Business Journal-Portland articles from October 2001

Business Journal-Portland archives from October 2001

Startup has the stuff investors want.(Finatus Inc. automates government environmental reporting via Internet)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... It's been a while since venture capitalist Debi Coleman felt any proclivity to invest in an internet company. The business plan presented by Finatus Inc., however, was compelling. The Portland startup was preparing to offer an online...

Law firm decision puts pressure on developers.(Miller Nash L.L.P.)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Portland's biggest office tower will probably hold on to one of its biggest tenants--a deal likely to make some developers cringe. Miller Nash LLP signed a non-binding letter of intent in September to remain in floors 33 to 36 of the U.S....

Perkins Coie nabs iv firm's land-use expert.(Steven Pfeiffer, Michael Robinson, Frank Flynn)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... In a critical reshaping of Portland's land-use law community, Perkins Coie has wooed three veteran attorneys away from competitor Stoel Rives. Steven Pfeiffer, Michael Robinson and Frank Flynn began work this week at Perkins Coie's...

Bulb growers build empire by rising to new challenges.(Holland America Bulb Farms Inc.)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
October 26, 2001... Tucked away in unassuming Woodland, Wash., 21 miles north of Jantzen Beach, is a thriving flower operation doing business in all 50 states. Founded 20 years ago, Holland America Bulb Farms' roots not only have since set but have spread...

Hilton sells Doubletree, Red Lion hotel chains.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Hilton Hotels Corp. (NYSE:HLT) announced its intention to sell its Red Lion chain of hotels and five Doubletree hotels to WestCoast Hospitality Corp. (NYSE:WEH). The announcement was made in advance of the final transaction agreement as the...

Intel Corp.(discontinues Connected Products business)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) plans to phase out its consumer products business, Connected Products, over the next few months in order to concentrate on its core business. Connected Products designs, develops and manufactures digital audio...

Oregon Tourism Commission.(advertising campaign)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... The Oregon Tourism Commission unveiled its "Tourism Industry Recovery Plan," marketing Oregon to Oregonians. The ads will offer sample itineraries to encourage travel within the state and boast a tagline of "It's Easy to Take a Great Vacation...

Weyerhaeuser Corp.(third-quarter finances)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... Weyerhaeuser Corp. (NYSE:WY) logged third-quarter net earnings of $91 million, or 41 cents per share, on net sales of $3.7 billion. Immersed in a hostile takeover bid for Portland's Willamette Industries (NYSE: WLL), the Federal Way, Wash.,...

Oresis Communications.(buys intellectual property of Vsys Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Beaverton-based Oresis Communications has acquired the intellectual property and hired the engineering staff of Vsys Inc., a softswitch vendor in Colorado Springs, Colo. Oresis paid an undisclosed sum for the intellectual property. The...

Oregon Employment Department.(new chief technology officer)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... The Oregon Employment Department named Curt Amo its new chief information officer. Amo will now lead an information technology section that is responsible for networking, internet and intranet sites, as well as various technology products and...

Clackamas County.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... A citizen task force is being formed in Clackamas County to weigh in on the location of a new wastewater treatment facility. The task force will find three to five sites for the Board of County Commissioners to select from in the final...

ON THE WEB.(The Business Journal - Portland's Web site)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Read it first on the web! Our reporters post breaking news all day, every business day, on our web site, portland.bcentral.com. Bookmark this site to read local business news and breaking national business news from MSNBC.

Insider Trading.(executives' buying and selling of company shares)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... Insider Trading The buying and selling of stock shares by area executives Peter Ueberroth Director Bank of America Shares bought: 1,553 Share price: $54.48 [*] Share value: ...

Freight pros say business is getting back to normal.(Steve Akre, Junki Yoshida)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 26, 2001... An unprecedented two-day halt in air traffic, military action in Central Asia and heightened security throughout the country have the potential to change the movement of goods into and throughout the United States. And no one understands...

Owners decide to renovate downtown buildings.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Few cranes cast shadows over downtown, as developers hesitate on speculative projects. But a closer look shows plenty of downtown construction--in the form of major building renovations. The 50-year-old Fifth Avenue Building's...

Metro housing starts showing signs of growth.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... Despite the recession, home builders are hanging in there. Statistics show new housing starts nationally and housing permits locally are up slightly--better than experts predicted. "We expected a slight decline in the market after the...

Once-promising FatEarth faces uncertain future.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Posturing, swelling, dieting and then coming full circle in the matter of a year, Portland's FatEarth Inc. is nearly emaciated. All that remains from a 12-person staff, downtown offices, modest seed funding and unyielding optimism are the...

