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UAL chooses Goodwin as new CEO.

Mar 26, 1999 ... CHICAGO, March 26 (UPI) UAL Corp., the parent of United Airlines, has a new chief executive officer. UAL's board Thursday elected 54-year-old James Goodwin to succeed Gerald Greenwald as chairman and CEO, effective in July. Goodwin has been working for ...

Here's the morning news summary from V-N-N for Friday, March 26th, 1999: (STATE CAPITOL) - The State Board of Education has adopted new rules to make it harder for schools to open before Labor Day. Last year, 67 school districts were allowed to open early... 15 more than the previous year. Diane Atkinson with the state Department of Education says the new guidelines based on restrictions passed by the legislature last year. The state has received 62 requests for waivers so far this year. (RICHMOND) - State officials say movie and television producers spent more than 72-Million-dollars in Virginia last year... a 19-percent increase over 1997. Most of the gains came in television production... and a lot of those projects were filmed at New Millennium Studios in Petersburg. Movie-makers spent 50-percent more than the previous year, including the current box office hit ``Forces of Nature.'' Major parts of the Sandra Bullock movie were filmed at a.

Mar 26, 1999 ... Richmond motel and at locations in Northern Virginia. (MECHANICSVILLE) - Hanover County authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a member of the Washington Redskins football team. Defensive end Kelvin Kinney was arrested last December 5th after being ...

Fifth New Hampshire News in Brief.

Mar 26, 1999 ... (HOOKSETT) - An allegedly drunken driver was shot by State Police last night after a high speed pursuit on Interstate 93. The drama began shortly before 9 p.m last night when Northfield police tried to pull over 32-year-old Brian Sullivan of West Canterbury for driving ...

UPI Illinois First News Briefs.

Mar 26, 1999 ... (CHICAGO) Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan is in the intensive care unit of Northwestern Memorial Hospital this morning. Ryan has been hospitalized for nearly two weeks because of pneumonia. A spokeswoman for the attorney general says Ryan was not transferred to intensive care ...

ICM gets State Dept. contract.

Mar 26, 1999 ... GREAT NECK, N.Y., March 26 (UPI) ICM Electronic Banking Services, a leading provider of electronic banking solutions, says the U.S. State Department has chosen its MQuest network messaging platform to process U.S. and international payments from State's financial services ...

Utd Rentals buys 10 rental cos.

Mar 26, 1999 ... GREENWICH, Conn., March 26 (UPI) United Rentals Inc. says it has completed the acquisitions of 10 companies with 41 rental locations in 14 states and one Canadian province. The companies had approximately $70 million in combined 1998 revenues. The ...

Study: Supermarkets can increase sales.

Mar 26, 1999 ... HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., March 26 (UPI) A new muti-category study of the nation's grocery industry by M&M Mars, Time Distribution Services, a division of Time Warner and Dechert-Hampe & Co., a consulting firm, shows the grocery industry has the potential to increase checkstand ...

Infinity sues Halstead Energy.

Mar 26, 1999 ... NEW YORK, March 26 (UPI) Infinity Investors Ltd. says it has sued the executive management of Halstead Energy Corp. for misleading investors and raiding the corporate coffers to fund their own personal ventures. The suit alleges that Halstead's top officers ...

Gen Cigar sells mass market business.

Mar 26, 1999 ... NEW YORK, March 26 (UPI) General Cigar Holdings Inc. says it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its mass-market cigar business to Swedish Match ABY for $200 million in cash. The mass-market cigar business includes two manufacturing facilities, Dothan, ...

State blames Disney for fatal accident.

Mar 26, 1999 ... ANAHEIM, Calif., March 26 (UPI) The California office for safety and health has blamed Disneyland for the accident last Christmas Eve that killed a man and seriously injured his wife and an employee. A report says Disneyland's misuse of equipment and its failure to ...

AT&T ordered to post bond.

Mar 26, 1999 ... MIAMI, Fla. March 26 (UPI) Federal Judge James Lawrence King has ordered AT&T to post a $4.5 million bond in the case involving the families of the Brothers to the Rescue pilots shot down in 1996. The families have won a law suit against the ...

Maine to buy shorefront properties.

Mar 26, 1999 ... AUGUSTA, Maine, March 26 (UPI) Maine is reclaiming some of its most valuable recreational waterfront properties in the Great North Woods. Gov. Angus King has announced a $5.26 million deal involving Plum Creek Timber Co. of Seattle and state and private conservation ...

USAir seeks London route.

Mar 26, 1999 ... ARLINGTON, Va., March 25 (UPI) US Airways says it is seeking to begin service between its Pittsburgh hub and London's Gatwick Airport and asked the Department of Transportation for authority to fly the route. London would become US Airways' third transatlantic ...

