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Quakers get dance card punched again
FAILURE was never an option for Penn's basketball team this season. Sure, the Quakers had a new coach. They also had three senior starters who'd been part of the last two Ivy League champions. So, they were favored to threepeat for a reason. Still... "Sometimes, it's harder to...
Tags: Quaker, team, Yale University
Research articles 2007-03-03
IN MEMORIAM: Peter Brock
(1920-2006) A preeminent authority on East European history and the world's foremost scholar on the history of world-wide pacifism, Peter Brock, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto, died at his home on Sunday, 28 May 2006, at the age of 86. Engaged in scholarship until the end,...
Tags: NETWORKING, Quaker, SECURITY, Toronto, University of Toronto
Research articles 2007-03-01
Art, Education, and a "new world society": Joseph McCulley's Pickering College and Canadian Muralism, 1934-1950
In Depression-era Pickering College, a Quaker-founded private school in Newmarket, Ontario, headmaster Joseph McCulley guided what he called "a great experiment" in democratic education. McCulley's educational philosophy was influenced by progressivism, social Christianity, and democratic socialism. These ideological influences are also evident in a 1934 mural executed by Pickering College's...
Tags: Canada, Depression, education, ideal, Ontario, Quaker, Queen, Toronto, University of Toronto
Research articles 2007-01-01
Quakers fall short in overtime
During the heart of midterm-exam time on campus, the Penn football team faced a tough test of its own yesterday in its first Ivy League road game of the year. The Quakers and Yale took identical 4-1 overall and 2-0 league records into the game. And they battled into overtime...
Tags: Games, Penn, Quaker, Yale University
Research articles 2006-10-22
Quaker City Bancorp, Inc. Reports Earnings for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2004
WHITTIER, Calif. -- Quaker City Bancorp, Inc. ("Company") (NASDAQ: QCBC), the holding company for Quaker City Bank ("Bank"), reported net earnings of $20.2 million, $3.13 per share, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, compared to $22.6 million, $3.43 per share, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003....
Tags: asset, Company, equity, FINANCE, income, Investment, merger, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Quaker
Research articles 2004-07-27
CHF meeting focuses on growth and margin recovery.(Conferences)(Chemical Heritage Foundation)
Growth prospects and the ability to recover pricing leverage were among the major themes at the Chemical Heritage Foundation's CHF first annual Chemical Industry Conference, held recently at CHF's Philadelphia headquarters. Eight companies based in or near Philadelphia presented to an audience of 120, mainly drawn...
Tags: DuPont Co., Heritage Foundation, Quaker, recovery, SALES
Research articles 2004-07-14
Philadelphia's Quakers must pay worker's taxes.
By Jim Smith, Philadelphia Daily News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 24--Philadelphia's top Quaker group must pay $50,000 in back taxes on behalf of an employee, a conscientious objector who won't pay income taxes because some of the money would go to...
Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Philadelphia, Quaker, Taxes, worker
Research articles 2004-06-24
We Won't Let This War Pull Us Apart
As a former military brat turned Quaker, I often feel stretched between those two worlds. Even so, I believe I've been given a unique opportunity to see the value of both ways of life. I was born into an Air Force officer's home and grew up with the roar...
Tags: Air Force, husband, Quaker, training
Research articles 2003-04-14
The state of the industry. (The 2003 State of the Industry Almanac).
A beleaguered economy, mounting fears about war and general malaise on the part of the consumer all have played a role in causing sales to slow down at the grocery store. Still, say many industry observers, things could be a lot worse. Perhaps a decade from now, the...
Tags: Bernstein, brand, Campbell, Campbell Soup Co., Dean Foods Co., Frito-Lay, Hormel, Inc, Kahn, Kellogg Co., Ken, Kraft Foods Inc., Paul, Quaker, supermarket, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 2003-04-01
ISO: two case histories: certification was well worth the effort for two Detroit companies
Giving customers what they want may be the key to staying in business, but for two members of the Detroit Regional Chamber, it has meant much more. To meet customer requirements, MPS Group Inc. and Quaker Chemical Corp. both implemented a quality management system that conforms to an international standard...
