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American Red Cross Stresses Family Preparedness During National Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 7-13: To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Carrie Housman, +1-202-303-4485, or Jenny Brennan, +1- 202-303-4460, both of the American Red Cross Red Cross Fire Response up 10% in Six YearsWASHINGTON, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross urges families to prepare for and take action to prevent home fires during National Fire Prevention...; Tags: American Red Cross, FINANCE, Red Cross, Y2K; Research articles 2007-10-04
Your investments and the economy.(Business): Byline: Michael Sean Comerford mcomerford@@dailyherald.com Why is the S&P near a record and the Nasdaq still struggling? "For one thing, you have a heavy presence of tech on the Nasdaq versus the (Standard & Poor's 500 index). Tech was more...; Tags: FINANCE, investment, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., S&P, Y2K; Research articles 2007-05-27
Regulation: The Nine Billion Dollar Manacle - The Markets In Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), Also Known As The Investment Services Directive #2, Promises True Trading Transparency But At A Cost Akin To That Of Dealing With Y2K Problems.: What is it? MiFID targets dealings in the investment markets, and is intended to introduce full transparency in all trading in equities. The commission is considering and extension of the regime to bonds and derivatives. Who dreamed it up? ...; Tags: bond, equity, European Commission, FINANCE, financial, Investment, Y2K; Research articles 2005-10-01
The Win-at-All-Costs President: Here are two stories about young "Georgie" Bush that you may not have heard, but which are worth recounting as he travels the globe as a world leader. As a boy in Maine, he was the oldest of many cousins, and would set the rules for summer games at...; Tags: FINANCE, Forbes, Investment, Y2K; Research articles 2005-02-23
20 UNDER 40: David Thompson: West Toledo YMCA Nominated by Mark Urrutia Throughout the 19 years David Thompson has worked for the YMCA, he has dedicated himself to serving people. He was one of five students that started a University YMCA on the campus of Bowling Green State University BGSU and was later president...; Tags: Bowling Green State University, FINANCE, surplus, Thompson, Y2K; Research articles 2004-10-01

CME clearing house surpasses one billion cleared trades for 2004; Electronic trading at CME approaching one billion milestone.: M2 PRESSWIRE-28 September 2004-Chicago Mercantile Exchange: CME clearing house surpasses one billion cleared trades for 2004; Electronic trading at CME approaching one billion milestoneC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09272004 CHICAGO - Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CME, the largest U.S. futures exchange...; Tags: Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., CME, FINANCE, Y2K; Research articles 2004-09-28
City raises funds in creative ways: How does a rural community in an economically depressed area build a $4.4-million multi-sport athletic complex for $150,000 in city funds and $400,000 in in-kind labor? Answer: A lot of hard work and a little luck. The city of Aberdeen, Wash., is located at the confluence of the...; Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., FINANCE, MARKETING, Y2K; Research articles 2004-08-01
Al Qaeda updated pre-9/11 target surveillance in 2004, U.S. official says.: By Frank James, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 3--WASHINGTON -- Al Qaeda's surveillance of American financial centers extended back at least to the year 2000 and was updated earlier this year, a senior U.S. government official said Monday. ...; Tags: Al-Qaeda, attack, FINANCE, financial, Government, SECURITY, U.S., Washington, Y2K; Research articles 2004-08-03
Detroit Free Press Susan Tompor column.: By Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 25--WARY WALL STREET KEEPS CAREFUL EYES ON CENTRAL BANK: Hear anybody chat up stocks lately? Yeah, right. Nobody's talking stocks. Investors pretty much have been sitting tight, crossing their fingers...; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Investment, investor, Iraq, stock, Y2K; Research articles 2004-06-25
June 30 may be defining day for Street: NEW YORK -- It's not often that what happens on a single day can mark a definitive trend change on Wall Street. But June 30 is shaping up to be one of those rare 24-hour periods. Analysts, traders and money managers are fixated on the last day of June....; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Investment, investor, Iraq, stock, Y2K; Research articles 2004-06-14
