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--By April, Bank of America Corp.'s Web site will allow visitors to open checking accounts almost instantaneously, the company says. A...

Summit: Help kids learn how to earn.
February 4, 2005... By Kerry Hall, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Reading, writing and 'rithmetic is no longer good enough for students to survive in today's marketplace, a group of S.C. educators and business...

The Charlotte Observer, N.C., US Airways briefs column.
February 4, 2005... The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--LOST LUGGAGE: US Airways had a higher rate of mishandled baggage than nearly every other airline in the country in December, according to new Department of...

Georgia job fair attracts 4,350.
February 4, 2005... By Tony Adams, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--There might have been a fewer less people walking through the doors Thursday at the Georgia Department of Labor job fair. But several of those...

New method expedites air quality permit process.
February 4, 2005... By Jewel Gopwani, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--It used to take months, sometimes more than a year, for businesses that wanted to expand or build new manufacturing operations to obtain air quality...

Changing times threatening Awrey.
February 4, 2005... By Kim Norris, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Times have been lean for Awrey Bakeries Inc. Low-carb diets have hurt sales, its costs have risen on everything from ingredients to transportation, and...

Detroit Free Press Tom Walsh column.
February 4, 2005... By Tom Walsh, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--A MODEL OF SUCCESS AND COMPASSION: We just never know which question will prompt the most interesting response from an interview subject, which is why so many...

Yorkshire Bank is fined.
February 4, 2005... By James Quinn, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--A Lake District hotel firm is to report Yorkshire Bank to the Financial Services Authority over the mis-selling of a complex interest-rate product. ...

Deutsche Bank wields axe.
February 4, 2005... By Edmund Conway, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Deutsche Bank is to cut 6,400 jobs -- including at least 1,000 from its London offices -- as it axes 10pc of its employees. Although the bank gave no...

Now LIBA lashes the Germans over LSE.
February 4, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The London Investment Banking Association has hit out at Deutsche Borse's business model. Liba, one of the London Stock Exchange's leading user groups, says exchanges...

Daily Mail, London, business briefs column.
February 4, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--ALMOST 1,500 WHITBREAD STAFF will share in a bumper [pounds sterling]2.6m windfall. Some could be bagging as much as [pounds sterling]18,000 though the average payout is...

Verwaayen calls Ofcom's bluff with his 'final offer'.
February 4, 2005... By Edmund Conway, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--BT yesterday pledged to hive off a key chunk of the company into a self-contained wing in a bid to prevent itself being carved up by the regulator. It...

Gee whizz, Moss Bros is a winner.
February 4, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The Moss Bros revival continues. Sales in the clothing chain -- which owns Moss, Cecil Gee and Hugo Boss stores -- rose 7pc over the last nine weeks. Moss Bros is...

Mowlem sounds alarm on profit.
February 4, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Mowlem, the PFI and building contractor, has issued yet another shock profit warning. It disclosed that it has uncovered "historic accounting problems" in its technical...

New Year resolution puts Osmond bid in jeopardy.
February 4, 2005... By James Quinn, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Resolution Life is staging a last-ditch attempt to knock Hugh Osmond's [pounds sterling]1bn bid for HHG's life assurance assets off course. Resolution...

Daily Mail, London, market report column.
February 4, 2005... By Geoff Foster, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--LEAHY MAY FILL TESCO'S TROLLEY: Rumours that Tesco's chief executive Sir Terry Leahy is about to go on a shopping spree have been doing the rounds for...

Marks & Spencer sells [pounds sterling]115 million headquarters.
February 4, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Marks & Spencer has closed the doors on half a century of history by selling its old Baker Street headquarters. The troubled retailer sold Michael House to developers...

Rio profits rocket on big demand from China.
February 4, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--STRONG industrial demand in China and the US drove price rises of 13pc to 60pc in Rio Tinto's core minerals in 2004 -- and ensured the mining giant a boom year. Net profits...

Sainsbury asks Oliver for more.
February 4, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Sainsbury may scrap its advertising contracts with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO in an attempt to cut costs. It is currently holding...

