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MarketsI)Edward JonesrMidmorning quotes*Access Anytime.............6 1/4ATT Corp.................55 13/16American Wtr Wks..........21 1/8iAtmos Energy Com......18 1/2•BankAmerica Corp New Com .49 1/2•Bristol Myers Squibb .........52 7/8Burlington/Santa Fe .........22 1/16Citigroup Inc. Com...........56 7/8Coca ColaCo.................48 5/8Daimler Chrysler ............65 3/8Eastman Kodak Co..........57 3/4•Edison Inti Corp.............16 9/16iExxon Corp ................76 1/4iFord Motor Corp ...........43 13/16General Electric............139 5/16General Motors ..............79 15/16Glaxo Holdin ................56 11/16GTE.......................68 11/16Intel Corp..................135 11/16IBM ...........................112Kmart ........................9 1/2McDonalds ..................34 9/16Merck Co......................61Microsoft Corp................99 1/16New Century Energies.........29 13/16Newmont Mng Corp................23PepsiCo Inc ..................33 3/16Philip Morris...................20 1/8PNM ......................15 15/16Santa Fe Snyder ................8 7/8Sears.......................31 1/16SW Airline ..................19 11/16Tenneco.....................7 13/16Texaco.....................50 13/16TX Utils Co ...................30 3/4US West ...................70 11/16UtiliCorp United ...............18 1/16Walgreen.....................27 3/8Wal-Mart .....................54 1/4Wells Fargo Co.............37 15/16The Dow Jones Industrial Average is10,707.23, up 112.00MetalsGold........................283.90Silver .........................5.03Edward Jones Indications of current interest rates are:30 Year U.S. Treasury Bonds .......6.01Insured AAA Corporate Bonds ......7.95Insured AAA Tax-Free Muni Bonds . . .5.955-Year CDs - Annual % Yield .......7.10Money Market 7-Day Average Rate . 5.00Market News ServiceWheat....................2.30 - 2.55Milo .....................3.53 - 3.70Corn.....................4.03 - 4.45Soybeans......................4.23Court awards judgment against hospitalROSWELL (AP) — A judge has ordered a doctor associated with Eastern New Mexico Medical Center to pay six former employees $3.75 million for civil rights violations.U.S. District Judge Martha Vazquez ruled Friday that Dr. Qudrat Kapoor, a cancer specialist, discriminated against the plaintiffs.Kapoor leased office space from the Roswell hospital and was under contract with the institution but was not an employee, ENMMC officials said.Plaintiffs Anna Nieto, Betty DeLosSantos, Patrick Sanchez, Sally Netsch, Phyllis DeBaun and Mary Gonzalez sued in 1996, alleging a hostile work environment.Vazquez said Kapoor “frequently degraded the plaintiffs in their workplace at ENMMC based on their race or sex.”The judge said Kapoor discriminated by creating “a sexually and/or racially hostile work environment.’’Vazquez said Kapoor retaliated against Netsch and Sanchez forcomplaining about his discrimination against patients. She also ruled that Kapoor “intentionally inflicted emotional distress’’ on five of the plaintiffs.Eastern New Mexico Medical Center Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operated the then-county-owned ENMMC, also had been named as a defendant but settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.Community Health Systems Inc. of Brentwood, Tenn., bought ENMMC from Chaves County in 1998.Vazquez awarded compensatory damages of $250,000 to Netsch, $375,000 to DeBaun, $500,000 to Sanchez, $250,000 to Gonzalez and $500,000 to DeLosSantos. Additionally, all five were awarded punitive damages in amounts matching compensatory damages.Court costs, attorneys fees and interest will be added to the $3.75 million.Messages were left seeking comment from Kapoor and from defense attorney Mark Jarmie on Sunday.Tandy Hunt of Roswell, who with Albuquerque attorney Kathryn Hammel representedNetsch, Sanchez and Gonzalez, said the case “illustrates that matters of human dignity for women and those who enjoy different national origins are entitled to respect in the workplace.’’Randy Clark of Roswell, who represented DeBaun, DeLosSantos and Nieto, said the phrase “hostile work environment” describes a situation in which “you discriminate and do enough bad things against a person in the workplace that it eventually crosses a line that the environment becomes hostile.”Hunt said the punitive damages were important because “the judge awards those to set an example and say if people are going to make a choice to engage in this behavior, then they are subject to being penalized, and it’s a very expensive choice that they make.”Netsch is a registered nurse who worked in the hospital’s radiation oncology department from September 1994 to May 1995. DeBaun is a certified radiation therapist who worked in the department during the same period.
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