Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News articles from June 15 1998

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News archives from June 15 1998

It's Now or Never for Casino Bills in Rhode Islands.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Jun. 16--One bill would make it easier for casino gambling to gain a foothold in Rhode Island. Two others would make it harder. A fourth would create a "Rhode Island Casino Gambling...

Rhode Island Launches Newport Water-Taxi Project.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News NEWPORT, R.I.--Jun. 16--Flanked by a host of state transportation and city officials at Fort Adams State Park, Governor Almond and Sen. John H. Chafee yesterday unveiled details of a planned water-taxi system...

Washington State Offers Loans to Help Dairy Farmers Handle Waste.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--Washington dairy farmers are getting big bucks to stem big problems with cow manure. Over the next two years, up to $1.5 million in low-interest loans will be dispersed to farmers who are trying...

Washington Inspector Traps Pests in Benton Fruit Trees.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--Frank Wolf is giving fruit-dwelling bugs eviction notices all over Benton County. But backyard pests still can find a safe harbor in Franklin and Walla Walla counties, where pest control boards...

Washington Fruit Firm Tests Irradiation on Cherries.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 4--A Pasco fruit company is taking a tentative first step toward using irradiation to keep bugs from ruining the cherries it ships overseas. The experiment could be a breakthrough for the huge...

The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C., Business Briefs Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--BECKHAM TO DEVELOP SALES PROGRAM: Jonathan F. "Jon" Beckham has joined Reliance Administrators Inc. to develop a direct sales program and offer investments. He is a graduate of the University of...

Old Heritage USA in Fort Mill, S.C., Draws Bids.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News FORT MILL, S.C.--Jun. 15--Three or four buyers are bidding for the former Heritage USA -- none with plans to return the resort to its Christian roots. The 2,000-acre resort, now known as Regent Park, is...

American Aircarriers Support of Fort Mill, S.C., Lowers Stock Offering.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--A Fort Mill company has had a quiet first few weeks as a public company. American Aircarriers Support Inc. now is trading on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol AIRS. It completed its stock...

Caution Heard Over Palm Desert, Calif.-Based U.S. Filter's Latest Buyout.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News PALM DESERT--Jun. 16--Ahead lies one of the biggest integration projects yet for United States Filter Corp., the acquisition-happy company that has swallowed more than 140 companies since 1991. Analysts...

Virginia Developers Aim Assisted-Living Projects at Growing Market.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--The view from a fourth-floor balcony at Pheasant Ridge Condominiums inspired Preston Moore to a cliche that made him laugh. "On a clear day, you really can see forever here," said Moore, a banker...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Company News Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--DAVENPORT & CO. has established a mergers and acquisitions group. Joseph A. Oliver III and Matthew W. Gross man have joined the company's corporate finance department to manage the new group....

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Retail Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--MEMORIES GALORE CATERS TO TREND TOWARD CREATING FAMILY SCRAPBOOKS: An increasing national interest in creating family scrapbooks has prompted a local family to open a store devoted to the hobby....

Virginia Commercial Consulting Firm Specializes in Brokerage, Building.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Land is more than the dirt that holds the world together for G. Edmond Massie IV and William G. Grant. Specialists in land brokerage, Massie and Grant view land as a complex subject. "Land is...

Boom in Home Sales Continues in Richmond, Va..
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Home sales continued to boom through April, with single-family houses under contract in the state up 17 percent over April 1997, according to the Virginia Association of Realtors. For the first...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bankruptcy Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--The following are recent bankruptcy petitions filed in Federal Bankruptcy Court: Case Number: 98-34206 Lynda K. Peyton, Bumpass Trading as: Fredericksburg Auto Body Inc. Business: Auto...

Columbia, Pa.-Based Laidlaw to Take Safety-Kleen's Name After Buyout.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--The name Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc. is on its way out. After acquiring Safety-Kleen Corp. a few weeks ago, Columbia-based Laidlaw is now planning to take Safety-Kleen's name too....

Minnesota-Based United Properties for Sale.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--United Properties, one of the Twin Cities' largest commercial real estate firms and a big player in downtown St. Paul, was put on the block by Bloomington-based Northland Co., which last month said...