Serbs order expulsion of reporters.

Mar 26, 1999 ... BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March 25 (UPI) The Serbian Information Ministry has issued an order expelling journalists representing countries taking part in the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia. The order, signed by Serbian Information Minister Alexander Vucic, stated, ...

Staff Builders spins off Health Care.

Mar 26, 1999 ... LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 25 (UPI) Staff Builders Inc., one of the nation's largest home health care and staffing providers, says its board of directors has approved a plan to separate its home health care business from its supplemental staffing business and to create a ...

New Jersey News In Brief.

Mar 26, 1999 ... This is United Press International's afternoon report for Thursday, March 25: (NEWARK) Continental Airlines says it will honor Kiwi International Airlines tickets if space is available on its own flights. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded Kiwi yesterday ... finding ...

Eaton to sell two of its units.

Mar 26, 1999 ... CLEVELAND, March 25 (UPI) The Eaton Corp. is selling its engineered fasteners and fluid power divisions to offset the cost of its impending $1.7 billion acquisition of Aeroquip-Vickers Inc. Eaton Engineered Fasteners, based in Brunswick, Ohio, has approximately ...

Nasdaq approves new trading halts.

Mar 26, 1999 ... WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) The Nasdaq Stock Market announced that its board has approved a rule that will allow the market to implement a temporary trading halt based on news about a security, independent of any notification to the issuer. The new measure approved ...

On the Net.

Mar 26, 1999 ... UPI Newsfeature release at will The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non- profit assigned by the Commerce Department the task of privatizing the business of domain name registration, may have hit a stumbling block. Just as it was ...

AT&T list.

Mar 26, 1999 ... NEW YORK (UPI) - The following is consolidated trading in issues involved in the AT&T divestiture for Thursday. <Pre> Stock Div Sales High Low Close Net Chg. AT&T Cp 7,516,600 83 81 1/8 81 7/8 up 1 Amertch2.00 1,103,800 ...

NATO strikes ignored, Dow closes higher.

Mar 26, 1999 ... NEW YORK, March 25 (UPI) Stock prices rose sharply today led by technology shares as investors dismissed NATO airstrikes against military targets in the Serb-ruled Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Dow Jones Industrials rose 169.55, or 1.8 percent, to 9,836.39 on ...

Executive Business Briefing.

Mar 26, 1999 ... Here's a look at the hour's top business stories: Stock prices closed sharply higher, led by financial and high- technology issues. Analysts say stronger-than-expected earnings from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Micron Technology gave their respective sectors a boost. Bonds ...

Editorial Sampler:.

Mar 26, 1999 ... What U.S. Newspapers Are Saying Compiled by United Press International The New York Times With the start of NATO air and missile attacks on Yugoslavia yesterday, the long-running crisis over Kosovo has entered a new, uncertain and decidedly more ...

Here's Virginia News Network's morning actuality billboard for Friday,.

Mar 26, 1999 ... March 26th, 1999: 1-2 ...Hanover County authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a member of the Washington Redskins football team. Tom Callan has the story: 1 ...CART # callan vox 1 :25/a team mtg`` Tag: Reporter Tom Callan. 2 ...((same intro)) CART # callan vox ...

UPI First Illinois News Roundup.

Mar 26, 1999 ... (UAL) UAL Corporation, the parent of United Airlines, has a new chief executive officer. UAL's board yesterday elected 54-year-old James Goodwin to succeed Gerald Greenwald as chairman and CEO, effective in July. Goodwin has been working for United since 1967. He has served ...

Executive Business Briefing.

Mar 26, 1999 ... Here's a look at the hour's top business stories: Sales of existing homes fell slightly in February but remained near historical highs. The National Association of Realtors reports sales fell 0.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.02 million units. It is the ...

Executive Business Briefing.

Mar 26, 1999 ... Here's a look at the hour's top business stories: CNA, the Chicago-based insurance unit of CNA Financial Corporation, has announced its president, Philip Engel, will retire later this year. The 58-year-old Engel will also resign as a CNA Financial Corporation director. Engel is ...

Executive Business Briefing.

Mar 26, 1999 ... Here's a look at the hour's top business stories: Sales of existing homes were slightly lower in February but remained historically high. The National Association of Realtors reports sales fell 0.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.02 million units. It is the ...

Thursday's Market Index Comparisons (NYSE, AMEX, DJ).

Mar 26, 1999 ... <Pre>UPI market indexes NYSE Composite Index604.86 up 8.27 ASE Composite Index 712.40 up 8.80 ...

Thursday's AMEX Advances and Declines.

Mar 26, 1999 ... AMEX market trend What The AMEX Composite Market Did <Pre> New highs 11 New lows 13 Advances 333 ...

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