BRIEFCASE PACIFIC TO INSTALL CSULB SYSTEMS.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services CHATSWORTH - Pacific oast oast n. A kiln for drying hops or malt or drying and curing tobacco. [Middle English ost, from Old English  st. Cabling announced Wednesday the award of a $4.7 million contract to install a new communications infrastructure at California State University Enrollment , Long Beach. The two-year project will be managed out of Pacific Coast Cabling's Orange County Regional Office in Anaheim. The project involves a total communications upgrade for the entire campus for both voice and data, and is part of a general construction project spearheaded by Helix Electric Inc. It marks the largest single project Pacific Coast Cabling has undertaken in its 16-year history, the company said. 4 new dealerships set for Auto Row SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Four new car dealerships, possibly including Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti, will set up shop on Valencia's Auto Row. The Santa Clarita Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle on Tuesday unanimously approved The Newhall Land and Farming Company's expansion plans, which will take the dealership zone east along Valencia Boulevard from Creekside Road, in front of the popular William S. Hart PONY League The Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League, also known as the PONY League, was a Class D minor league baseball circuit that played from 1939 through 1956. The forerunner of the modern Class A New York - Penn League, the PONY served as the first professional baseball address of Baseball and Softball Complex. The auto dealers generate 23 percent of Santa Clarita's sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. receipts, which make up a majority of the city's general fund that is used to pay for projects from road resurfacing to new park construction. Restaurant firm files bankruptcy IRVINE - Prandium Inc., the parent company of restaurants Koo Koo Roo, Hamburger Hamlet and Chi-Chi's, has filed for bankruptcy, more than a year after defaulting on payments to creditors. The company listed debts of $336.5 million and assets of $173.9 million in its reorganization petition. The company, which has 9,945 employees, has struggled under a heavy debt load for years. In 2000, Prandium sold the El Torito The format developed by Phoenix Technologies and IBM that has become the standard for creating bootable CD-ROMs on the Intel platform. El Torito provides only the format. In order to make a CD-ROM bootable, the correct boot images must be placed on the disc, and the target computer must division for $129.5 million to reduce debt. Prandium has been trying to sell the 14-restaurant Hamburger Hamlet chain, with proceeds tabbed for creditors. 3M announces recall of inhaler inhaler /in·hal·er/ (in-hal´er) 1. an apparatus for administering vapor or volatilized medications by inhalation. 2. ventilator (2). in·hal·er n. MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - 3M Co. on Wednesday announced a recall of the prescription Maxair Inhaler, a device used to treat asthma. The recall was a precaution, 3M said, because the inhaler may stick intermittently, preventing patients from getting a puff of medication. 3M advised patients to return their press-and-breathe inhalers to their pharmacy, although replacements aren't available yet. Patients with questions can call (800) 390-1132. KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen to acquire Andersen units CHICAGO - KPMG Consulting Inc. plans to acquire as many as 23 business consulting units of Andersen Worldwide's member firms for up to $284 million, KPMG announced Wednesday. KPMG said it had signed a letter of intent that covers the consulting business of Andersen member firms in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Those businesses had combined revenue of about $1.4 billion last fiscal year. Qwest shares up nearly 20 percent DENVER - Qwest Communications International Inc. shares climbed nearly 20 percent Wednesday as a deadline approached for bids on the telecommunications company's yellow pages business. Qwest was not disclosing bidders or how many bids it received. A Qwest spokesman had no comment. The company is under enormous pressure to reduce its $25 billion debt and the directory unit's steady cash flow was expected to be a big attraction for potential buyers. The directory arm, QwestDex, generated $1.6 billion in revenue last year. Shares of Qwest rose 19.6 percent, or $1.01 a share, to close Wednesday at $6.17 on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . |
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