3M Earnings Aches and Pains Continue for a Third Quarter.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--3M can't shake the Asian flu. The company said Monday its earnings aches and pains are continuing for a third consecutive quarter, as a worsening economic crisis in Asia and a strong U.S. dollar...

Oakdale, Minn.-Based Imation Corp. to Sell its CD-ROM Division.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Imation Corp. is getting out of the CD-ROM manufacturing business. The Oakdale-based company, which specializes in data-storage products, said Monday it will sell its CD-ROM-services division to...

Telecommunications Companies Find New Capacity in Old Cables.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--To usher in a new communications era, Pacific Bell declared in 1993 that its copper phone lines would have to be ripped out from under area streets and replaced with high-capacity cables fit for both...

Northern Telecom to Buy Santa Clara, Calif.-Based Bay Networks.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--A major step toward the day when a single network will carry phone, Internet and perhaps even cable service came Monday with Canadian telecommunications giant Northern Telecom Inc.'s deal to buy...

Internet Technology Makes Bay Networks Attractive to Northern Telecom.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Popeye's Famous Chicken and Biscuits may never be a fat-free operation, but it could be paper-free one. AFC Enterprises Inc. of Atlanta, the owner of Popeye's and three other chains, is developing...

Shareholders Go Ahead With Lawsuit Against NationsMart.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Shareholders who claim to have been defrauded by NationsMart Corp. got the go-ahead Monday to proceed in their class action suit against the company, its directors and former senior officers. The...

Williamsburg, Va., Hospital Expanding to Serve, Compete.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--Jun. 16--Williamsburg Community Hospital plans to open new primary care offices off Route 5 and also has an option on property farther west in James City County for a possible outpatient or...

Teamsters Again Reject Anheuser-Busch Contract.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Jun. 16--The Teamsters and Anheuser-Busch are no closer to a contract agreement, even after talks in Dallas with a third-party federal mediator. At the end of the weekend session,...

Hilton Hotel would be on Richmond Road in Williamsburg, Va..
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--Jun. 16--Local businessman Nick Saras is planning to escalate competition for hoteliers on Richmond Road in Williamsburg. Saras has filed plans with the city for a five-story Hilton...

Newport News, Va., Shipyard's Steelworkers March.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Jun. 16--Close to 250 Steelworkers marched through downtown Newport News on Monday to show their support for workers laid off at Newport News Shipbuilding. The rally, kicking off a...

Newport News, Va., Shipyard Workers Transferred or Given Extra Month on Job.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Jun. 16--More than a third of the 600 employees whom Newport News Shipbuilding had planned to lay off Monday have been transferred to new work, while 170 more will keep their jobs a month...

Little Orange County, Calif., Company Making Big Bet on New Web Guide.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Chris Nunez might, just might, be creating the next Internet revolution. Or then again, he might be daring a bunch of giants to squish him. Nunez is betting his company's future on a new thread...

Toshiba Makes Leap Into Server Sector.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News IRVINE, Calif.--Jun. 16--Toshiba jumped into the U.S. market for computer servers Monday, hoping to turn big businesses into one-stop shoppers. The company said it will sell servers capable of managing...

The Orange County Register, Calif., Business Briefs Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Improved profit margins and growing sales helped CKE Restaurants Inc. post record first-quarter net income of $22.7 million, an increase of 115 percent. The upturn pushed CKE stock Monday to about...

Lincoln, Neb.-Based Medical Testing Firm Thriving.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--A year and a half into ownership by a Canadian company, MDS Harris has added 150 employees at its Lincoln headquarters, opened an office in Beijing, China, and is expanding its medical testing...

Mall Shoppers Boost Sales in Nebraska, U.S..
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Consumers spent more money at Nebraska's shopping malls last year than they did in 1996, generating $6 billion in non-automotive retail sales and $225 million in state sales-tax revenues, according...

Harris Corp. Wins Contract with GE American Communications.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Harris Corp. of Melbourne said Monday it has won a major, multimillion-dollar deal from satellite operator GE American Communications to be the prime contractor for the GE*Start Satellite System....