Time Warner Telecom cutting Vancouver jobs.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Time Warner Telecom Inc. (Nasdaq: TWTC) announced Oct. 23 that the company would eliminate about 250 positions, most of them from its Vancouver, Wash., location. Company management said the moves were prompted by a desire for more...

Toyota gathers neighbor input.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Although Toyota and officials at the Port of Portland have yet to reach a lease agreement that would keep the automaker at the port, design work to redevelop the automaker's dock-side facility is under way Toyota and the port recently held an...

OHSU finds national leader for medical school.(Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Dr. Christine Cassel, a national expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and the quality of clinical care, will return to Oregon as the first female dean of the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine. When Cassel takes...

Manufacturers voice outrage over energy rates.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Portland manufacturers said a hike in electricity rates of more than 50 percent will equate to layoffs and possibly even plant closures. Manufacturers and other Portland business leaders packed two rooms at the Oregon Convention Center Oct....

New world of environmental civil disobedience.
October 26, 2001... Last week's Society of Environmental Journalists national conference in Portland addressed a bevy of environmental conflicts, but perhaps none is so polarized as the frontline ruckus between Northwest activists and loggers. An Oct. 19...

Getting to true financial results often difficult.(pro forma)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... These are tough times for investors. The national economy is tanking, companies are struggling and Wall Street is jittery. Worst of all for investors, it's times like these that make it damn tough to get straight answers and...

Norton pumps up Bush record on environment.(Gale Norton, U.S. Interior Secretary)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... If readers take the front page of this newspaper, dissect it by its four columns, home in on one specific paragraph, zoom in on one word and then focus on less than one half of one letter--that's proportional to the amount of space that would...

Regence offering a new health insurance option.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon is offering a new plan to employers who choose its care management program for their employees. The plan, called Individua, is designed to deliver "individually focused health care." Each employer...

Providence offers resources for breast cancer information.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Providence Health System has introduced a new online service to answer questions and recommend resources about breast cancer. The Providence Breast Cancer Support and Information Center was developed by a team of breast cancer experts and...

Employers encouraged to help workers invest.(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... The House Education and Workforce Committee approved legislation that would encourage employers to offer investment advice to their employees. Current law discourages employers from offering this benefit because they can be held liable...

PRISON PROGRAM MAY LOSE MONOPOLY.(Federal Prison Industries Inc., Senate vote, good for small businesses)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... The Senate struck a blow for small businesses that feel they are being unfairly shut out of government contracting opportunities by Federal Prison Industries, an inmate work program that has the power to force agencies to buy its products and...

HOUSE APPROVES COMPLIANCE COUNSELING.(bill for small businesses, sponsored by New York republican John Sweeney)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... The House passed legislation that would enable 20 Small Business Development Centers around the country to provide regulatory compliance training and counseling. If the pilot program is successful, it could be expanded to all 1,000 Small...

KANSAS CITY ATTORNEY SBA OMBUDSMAN.(Kansas City, Missouri, attorney Michael Barrera appointed to U.S. Small Business Administration)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Small businesses with complaints about federal regulators have a new friend in Washington: Kansas City, Mo., attorney Michael Barrera, who was named by President Bush to head the Small Business Administration's Office of the National...

Options abound when looking for bank loans.(Keith Leggett of American Bankers Association, U.S. Small Business Administration, bank loans)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... Options. Options. Options. Bank loans are confusing enough. But mix other sources--such as venture capital, angel investments and direct financing--into the funding equation, and the situation becomes even more perplexing. When...

EXECUTIVE PROFILE: Kirk Cameron.(of eei Solutions)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Kirk Cameron Organization: eei Solutions, a Prosodie Company Title: President What we do: Front-end call center services using interactive technology Eei Solutions is a call center applications and...

Patience with patients.(AVI BioPharma Inc.)
October 26, 2001... AVI Bio Pharma runs lengthy trials of cancer-fighting drugs Talk about a tough sell. It's a small, 21-year-old public company that hasn't delivered a product to market yet. Its operating expenses outstrip revenue 45 to one. Its...

Comerica deal brings new player to Portland.(Comerica Inc., Imperial Bank merger)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Comerica Inc.'s acquisition this year of Imperial Bank has brought the Comerica name to Portland and may produce growth for the small Portland outpost that Imperial operated here. That outpost consisted of a loan production office in...

CALIFORNIA RETIRING.(Columbia Management Co. opens office in Northern California)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Hoping to attract more California companies to its retirement plan products,. money management firm Columbia Management Co. has opened an office in Northern California. The Portland-based company said that the new office, located in the Bay...

