BRIEFCASE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Farmers suing windshield firm Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance is suing a national auto glass company and its president for allegedly submitting more than 1,200 phony windshield claims, a representative for Farmers said Thursday. The suit against DKN Industries Inc., which does business as Legacy Auto Glass International, and its president, David Nibarger, was filed in state court in Oakland. No one for DKN Industries could be located for comment on the allegations. NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , Volkswagen in marketing deal BURBANK - NBC Universal NBC Universal is a media and entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric's NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment (part of the French Media Group, Vivendi SA). GE owns 80% of NBC Universal with the remaining 20% owned by Vivendi SA. will take Volkswagen for a spin, as the media conglomerate and the car company announced a marketing partnership Thursday. Terms of the pact were not announced, but it calls for NBC to include the Volkswagen brand in film, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , theme parks and other entertainment projects. In return, VW will include NBC's media and entertainment properties in its marketing and promotional campaigns. Nevada cashing in on film industry LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nev - State officials say the film industry has had its fifth $100 million-plus year in a row in Nevada, spending $115 million last fiscal year. Film Office Director Charlie Geocaris told the state Commission on Economic Development that Nevada now is one of the top five states in the nation for films, based on the $600 million the industry has poured into the state since 2000. Geocaris said most of the revenue came from the production of feature films, although $12 million came from documentary productions. An additional $9 million was contributed by still photographers shooting in Nevada. Schwab cutting account charges 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 - Continuing a brokerage price war, Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
The San Francisco-based company did away with service fees on brokerage accounts, education-savings accounts, custodial accounts and college-saver accounts for customers with at least $25,000 in household assets at Schwab. Mortgage rates dip for 2nd week WASHINGTON - Rates on 30-year mortgages fell for a second straight week, helping to get the housing industry off to a good start in the new year. Freddie Mac's weekly survey of mortgage rates released Thursday showed that rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.74 percent for the week ending Jan. 13, down from 5.77 percent last week. Rates on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, a popular option for refinancing, dipped this week to 5.19 percent, down from 5.21 percent last week. Wal-Mart fighting negative image LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a media charge Thursday to counter criticism that the world's largest retailer is a behemoth behemoth (bē`hĭmŏth, bĭhē`–) [Heb.,=plural of beast], large, fanciful primeval monster, like Leviathan, evoking the hippopotamus mentioned in the Book of Job. that takes advantage of its workers and stifles competition. Chief executive Lee Scott
H. Lee Scott, Jr. is the current president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said he wants Wal-Mart workers to know the company was speaking up for them and he wants Wal-Mart to have a better handle on how it is perceived among members of the public. Gay channel start delayed until May 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 - MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. Networks' plan to start a cable channel devoted to gay and lesbian programming has been slightly delayed, the company announced Tuesday, with a new start date for the channel, called Logo, pushed back five months, to June 30. Brian Graden Brian Graden (born 1963) is an American television executive. Graden grew up in Illinois and graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1980. He graduated from Oral Roberts University in 1985 with a degree in business, and later graduated with a MBA from Harvard. , the president of Logo, said the delay - the channel was originally scheduled to start Feb. 17 - was aimed mainly at ensuring that the channel would be ``a complete service,'' with 24 hours of programming from its first day. To that end, the channel announced a wide range of programs on Thursday including three original series, a slate of documentaries, news coverage from CBS News and some well-known movie titles, headed by the first broadcast of the mini-series ``Angels in America Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is an award winning play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television miniseries of the same name and an opera by Peter Eötvös. ,'' winner of multiple Emmy Awards, after its run on HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy . Bush proposing larger Pell Grants WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush is proposing to raise the maximum Pell Grant award by $500 over the next five years and fix a persistent shortfall in the nation's chief college aid program, The Associated Press has learned. That would put the maximum grant at $4,550 by 2010 - up 12 percent from the $4,050 offered today. The White House declined to disclose whether the president wants to increase the grants received by more than 5 million low-income students, but congressional and education officials familiar with the details of his proposal said Thursday that Bush will call for raising the Pell Grant award $100 a year for five years. Pell Grants, the government's largest form of financial aid, help low-income students afford college. |
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