GM Wins Ethics Award in Turnaround
NEW YORK AP Four years after being named a top polluter GM earns an ethics award for environmental work from Business Ethics magazine. The award cites GM's 40 percent emissions cut since 1988 and 12 percent drop in energy use per vehicle since 1987 while joining international environmental principles in 1994. BankAmerica and Reebok also honored.
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Kellogg to Buy Lenders Bagels in $455 Million Deal
Kellogg Co agrees to acquire Lender's Bagels from Kraft Foods for 455 million dollars, adding the nation's top bagel maker with plants in West Haven and New Haven Connecticut Mattoon Illinois and Buffalo New York. Kraft exits the bakery business with Entenmann's and Boboli sales completed earlier.
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Senior citizen earns patent for bookmark
Jack Broyles of Frederick, 89, has earned a patent for Follow The Reader, a durable inexpensive bookmark using a paddle plastic strip that holds a reader’s place as pages turn. Manufactured by Avery Dennison, the bookmark suits blind readers and can be reused, and Broyles notes plans to discuss it with bookstores and libraries.
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Medical supply firm to lay off 38 in Baltimore County
New Jersey based Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems plans 38 job cuts among 1700 workers in Hunt Valley and Sparks Maryland. The reduction targets managerial and administrative roles as health care spending tightens. BDMS says no deeper cuts or departure from Baltimore County.
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Dentist Join Terrace Dental Group in Frederick Practice
Dr William J August joins Dr Gregory W Weakley at 10 W College Terrace Frederick after practice in Buffalo New York. He is from Rye New York and earned a BS from Syracuse University DDS from SUNY Buffalo and completed a residency at Millard Fillmore Hospital with extensive training in operative dentistry crown and bridge endodontics dentures periodontal surgery oral surgery and sedation including orthodontics pediatric dentistry implants and cosmetic procedures. He brings hospital dentistry experience treating medically compromised patients and on call dental emergencies.
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Gregory W. Weakley
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Crown Accused of Unfair Labor Practices in Texas Lockout
A union files charges with the National Labor Relations Board in Baltimore against Crown Central Petroleum amid a Pasadena Texas refinery lockout. The OCW International Union alleges Crown denied withdrawal of retirement savings for hardship and called police on leafletters on public property. The union seeks retentions rights and to organize station employees as the dispute, sparked by a February lockout after contract expiration, moves to review.
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Joseph Coale
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Fort Worth
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