RETIREMENT ALLIANCE.(Centennial Bank alliance with Deschutes Investment Advisors)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Speaking of retirement plan products, Centennial Bank has allied itself with Deschutes Investment Advisors to provide retirement plan administration for Centennial Bank's current and potential clients. The decision was made after a six-month...

Student looking to map local tech's family tree.
October 26, 2001... Heike Mayer, a doctoral student at Portland State University, has asked for my help in getting the word out to the tech community about her update of the Silicon Forest family tree poster. Mayer is hoping to complete her survey of about...

FORUM TO HOLD SESSION.
October 26, 2001... The second session of the Silicon Forest Forum will take place on Nov. 10 at the Intel Oregon campus in Hillsboro. Titled "Technology Partnering, Acquisitions and IPOs," Session Two will feature speakers on a variety of topics, including...

Rate hike could be a needed wake-up call.(Portland General Electric Co.)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 26, 2001... It's true--the good people of Oregon and Washington consume more power per capita than, gulp,' the good people of California. Conventional wisdom tells us the reason is one of plain convenience: The Northwest has long enjoyed cheap...

DOSSIER: Reuel Fish.(Urban Wineworks)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Urban Wineworks serves as the tasting room for Bishop Creek, a Yamhill County vineyard that previously sold grapes to other wineries but sold no wine under its own label. The year-old Portland business now retails premium wines under the...

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE.(appointments in the organizational, banking, and telecommunications sectors)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... ARCHITECTURE Waterleaf Architecture & Interiors added Bill Bailey as project architect. COMMUNICATIONS Verizon Communications named Allan Thorns vice president of Northwest public policy and external affairs. Pac/West...

It's not the time for this message.(how to spend money in wake of terrorist attacks)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 26, 2001... There's a polite but persistent mess age going around these days that I find rather unsettling. It goes something like this: We know you're upset about all those people who perished so tragically in the terrorist attacks. We know you...

Pride Industries' quiet hero.(Mike Ziegler)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 26, 2001... For those of you who missed it, we had one of the most inspiring Power Breakfasts of the year last week It was not our most well-attended Power Breakfast nor was it our most well-known guest. In fact, you've probably never heard of him. But,...

Gift guide's focus was appropriate for the times.
October 26, 2001... To the editor: Your message to readers and the accompanying article on who to give to in support of relief efforts in the wake of Sept.11 was enlightening. You offered a usable guide to the maze of helping organizations that have stepped...

A look at the region's Winners & Losers.(in Oregon, Portland State University, TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., ODS Health Plans)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2001... Portland State University Portland's urban academic hot spot has recently hosted some world-class events, among them the Society of Environmental Journalists convention. Speakers presented diverse viewpoints, and included U.S. Secretary...

SLAPSHOTS.
October 26, 2001... Mind and time bender Shhh... don't tell your office buddies about the film that debuted at Cinema 21 last weekend. The surprise ending is eerier than "The Sixth Sense" and more twisted than "Memento"-this one derails your train of...

FROM THE PUBLISHER.
October 26, 2001... Welcome to Structures 2001. We decided to try something a little different this year with this publication. We've attempted to focus our attention on some recent projects and developments that we feel will have a significant impact on the...

EAST BANK ESPLANADE.(of Portland, Oregon, construction and companies involved)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... OWNER: City of Portland GENERAL CONTRACTORS: Advanced American Diving (floating walkway, Steel Bridge and pedestrian improvements); Salmon Street to Hawthorne section Slayden Construction DESIGN CONSULTANTS KPFF Consulting Engineers...

Tenants gain upper hand in office market slump.(in Portland, Oregon, real estate and building prices and rates go down)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... The only happy people in Hillsboro's office real estate market are the tenants. That's because they don't have to bother with neighbors--they probably don't have any And finding that perfect office? There are plenty to choose from. ...

Industrial vacancies jump 28 percent over last year.(industrial real estate prices and rates)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... If there's any good news for Portland's industrial real estate market, the numbers aren't showing it. Third-quarter real estate statistics compiled by CB Richard Ellis show a yearlong trend of rising vacancy rates, now at 6.37 percent, 28...

Despite slump, builders keep projects moving.(real estate companies in Portland, Oregon)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... The economic slowdown of 2001 has cooled off Portland's real estate sector considerably. The high-tech layoffs and dot-com failures put a lot of office space up for lease, especially on the West side. But some developers are still cautiously...

J. VOLLUM NATURAL CAPITAL CENTER.(building in Oregon, construction and contract companies, owner)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... 907 NW Irving St. OWNER: Ecotrust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a conservation economy on the West Coast. REDEVELOPER: Bob Naito, Heritage Consulting Group ARCHITECT: Greg Acker and Hoist Architecture PC ...

