Blowout sale. (L.A. Stories).When a Washington-based news service erroneously reported that an executive at VCA VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier VCA Victorian College of the Arts (Australia) VCA Vehicle Certification Agency (UK) VCA Veiligheids Checklist Aannemers Antech sold stock worth almost $500 million last week, the 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. operator of veterinary hospitals wasted no time issuing a press release clearing up the matter -and blaming the news service for inaccurate reporting. The service, which claims to have made no error, was none too pleased. It pointed the finger right back at the company. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report filed by the Washington Service, Carol Johnson Carol Alfred Johnson (1903 - 30 July 2000) was a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for Lewisham South from 1959 until the general election of February 1974, when the constituency was abolished by boundary changes. References , a VCA Antech vice president, filed to sell 36.7 million shares of company stock. Such a sale, at about $13.50 per share, would have been worth about $495 million, or the entire market value of the company. Johnson actually sold 10,000 shares for $135,000. A spokesman for the Washington Service declined comment on VCA's press release, but he faxed a copy of the form recording the sale to the Business Journal. "You decide," he said. According to the faxed version, either Johnson or her broker did, in fact, jot down Verb 1. jot down - write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of jot write - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week" her intent to sell 36.7 million shares of VCA stock. "All I know is an error was made and it has been corrected," said Tom Fuller, VCA's chief financial officer. |
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