Byline: Gina Tenorio Dec. 24--SAN BERNARDINO -- Rental housing does not cause crime. But experts say it attracts crime. Amid growing concern about crime and violence, politicians, law-enforcement officials and community leaders are casting about for solutions. One way may be increasing the
Source: San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-02
Byline: Kimberly Edds SANTA ANA, Calif. _ Surgeons and administrators at a California hospital turned away organs that could have helped Medicare patients so higher-paying operations could be performed, according to a lawsuit filed by the families of nine patients who died while waiting to receive
Source: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Posted: 2006-01-02
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE HOLDS A HEARING ON NANOTECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 17, 2005 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT (R-NY) CHAIRMAN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE RALPH M. HALL (R-TX) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE LAMAR S. SMITH (R-TX) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CURT WELDON (R-PA) U.S. REPRESENTATIVE DANA
Source: Washington Transcript Service
Posted: 2006-01-02
Compass eyes Cousins for top job Byline: MATTHEW MOORE Section: City HEADHUNTERS acting for Compass, the troubled caterer, have approached Richard Cousins, the recently departed head of BPB, the plasterboard maker, to be its new chief executive. Compass shareholders, frustrated at what they
Dateline: LANSING, Mich. Thirty years ago, Dan Fairbanks looked at the jobs he could get with his college degree and what he could make working the line at General Motors Corp., and decided the GM job looked better. He still thinks he made the right choice. But with GM planning to end production of
Royal Ahold, the owner of the Giant and Stop & Shop supermarket chains in the United States, plans to eliminate about 700 jobs at its U.S. Foodservice unit as it cuts costs to try to regain an investment-grade credit rating. The company will take a charge of $50 million to $60 million in the
Source: International Herald Tribune
Posted: 2006-01-02