BRIEFLY : CONTRACT AWARDED FOR `GATEWAY LAX'.The Board of Airport Commissioners on Tuesday awarded a $27.8 million contract for the first phase of the ``Gateway LAX'' enhancement project at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX . The agreement is part of a $112 facelift for the airport, the most extensive to be undertaken at LAX since the 1984 Olympics. Under the contract awarded to Swinerton & Walberg Constructors of 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. , lighted columns will be built in the median of Century Boulevard and at the intersection of Century and Sepulveda boulevards. - City News Service Plan to drop index for deputies panned Sheriff Lee Baca's plan to eliminate certain factors from an index that measures deputies' use of force was criticized Tuesday by the author of a semi-annual report on the sheriff's department. Merrick Bobb said Baca is considering taking ``critical pieces'' out of the Personal Performance Index, which is used to identify deputies who may require more training in how to handle certain situations. The department's PPI (1) (Pixels Per Inch) The measurement of the resolution of a monitor or scanner. For example, a monitor that is 16 inches wide and displays 1600 pixels across its width would have a resolution of 100 ppi (1600 divided by 16). was recently touted before U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno at a national convention as ``state-of-the-art,'' Bobb said. - City News Service Area woman named to university board Gov. Gray Davis appointed Calabasas resident Debra Farar to serve on the Cal State University Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. Tuesday. Farar, who received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's in education from Cal State University, Northridge, becomes the only member of the board from the Valley. - Daily News Politicians complain of VA gym's closure California Assembly Speaker Antonio R. Villaraigosa, D-Los Angeles, and a bipartisan group of Assembly members sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Noun 1. Secretary of Veterans Affairs - the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs; "Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs" on Tuesday expressing concern over the recent closure of Building 23, a recreational facility at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System in North Hills. Villaraigosa said that if studies show seismological seis·mol·o·gy n. The geophysical science of earthquakes and the mechanical properties of the earth. seis damage to the building, a new gymnasium with a basketball court, swimming pool and other fitness equipment should be opened for the veterans. - Daily News PUC (Public Utility Commission) A regulatory body in every state in the U.S. that governs public utilities within its jurisdiction such as electricity, gas, oil, sewer, water, transportation and telephone service. Some states call it the Public Service Commission (PSC). told to retract TO RETRACT. To withdraw a proposition or offer before it has been accepted. 2. This the party making it has a right to do is long as it has not been accepted; for no principle of law or equity can, under these circumstances, require him to persevere in it. new area code plan A state lawmaker said Tuesday that the state Public Utilities Commission should retract a plan to introduce a 747 area code when the 818 area runs out of telephone numbers. Assemblyman Wally Knox, D-Los Angeles, in a letter to the commission, said a public furor has resulted from the recent announcement even though a split is at least years away. Knox authored legislation for conservation of phone numbers and other steps to delay an area code overlay or split. - Daily News |
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