Rockledge, Fla.-Based Wuesthoff Health Systems Fires 42 People.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Wuesthoff Health Systems has fired 42 people and eliminated 150 vacant positions from its operations in Brevard County. The job cuts were in a variety of areas, including marketing and operations,...

Three of Florida's Largest Insurers Refuse to Slash Homeowners Rates.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Three of the state's largest insurers flatly refused Monday to slash homeowners rates despite demands from regulators. Allstate Floridian Insurance, USAA and Nationwide disputed state Insurance...

Changes at ShopKo Make Wisconsin Shoppers Happy.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--An elderly man, holding his wife's hand, edged up to Don Shores, Shopko store manager at the Bay Park Square Mall. "I want you to know that every clerk we bumped into said hello," he said....

Badger Industrial Moves Administrative Group from Wisconsin to North Carolina.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News HORTONVILLE, Wis.--Jun. 15--Badger Industrial Contractors Inc., a company that rebuilds glass bottling operations, is moving its administrative offices back to North Carolina later this summer, comptroller...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Company in the Spotlight Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--NAME: Triangle Welding BUSINESS: Commercial welding for big and small projects, specializing in aesthetic welding. HEADQUARTERS: 2306-08 Penn Ave., Strip District. EMPLOYEES: 18 ANNUAL...

Pittsburgh-Based Associated Group Buys into Telecom Industry.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Maybe Pittsburgh-based Associated Group Inc. should pitch itself as a one-stop shop for all the latest trends in the telecommunications industry. Foremost is the company's 40 percent stake in...

Indiana, Pa.-Based Biocontrol Slashes Jobs.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Biocontrol Technology Inc., the struggling Indiana, Pa.-based company under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, yesterday said it plans to downsize operations and lay off about 30 percent...

Wayne, Pa., USA Technologies Inc. Sues AlphaNet Hospitality Systems Inc..
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--USA Technologies Inc., a Wayne company whose technology runs automated self-serve business centers, is suing AlphaNet Hospitality Systems Inc., and its parent company, AlphaNet Telecom, charging them...

Californians Choose Not to Choose in Deregulated Electric Market.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Jun. 15--Salesman Duke Shara thinks competition is wonderful, but like most Californians who are now free to choose their electric company, he hasn't bothered. "There are not enough...

Phone Companies Adjust Payments for School Internet Hookup.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--AT&T and MCI yesterday said they are recalculating the new fees that they had planned to begin charging in July to subsidize a plan to help schools and libraries connect to the Internet. The...

Providence Journal-Bulletin, R.I., Business Briefs Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--CYTOTHERAPEUTICS INC. said yesterday it has resumed enrolling patients in the European clinical testing of the company's encapsulated cell, pain-control implant. The program, conducted in...

The Monterey County Herald, Calif., Business Spotlight Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--CARMEL VALLEY LODGE: Carmel Valley Road at Ford Road, Carmel Valley= Phone: 659-2261; Web site: www.valleylodge.com. Owner: Peter Coakley. Coakley is a California native who grew up in Martinez...

Strikes at General Motors Trouble for Michigan.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Michigan's economy is giving up $2.4 million per day in lost wages because of two General Motors Corp. strikes in Flint. And the state continued to bear the brunt of the strikes on Monday, when GM...

Ford Health Plan in Innovative Trial.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Ford Motor Co. is trying what might be a better idea in health care. If the automaker's experiment bears fruit, it would improve the quality of care and still save big bucks. "Unfortunately a...

Almco Steel Products Co. to Expand Bluffton, Ind., Plant to Serve Navistar.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News FORT WAYNE, Ind.--Jun. 15--Navistar's delay in launching its newest medium-duty trucks sidelined a Bluffton stamping plant's expansion plans. Now the truck maker is back on schedule and so is Almco Steel...

Indiana Auto-Parts Maker Wins Honda Contract, Expands Plant.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News FORT WAYNE, Ind.--Jun. 15--A new contract for two Honda models is prompting a $2.2 million project at Tower Automotive's Auburn operation. Construction is under way on the expansion and renovation of the...

Columbia City, Ind., Autoliv to Form Steering Wheel Division.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News FORT WAYNE, Ind.--Jun. 15--Autoliv, a manufacturer building a plant near Columbia City, will include that plant in a newly formed steering-wheel division. Autoliv Steering Wheels will coordinate the...

