IN BRIEF.VALLEY INDEX DROPS: The Daily News/Bloomberg Index fell 0.73 to 137.53, led by Countrywide Credit Inc. and THQ THQ Toy Headquarters THQ Territorial Headquarters THQ Tehsil Headquarters (Pakistan) THQ The Holy Quran THQ Theater Headquarters Inc., both of Calabasas. Countrywide fell $2.375 to $50.375. THQ fell $1.875 to $31.50. - Bloomberg News USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. RATED BEST: The University of Southern California's entrepreneurship program has been rated the best in the nation in a survey of the top 25 business schools appearing in Success magazine's August issue. The program in USC's Marshall School of Business The Marshall School of Business (also known as USC Marshall School of Business) is the business school at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. outranked counterparts at such heavyweights as the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. ; programs at the University of California's Los Angeles and Berkeley campuses; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, ; and Stanford, Northwestern, Cornell, Columbia and Harvard universities. - Daily News BOARD ADDITION: Calabasas-based Countrywide Credit Industries Inc. has added Michael Dougherty, founder and chairman of Dougherty Financial Group, as a board member. Dougherty controls and operates six asset-management, securities and commercial-lending businesses. - Daily News COMPLEX SALE: San Francisco-based BRE Properties has purchased the 250-unit Arbors at Warner Center apartment complex for $23.6 million from Ten West Associates. CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. handled the transaction. - Daily News PADDEN TAKES POST: Burbank-based The Walt Disney Co. named Preston Padden, the president of ABC television and a former News Corp. lobbyist, head of government relations. Padden will report to Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner and handle the company's dealings with the federal government. Disney didn't immediately name a replacement. - Bloomberg News |
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