PGE PARK.(developers, owner, and contractors)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... 1844 S.W. Morrison St. OWNER: City of Portland DEVELOPER: Portland Family Entertainment CONTRACTOR: Turner Construction Co. of Oregon ARCHITECTS: Ellerbe Becket of Kansas City, Mo. COMPLETED: April 28, 2001 PROJECT...

PORTLAND STREETCAR.(in Portland, Oregon, contractors and construction companies)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... OWNER: City of Portland. Oversight of consultants for design construction and operations of streetcar managed by a non profit Portland Streetcar board of directors. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Shiels Obletz and Johnsen GENERAL CONTRACTOR:...

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.(in Portland, Oregon, contractors and construction companies)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... 4015 S. W Canyon Road (former site of OMSI, near the Oregon Zoo) OWNER: Portland Parks and Recreation (leased to the Children's Museum for $1 0 for 30 years). DEVELOPERS: Portland Parks, Children's Museum, Rotary International ...

AIRPORT MAX.(in Portland, Oregon, owners and contractors)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... Running from downtown Portland to the airport OWNER: Tri-Met (Tri-County Metropolitan Service District) DEVELOPER: The Airport MAX extension is a public/private venture that includes the Port of Portland, Tri-Met, Portland Development...

THE BREWERY BLOCKS.(Portland, Oregon historic district under development by Gerding/Edlen Development Co.)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... The heart of the Brewery Blocks T is padlocked behind a crude ply wood door. It's a little room on the top floor of Henry Weinhard's former brewhouse, up precarious stairs and through a room smelling of hops and. pigeon droppings. ...

CASCADE STATION.(commercial property development, Portland, Oregon)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... 120 acres west of 1-205 and South of Airport Way So far, it's a really nice--but out of place--park. It's not surprising that Airport MAX riders eyeball with curiosity an overgrown field near the intersection, of Airport Way and...

PEARL DISTRICT.(Portland, Oregon historic district development)
October 26, 2001... Industrial-strength living, with style Call it the Pearl District; call it Old Town or the River District or the Northwest Triangle. Regardless of the name, the magical area bounded by West Burnside Street, Interstate 405 and the...

LENTS TOWN CENTER PLAZA.(Portland, Oregon suburb plans for development)
October 26, 2001... Between 91st Ave., Foster Road and Reed Way In many of Portland neighborhoods, the mixed-use project known as Lents Town Center Plaza might not attract a second glance. After all, as the Urban Growth Boundary prescribes greater density...

ADIDAS VILLAGE.(adidas-Salomon AG plans US headquarters in Portland, Oregon)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... 5055 N Greeley Ave. Bess Kaiser Medical Center just got a makeover--and boy, does it look spiffy. In January, the former hospital building will become the adidas Village--the new headquarters of adidas America, adidas...

CONVENTION CENTER.(Oregon Convention Center plans construction project)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... 777 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. It won't get two more gleaming glass spires, but just about everything else at the Oregon Convention Center will double during a 26-month-long construction project. Exhibit space will increase 41...

CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE CENTER.(designed by Architects Barrentine Bates Lee )(Statistical Data Included)
October 26, 2001... Corner of Franklin and 13th streets in Vancouver For all the talk of rapid population influx to different parts of Portland, perhaps no area is growing more rapidly than across the Columbia River in Clark County, Wash. With...

Top building maintenance companies.(Illustration)
October 26, 2001... Top building maintenance companies Ranked by metro daily average square footage cleaned Rank Phone last fax Rank year Company web site ...

Top 25 business parks.(Illustration)
October 26, 2001... Top 25 business parks Ranked by square footage of buildings Rank Total square Rank last footage year Company ...

When stats aren't the story.(Oregon Steel Mills Inc. disputes charge that it is largest polluter in Portland area)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... The announcer in the radio ad began with the tone of a congratulatory game-show host. The mood turned serious, however, when the announcer explained how Oregon Steel Mills is Portland's biggest polluter for the fourth year in a row. The...

Geranium Lake isn't the usual flowery story.(Geranium Lake Flower Shop in Portland's US Bancorp Tower)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... The walls of the Geranium Lake Flower Shop are hot pink and lime, a shock of color in the lobby of Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower. The tallest building in town, the tower is nicknamed "Big Pink" for its softest of silvered pink facade....

Walgreens closing in on a downtown home.(looking to sign lease in Portland Hilton Executive Tower)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... Walgreens could be the next major retailer in downtown Portland if a lease for 20,000 square feet in the Portland Hilton Executive Tower is cemented. Melvin Mark Properties President J. Scott Andrews said his company is in final lease...

