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| 1 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 2 | Intergraph Corp has landed a $422m share of the US Navy 's $1.5bn CAD-2 programme and is to supply 4,200 workstations and 1,082 servers based on its Clipper RISC . |
| 3 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 5 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 6 | BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains . |
| 7 | For FFr100m ( $17.5m ) , American Express has bought a 2% stake in Club Méditerranée , a French group that ranks third among European tour operators , and runs holiday villages in exotic places . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , NCR has formed a $3 million alliance with Software Clearing House Inc to sell Frame Technology Corp 's FrameMaker desktop publishing software into the NCR customer base . |
| 9 | The Institute is investigating an allegation that rock star Sting has suffered a £4m loss . |
| 10 | San Jose , California , Motorola Inc 's Commercial Systems Division has won a $5m deal from Plano , Texas-based Paging Network Inc , the paging services specialist , to install its Unix-based Motorola 68040 systems in 40 of its offices nationwide . |
| 11 | Witco 's organic division has introduced a series of Formez ester and ether polyols for the manufacture of polyurethane oligomers used to formulate coatings for radiation curing systems . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses . |
| 13 | AT&T Co has signed a $30m contract with the Yunan Provincial Import and Export Corp to supply cellular network equipment to Yunan Province in China : AT&T will supply Autoplex System 1000 mobile switching equipment , base stations and cellular phones to provide Yunan with province-wide mobile phone service . |
| 14 | BRITISH Aerospace has won a £300 million contract to build 13 RAF Harriers , it was announced yesterday . |
| 15 | The board has recommended a 10% increase in interim dividend to 3.32 pence , compared with 1992 's 3.02 pence . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Chorus has signed a $21,000m deal with Alcatel Alsthom SA for use of the Chorus microkernel technology throughout Alcatel 's operations . |
| 17 | WILD West researcher Donald Clerk has put a 30ft totem pole on his lawn at Zelah , Cornwall , to ward off evil spirits . |
| 18 | A POTTERY firm chairman has returned a £236,000 bonus to help his firm beat the recession . |
| 19 | THE Somme Association has received a £100 , grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board towards new facilities for visitors to the Ulster Memorial Tower at Thiepval in France . |
| 20 | The Japanese Fisheries Association has launched a £36,000 campaign aimed at persuading the US government that driftnets are not as environmentally destructive as reported by its scientists . |
| 21 | My hon. and learned Friend has listed a series of initiatives taken by the Government in relation to the member states of the CIS . |
| 22 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has signed a $20m multi-year OEM agreement with 3Com Corp , San Jose , California under which it will resell 3Com 's network adaptors , chassis-based and stackable hubs , terminal servers , bridges and routers . |
| 23 | It was profitable almost from day one — and now Koch has built a series of these plants . |
| 24 | FORMER Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has bought a £2 million holiday mansion in the Canary Islands . |
| 25 | The Cray Communications Ltd arm of Cray Electronics ( Holdings ) Plc , Newbury , Berkshire has launched a series of new products , including a series of multifunctional terminal servers which the company claims can integrate virtually all host environments in a single network . |
| 26 | The Textile industry has undergone a 5% fall in exports compared with 1989 and the Footwear and clothing industry has suffered an even larger decline of 13% in the value of its exports . |
| 27 | ‘ Kindly inspect your flannel , Wattling , in case your hidden enemy has concealed a Samurai sword in it … |
| 28 | LIZ McCOLGAN has agreed a £500,000 deal to run in the next three NutraSweet London marathons . |
| 29 | The Northern Echo has received a series of telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening . |
| 30 | The Whitbread Education Partnership has organised a series of ‘ French Fiesta ’ events with their prestigious Landsbury Hotels providing the setting for a three-day French food project . |