BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Mexico transfers' fees eliminated Seeking to aid customers sending home money to Mexico, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. announced Wednesday that it will eliminate transfer fees to the country. After an initial test run in Chicago, the SafeSend feature allows account holders nationwide to send up to $1,500 at a time, or $3,000 in a 30-day period to Mexican banks and financial centers. The money can be picked up in Mexico at a variety of institutions, including Santander, Telegram-Telegrafos and Banorte sites. 'Flightplan' plot irks attendants Three groups representing flight attendants are calling for a boycott of the box-office hit ``Flightplan,'' saying the Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19 1962), better known as Jodie Foster, is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, 3 BAFTA awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her one of the few select thriller depicts a flight attendant as a terrorist. In the film about a mother looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. her missing daughter aboard a plane, a flight attendant colludes with an air marshal as part of a plot to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of a ransom ransom, price of redemption demanded by the captor of a person, vessel, or city. In ancient times cities frequently paid ransom to prevent their plundering by captors. The custom of ransoming was formerly sanctioned by law. from the airline. Other flight attendants are shown treating passengers rudely and being unsympathetic to Foster's character, whom they think might be delusional de·lu·sion n. 1. a. The act or process of deluding. b. The state of being deluded. 2. A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand. . The groups contended Tuesday that the Disney film could breed distrust of their members among real airline passengers. Judge approves unequal benefits PHILADELPHIA - Reversing her earlier decision, a federal judge ruled that companies may offer younger retirees better health care benefits than they give older retirees who qualify for Medicare. The AARP AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan national organization dedicated to "enriching the experience of aging"; membership is open to people age 50 or older. Founded in 1958 by Ethel Percy Andrus as American Association of Retired Persons, AARP now has over 30 million sued over the rule change proposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on grounds that unequal health packages amount to age discrimination. U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody Anita B. Brody is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Born in 1935 in New York, New York, Judge Brody graduated from Wellesley College in 1955 and received her J.D.. from Columbia Law School in 1958. initially agreed, granting an injunction in March that barred the federal agency from adopting the rule. However, a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in an unrelated case compelled her to change course, she said in a ruling Tuesday. Brody prohibited the agency from acting, though, until the AARP has a chance to appeal. Factories swerve away from slump WASHINGTON - New orders for big-ticket manufactured products rose in August at the fastest pace in three months, providing a reassuring sign that American factories are not headed for another slump. The Commerce Department said that orders for durable goods durable goods Goods, such as appliances and automobiles, that have a useful life over a number of periods. Firms that produce durable goods are often subject to wide fluctuations in sales and profits. Also called consumer durables. , items expected to last at least three years, jumped 3.3 percent after falling by 5.3 percent in July. Analysts had been expecting a rebound but the rise was far better than the 0.8 percent advance they had forecast. The big drop in July had raised concerns that the manufacturing sector, the hardest hit sector in the 2001 recession, could be in danger of falling into another slump. Tribune tax ruling to cost $1 billion CHICAGO - Shares in Tribune Co. fell Wednesday to their lowest level since 2001 after the media company lost a federal tax court ruling that it acknowledged will cost about $1 billion unless it wins an appeal. Tribune executives told analysts after reviewing the ruling late Tuesday by the U.S. Tax Court that they are hopeful of winning their immediate appeal to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. But they said the company is taking steps to pay the Internal Revenue Service and will take a $125 million third-quarter charge to cover interest owed in the 7-year-old case. The tax court ruling disallowed the 1998 tax-free reorganization of Matthew Bender, a legal publishing The production of texts that report laws or discuss the Practice of Law. Originally limited to printed materials, legal publishing now encompasses electronic media as well, with most legal publications becoming available online or in CD-ROM format. company and former subsidiary of the Times Mirror Co. Tribune inherited the tax dispute when it bought Times Mirror in June 2000. |
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