Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) articles from May 2002

Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) archives from May 2002

Judge Allows Suit against Deloitte & Touche over Heilig-Meyers Audit.
May 31, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan May 31--A federal judge is allowing a fraud lawsuit to proceed against accounting giant Deloitte & Touche for its financial audit of Heilig-Meyers Co. issued a couple months before the retailer filed for...

Sale of Miller Is Just Latest among Changes at Philip Morris.
May 31, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 31--The sale of Miller Brewing Co., announced yesterday, is just the latest in two years of changes for Philip Morris Cos. Inc. Since 2000, the New York-based tobacco, food and beer conglomerate has...

Richmond, Va., Port Mulls Options amid Weak Industry, Loss of Major Client.
May 31, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 31--Faced with falling revenue and limits on its James River channel, the Port of Richmond is at a critical juncture in its 62 year history, officials said at a meeting yesterday. "It's always existed as a...

Expanded Concourse Pleases Travelers through Richmond, Va., Airport.
May 31, 2002... Byline: Jeff Oliver May 31--The sense of relief shared by travelers outside Gate B13 of the expanded Concourse B at Richmond International Airport had little to do with punctuality. Sure, yesterday's United Airlines flight 349 to...

April Unemployment Drops to 3.9 Percent in Virginia.
May 30, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 30--The start of the tourism season helped reduce Virginia's unemployment rate in April. The jobless rate fell to 3.9 percent from a revised 4.1 percent in March, the Virginia Employment Commission...

AT&T Broadband to Raise Fee for High-Speed Internet Service.
May 30, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 30--High-speed Internet service soon will become more expensive for some AT&T Broadband customers. The company plans to raise the price of cable Internet service by $7 a month nationally. For modem...

Richmond, Va.-Based Business Offers Shoppers Rebate Plan for College Savings.
May 30, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan May 30--The latest twist on popular customer loyalty programs: earning money for college educations. Some of the country's biggest companies are joining with a business called Upromise that allows...

Verizon, Union Hold Talks in Richmond, Va.
May 30, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards May 30--Contract talks between Verizon's Texas-based Yellow Pages business and 73 salespeople and other workers began in earnest in Richmond yesterday. Laurie RaBorg, an organizer for LABOR the Communications...

Union Recommends Rejection of Dominion Virginia Power's Contract Offer.
May 29, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards May 29--The union that represents Dominion Virginia Power distribution, transmission and power-plant workers has recommended that its members reject the company's final contract offer. A rejection of the contract...

Richmond, Va., Airport Expected to See Passenger Numbers Stabilize Soon.
May 29, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 29--The number of passengers catching planes at Richmond International Airport is expected to stabilize by this fall, providing enough financial lift to increase operating revenue in the coming fiscal year. ...

Internal Revenue Service Establishes Help Lines in Virginia.
May 29, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard May 29--The Internal Revenue Service wants to help solve tax problems. The agency has established 11 local phone numbers in Virginia for people to call to make personal appointments to meet with IRS...

Armonk, N.Y.-Based Packaging Company to Open Plant in Franklin County, Va.
May 29, 2002... Byline: Rex Bowman May 29--Trinity Packaging Corp., which announced and then abandoned plans to build a $10 million plant in Mecklenburg County, instead will open a 300-employee plant in Franklin County. The company plans to use a...

Richmond, Va.-Based Media General Holds Annual Meeting.
May 26, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 26--Executives at Media General Inc. sounded cautiously optimistic yesterday at the company's annual meeting. "The worst advertising recession of the last 50 years severely depressed revenues and earnings" in...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
May 26, 2002... Byline: Iris Taylor May 26--After reading my January column on prepaid cellular phone packages, Charles Loomer of Richmond bought one from Verizon in Chesterfield Towne Center. At the time, Verizon said customers could purchase...

Gas Prices Lower Than Last Year's Memorial Day Weekend Across U.S.
May 26, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 26--Travelers won't feel as much pain when they fill up their gas tanks this Memorial Day weekend as they did last year, the AAA said. In Virginia, the price of self-serve regular gasoline is averaging...

Richmond, Va., Chip Design Plant to Close Down Next Month.
May 26, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 26--Philips Semiconductors next month will close a Richmond office that designs chips for secure Internet purchases, eliminating 15 jobs in the process. But the engineers who worked on the Philips...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
May 26, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 26--The very mention of economics, known in some circles as the dismal science, is enough to draw yawns, grimaces and befuddled moans from otherwise intelligent people. That may explain why, as a nation, we...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
May 26, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 26--My computer at work is soooo slow. Yours too, eh? Well, join the club. As someone who likes to play the senseless speed game with my PC at home, I'm surprised at how many people at work and home...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
May 26, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 26--Did you know the U.S. Postal Service is about to begin charging 5 cents for every e-mail sent? It's a response to all the business lost to electronic messaging. The post office feels the pain. This is...

