BUSINESS HARDLY USUAL AS FIRMS RECALL ATTACKS.Byline: Barbara Correa Staff Writer Businesses were running Wednesday, but it was hardly business as usual. As was the case across America, many of the region's offices and stores struggled to balance a return to normalcy nor·mal·cy n. Normality. Noun 1. normalcy - being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning normality with the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Most stores and offices were open and freeways were packed as usual. But business came second to remembrance for many on a day distinguished by shared moments of silence and other solemn ceremonies. The two-dozen employees at the Chatsworth headquarters of MRV Communications  OverviewMRV NASDAQ: MRVC is a company that designs, manufactures, sells, distributes, integrates and supports communication equipment and services, and optical components. quietly marked the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11 and the death of former Chief Financial Officer Edmund Glazer. Glazer was on American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the Flight 11, which crashed into the World Trade Center. His death was marked by a moment of silence before a portrait, flowers and a candle. ``We're trying to work and it's very difficult to do that. It's a weird day,'' said company spokeswoman Diana Hayden Diana Hayden (born 1973) is a model from Hyderabad, India. She first came to attention when she represented India at the 1997 Miss World pageant. She became a known face when at 24 she won the crown. She became the third Indian woman to win the Miss World pageant. . Workers planned a tribute for Wednesday evening at a Chatsworth park in Glazer's honor. On a hillside at Amgen, Inc., headquarters in Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , 5,000 employees gathered Wednesday morning to remember Dora Menchaca, a staff scientist who was on American Airlines Flight 77, which smashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Amgen Chief Executive Officer Kevin Sharer, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former submarine commander, led the staff, along with Menchaca's husband, in singing ``America the Beautiful America the Beautiful patriotic song by Katherine Bates glorifying national ideals (1893). [Am. Music: Scholes, 30] See : Song, Patriotic ,'' ``Amazing Grace'' and John Lennon's ``Imagine'' before eulogizing Menchaca and praising Amgen employees' strength in the face of terror, said Jeff Richardson, a company spokesman. Menchaca was with a group of Amgen colleagues in Washington, D.C., to discuss a prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. drug with the Federal Drug Administration. Menchaca was the only one in the group who decided to take an earlier standby flight to get home to her family in Santa Monica. Employees at Boeing Satellite Systems in El Segundo gathered in front of a memorial wall in the cafeteria to honor Chandler ``Chad'' Keller and Ruben Ornedo, Boeing communications engineers who also died aboard Flight 77 last Sept. 11. The wall, which was decorated with photos of the victims, was created by employees after the attacks, said George Torres, a spokesman for Boeing's El Segundo office. For many U.S. employees who couldn't attend ceremonies, telecasts of 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 memorial events was the next best thing. Medtronic Inc., a Minneapolis-based medical equipment manufacturer, set up TV sets in reception areas, cafeterias and other common spaces in its dozens of locations nationwide including Northridge so its workers could watch. At The Walt Disney Co.'s corporate office in Burbank, flags flew at half- staff Wednesday and staffers paused for a moment of silence at noon to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks, who included employees Marianne MacFarlane MacFarlane or Macfarlane is a surname shared by:
The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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