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VALLEY INDEX FALLS: The Daily News/Bloomberg Index fell 0.29 to 111.58, led by On Assignment Inc. of Calabasas and Electro Rent Corp. of Van Nuys. On Assignment fell $2.625 to $32.75. Electro Rent fell $1.40625 to $11.75.

- Bloomberg News

TRUST FUND BUYS BUILDING: A Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern  labor trust fund, the Construction Laborers Union Pension Trust, has bought the 29,640-square-foot Northridge Medical Center office building for $4.75 million. The two-story building at 18433 Roscoe Blvd., across from Northridge Hospital Medical Center Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a hospital in the Northridge town of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is currently operated by Catholic Healthcare West. History
The hospital was founded in 1955 by Dr.
, is fully leased. It was sold by Uniphy Investments, a Los Angeles partnership.

- Daily News

PINKERTON PURCHASE: The United Kingdom subsidiary of Encino-based Pinkerton's Inc. has bought the Manned Guarding Division of TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene.
TNT
 in full trinitrotoluene

Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene.
 U.K. Ltd. Terms of the acquisition by Pinkerton U.K. Ltd were not disclosed. TNT provides uniformed guards to companies throughout the U.K.

- Daily News

HAWKER SIGNS DEAL: Hawker Pacific Aerospace Hawker Pacific Aerospace is a multinational aircraft parts and repair company based in the United States, and the United Kingdom. The company is a descendant of the Hawker Siddeley Company. It was formed in 1980 within British Aerospace, and merged with Dunlop Aviation Inc. in 1994. , a Sun Valley-based provider of aircraft landing gear maintenance services, said Friday it has signed a five-year, $3 million contract with Taiwan-based EVA Eva

to marry winner of singing contest. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Meistersinger, Westerman, 225–228]

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1. Eva - A toy ALGOL-like language used in "Formal Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer", F.G.
 Airways to service EVA's fleet of Boeing 767s. The work will be done at Hawker's Sun Valley facility.

- Daily News

IMAGE SIGNS DEAL: Image Entertainment Inc., a Chatsworth-based licensee and distributor of laser discs and digital versatile discs, said Thursday its entire line of DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 titles is now offered through the nation's top distributors. The company on Monday announced a distribution agreement with Minneapolis-based Navarre Corp. Image currently distributes about 1,500 DVD titles, the company said.

- Daily News
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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Date:Oct 3, 1998
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