BNET Dispatch: March 5, 2007: With daylights savings time starting three weeks early this year, companies are scrambling to reset their hardware and software systems to sync up with the time change. The new changes are causing IT headaches reminiscent of the Y2K bug in 2000, and may impact data-centers, desktop computers, and...; Tags: Y2K, Ford Motor Co., Research In Motion Ltd., Tools & Techniques, Stock Options, Data Centers, Handhelds, Financial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Benefits, Stock Options & Grants, Management, Finance, Joseph De Avila; Blog posts 2007-03-05
Major General Kenneth R. Israel: MAJOR GENERAL KENNETH R. ISRAEL Retired Oct. 1, 1998. Major General Kenneth R. Israel is assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for airborne reconnaissance, and director of the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, Washington, D.C. His responsibilities include developing and evolving a unifying architecture along with development, acquisition and investment...; Tags: Air Force, FINANCE, Investment, Manufacturing, NETWORKING, officer, Y2K; Research articles 2004-01-01
Tech titles slowing.: Aug 22, 2003 (Ad News - ABIX via COMTEX) There has been little circulation growth for most Australian computer magazines. Audit Bureau of Circulations figures are for the year to 30 June 2003. The best circulation increase was recorded by "Australian PC User" (published...; Tags: audit, FINANCE, International Data Group, PRODUCTIVITY, Y2K; Research articles 2003-08-22
Contracts.: M2 PRESSWIRE-18 August 2003-US DOD: ContractsC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08152003 MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY The Missile Defense Agency is announcing the award of cost-plus-award-fee letter contract N00024-03-C-6111 to Raytheon Systems Co. of Tucson, Ariz. The period of performance for...; Tags: Air Force, FINANCE, Manufacturing, negotiation, Ohio, solicitation, turbine, Y2K; Research articles 2003-08-18
Investors Still Wary of Corporate Leadership.: By Porus P. Cooper, The Philadelphia In...uirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 27--Many compare the frenzy to Y2K, only it's not likely to end at the New Year. Urged on by securities regulators, lawyers and others, public companies are...; Tags: accounting, audit, Enron Corp., FINANCE, financial, Government, investor, leadership, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, Y2K; Research articles 2003-07-27
SOX could spell Y2k for IT spending, implementations. (Technology: news and trends in information systems and electronic commerce).: BOSTON -- The Sarbanes-Oxley law's new standards for financial reporting have set the stage for a surge in information technology implementations that could be comparable to the Year 2000 compliance buying craze of the late 1990s, reports AMR Research. Eighty-five percent of publicly traded companies in a recent...; Tags: AMR Research, audit, FINANCE, financial, Government, IT-spending, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Y2K; Research articles 2003-07-07
National Press Club Awards Graduate Fellowship: WASHINGTON, June 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Paul Burkhardt of Chicago, Ill., has been selected to receive the National Press Club's 2003 Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism. Burkhardt will use the one-year stipend of $5,000 to attend Columbia University School of Journalism where he has enrolled in the magazine...; Tags: CAREER, Chicago, Columbia University, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, Y2K; Research articles 2003-06-30
House Members' Office Spending Jumps 8.9 Percent in Single Year, National Taxpayer Group's Study Finds: ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Despite being hampered by over 4,400 corrections to the House's original expense reports, a study released today by the non-partisan National Taxpayers Union NTU found that House Members boosted expenditures on their own offices by 8.9 percent overall in the year 2001, while...; Tags: Editor, FINANCE, U.S. Congress, Y2K; Research articles 2003-04-17
Smokechasing: by Stephen J. Pyne The University of Arizona Press, 2003; $37.50 When the harmattan blows south from the Sahara, nighttime satellite images of Ghana and Nigeria light up like fireflies on a summer's evening: West Africa is burning. The harmattan is a dry wind in a dry season. Later,...; Tags: essay, FINANCE, firefighter, University of Arizona, Y2K; Research articles 2003-04-01
Capitalization of retreads and replacements. (irs briefing): IRS Chief Counsel Advice Memorandum 200252091 concludes that a taxpayer who has not elected to account for the cost of original and replacement tires for all of its qualifying vehicles under the original tire capitalization method should capitalize the cost of retread tires used as the original or replacement set...; Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, Y2K; Research articles 2003-02-01