African-American Business Magazine Names Top Virginia Companies.
May 25, 2002... Byline: Jeff Oliver May 25--When many of the nation's businesses wilted last year waiting for the sun to come out, Virginia's minority enterprises somehow flourished. Black Enterprise, a magazine devoted to African-American business,...

U.S. Tobacco Spent More on Advertising in 2000, Despite Restrictions.
May 25, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 25--The U.S. tobacco industry's spending on cigarette marketing swelled from 1999 to 2000, despite tighter restrictions on advertising. Philip Morris Cos. Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other...

Richmond, Va., International Airport Sees Passenger Shortfall Again in April.
May 25, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 25--Richmond International Airport continued to have a passenger shortfall in April, with a 15.9 percent drop compared with the same month last year. "It's just evidence of a very slow recovery," airport...

Richmond, Va., Bank Approves Stock Split.
May 24, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard May 24--The CommonWealth Bank approved a five-for-four stock split, company executives announced at yesterday's annual meeting. Stockholders of record will receive one additional share of common stock for each...

Richmond, Va.-Based Biotechnology Firm Focuses on Research Contracts.
May 24, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 24--After enduring a "horrific" year for its industry, Commonwealth Biotechnologies is concentrating on developing long-term research contracts that can establish a regular and reliable source of revenue. ...

Richmond, Va.-Based Discount Menswear Retailer Optimistic for Profit Increase.
May 24, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan May 24--The past couple of years have been challenging for discount menswear retailer S&K Famous Brands Inc., producing somewhat lackluster results. Sales, for instance, fell 4 percent last year, while...

Forbes Chairman, Virginia Governor Tout Magazine-State Tie.
May 24, 2002... Byline: Jeff Oliver May 24--Caspar Weinberger, Forbes chairman and former U.S. secretary of defense, told 85 of the heaviest of Virginia's executive heavyweights how well Gov. Mark R. Warner is keeping his promises. Warner...

FHA Loan Default Rate Examined in Richmond, Va., Other Cities.
May 23, 2002... Byline: Donna W. Rogers May 23--The top federal housing agency is abandoning low-income and minority neighborhoods in Richmond by allowing high home loan default rates by some lenders, a national community advocacy group says. A...

Glen Allen, Va.-Based Bank Sees Rise in Assets Last Year.
May 23, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard May 23--First Capital Bank, open since December 1998, became profitable last year in a tough economic environment. The Glen Allen-based bank increased assets by 79 percent. It saw dramatic growth in loan and...

Union Workers at Two Honeywell Plants in Virginia Approve Contract.
May 23, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 23--Union employees at two local Honeywell International Inc. plants have voted to accept a new contract. By a wide margin, members of the Teamsters Local 101 approved a three-year contract with the...

Court Decision Allows Real-Estate Surcharge by Lenders.
May 23, 2002... Byline: Alan Cooper May 23--The federal Real Estate Settlement Practices Act allows lenders to charge consumers more than the lenders pay for such settlement services as credit reports. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of...

University of Virginia Architecture Students Seek to Save Sanatorium Site.
May 22, 2002... Byline: Carlos Santos May 22--CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--The University of Virginia's plan to demolish the Blue Ridge Tuberculosis Sanatorium is being assailed by the school's own architecture students, who uncovered its potential historic...

Pending Home Sales Drop in Virginia but Closed Ones Rise.
May 22, 2002... Byline: Donna W. Rogers May 22--Pending sales, which measure the active demand for homes, slowed in greater Richmond and statewide in March as the number of contracts signed dropped compared with March 2001, according to Realtor groups....

Budget Woes at Virginia Tech Hit Faculty, Local Agricultural Agents.
May 22, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards May 22--Centuries of Virginia agricultural expertise soon will disappear in one fell swoop of the state's budget-cutting scythe. More than 30 faculty members in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life...

Richmond, Va.-Based Specialty Insurer Posts Loss Second Year in Row.
May 22, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 22--Markel Corp., a Richmond-based specialty insurer, posted a net loss for the second year in a row in 2001. The company was hurt by underwriting losses at its international division, where it took $109...

