Bankruptcies.
Byline: The Register-Guard The following Lane County-area individuals or businesses recently filed business-related bankruptcies in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Eugene: Randeen Cummings, 1333 David Ave., Eugene, doing business as Cummings & Associates, filed chapter 7 personal bankruptcy. Assets: $12,573. Liabilities: $135,296. Schulenberg Joint...

Defying the odds: enterprising social work practice in a rural employment project.
Abstract Rural communities have been identified as vulnerable to the negative impacts of globalisation, particularly in relation to changes in employment structure and opportunity (Alston 2002). Despite these negative trends there are creative examples of enterprising rural social work that seek to foster community agency and resiliency....

SpencerStuart/Directors & Boards: directors roster.
This edition marks a record number of companies listed in the Directors Roster. On the following pages, you will see profiled the board recruitment results of 241 companies -- everyone from giant IBM Corp., which added a major media executive to its board, to tiny Biocryst Pharmaceuticals Inc., which...

PLDT subsidiary putting up 513-seat call center in Iloilo.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT EPLDT Ventus Inc., a unit of the countrys telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), is putting up a maximum of 513-seat capacity call center in Molo, Iloilo City. With a project cost of R201.6 million, the Board of Investments (BoI)...

The Bank of New York Launches Business and Professional Financial Center in Brooklyn.
To Meet the Financial Needs of Local Business Owners and Professionals, The Bank Opens its First Brooklyn Location NEW YORK, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of New York announced today the opening of its Business and Professional Financial Center, at 188 Montague...

A national survey of employment services provided by independent living programs.
In conjunction with a research and demonstration project designed in part to support independent living programs (ILPs) in their efforts to increase activities addressing employability development and employment of their clientele, a national survey to ascertain the extent to which ILPs currently provide employment services was conducted. Employment services are...

IBM network management strategy.
This essay describes some major directions at IBM with respect to network management. It describes the network management environment and discusses four key initiatives of IBM's System View[TM] network management strategy. This strategy provides integrated applications and services, broadens the scope of network management products, provides open...

Randstad's business model of innovation: results from an exploratory study in the temporary staffing industry.
SUMMARY Official statistics suggest that European service corporations seem to be ignoring the importance of R&D and innovation activities. It is worthwhile to look at whether and how European service companies innovate in order to reap the associated benefits. In this article, we will introduce the Randstad...

NCI And Microsoft Enable Banks to Take Advantage of New Windows 2000 Platform.
TROY, N.Y., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- IFS International Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFSH) today announced that its subsidiary, Network Controls International, Inc. (NCI), and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) now offer a solution to enable banks to easily migrate to a Windows 2000 platform. NCI and Microsoft are...

Business and rehabilitation factors in the development of supported employment programs for adults with developmental disabilities.
Segregated services for persons with developmental disabilities had been the rule and not the exception until the late 1970's (Scheerenberger, 1983). Traditionally services were provided in large or small custodial-like programs and facilities which resulted in severe restrictions on the individual's experience with a variety of non-disabled persons and...