Tags: certification, Chemical, Companies, Detroit, ISO, Quaker, Quality
Research articles 2002-08-01
How One Small Firm Survived.(Quaker Securities)(Brief Article)
Quaker Securities and a group of stubborn soldiers commanded by the father of the United States have something in common. Quakers founder Jeff King and George Washington both made their headquarters in the same place. Washington's raggedy band of rebels and King's group of...
Tags: commission, founder, Manufacturing, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Quaker, SALES, Washington
Research articles 2002-06-01
How One Small Firm Survived
Quaker Securities and a group of stubborn soldiers commanded by the father of the United States have something in common. Quakers founder Jeff King and George Washington both made their headquarters in the same place. Washington's raggedy band of rebels and King's group of merry traders called Valley Forge,...
Tags: commission, FINANCE, founder, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Quaker, SALES, Washington
Research articles 2002-06-01
An interview with Alice Hoffman.(Interview)
CHARLES HARDY: Well, shall we start right in? ALICE HOFFMAN: Yeah, here we are, let's start right in. CH: Okay, so why don't we start at the beginning with some personal background. AH: Okay. I don't know...
Tags: Alice, Columbia University, Leadership, Lincoln, Penn State, president, Quaker, secretary, women
Research articles 2001-06-22
NASDAQ
NASDAQ COMPANY BUY SELL DATE PRICE ACACIA...
Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, COM, Inc, MARSH, Middleware, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., QUAKER, SOFTWARE, VP
Research articles 2000-01-17
NASDAQ
NASDAQ COMPANY BUY SELL DATE PRICE ACCEL INTERNATIONAL...
Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, BIO, COM, INC, MARSH, Middleware, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., QUAKER, SOFTWARE, VP
Research articles 1999-12-20
NASDAQ
NASDAQ COMPANY BUY SELL DATE PRICE ACRES GAMING...
Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, COM, ISS, Learning, Marsh, Middleware, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., QUAKER, Richardson, SOFTWARE
Research articles 1999-11-15
The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit. - book reviews
Leo Damrosch, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. 320pp. $39.95 cloth.In late October 1656, a group of men and women approached the gates of Bristol, singing hosannas before a man on a horse. He was imitating Christ's entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. The man was John Nayler (16177-60), a...
Tags: Branding, Harvard University, Leadership, MARKETING, Quaker, Strategy
Research articles 1998-09-22
COMMERCIAL GENERAL LIABILITY.(companies offering such insurance)(Illustration)
The commercial general liability CGL program that Insurance Services Office ISO created as a component of its new overall commercial lines program was first filed in 1984. Since then, the CGL program has been amended several times. Abuse/Molestation Legal Expense Reimbursement * Burns & Wilcox...
Tags: agency, Atlantic, Casualty, CIGNA Corp., ENVIRONMENTAL, FINANCE, Frontier, Insurance, MARKETING, North, Prof, Quaker, syndicate, underwriter, United
Research articles 1998-07-27
"The awe-creating presence of the deity": Some religious sources for Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland
A substantial body of criticism has grown up around Charles Brockden Brown's 1798 metaphysical romance Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale. Yet absent in the abundant interpretations of Wieland is much discussion of Brown's religious influences, beyond a few obvious and overworked references. Perhaps the most satisfying interpretations of...
Tags: America, Clark, novel, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Quaker, Reading, SOFTWARE, Strategy, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Yale University
Research articles 1997-07-01
Quaker State to relocate corporate headquarters to Las Colinas Towers
Corp. has leased 132,952 square feet of office space in the top six floors of Las Colinas Towers II in Irving, Texas, for its new corporate headquarters.The transaction was announced today by the property's joijnt venture owners, The Prudential Insurance Company of America and Southland Investment Properties Partners.Quaker State, previously...
Tags: FINANCE, MARKETING, Prudential Insurance Company of America, Quaker
Research articles 1995-10-12