Richmond, Va.-Based Title, Real Estate Firm Posts Strong Quarterly Results.
May 22, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 22--LandAmerica posted strong results in 2001 and the first quarter of 2002, thanks to a vibrant real estate market and high demand for mortgage refinancing, spurred by low interest rates. Excluding special...

Richmond, Va.-Based Realty Trust Buys Alexandria Community.
May 22, 2002... Byline: Donna W. Rogers May 22--United Dominion Realty Trust Inc. said yesterday it has bought Presidential Greens Apartments, a 397-unit community in Alexandria, for $30.2 million. The Richmond-based apartment real estate investment...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Trade Names Column.
May 21, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard May 21--One of the most profitable groups at the old Branch Cabell & Co. is spinning off to form Thompson Davis & Co. Co-founder William D. Davis Jr. uses the same strategy for discovering small, growth companies...

Teamsters Authorize Strike if Talks with UPS Fail.
May 21, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 21--Teamsters union members at United Parcel Service Inc. have given their leaders a green light to mount a strike if a contract agreement is not reached. The strike authorization was approved by 93 percent of...

Virginia Legislator Wants Companies to Label CDs Containing Copy Protection.
May 20, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 20--U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-9th, plans to propose a law that would require recording companies to label music CDs that contain copy-protection technology. The technology, embedded into CDs, prevents...

Newport News, Williamsburg, Va., Airport Sees Increase with Budget Air Carrier.
May 18, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 18--Brian Eckert calls himself "a very sensitive airline ticket shopper." So whenever he must fly to Florida to see his ailing mother, he thinks nothing of driving past Richmond International Airport down...

Richmond, Va., Entrepreneur Takes a Swing at Wooden Bat Business.
May 18, 2002... Byline: John O'Connor May 18--Selling wooden bats seems as sensible as peddling typewriter ribbons. From T-ball fields to college diamonds, players have swung springy, fat-headed alloy clubs for more than two decades. But Bob...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
May 18, 2002... Byline: Iris Taylor May 18--So you think the flooding, tornadoes and fierce winds that ripped through Bedford, Tazewell, Greensville, Cumberland, Shenandoah and other Virginia counties during the past few weeks won't happen in the...

Richmond, Va.-Based Dominion Works to Repair Damage from S&P Report.
May 18, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards May 18--Dominion Resources Inc.'s executives have been working to repair damage from a report by the debt-rating agency Standard & Poor's that caused a 6.2 percent plunge in the company's stock price. Thomas...

North Carolina Receives Call to Visit Richmond, Va.
May 18, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 18--Hey, North Carolina! We're easy to love! That's the message that 65,000 of our neighbors to the south are finding in their mailboxes these days. The Richmond Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau...

Legislator Wants Copy Protection Clearly Disclosed.
May 18, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 18--U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-9th, plans to propose a law that would require recording companies to label music CDs that contain copy-protection technology. The technology, embedded into CDs, prevents...

After Sept. 11, Richmond, Va., Shoe Shiners Worry About Business.
May 18, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 18--Jim Tilton was taking his wife and family up to the security screening area at Richmond International Airport when he noticed something that seemed to come from another era, before terrorists and searches and...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
May 18, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 18--DIGITAL MIGRATION RENDERS ALL THAT COOL STUFF OBSOLETE: The bulky pair of Cerwin Vega stereo speakers I bought at Circuit City a decade ago are good for nothing today. They're big enough to use as...

Properties in Chesterfield County, Va., Are Sold.
May 17, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 17--A group of investors led by a Northern Virginia real estate investment firm has paid $32.5 million for three buildings in the Boulders Office Park in Chesterfield County. SugarOak Properties LLC of...

Richmond, Va.-Based Circuit City's Credit Card Group Proves Highly Profitable.
May 17, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan May 17--Just over half of the operating profit generated last year at Circuit City and CarMax came from the retailer's credit card finance subsidiary. Financing activities have become increasingly...

Two DuPont Workers in Richmond, Va., File Bias Claims.
May 17, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 17--It's been 19 months since Confederate heritage enthusiasts began their weekly vigils outside the DuPont Co. plant on Jefferson Davis Highway. The demonstrators -- some DuPont employees, some...

Test Lab Hot Spot on DuPont Plant Tour in Richmond, Va.
May 17, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 17--Before igniting the torches that would engulf thermo-man in a wave of flames, Sandy Priddy-Bowen made sure everyone in the room knew about the big red button. The button, the lab operations manager...

Richmond, Va.-Area Technology Council Bestows Leadership Award.
May 17, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 17--The founding dean of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Engineering last night won the top leadership award of the Greater Richmond Technology Council. The council credited Henry McGee Jr....

