Ametek Sells $350 Million In Notes To Investors - Forbes ametek inc. said wednesday it sold $350 million in senior notes in a private placement with institutional investors. the maker of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices said the seven and 10-year notes were sold at a weighted average ... www.forbes.com
Wamu Investor Eases Restrictions On A Rescue a private equity group waives a clause against a wamu deal that could have resulted in million-to-billion dollar payout. money.cnn.com
Cps Students Earn Record $157 Million In College Scholarships haul nearly doubles last year's total students from this spring's chicago public schools graduating class collected nearly $157 million in college scholarships, nearly twice the amount earned the year before and a district record, officials said. www.chicagotribune.com
Montpelier Celebrates $24 Million Restoration - Washington Post montpelier, the former virginia estate of founding father james madison, celebrated the completion of a $24 million restoration today aimed at returning the home to how it looked during the former president's lifetime. supreme court chief justice ... www.washingtonpost.com
Actuant To Buy Cable-maker Cortland $230 Million - Reuters sept 17 - diversified industrial manufacturer actuant corp (atu.n: quote , profile , research , stock buzz ) said it agreed to buy new york-based cable-maker cortland cos for about $230 million from a group of investors led by private-equity firm ... www.reuters.com
Otter Warns Of Multi-million Dollar Shortfall 'today's channel 6 news' has learned that idaho governor butch otter has sent out a letter to all state agencies warning leaders about a possible multi-million-dollar shortfall for the 2009 fiscal year. www.kivitv.com
Study: Chrome Reached Nearly 2 Million In U.s. it appears that nearly 2 million people in the united states downloaded google's new chrome web browser in its first week of availability, nielsen online said wednesday. news.yahoo.com
Battered Wall Street Gives To Obama, Mccain - Forbes some of john mccain's and barack obama's biggest fundraisers are executives from the stricken financial services industry, which will need all the help it can get from whoever wins the white house. merrill lynch & co.'s chief executive, for example ... www.forbes.com
Wamu Investor Eases Restrictions On A Rescue - Cnn Money san francisco (ap) -- ailing washington mutual inc. moved into a better position to find a reprieve or rescue from its mounting loan problems wednesday after a major investor removed a potential stumbling block to a sale or another infusion of ... money.cnn.com
Splost Passes By A 2 To 1 Margin school officials and community leaders breathed a sigh of relief and cheered tuesday when they realized the 1-cent sales tax was passing.with a 16-percent turnout tuesday, the $88.9 million sales tax package for local schools passed 4,747 to 2,372, 67 percent to 33 percent.everett springs, fosters mill and howell were the only precincts that voted against the measure.“my biggest emotion is one ... news.mywebpal.com
Uptake Raises $10 Million In Series B Funding uptake , a travel search engine that specializes in helping users find travel ideas by taking a semantic approach to indexing destination descriptions and user comments across the web, announced today that it has raised $10 million in series b funding. www.techcrunch.com
Wall Street Crisis Reaches Madison Avenue And Hollywood - Cnbc wall street isn't so far from madison avenue or hollywood blvd. and the upheaval in the financial markets will have aftershocks reaching far into the media industry. it's sure to effect the already-suffering advertising industry as well as the film ... www.cnbc.com
Sirius Xm Is In A Serious Bind - Businessweek karmazin's tough talk was spot-on insofar as other radio companies face big hurdles. there's not a lot of room for growth in an industry that's already reaching 235 million weekly listeners, or almost 80% of the u.s. population, according to the ... www.businessweek.com
United Kick Off Champs League With A Whimper dc united kicked off competition on yet another front – the concacaf champions league – last night looking like a decidedly haggard squad. jaime moreno was on the bench. the $1.9 million-per-year marcel gallardo was back in argentina for further rehab, leaving his total games played for the season at 14. that’s over 100 grand per game, spaced out over 7 months. nice work if you can get it. also ... dcist.com
Montpelier Celebrates Restoration To Madison's Era montpelier is celebrating the completion of a five-year, $24 million project to restore the plantation home to the era of james madison's presidency and retirement years. news.yahoo.com
United May Not Be Alone With Fuel Hedge Loss - Businessweek airline bets that oil prices would rise looked like a no-brainer this summer. but with oil prices falling, those hedges against rising fuel costs are getting expensive. united airlines said on wednesday it is on track to lose $544 million on fuel ... www.businessweek.com
News - Business Tech - Cnet News it appears that nearly 2 million people in the united states downloaded google's new chrome web browser in its first week of availability, nielsen online said wednesday. the online chatter about google's browser surged to more than half the ... news.cnet.com
Obama Picks Up About $9 Million In Hollywood barack obama partied with hollywood celebrities tuesday night and with the help of oscar-winning singer and actress barbra streisand raised an eye-popping $9 million for his presidential campaign and the democratic party. news.yahoo.com
Rising Prices Tip Another 75 Million Towards Starvation: Fao global numbers afflicted by acute hunger rose from 850 million to 925 million by the start of this year because of rising prices, the head of the un food and agriculture organisation said wednesday. news.yahoo.com
Chicago Public Schools - Chicago Tribune the chicago public school system, also known as cps, includes 655 schools, 408,600 students and 44,417 employees, including 588 principals and more than 24,600 teachers. cps is the third largest school district in the united states led by ceo arne ... www.chicagotribune.com