BUSINESS NOTES FEDS ORDER RECALL OF BABY PACIFIERS.HESPERIA - About 16,000 pacifiers are being recalled because they are a choking hazard to infants, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The Pacee pacifiers failed the commission's testing standards. They were produced by Hesperia-based Small Beginnings Inc., which is cooperating in the recall, the federal agency said in a statement Tuesday. They were sold for about $1 each at hospitals and medical supply distributors nationwide from October 1999 through April. Consumers can contact Small Beginnings at (800) 676-0462. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX economists to offer forecast WESTWOOD - Economists with the UCLA Anderson Business Forecast will present their outlook for the state and national economy at the 49th annual conference Monday. The conference from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. will be held at Korn Convocation Hall at The Anderson School Anderson School may refer to:
The conference also will examine the social, cultural and economic changes wrought by the Internet through a series of discussion groups. Those wishing to attend the conference can call (310) 825-1623. - Daily News TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) Refers to a program that remains in memory when the user exits it in order that it be immediately available at the press of a hotkey. Wireless files to liquidate assets HACKENSACK, N.J. - TSR Wireless, a pager service provider and retailer of wireless devices, has reportedly declared bankruptcy and halted business, leaving 2.5 million subscribers - including those in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley - in limbo. The company, which bills itself as the nation's sixth-largest pager carrier, filed to liquidate its assets under Chapter 7 of the federal bankruptcy code, The Record of Hackensack in New Jersey reported Tuesday. - Associated Press Rose Bowl game tickets hot item PASADENA -- The Rose Bowl might be three weeks away, but ticket agencies are clamoring for Rose Bowl tickets for the game between the Washington Huskies and Purdue Boilermakers, a team that hasn't been to Pasadena since 1967. That demand is helping to drive up prices among ticket brokers and others. Tickets were selling on the Internet auction Web site eBay for $400 to $1,000 apiece Wednesday afternoon. ``There is certainly more of a market this year,'' said Rick Kline, owner of Front Row Center Ticket Service in West Los Angeles
Rose Bowl tickets sell for $125 face value. - Daily News Morgan Stanley agrees to pay fine WASHINGTON - Wall Street powerhouse Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine imposed by regulators for allegedly failing to accurately report its positions in stocks it expected to decline. The agreement, in which Morgan Stanley neither admitted to nor denied wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do , was announced Wednesday by 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. , the American Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Stock exchange in the U.S. Originally known as “the Curb,” it began as an outdoor marketplace in New York City c. 1850. It moved indoors to its present location in the Wall Street area in 1921. and NASD NASD See: National Association of Securities Dealers NASD See National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). Regulation, the enforcement arm of the Nasdaq. Under the accord with the three markets, New York-based Morgan Stanley also agreed to be censured and to tighten its procedures for reporting monthly its so-called short interest to market regulators. - Associated Press Alaska pipeline to be joint venture ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska's three major North Slope natural gas producers announced a joint agreement Wednesday to build a pipeline to deliver gas to Canada and the lower 48 states. Costs and management will be shared equally among the three producers - BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., Phillips Alaska and Exxon Mobil Corp. - Associated Press |
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