BRIEFLY : AGENCIES COLLECTING TORNADO RELIEF ITEMS.The United Way and Catholic archdiocese arch·di·o·cese n. The district under an archbishop's jurisdiction. arch  di·oc are giving Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. residents the opportunity to donate aid for the victims of the recent
Oklahoma and Kansas tornadoes. The response has been generous but more
is needed, especially emergency food, shelter and clothing.
To donate, checks and money orders must be made out to United Way Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm Disaster Fund or United Way of the Plains Relief Fund for Kansas. Mail contributions to United Way of Greater Los Angeles, 523 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, CA 90014. Donations to the archdiocese will be distributed through bishops in the affected areas and may be sent to Tornado tornado, dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops below a heavy cumulonimbus cloud mass and extends toward the earth. The funnel twists about, rises and falls, and where it reaches the earth causes great destruction. Relief Fund, c/o the Rev. Monsignor Terrance L. Fleming, V.G., Archdiocean Catholic Center, 3424 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010-2241. - Daily News Disney trial moves to accounting plan Jeffrey Katzenberg's lawsuit against Disney turned from confrontational to conspiratorial con·spir·a·to·ri·al adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of conspirators or a conspiracy: a conspiratorial act; a conspiratorial smile. Wednesday, as his lawyers tried to show he was the target of a secret plan to deny him a share of company profits. Katzenberg's lawyers read into the record depositions about ``Operation Snowball Operation Snowball is an international alcohol, tobacco and other drug use prevention program focusing on leadership development to empower youth to lead drug-free lives. The name originates from the idea that “If I have a positive impact on you, you can have a positive impact on ,'' which Disney officials say was an attempt to track Katzenberg's cut from a myriad of company enterprises, so they could update him every three months per his contract. They say it referred to the workload that was snowballing Snowballing Used in the context of general equities. Process by which the exercise of stop orders in a declining or advancing market causes further downward or upward pressure on prices, thus triggering more stop orders and more price pressure, and so on. for the accountant assigned the additional task of running the Katzenberg numbers. But Katzenberg's side maintains Disney became alarmed at how much money the studio head could earn under the contract - signed in 1988 - even after he left the company, and were 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. ways to avoid paying it. - City News Service State report seeks fixes at L.A. airports The California Transportation Commission signed off Wednesday on a statewide needs report that includes a $2.52 billion request for ground-access improvements near Los Angeles-owned airports. The state Senate ordered the study as part of its consideration of a $16 billion general obligation bond measure that would go before voters next year to pay for transportation improvements. - City News Service Probe spurs charges against Encino firm ENCINO - The owner of an Encino moving company was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of violating state Public Utilities Code laws in connection with a variety of allegations, including not reimbursing customers for missing and damaged belongings and threatening one customer, a prosecutor said. Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers took Ronald Warren Wilson,
37, owner of The Champion Mover, into custody at his home Wednesday
morning, Deputy City Attorney Mark Lambert said.
The charges stem from an investigation by the Public Utilities Commission of Wilson's business, which was triggered by four complaints filed by his customers between April 1998 and January 1999, Lambert said. - Daily News |
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