Coastal real estate market looking like it's out to sea.(real estate market along the Oregon coast appears to be in recession)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... Oregon's coastal real estate market is feeling the shockwaves of an economic recession, last month's terrorist attacks and lagging tourism. But some developers are still convinced their product will sell despite the hard times. Two case...

Telecom consultants find hidden money for clients.(Ruby Communications)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... Five or six years ago, one would have been hard put to find a consulting firm that specialized in designing telephone and data systems, or one that would go through your phone bill to determine if you were paying the right rates. But...

NFIB says optimism down, some locals disagree.(National Federation of Independent Business)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... Optimism among small business owners has taken a sharp decline according to the National Federation of Independent Business. The NFIB, whose president and CEO Jack Faris spoke in Portland recently, released a special edition of its...

Home Builders lose first round against Tri-Met.(Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland wants its ads on buses)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... The Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland and Tri-Met will have to go another round in their fight over whether HBA has the right to advertise on buses. Tri-Met removed HBA's ads, which advocate expanding the urban growth...

AMEX officials delist Assisted Living Concepts.(delisted from the American Stock Exchange)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2001, 8.05 A.M. Assisted Living Concepts, the debt-plagued Portland company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Oct. 1, will be delisted from the American Stock Exchange. AMEX officials notified Assisted Living...

Applied Materials Inc.(acquires property from IDT)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2001, 9:37 A.M. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Applied Materials Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT) purchased a 26-acre property in Hillsboro's chip corridor. The property located in Dawson Creek Corporate Park, was purchased from IDT...

Beall Corp.(acquires Pioneer Truck Equipment assets)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2001, 11:37 AM. Portland-based trailer manufacturer Beall Corp. has acquired the assets of Pioneer Truck Equipment of Salem. Beall plans to merge its Truckweld line of dump trailer products, now built in Kent, Wash.,...

Clarity Visual Systems Inc.(one of Oregon's fastest-growing companies)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2001, 2:17 P.M. Nine Oregon-based companies were named by Inc. magazine as among the 500 fastest-growing companies in the country The business magazine's list, which tracks companies' growth over a five-year period,...

Portland International Airport.(reports passenger decrease in Sept. 2001)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 19, 2001... TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2001, 11:37 A.M. Portland International Airport reported a 30 percent decrease in passengers traveling through PDX in September 2001 compared with September 2000. Due to the slowdown, PDX scaled back $52 million in...

Alaska Airlines.(to install reinforced, bulletproof cockpit doors)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2001 10:29 A.M. Alaska Airlines will install reinforced, bulletproof cockpit doors on all its jetliners by Nov. 15. The project's initial phase will cost $1.2 million. The, existing doors on the Boeing 737s will be...

Louisiana-Pacific Corp.(cutting production at North American facilities)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2001, 2:33 P.M. Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (NYSE: LPX) will suspend production at most of its North American facilities for two weeks at a time, beginning in October, on a rolling basis. In addition, the company...

OSU and OHSU tackle pharmacy partnership.(Oregon State University, Oregon Health Sciences University)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 19, 2001... Oregon State University, home of the only professional pharmacy training program in Oregon, is strengthening its relationship with Oregon Health & Science University to collaborate on pharmacy education. The program's, primary mission,...

Bethlehem's Chapter 11 filing won't hurt Tri-Met.(Bethlehem Steel Inc. subsidiary with contract to make rails for Tri-Met will be able to fulfill contract)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... The Bethlehem Steel subsidiary hired by Tri-Met to make the rail for Interstate MAX is now caught up in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of its parent company. The Bethlehem, Pa.-based steel company filed bankruptcy Oct. 15, a move...

InFocus performance slumps.(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... InFocus Corp. managed to stay profitable despite a sharp drop in third-quarter revenue as compared with results from a year earlier. The Wilsonville-based maker of projection display systems reported third-quarter revenue of $180 million,...

Timber takeover fight heads in new direction.(Willamette Industries Inc. being sought by Weyerhaeuser Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... Willamette Industries Inc.'s (NYSE: WLL) "just say no Wey" attitude toward a hostile takeover attempt launched by timber industry rival Weyerhaeuser Corp. (NYSE: WY) has turned to "show us the money." On Oct. 11, Willamette notified...

Dissident candidate gets seat on OTFC's board.(Oregon Trail Financial Corp. )(Brief Article)
October 19, 2001... By a convincing margin, shareholders of Oregon Trail Financial Corp. elected dissident candidate Kevin Padrick to a seat on the board of directors of Oregon Trail Financial Corp. The proxy vote, conducted at OTFC's Oct. 12 annual meeting...