Goddard FFA Floriculture Team to Compete in Louisville
Goddard FFA Chapter floriculture team members Sarah Griffith Melissa Whitlock Beth Overbey and alternate Meghan Wood will compete October 24 to 27 in the National FFA Floriculture CDE in Louisville Kentucky during the 74th National FFA Convention. Coach Les Purcell leads the team. A Financial Workshop for Individual Investors will be hosted by Edward Jones representative Tom Belding at the Roswell Adult Center Thursdays September 13 through October 11 from 3 to 4 30 p.m. Contact Tom Belding or Nancy Mahony at 623 0880 for details.
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Goddard Ffa
Louisville
Sarah Griffith
Melissa Whitlock
Beth Overbey
Meghan Wood
Les Purcella
Tom Belding
Edward Jones
Roswell
Nancy Mahony
Bush administration drops Microsoft antitrust plan shift
The Bush administration abandons Clinton era efforts to break up Microsoft and signals a smaller penalty that could alter Windows XP. DOJ drops tying claims and says the move is not a settlement signal.
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Washington
Bush
Microsoft
Justice Department
Naps Prove Beneficial For Workers In Silicon Valley
The piece highlights executives including Al Kirschbaum of Fremont Investment Advisors and King Kryger of Anesthesia & Analgesia who nap during the day to boost energy and alertness. It cites Mark Rosekind of Alertness Solutions and NASA research showing 40 minute snoozes improving pilot and worker performance, with adoption by some railroads and airlines.
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Kirschbaum
Fremont Investment
Kryger
el Cerrito
Bart
Mark Rosekind
Alertness Solutions
Cupertino
Rosekind
NASA Ames Research Center
United States
U.S
British Airways
Quantas Airways
Lufthansa
Union Pacific Railroad
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
Hewlett-Packard to buy Compaq in $25 billion merger
HP and Compaq announce a $25 billion stock swap creating a global tech giant with about 150,000 employees and $87 billion in revenue. The deal aims to accelerate growth in PCs servers and services, but faces antitrust and shareholder approvals and may lead to more job cuts.
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San Jose
Calif
Hewlett-Packard Co
Compaq Computer Corp
IBM Corp
Palo Alto
Dell Computer Corp
Gartner Dataquest
Compaq
Carly Fiorina
Hewlett-Packard
Houston
Capellas
Fiorina
Rob Enderle
Giga Information Group
Gartner Dataquest Research
Martin Reynolds
Silicon Valley
Stanford University
Wall Street
Long term dividend stocks offer inflation protection
Financial guidance notes that quality, long term dividend paying stocks can provide rising income through increasing payouts. Key factors include low payout ratio, growth potential, and solid payment history. The strategy emphasizes holding for the long term to weather market swings.
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John L
McCullousen
Time
Morgan
Treasury
Dow Jones tumbles as unemployment shocks markets
An worse-than-expected unemployment report sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 241.01 to 9599.83 and the S&P 500 to 1086.22 as investors priced a slower U.S. economic recovery. Nasdaq slid toward its 2001 low while IBM and Merck also fell amid broader tech weakness.
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New York
Wall Street
Standard & Poor
Dow
Labor Department
Robert Harrington
UBS Warburg
Intel
IBM
Oracle
Microsoft
Justice Department
DuPont
American Express
Merck
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Citigroup
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Associates First Capital
al Kirschbaum
Daily Record
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Guy Malone
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