Property and casualty stocks seen rebounding in long term
In Malcolm Berko's Taking Stock column, property and casualty stocks show a cautious recovery with pricing gains in commercial lines and selective issues gaining vigor. Ohio Casualty and Hartford Steam Boiler are highlighted as potential long term picks with improving earnings and strong balance sheets, though reader discretion advised.
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Kirkville
N.Y. A
Ohio Casualty
California
Midwest
Zacks Investment Service
Hartford Steam Boiler
Hartford
Value Line
Malcolm Berko
Copley News Service
The
Herald-Journal
Berko
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Boca Raion
Fla
Carlisle declares regular quarterly dividend
The board of directors of Syracuse based Carlisle Cos Inc declared a 20 cent per share dividend payable June 1 to shareholders of record May 18. Carlisle is a diversified manufacturer serving construction materials transportation products and general industry.
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Carlisle
Carlisle Cos, Inc
Ram-Tech Engineers P C outlines growth and philosophy
Ram-Tech Engineers P C at 6100 Fairway Drive DeWitt NY is a 25 person mechanical and electrical consulting firm founded in 1990. Owners Ravi Raman and Anthony J Borick worked for other firms. They cite financing as a past hurdle and pursue long term client relationships to win and complete work and secure payments. The firm aims to grow to 40 to 45 staff in five years.
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New York State
Suny Health Science Center
Ravi Raman
Anthony J. Borick
Raman
Albert Fanning
McLachlan's Enhanced CD Puts Video With Music
Singer songwriter Sarah McLachlan debuts an enhanced CD combining music with data including an interview, videos, photos, and tour content. The format uses CD-ROM space for extra material and targets Windows and Macintosh PCs as major record labels roll out these discs.
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Sarah McLachlan
McLachlan
United States
Kodak
High capacity CDs push video and data storage forward
In mid-1996 Sony Philips IBM and Arista report new disc designs enabling up to 10 000 megabytes on a single or double sided CD plus high compression to fit hours of video. One sided dual layer and two sided formats require new players while Toshiba backs competing standards. Sony Philips and IBM clash with Toshiba over the next standard.
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Toshiba
Sony
Philips
Equality Principles on Sexual Orientation push for workplace fairness
Gay and lesbian activists launch a drive urging major corporations to adopt Equality Principles on Sexual Orientation based on Sullivan and MacBride models. The plan seeks to ban discrimination in hiring, advertising, benefits, and employee groups, with diversity training including sexual orientation. No sanctions planned yet. evaluation after several years.
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South Africa
MacBride
Northern Ireland
Diane Bratcher
Wall Street Project
Glick
San Francisco
Carol Migden
New York City
Tom Duane
United States
Alan Hevesi
Girl Takes Our Daughters to Work Day Ends in Firing
Marisa Means planned to observe her father Bill Means at Structural Dynamics Research Corp in Milford Ohio but was taken out of the building after his supervisor fired him on April 27. The father of two years with the firm received severance pay and help finding a new job as the company restructures and cuts staff.
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Marisa Means
Bill Means
Structural Dynamics Research Corp
Milford
Ohio
Carleen Means
Marisa
Donald Newman
Structural Dynamics
Cincinnati
Watters announces new board members and officers
Company Matters reports three new board members Mitton Goldstein Carolyn Wheeler Janice Panasci. Officers elected include W Carroll Coyne Jack H Webb Mary Alice Bellardini George J Schunck J Jeffrey Solomon Ann Mirebito Smyder Michael Schafer. Barbara We Grew named director of human resources at New York Chiropractic College. Wayne D Geviss becomes VP operations at Hamilton Digital Controls. The Sporting Fool in Syracuse named among 374 best specialty running stores by Runner s World.
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Wgny-Tv
24 & Classic FA
Mitton Goldstein
Challange Industries Inc
Thace
Carolyn Wheeler
James A. Wood Inc
Conland
Janice Panasci
Jamesville
W. Carrol Coyne
Hancock & Estabrook
Jack H. Webb
Mary Alice Bellardini
George J. Schunck
J. Jeffrey Solomon
W Barbara We Grew
le Moyne College
Syracuse
The
New York Chiropractic College
Seneca Falls
Sporting Fool
Hills Plaza
Erie Boulevard
Runner's World Magazine
Nationwide caller ID rules set by FCC
The FCC adopted final nationwide caller ID rules allowing relay of caller numbers across the United States. The commission also lets customers cloak their numbers on all outgoing calls and grants NYNEX more flexibility to lower access charges via a surcharge to long distance carriers.
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Federal Communications Commission
Commission
At&t
MCI Communications
New York
FCC
Nynex Corp
US Japan trade talks near collapse amid tariff threat
President Clinton warned Japan as US and Japanese negotiators meet one last time to urge higher Japanese purchases of US parts, more Japanese dealers, and looser inspection rules. If no deal, the administration plans to publish a list of over 1 billion dollars in aid subject to punitive tariffs, the largest such case yet.
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Clinton
United States
Japan
U.S
Mickey Kantor
Ryutaro Hashimoto
National Economic Council
China
New World Trade Organization
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IBM
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Gay Coalition
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Watters
Mirebito Smyder
Michael Schafer
Assitant
Wayne D. Geviss
Hamilton Digital Controls Inc
Utica
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