BRIEFCASE PENTACON LANDS DEFENSE CONTRACT.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services CHATSWORTH - Fastener distributor Pentacon Inc. on Monday announced it has won a $6.5 million contract to supply Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Corp. The fasteners will be used in the production of the defense contractor's F-16 fighter jets. The deal brings Chatsworth-based Pentacon's total 2002 commitment from Lockheed to more than $8.5 million, including a contract signed earlier this year. Pentacon chief executive Rob Ruck ruck 1 n. 1. a. A multitude; a throng. b. The undistinguished crowd or ordinary run of persons or things. 2. People who are followers, not leaders. 3. Sports a. said Pentacon's service performance on existing long-term agreements helped it snag the contract. IHOP IHOP International House Of Pancakes (restaurant chain) iHOP Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins IHOP International House of Prayer IHOP International H2O Project IHOP International House of Pain Corp names marketing officer GLENDALE - IHOP Corp., owner, operator and franchiser of the International House of Pancakes restaurant chain, announced on Monday the appointment of Gregg Nettleton to the position of chief marketing officer. IHOP also announced that the company's vice president for marketing, Susan Henderson-Hernandez, will retire July 31. Nettleton will focus at first on the final selection of IHOP's new advertising agency; the completion and evaluation of brand, market and consumer research initiatives now being used; and the development of marketing and advertising strategies for 2003 and beyond. Hernandez will retire after more than eight years of brand, marketing and advertising leadership at IHOP. She first joined IHOP in 1993 as senior director of brand strategy and was promoted to vice president for marketing in 1996. Injunction filed against Gator ads RICHMOND, Va. - A California software company must stop delivering ads that pop up unauthorized when surfers visit the Web sites of several prominent media companies, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton in Alexandria, Va., issued the preliminary injunction A temporary order made by a court at the request of one party that prevents the other party from pursuing a particular course of conduct until the conclusion of a trial on the merits. A preliminary injunction is regarded as extraordinary relief. Friday in a lawsuit that 10 media companies filed last month against Gator Corp. of Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. The plaintiffs, including parents of The Washington Post, The Washington Post, The Morning daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the dominant paper in the U.S. capital and one of the nation's leading newspapers. Established in 1877 as a Democratic Party organ, it changed orientation and ownership several times and faced 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 Times and USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , accused Gator of parasitic behavior. No date has been set for trial. Janet Collum, an attorney for Gator, said company officials were considering an appeal of the injunction and are confident Gator will win the case at trial. Short-term T-bills offer lowest yield WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities fell in Monday's auction to their lowest level in six months. The Treasury Department sold $17 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.680 percent, down from 1.695 percent last week. An additional $16 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 1.675 percent, down from 1.735 percent. The three-month rate was the lowest since Jan. 22, when the bills sold for 1.670 percent. The six-month rate was the lowest since Jan. 14, when the rate was 1.580 percent. In a separate report, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year constant maturity Treasury bills, the most popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, dipped to 2 percent last week from 2.06 percent the previous week. New documents taint taint an unpleasant odor and flavor in a human foodstuff of animal origin. Caused by the ingestion of the substance, commonly a plant such as Hexham scent, or while in storage, e.g. milk stored with pineapples, or as a result of animal metabolism, e.g. boar taint. WorldCom WASHINGTON - A top financial officer at WorldCom Inc. told colleagues last month that he hoped he never would have to explain accounting irregularities to securities regulators, 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. internal documents turned over to Congress. The newest documents also included a proposal in March by former Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers to cut funding in half for audits such as the one that ultimately uncovered the company's $3.8 billion in accounting irregularities. |
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