BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services Contest winners announced BURBANK -- Third-grader David Ayrapetyan and high school senior Benjamin Kniola were announced as the winners of an essay contest sponsored by Junior Achievement of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , the Allstate Foundation and the Daily News. David, 8, of Andrew Elementary in Whittier wrote about the imaginary life of a dollar bill while Kniola, 17, of Woodrow Wilson High School There are numerous Wilson High Schools in the United States, most named after the United States President Woodrow Wilson, including:
Each received a $5,000 savings bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. . More than pretexting done SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Extending beyond the skullduggery that pried pried 1 v. Past tense and past participle of pry1. loose people's private phone records, Hewlett-Packard Co. investigators hunting for a boardroom leak shadowed the company's directors and tried to install snooping software on at least one reporter's computer, 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. published reports. While the additional surveillance reported by The 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 The Wall Street Journal might provoke more indignation about HP's probe, the tactics aren't likely to shift the focus of the inquiries into whether the company and its investigators broke any laws in their quest to identify the boardroom leaker. Authorities and politicians remain primarily concerned about the deceptive measures that enabled HP's investigators to obtain the personal phone logs of several directors, nine reporters, two employees and a semiretired sem·i·re·tired adj. Working only on a part-time basis, as for reasons of ill health or advanced age. sem physicist. To pull off a ruse known as ``pretexting,'' HP's investigators masqueraded as the targeted individuals, using parts of their Social Security numbers to dupe telephone companies into turning over their calling records. Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for California Attorney General The California Attorney General is the State Attorney General of the government of the state of California in the USA. The officer's duty is to ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" (California Constitution, Article V, Section 13. Bill Lockyer William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is the current State Treasurer of California. Prior to this, he served as California's Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice for the U.S. state of California. , emphasized on Monday that the state's inquiry remains focused exclusively on pretexting. Interest rates on Treasury bills fall WASHINGTON -- Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Monday's auction to the lowest levels since June. The Treasury Department auctioned $18 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 4.815 percent, down from 4.820 percent last week. An additional $16 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 4.920 percent, down from 4.935 percent last week. Separately, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable-rate mortgages, was unchanged last week at 5.02 percent. Trade deficit level increased WASHINGTON -- America's trade deficit increased in the spring to the second-highest level in history, reflecting a big jump in payments for foreign oil and a deterioration in the country's investment position. The deficit in the U.S. current account rose to $218.4 billion in the April-June quarter, an increase of 2.4 percent over the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department reported Monday. The current account is the broadest measure of foreign trade. It covers not only trade in goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. but also investment flows between countries. The deficit represents the amount the United States must borrow from foreigners to cover the shortfall between exports and imports. Home Depot head to get pay review ATLANTA -- The Home Depot Inc., the nation's largest home-improvement store chain, said Monday that its board plans to review how it determines Chief Executive Bob Nardelli's compensation amid criticism his pay is too high in light of the company's lagging stock price. The Atlanta-based company said in a statement that, as in previous years, ``the independent members of the compensation committee will take a fresh look at executive compensation, using business performance, independent benchmarking, and other input as determining factors.'' Home Depot did not say whether Nardelli's pay could be cut. Bonnie G. Hill, chairwoman of the Home Depot board's leadership development and compensation committee, said in an interview that the board has asked an independent consultant to offer it guidance, as it has in the past. Hill said if changes are warranted, they will be made, but she stressed that there is no way of knowing now how the board will respond, or whether Nardelli's pay could be cut. She said she hopes a decision on Nardelli's pay for 2007 is made by the end of this year. |
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