BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services Public Storage deal culminated GLENDALE -- Public Storage Inc. announced on Tuesday the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Shurgard Storage Centers Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc. was a Real estate investment trust (REIT) based in the Cascade neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Its predecessor company, Capital Northwest Management Corporation, was founded in 1972 in Olympia, Washington by Charles K. Barbo and Donald B. Inc. in a transaction with a total value of $5.5 billion. The transaction will further expand the size of the nation's largest self-storage company with an ownership interest in over 2,100 facilities in 38 states and seven European nations, Public Storage said in a statement. The shareholders of Public Storage and Shurgard approved the transaction at meetings held Tuesday. Public Storage will retain its headquarters in Glendale. Gary E. Pruitt, formerly an independent member of Shurgard's board of directors, will join the Public Storage board. USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. sues Tenet on hospital lease The University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission sued Tenet Healthcare Corp. on Tuesday, ordering it to give up control of USC University Hospital, a private facility in East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. . The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses Tenet of defaulting on its lease agreement and seeks to end it. It says that years of government investigations have weakened Tenet's cash position and hurt the hospital's ability to recruit physicians at the hospital. Parsons develops methods for DOE PASADENA -- Parsons announced Tuesday that it is developing two advanced technologies for the Department of Energy to reduce cleanup costs and increase the safety and efficiency of radioactive waste treatment and disposal. The technologies will be used at the DOE's Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington and the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site The Savannah River Site is a nuclear materials processing center in the United States state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barwnell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River 25 miles from Augusta, Georgia. It is operated for the U.S. in South Carolina. The work will be completed in two phases. Jacobs in BBC, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. contracts PASADENA -- Jacobs Engineering Group Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), a publicly traded company with annual revenues approaching $7 billion, provides professional technical services. Headquartered in Pasadena, CA, Jacobs offers support to industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple announced Tuesday that a subsidiary received a four-year framework contract from the BBC to provide structural and building services to support its operations throughout the United Kingdom. Officials did not disclose the contract value. Replacing the previous service provider, Jacobs will supply services to more than 100 BBC locations, including broadcast production and support facilities and local radio stations. Jacobs also announced that a subsidiary company received a two-year option on a contract to provide test operations services at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center The John C. Stennis Space Center (or SSC), located in Hancock County, Mississippi at the Mississippi/Louisiana border, is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. near Bay St. Louis, Miss., and at Marshall Space Flight Center The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the original home of NASA, is a lead center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Shuttle external fuel tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and construction, for computers, networks, and in Huntsville, Ala. The option, with an estimated value of $42 million, extends the contract from Sept. 1 through Aug. 31, 2008. The contract also has a potential second two-year option period that could bring the potential total value to $128 million, according to Jacobs. AOL to search for spammer gold BOSTON -- The grandparents of a notorious Internet spammer say they will allow AOL to do an initial search of their property to see whether their grandson buried gold there. Robert Davis, the 90-year-old grandfather of Davis Wolfgang Hawke Davis Wolfgang Hawke (born 1979) was a spammer, who was sued by AOL in 2004 under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Previously, in 1999 he started the American Nationalist Party, a neo-Nazi group to make the "final solution a reality. , said that after initially opposing AOL's request to survey his land and possibly dig there, he and his wife decided to compromise to avoid an expensive legal battle with the company. The Internet company wants to search for valuables it believes might be buried there to satisfy a $12.8 million judgment it won against Hawke in federal court last year. Hawke was accused of violating U.S. and Virginia anti-spam laws by sending massive amounts of unwanted e-mails to AOL's subscribers. |
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