Shell cash gusher sparks call to extract more tax.
February 4, 2005... By Brian O'Connor, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--It says something for Shell that after a year of nightmares it emerged with the highest profits ever made by a UK company. Shell could hardly have...

Delaware brewery toasts loan program.
February 4, 2005... By Jshuane Melton, Delaware State News, Dover Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--MILTON -- Dogfish Head Brewery became Thursday the first Delaware company to benefit from a cooperative effort between Citizens Bank and the...

Bill seeks earlier pensions for Delaware employees.
February 4, 2005... By Joe Rogalsky, Delaware State News, Dover Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--DOVER -- A group of General Assembly members want to shorten the amount of time a state employee has to work before retiring with a full pension....

Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant to host fund-raiser for heart center.
February 4, 2005... By Tim Logan, The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--TOWN OF WALLKILL -- The first event at the brand new Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Town of Wallkill will be a fund-raiser...

Hospitals, seeking to fix pricing system, lower rates for uninsured.
February 4, 2005... By Tim Logan, The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--For years, it's been one of healthcare's little secrets: Uninsured patients being charged more than insurance companies for the same...

$25 million hotel development planned for Duluth, Minn., downtown.
February 4, 2005... By Jane Brissett, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Duluth, Minn., could be home to a new 145-room first-class hotel with 30 upper-level condominiums by mid-2006. The $25 million project is being...

Duluth Online optics retailer relocates to suburban job creation zone.
February 4, 2005... Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Online optics retailer Thralow Inc. of Duluth, Minn., has signed an economic development agreement that will allow it to build in a tax-free zone in neighboring...

AutoNation's fourth quarter profits double from year ago.
February 4, 2005... By Joseph Mann, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Fort Lauderdale-based AutoNation Inc. Thursday reported fourth quarter 2004 profits that were more than double those of the same period last year...

U.S. indicts couple over untested baby food formula.
February 4, 2005... By Lisa J. Huriash, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--A South Florida couple manufactured untested baby food formula, and then profited by more than $1 million by persuading people to buy stock in...

Pediatrix posts 8 percent increase in net income.
February 4, 2005... South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Sunrise-based Pediatrix Medical Group Inc. on Thursday reported 2004 fourth-quarter net income of $25.8 million, up 8 percent from the same point a year ago....

Florida's finance officer seeks freeze on homeowner insurance rate hikes.
February 4, 2005... By Kathy Bushouse, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--State Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Thursday requested a freeze on all homeowner insurance rate increases at least until the end of...

Radio stations may form partnership in taking over operations.
February 4, 2005... By Alexandra Navarro Clifton, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The organization that will be chosen to take over operations of Palm Beach County's WXEL-Ch. 42 public television and WXEL FM 90.7...

Sales fall in fourth quarter for Fresno-based department store chain.
February 4, 2005... The Fresno Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Same-store sales at Gottschalks Inc. increased 0.9 percent in January compared with the same month in 2004, but sales were down for the fiscal fourth quarter, the...

Region's major malls are expanding.
February 4, 2005... By Sanford Nax, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Fig Garden Village. Fashion Fair mall. Sierra Vista Mall. River Park. The region's major malls are expanding, and new shopping centers are planned....

Fresno County enlists AmeriCorps volunteers to help rural businesses.
February 4, 2005... By E.J. Schultz, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Seven months ago, Jillian Luchner was chasing butterflies in Costa Rica. Today, she spends her days helping to revive the economy of rural Fresno...

Texan Sworn In As 80th U.S. Attorney General.
February 4, 2005... By Dave Montgomery, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--WASHINGTON -- Alberto Gonzales, who rose from an impoverished childhood to become one of George W. Bush's closest advisers, became the...

Proposal would raise spending on public schools about $1.5 billion.
February 4, 2005... By R.A. Dyer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--AUSTIN -- Every school district in Texas would get more money and spending would increase for bilingual education and teacher bonuses under a...

Super Bowl game watching, snacking add up to big bucks.
February 4, 2005... By Rebecca Logan, The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The Henry family will be pulling for the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, applauding when the team moves the ball across...

