BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services CSC has contract with USAID USAID United States Agency for International Development USAID Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (Spanish) EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and -- Computer Sciences Corp. said Tuesday that it will provide information technology operations Information technology operations, or IT operations, are the superset of all processes and services that are both provisioned by an IT staff to their internal or external and used by themselves, to run themselves as a business. and maintenance services to the U.S. Agency for International Development, an independent agency that provides economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide. El Segundo-based CSC estimates the value of the contract, which has a one-year base period and four one-year options, to be $98 million if all options are exercised. CSC will provide network telecommunications, local and wide-area networking, security operations and customer and global logistical support activities to help the USAID provide humanitarian aid to more than 90 U.S. foreign-based missions, and security of information and for personnel domestically and abroad. U.S. government to hold back data WASHINGTON -- The government proposed on Tuesday to keep confidential some vehicle safety data covering consumer complaints, warranty claims and information on vehicles involved in deaths and injuries. Consumer groups have tried to get access to the data, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, part of the Department of Transportation. said the information ``will cause substantial competitive harm and will impair the government's ability to obtain this information in the future if released.'' The proposal, similar to past versions, came in response to a ruling by a federal judge earlier this year that the agency had failed to provide enough notice to comment on an early warning system plan. In the March ruling, District Judge Richard J. Leon Richard J. Leon (1949-) is a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2002 to the present. Leon was born in 1949 in South Natick, Massachusetts and graduated in 1971 from the College of the Holy Cross, where he was a classmate of future sent the proposal back to the agency. Publishers reach deal with Kazaa The music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. industry reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement, an industry group said. Publishers pursuing a class-action suit against Kazaa informed U.S. District Court on Monday that the peer-to-peer network had agreed to pay ``a substantial sum'' under the agreement, the National Music Publishers' Association The Music Publishers' Association of the United States (MPA) is the arm of the music industry responsible for the production and distribution of sheet music, and is the oldest music trade organization in the United States, founded in 1895. said in a statement. The amount of the settlement was not disclosed. It is subject to final approval by the association board. Cholesterol drug lowers Pfizer 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 -- Shares of Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, slipped Tuesday after early data on its combination cholesterol therapy showed a slight increase in patients' blood pressure even though it had a significant positive effect on cholesterol levels. Pfizer shares fell 55 cents, or 2.02 percent, to close at $26.65 on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. at higher-than-average volume. Shares have traded between $20.27 and $28.60 over the past 52 weeks. Data on the treatment, a combination of Pfizer's $12 billion-a-year drug Lipitor and torcetrapib, a compound intended to raise ``good'' cholesterol levels, showed the drug significantly raised ``good'' cholesterol by 56 percent and lowered ``bad'' cholesterol by 27 percent compared with patients taking Lipitor alone. |
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