BioDigestor of Grand Forks, N.D., Treats Pollutants with Natural Processes.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Taking lemons and making lemonade. That's not exactly the business of BioDigestor Technologies, but, in a nutshell, the comparison works. The growing Grand Forks company specializes in providing...

Semiconductor Industry to Create Specialized Work Force.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News WOBURN, Mass.--Jun. 16--Saying thousands of people will be needed to fill technical positions over the next four years, the semiconductor industry yesterday announced plans to join with local colleges and...

Canadian-Based Northern Telecom to Buy Bay Networks.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--After months of rumors, Northern Telecom Ltd. yesterday said it would acquire Bay Networks Inc. in a $7.19 billion stock deal that showed how quickly the worlds of computer networking and telephone...

NationsBank Denies Dallas Holdings Were Moved to Circumvent Merger Rules.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News AUSTIN--Jun. 16--In April, around the time NationsBank Corp. announced it would acquire BankAmerica Corp., NationsBank began to transfer almost half of the bank's Dallas deposits to corporate headquarters in...

The Dallas Morning News Robert Miller Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--BUSINESSES BANK ON SOUTHERN DALLAS: You must know by now that the Southern Dallas Development Corp. is, first of all, a corporation that defies stereo for spacing type. First of all, it is a...

Dallas-Based Merger Depresses Excel Stock.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Shares of Dallas-based Excel Communications Inc. fell 21 percent to $21.75 Monday, one day after the company said it will merge into Montreal-based Teleglobe Inc. in a deal the companies valued at...

Fort Worth, Texas-Based Bell Courts Brazil For Sale of 86 Helicopters.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. is courting the government of Brazil, trying to secure a $300 million order from its biggest Latin American market, company spokesman Mike Cox said...

Partner May Lead San Marcos, Texas-Based Firm Into Electric Car Business.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Financially struggling Electrosource Inc.'s mysterious new partner may move the company into the electric vehicle business or relocate its battery-making operations to Malaysia, according to a...

Duluth, Minn.-Based Menards Store May Expand.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Now that the land is available, John Menard says he is still interested in expanding his West Duluth Menards store. But he's not quite as interested as he was before plans started taking shape for...

Corporate 'Love Connection' Suits Excel, Teleglobe.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--The $3.64 billion merger of Excel Communications and Teleglobe of Montreal was a whirlwind corporate romance that crossed national boundaries and language barriers. The business deal between the...

Bird-Cage Business Lost Northeast Indiana Better Business Bureau Membership.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News FORT WAYNE--Jun. 15--A bird-cage business that ruffled customer feathers has lost membership in the Better Business Bureau of Northeast Indiana. Papagallo Enterprises of Fort Wayne, a mail-order company...

Publishers Serving Men Women's Magazines Sampler of Fashion, Fitness.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--What do men want? Women tend to think the answer is pretty obvious. Sure, they want that, but they want a lot of other things, too. Tight triceps. Pizza for breakfast. A cream linen suit. Glowing...

The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo., Small Wonders Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--CO-OP IMPRESSES CHOOSY KIEHL'S WITH HARD SELL: When Chris Colean was planning to open her downtown retail store, Colorado Co-Op, she was certain of one product line she wanted to include. It was...

New Colorado Springs Bank to Focus on Business.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--During the 1950s and 1960s, bankers were the biggest movers and shakers in Colorado Springs. Chase Stone, former president of First National Bank, now Bank One, and an El Pomar Foundation trustee,...

The Arizona Republic Real Estate Briefs.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--ONE OF ARIZONA'S BIGGEST HOME BUILDERS COULD GET A NEW OWNER: Scottsdale-based UDC Homes, which built 270 new houses across the Valley during the first three months of this year -- more than any...

Aberdeen American News, S.D., Farm and Business Briefs Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--NAMES IN THE NEWS: JOHN LADSON, Aberdeen, received his registration as a professional engineer in South Dakota. He is a South Dakota State University graduate and has been employed with Helms and...

BellSouth Corp. to Expand Toll-Free Calling Areas in Georgia.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--BellSouth Corp. has a good news/bad news announcement. The good news is that telephone company is expanding some local toll-free calling areas in Georgia. The bad news is it could cost you....