Bush plan holds promise for Wall Street.
February 4, 2005... By Andrew Caffrey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--President Bush's plan to create private investment accounts to augment Social Security would initially benefit a few large players in the money management...

Delta will close hub center, cut 353 jobs.
February 4, 2005... By Keith Reed, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Delta Air Lines plans to close its Boston reservations call center Sept. 1, a move that will eliminate about 353 positions. The airline, which next month will...

The Boston Globe Downtown column.
February 4, 2005... By Steve Bailey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--CITIZENS WATCH: Thank you, Larry Fish, for doing something about Massachusetts' bleak job picture; every job counts when you lead the nation in job losses as...

Citizens Bank to lend low-interest loans to firms relocating to Massachusetts.
February 4, 2005... By Sasha Talcott, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--When Mission Foods, which makes Mexican tortillas and chips, wanted to build a factory in the Northeast, it chose Pennsylvania. One reason: an...

Caritas seeking Cambridge lab space.
February 4, 2005... By Jeffrey Krasner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Caritas Christi Health Care, the parent of Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, is looking to lease about 100,000 square feet of laboratory...

How the private Social Security accounts would work.
February 4, 2005... By Charles Stein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--President Bush stuck to generalities in his State of The Union message, but the White House this week provided some details of its plan to set up private...

For advertisers, Super Bowl still holds promise of super payoffs.
February 4, 2005... By Naomi Aoki, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Emerald of California's Super Bowl ad will involve a unicorn (right), Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and a father who doesn't want to share his nuts. Apple...

Apartment incentives won't last long in Colorado Springs, Colo.
February 4, 2005... By Rich Laden, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The days of free washers and dryers, rent discounts and other giveaways are just about over for Colorado Springs apartment dwellers. ...

Colorado sues hedge fund after investors' savings are allegedly diverted.
February 4, 2005... By Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--A Colorado investment fund illegally funneled more than $3 million in fees it shouldn't have received into a corporate jet, land in Black...

HIA fixes discolored mosaic in new terminal.
February 4, 2005... By Ellen Lyon, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Pennsylvania may be nearly 225 years old, but that's no reason the state seal should be taking on a tired, yellow pallor. That's especially...

Cab operator to pay for women's 'scary' ride.
February 4, 2005... By David Dekok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--They weren't in Kansas anymore. Or Oklahoma. Two businesswomen from those states won a degree of justice Thursday when the state Public...

Cabinet firm to close assembly plant, cut 300 jobs.
February 4, 2005... By John Beauge, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--MIFFLINBURG -- About 300 Yorktowne Cabinetry workers will lose their jobs next year when the company closes its assembly and finishing plant...

Economist sees trouble in benefits for retirees.
February 4, 2005... By Tom Dochat, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--A Wachovia Bank economist thinks personal savings accounts won't be a good remedy for Social Security problems if nothing is done to curb the...

Better slots operation planned.
February 4, 2005... By Tom Dochat, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The owner of Penn National Race Course plans to spend more to build a slot-machine facility at the Grantville racetrack. Penn National...

Suit forces union to seek bankruptcy.
February 4, 2005... By Tom Dochat, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--A local union has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after one of its former presidents prevailed in a lawsuit seeking unpaid...

Plan Aims To Cut Small Firms' Health Costs.
February 4, 2005... By Diane Levick, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Connecticut's small businesses, crushed by health insurance premiums or going without coverage, could get savings of 15 percent or more if new...

January sales get lift from gift cards.
February 4, 2005... By Joan Verdon, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--January's retail sales were stronger than expected, thanks to gift card redemptions. But an East Coast snowstorm and a later-than-usual Super...

UPS center coordinates global system.
February 4, 2005... By Martha McKay, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--The brain of UPS sits partially hidden in the rolling hills of Mahwah. Known as the Ramapo Ridge Data Center, it's home to some of the...

Government makes exception for Halliburton.
February 4, 2005... By David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has deviated from its normal procedures by deciding not to withhold payments to Houston's Halliburton Co. for failing to...

Cyberonics device 'approvable' for depression.
February 4, 2005... By Anne Belli, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--Shares of Cyberonics rocketed 42 percent Thursday after the once down-on-its-luck company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave...