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• Composition right at property

  - 2004-12-08

  W&M Properties' proactive negotiations with two Ten Bank Street tenants has facilitated the expansion of one firm's office space and the downsizing of the other's, according to Jeffrey H. Newman, executive vice president of W&M, the marketing and managing agent for the building. Marubeni Specialty Chemicals, Inc. has increased...

  Tags: Addison-Wesley, bank, FINANCE, negotiation, tenant

• Mark R. Hubble

  - 2000-11-01

  Mark R. Hubble has been appointed president of CompassLearning, Inc. Hubble will be responsible for implementing the growth strategies and daily operations of CompassLearning. Before joining CompassLearning, Hubble served as group president of Thomson Financial Media Solutions and as president and ceo of Sheshunoff Information Services, both providers of global...

  Tags: Addison-Wesley, FINANCE, president, Thomson Corp.

• Publications and reports - Industry Trend or Event

  - 1999-10-01

  Voice Information Associates, Inc. has released its new study, Automatic Speech Recognition for Telephony Applications: The World- Wide Market: 1995-2003, which provides revenue projections for speech telephony market sectors. The 285-page study predicts that end-user revenue obtained from automatic speech recognition products will grow to about $1,168 million by 2003,...

  Tags: Addison-Wesley, DSL, FINANCE, NETWORKING, revenue, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• $3.6 Billion Acquisition To Create World's Leading Education Business

  - 1998-05-18

  LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--May 18, 1998---- Proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster education divisions from Viacom for a net price of $3.6bn - after selling Reference and Business & Professional divisions to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated for $1bn-- Combination of Simon ...

  Tags: acquisition, Addison-Wesley, Business Wire, education, Education, FINANCE, Investment, SALES, Simon & Schuster Inc.

• ActivChemistry. (educational software from Salamander Interactive and Addison-Wesley) (Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)

  - 1997-08-01

  Most of us would rather explain the income tax code than decipher the chemical compounds on a shampoo label. Luckily, there's ActivChemistry (Four Stars/7.0; $19.95 list price), a collaboration of Salamander Interactive and Addison-Wesley (415/854-0300, www.awl.com/bc/). Taking a multimedia approach to first-year chemistry, ActivChemistry turns...

  Tags: Addison-Wesley, chemistry, Collaboration, compound, FINANCE, software, Taxes

• George Wallace: American Populist. - book reviews

  - 1994-04-18

  George Wallace: American Populist, by Stephan Lesher (Addison-Wesley, 587 DD. $29.95) WHEN Governor George Wallace blocked the door of the University of Alabama to keep two black students from registering in 1963, a maintenance crew had painted white lines on the ground to mark where Wallace would stand, where...

  Tags: Addison-Wesley, Branding, FINANCE, Governor, MARKETING, Taxes