BRIEFCASE DAS TO MAKE PARTS FOR BUSINESS JETS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Los Angeles-based Ducommun Inc. announced Tuesday that its Ducommun AeroStructures business unit won a $3.3 million contract from Aviation Partners Inc. of Seattle. DAS will design and build all-composite Blended Winglets for the Hawker 800 Business Jet at DAS's Monrovia facility. The Blended Winglets are offered as a retrofit to existing Hawker 800 aircraft. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ducommun, they provide ``significant performance improvements, including additional range, increased speed, higher initial cruise altitudes, improved fuel efficiency and improved performance through all phases of flight.'' Ducommun AeroStructures manufactures structural components and assemblies in aluminum, titanium, metal bond and composites for a variety of military and commercial aerospace applications. Founded in 1849, Ducommun Inc. manufactures components and assemblies for the aerospace industry. Restaurant chain opens Valley site SHERMAN OAKS - Worldwide Restaurant Concepts Inc. has opened the Buena Park Buena Park (bwā`nə), city (1990 pop. 68,784), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1953. Food processing, the manufacture of aircraft, and tourism are important to the city's economy. Pat & Oscar's, bringing its total to 21. The chain, originally based in San Diego and later acquired by the Sherman Oaks-based Sizzler siz·zler n. 1. One that sizzles. 2. Informal A very hot day. parent, has opened six sites this fiscal year and plans to grow by as much as 40 percent in the next 12 months. Defense strategy revealed in case NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - A lawyer indicated Tuesday that former WorldCom finance chief Scott Sullivan's defense will be based partly on a contention that the telecommunications giant's accounting irregularities were common in the industry. The disclosure came as Sullivan pleaded not guilty to new federal charges that he lied on financial statements to woo creditors into providing WorldCom $4.25 billion in credit. A federal judge postponed his trial by nearly five months - from Sept. 8 to Feb. 2, 2004 - after Sullivan's defense team said it would need more time to prepare a defense for the new charges. Indexes shoot up on earnings news NEW YORK - Investors sent the Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes to their highest levels in three months Tuesday after better-than-expected earnings boosted optimism that corporate profits are improving. Analysts said investors were also reassured by President George W. Bush's comments indicating that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan Dr. Greenspan is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Greenspan also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed's principal monetary policymaking body. would likely be reappointed. Investors have been carefully watching this week's earnings news as they await reports due out Friday on the gross domestic product and consumer confidence. Analysts say investors are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. clear signs the economy will rebound by year's end. Airline workers consider strategy FORT WORTH, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. - Leaders of American Airlines' unions huddled Tuesday to plan new elections that could overturn wage-concession packages and push the carrier into bankruptcy. Directors of the flight attendants union met to hash out the process of holding a new election on concessions that were narrowly approved last week by rank-and-file workers. The board of the pilots union also began a two-day emergency meeting but had announced no action late Tuesday. AMD's new chip endorsed by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AUSTIN, Texas - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. pulled an endorsement from IBM Corp. out of its hat Tuesday when it launched the long-awaited Opteron processor. IBM, the world's largest computer-maker, said it would introduce high- performance computing products in the second half of the year that are based on the chip. IBM's announcement was the biggest surprise. Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a Japanese and German IT vendor, selling consumer and business computing products in the markets of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (products marketed elsewhere are sold under the Fujitsu brand). , a large European computer maker, said it also will build computers based on the AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. chip, which was partly designed in Austin. |
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