BRIEFCASE ON ASSIGNMENT CEO STEPS DOWN.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services CALABASAS - On Assignment Inc. lost its chief executive officer Monday, as the medical services company announced that Joe Peterson resigned after three years at the helm. The company offered no reason for Peterson's departure, but said that Peter Dameris would assume his duties. Dameris, executive vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , joined the company last November. Treasury bill rates go up in auction WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities rose in Monday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.710 percent, up from 1.685 percent last week. An additional $17 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 1.950 percent, up from 1.870 percent. The three-month rate was the highest since June 10, 2002, when the bills sold for 1.720 percent. The six-month rate was the highest since April 8, 2002, when the rate was 1.975. In a separate report, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year constant maturity Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages This article is about the US mortgage type. For an international perspective, see Variable rate mortgage. An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note is periodically adjusted based on an index. , rose to 2.14 percent last week from 2.09 percent the previous week. Martha is inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. No. 55170-054 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 - Martha Stewart <noinclude></noinclude> Martha Stewart (born Martha Helen Kostyra on August 3, 1941) is an American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate. She is also a former stockbroker and fashion model. still does not know where she will do her time for lying about a stock sale, but she's already been designated federal inmate In America, a federal inmate is a person convicted for violating a federal law, who is then interred at a prison that exclusively houses similar criminals. The term is most often apply to those convicted of a felony. No. 55170-054. The celebrity homemaker, who must begin serving her five-month prison sentence by Oct. 8, was assigned the number by federal marshals. The number now appears under Stewart's name on the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Web site. She is also listed as ``in transit,'' but the designation simply means she has a reporting date, prisons spokesman Dan Dunne said Monday. Officials still must decide where Stewart will serve her time. She has asked to be assigned to the minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Conn., to make it easier for her 90-year-old mother to visit. The bureau had not notified Stewart of a prison assignment Monday, said Martin Weinberg, one of her appeals lawyers. Fannie Mae Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. takes corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or WASHINGTON - Under pressure from federal regulators, mortgage giant Fannie Mae has agreed to boost its reserve cushion against risk by several billion dollars and take other sweeping actions to correct what were cited as serious accounting problems, including recalculating key transactions and tightening internal controls. Some experts said Monday that the mandate to increase its reserve capital by mid-2005 means that the biggest financer of home mortgages in the country may have to slow its growth or shrink in size. |
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