BRIEFCASE GASOLINE PRICES RISE IN SOUTHLAND.Byline: - From staff and wire reports Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, average gas prices increased for the fourth consecutive month, 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. the Automobile Club of Southern California's monthly Fuel Gauge Report. The Southern California average price for regular self-serve unleaded gasoline is $1.65, up from a March average of $1.47. The current price compares with a state average of $1.66, which is up from $1.45. Philanthropist honored by UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX WESTWOOD - Local businessman/philanthropist Eli Broad will receive the ``Exemplary Leadership in Management Award'' from The Anderson School at UCLA, the highest honor the graduate business school bestows upon individuals. Broad will be feted at a May 13 banquet at the Century Plaza Hotel The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel forming a sweeping crescent design fronting the spectacular fountains on Avenue of the Stars adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers. & Spa in Century City. Broad is chairman of SunAmerica Inc., a financial services company specializing in retirement savings, and serves on the board of SunAmerica's parent company, American International Group
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) (NYSE: AIG; TYO: 8685 ) is a major American insurance corporation based in New York City. Inc. He is also founder and chairman of KB Home, formerly Kaufman and Broad Home Corp. Company recalls wheelbarrows WASHINGTON - Ames True Temper Inc. is recalling about 647,000 wheelbarrows after plastic wheel assemblies have shattered during high- pressure inflation and caused cuts and broken bones. Consumers should not inflate the tires on the wheelbarrows and should contact the company at (866) 239-2281 to receive a free replacement steel wheel assembly. CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I report shows slight inflation WASHINGTON - Consumer prices rose by a modest 0.3 percent in March despite sharply higher costs for gasoline and other energy products. The advance in the Consumer Price Index represented a slight pickup from the 0.2 percent increase posted in February, the Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working reported Tuesday. The latest CPI report was a better reading on inflation than the 0.5 percent rise many analysts were expecting. Excluding volatile energy and food prices, the ``core'' rate of inflation moderated a bit in March, rising just 0.1 percent, down from a 0.3 percent increase. That suggested most other prices were remaining well-behaved. In another report, housing construction fell by 7.8 percent in March, the largest decline in two years. But even with the drop, builders began work on 1.65 million units, at an annual rate, a still-robust level. 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) and Hitachi in pact on hard disks 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 - Technology giant IBM Corp. and Japanese electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. reached an agreement late Tuesday to combine their hard disk businesses into a single company, IBM announced late Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Hitachi is expected to have a 70 percent stake in the joint venture. The two companies also agreed to collaborate on developing open data- storage systems in the competitive storage market. They have not chosen a name for the combined company. The joint venture will be based in San Jose, where IBM's disk development and engineering offices are located. Both companies will contribute executives and employees. |
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