Pennsylvania-Based Firm Plans Dry Ice Plant in Hopewell, Va.
May 17, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 17--A company that makes dry ice and liquid carbon dioxide is planning to build a $10 million plant in Hopewell. Airgas Inc. said this week it will construct the plant on the site of Honeywell...

Ernst & Young Adds Andersen Employees in Richmond, Va.
May 17, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard May 17--One day, they worked for Arthur Andersen LLP in Richmond. Yesterday, they became employees of Ernst & Young. Ernst & Young bought the tax and external auditing practice of Andersen's offices in Richmond,...

SunTrust Banks to Purchase Richmond, Va., Brokerage Office from Deutsche Bank.
May 16, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard May 16--SunTrust Banks Inc. is buying the Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown brokerage office in Richmond. The Richmond office, in Shockoe Slip, was one of four sites targeted for closure or sale. The others are in...

Circuit City Chairman Steps Over to CarMax.
May 16, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan May 16--Richard L. Sharp leaves Circuit City's board next month as expected, but he probably will take on another high-level retail job. Sharp has been nominated to serve as chairman of CarMax Inc. once...

Woodbrige, Va., Developer Tapped to Lead National Home Builders Association.
May 16, 2002... Byline: Paul Bradley May 16--ALEXANDRIA, Va.--Woodbridge builder and developer F. Gary Garczynski figures that he's fully equipped to handle his new position as the president of the National Association of Home Builders. And he's not...

Navy Backs Norfolk, Va.-Washington, D.C., Train Service.
May 16, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 16--WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--Backers of better passenger rail service in Virginia found an unlikely ally yesterday -- the Navy. Rear Adm. David Architzel, commander of the Navy's Mid-Atlantic Region in Norfolk, said...

Farm Bill May Produce Loan Money for Rural TV in Virginia.
May 16, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 16--The federal farm bill signed into law this week plants seeds that may produce local television signals for rural satellite television subscribers. Included in the massive bill is $80 million in loan...

Charlottesville, Va., Architect Designs Village in Hiroshima, Japan.
May 15, 2002... Byline: Preston Knight May 15--Hiroshima, Japan, and Virginia have something in common: a village. A project called "The Forest Hills Garden Village" has captured some of Virginia's most beautiful landscapes in the mountains of...

Virginia Housing Study Finds Many Apartments Don't Meet Accessibility Rules.
May 15, 2002... Byline: Donna W. Rogers May 15--Eighty-seven percent of multifamily apartments that opened after March 1991 in Roanoke, Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Fredericksburg do not meet federal and state accessibility requirements, a housing...

Richmond, Va.-Based Legal Giant Adds 22 Lawyers to Its Chicago Office.
May 15, 2002... Byline: Alan Cooper May 15--McGuireWoods, the Richmond-based legal giant, has added 22 lawyers to its Chicago office this year as part of its effort to create a presence in the Midwest. The firm has 50 lawyers there, and Theodore R....

Virginia Bill to Help Dairymen, but Peanut Growers Dislike Support Price.
May 14, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards May 14--The farm bill President Bush signed yesterday got a mixed but generally favorable review in Virginia. "I would say that this farm bill isn't about money to farmers, it's really about keeping the nation's...

Richmond, Va., Insurance Broker to Buy Atlanta Firm.
May 14, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 14--Another Richmond corporation is involved in a major acquisition, but this time the local company is doing the buying. Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Co., an aggressive insurance broker with a nationwide network...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
May 12, 2002... Byline: Iris Taylor May 12--You were thrilled when your fiance or spouse gave you a one-carat ring. You wore it everywhere. Then, one day, the stone came loose from the setting and vanished. You were devastated. But, at least you had...

PC Makers Look at Public Schools as Lucrative Source of Sales.
May 12, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 12--The iBook computer rules in Henrico County schools. But in Virginia Beach, the choice is Compaq. Virginia Beach City Public Schools, the second-largest Virginia school system, is spending $3 million...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Tech Notes Column.
May 12, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 12--Steve Burton's Newlife Technologies has accomplished what few Richmond area tech firms have been able to do in recent months: get funded. Burton's company attracted a $2 million round of investments,...

Blacksburg, Va., Biotechnology Firm Makes Research Deal with Amgen Inc.
May 11, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 11--The world's largest biotechnology company is interested in the potential use of genetically engineered tobacco plants to make pharmaceutical products. CropTech Corp., a small Blacksburg...