Rhode Island-Based CVS to Close Four Revco Drug Stores in Biloxi, Miss..
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Rhode Island-based CVS will close its four Revco drug stores on the Coast on Friday, and Rite Aid will take over three of them Saturday morning. Rite Aid is buying Revco's stores at 200 W....

Boulder, Colo., Independent Coffee Shops Team Up to Battle Corporate Chains.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Three weeks after java giant Starbucks Corp. opened its Boulder flagship store on the Downtown Mall, 10 local, independent coffee shops have joined forces to promote each other and urge coffee...

Cleveland's Charter One Financial to Buy New York's Albank Financial Corp..
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Charter One Financial Inc. said Monday that it will buy Albank Financial Corp. of New York for about $1 billion in stock, creating a banking company with $23.6 billion in combined assets. It will...

Insurers to Reimburse Texas Employers for Workers' Compensation Policies.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Insurance companies will refund as much as $131 million to the 2,000 or so Texas employers who bought "retrospectively rated" workers' compensation insurance policies during 1991 and 1992, under a...

Cleveland-Based Keycorp to Buy McDonald & Co. Investments.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--Cleveland banking company KeyCorp said Monday it will buy Cleveland investment banker McDonald & Co. Investments Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth $721 million. The acquisition, which has been...

Sprint's All-in-One Phone Service Plan Fails to Ruffle Industry.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--To Sprint Corp., last week's announcement of an all-in-one phone service meant to revolutionize telecommunications was, as it called it, a "big bang." Reaction to Sprint's media blitz, though, was...

Investment in Company Helps Employees at Phoenix Firm Plan Retirement.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--In December, many of the approximately 50 employees at Weaver Quality Shutters in Phoenix will celebrate an important anniversary. It will be seven years since they formed an ESOP to purchase the...

The Arizona Republic Ken Colburn PC Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--Intel's latest line of chips, the Celeron, at first glance may be a little disappointing based on the performance index of the chip. The 266 Mhz Celeron runs only slightly faster than the Pentium...

Downtown Phoenix Office Tower Attracts Big Law Firm.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--One of downtown Phoenix's most prominent towers has attracted a slew of companies including one of the state's biggest law firms. The flurry of firms opting for space in the One Renaissance Square...

The Arizona Republic AZ Inc. Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--RURAL/METRO CORP. shares plunged 29 percent after the Scottsdale-based emergency services provider warned that its fourth quarter earnings wouldn't meet expectations because of delays in collecting...

Labor Says General Motors Strikes 'a Protest against Global Sourcing'.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News DAYTON, Ohio--Jun. 16--Strikes by workers at two General Motors Corp. plants in Flint, Mich., have ravaged the giant automaker's North American operations, now idling about 4,500 auto workers in the Miami...

Georgia Assembly Plant Gets Reprieve -- For Now.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News ATLANTA--Jun. 16--Workers at General Motor Corp.'s Doraville (Ga.) assembly plant got a reprieve as they were told to report to work today, but how much longer they'll be on the job isn't known. Lack of...

Boulder, Colo.-Based Recycling Firm Launches Corporate Recycling Contest.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News BOULDER--Jun. 16--Eco-Cycle, the Boulder-based nonprofit recycling firm, is hoping the prospect of a weekend for two in Glenwood Springs can spur more corporate recycling and perhaps attract new members to...

Multi-Service Network Looks Near With Nortel, Bay Networks Merger.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--A major step toward the day when a single network will carry phone, Internet and perhaps even cable service came Monday with Canadian telecommunications giant Northern Telecom Inc.'s deal to buy...

The Charlotte Observer, N.C., Business Briefs Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--CAROLINAS HEALTHCARE SETTLES INQUIRY: Carolinas HealthCare System has paid $251,992 to settle a Medicare investigation into overbilling for lab services. System hospitals included in the...

The State, Columbia, S.C., First Bytes Column.
June 15, 1998... Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--BETTER INTERNET ACCESS IS COMING TO S.C: Faster Internet connections are on the way for South Carolina and are expected to be greeted with enthusiasm and open arms by all who use the Internet in a...