BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and wire reports TV Guide leader to leave for Hearst About a month before the launch of the full-size TV Guide magazine, the president of TV Guide Publishing Group has resigned to become general manager and executive vice president at Hearst Magazines. In a press release Monday, parent company Gemstar-TV Guide International Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. is a media company that licenses interactive program guide technology to multichannel operators, such as cable and satellite television providers, and consumer electronics manufacturers, video recorder scheduling code under brands such as VCR Inc. said John Loughlin John Loughlin is Professor of Politics at Cardiff University and was European Studies Centre Visiting Research Fellow at St Antony's College Oxford in 2005-6. Academic Achievements will remain with the company through the introduction of the new magazine, set for Oct. 17. Anthea Disney, Gemstar-TV Guide's executive chairman, will oversee the publishing group once Loughlin departs until the company names a successor. Spirit announces new Florida flight Spirit Airlines announced Monday that it will begin nonstop, daily service from Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX to Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla., with connections to the Caribbean, beginning Feb. 23. Spirit's hub in Fort Lauderdale offers connections to 11 tropical destinations: Cancun, Mexico, Grand Cayman Grand Cayman See Cayman Islands. in the Cayman Islands, Grand Turk and Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands (kī`kōs), dependency of Great Britain (2005 est. pop. 20,600), 166 sq mi (430 sq km), West Indies. There are more than 30 cays and islands, of which only six are inhabited. , Kingston and Montego Bay in Jamaica, Nassau and San Salvador in the Bahamas, San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan (IPA: [saŋ hwaŋ]) (from the Spanish San Juan Bautista, "Saint John the Baptist") is the capital and largest municipality on Puerto Rico. , Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The new service will augment Spirit's existing service from LAX to Detroit with connecting service to NY/LaGuardia, Orlando and Washington, D.C./Reagan National. Treasury bill rates at two-week high WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels in two weeks. The Treasury Department auctioned $17 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 3.450 percent, up from 3.435 percent last week. Another $15 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 3.670 percent, up from 3.570 percent last week. In a separate report, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, edged down to 3.76 percent last week from 3.77 percent the previous week. Icahn to propose change on board 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 - Financier Carl Icahn stepped up his campaign for changes at Time Warner Inc. on Monday, saying he would propose one or more nominees for seats on the board of directors at the media conglomerate's next annual meeting. Icahn, a billionaire investor known for taking stakes in companies and then agitating ag·i·tate v. ag·i·tat·ed, ag·i·tat·ing, ag·i·tates v.tr. 1. To cause to move with violence or sudden force. 2. for changes, cited a ``difference of opinion'' between Time Warner's management and many large shareholders of the company over its direction and the reasons for its poor stock performance. Icahn and a group of like-minded investors have said they want Time Warner to completely spin off its large cable TV subsidiary and buy back far more of its own stock. The company has proposed buying back $5 billion of its own stock, but Icahn said that move represented as ``a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.'' |
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