Finalists Picked in Virginia Entrepreneur Event.
May 11, 2002... May 11--Twenty-nine people representing 21 Virginia companies are finalists in the 2002 Ernst & Young Virginia Entrepreneur of the Year program. The program honors successful and innovative entrepreneurs. Award recipients will be...

Chairman of Fas Mart Convenience Stores in Richmond, Va., Area Resigns.
May 11, 2002... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan May 11--The top executive of beleaguered Fas Mart Convenience Stores Inc. has stepped down. Owais Dagra resigned as chairman, president and chief executive on May 3, the same day a federal bankruptcy court...

Coca-Cola Selects Richmond, Va., Ad Agency for Vanilla Coke Campaign.
May 10, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 10--They're ready to pop some tops down at The Martin Agency. Forget the champagne, though. Richmond's biggest advertising firm is sipping Vanilla Coke these days. Coca-Cola Co. said yesterday that it...

National Guard Ends Security Duty at Richmond, Va., Airport.
May 10, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 10--Hurrying for a plane at Richmond's airport yesterday, Leslie Smith, a college student on the go, didn't even notice the extra security posted along the way. "It doesn't make me feel safer," Smith, a...

Groups Want to Build Two Upscale Hotels in Downtown Fredericksburg, Va.
May 10, 2002... Byline: Kiran Krishnamurthy May 10--FREDERICKSBURG, Va.--Overnight visitors to Fredericksburg typically desert the city's historic downtown when the sandman calls, heading for chain motels near Interstate 95. But plans for two...

Coralville, Iowa-Based Trucking Firm to Buy Richmond, Va., Company.
May 10, 2002... Byline: Chip Jones May 10--Great Coastal Express Inc., one of the Richmond area's oldest and best-known trucking companies, is being sold to an Iowa-based corporation seeking a foothold in the mid-Atlantic region. Heartland Express...

Court Scraps Bristol, Va.'s Telecommunications Services Victory.
May 9, 2002... Byline: Greg Edwards May 9--Bristol's federal district court victory last year over a state law barring it and other Virginia localities from offering telecommunications services has been wiped away by a federal appeals court. The...

Richmond, Va., Region Visitors Center to Open.
May 9, 2002... Byline: Katherine Calos May 9--Richmond visitors have a grand new starting place for their exploration of the area, and officials are celebrating today in connection with National Tourism Week. The new Richmond Region Visitors Center...

Capital One Financial Temporarily Cuts Off Former Employees' Credit.
May 8, 2002... Byline: Carol Hazard May 8--Capital One Financial Corp. cut off credit for former employees, but reactivated their accounts late yesterday. The company said it placed restrictions Friday on the Capital One credit cards of people who...

Richmond, Va., Students Win First Place in Fed Challenge Competition.
May 8, 2002... Byline: Bob Rayner May 8--Some Richmond high school students may have a future scaring the stock market and making indecipherable comments to Congress. A team from the Maggie L. Walker School for Government and International Studies...

Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch Receives Marketing Contest Award.
May 8, 2002... May 8--The Richmond Times-Dispatch won a first-place award in a marketing contest sponsored by the International Newspaper Marketing Association and Editor & Publisher magazine. The award was given for the paper's Furnish advertorial,...

Richmond, Va., Lawyer Finds Practice Labor of Love.
May 7, 2002... Byline: John Reid Blackwell May 7--It seems only natural that Gary S. Marshall would choose labor law as his field of legal practice. He's done plenty of labor in his lifetime. Growing up in the small town of Crozet near...

U.S., Richmond, Va., Bosses Plan to Add Information Technology Jobs This Year.
May 7, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 7--After a year of layoffs and hiring freezes, national and local employers appear poised to add information technology workers. A national survey by the Information Technology Association of America...

Infineon Technologies Plant in Richmond, Va., Not Top Priority for Growth.
May 4, 2002... Byline: McGregor McCance May 4--After a year of losses, German computer chip-maker Infineon Technologies AG forecasts a return to steady growth in the industry in 2003 and 2004. The outlook for growth at its Richmond plant, however,...

Richmond, Va., Readers Offer Insight, Tips on Dealing with Junk E-mail.
May 4, 2002... May 4--Junk e-mail has become the exquisite target. Everyone hates it. No one disagrees that it's a complete hassle. So congratulations, spam, you have earned your spot among telemarketers and the Taliban. A Times-Dispatch...

Enron Corp., Owens & Minor a Study in Contrasts.
May 4, 2002... May 4--Even with his courtly, old Virginia manners, Gil Minor could barely disguise his contempt for the business scandal unleashed by Enron Corp. While the Owens & Minor chairman and chief executive never mentioned the fallen energy...