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Enrollment Up at YSU on First Day of Classes
Wednesday, January 19, 2005YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The number of students enrolled at Youngstown State University at the end of the first day of spring semester classes yesterday was 12,327, up by 185 students from the same day last spring semester. "We keep moving in the right direction," said Bill Countryman, YSU interim executive director of enrollment services.Official enrollment numbers will be reported to the Ohio Board of Regents on Feb. 1, the 14th day of classes.
GM Nets $3.8 Billion for 2004
Wednesday, January 19, 2005DETROIT -- Consolidated net income for 2004 at General Motors Corp. was $3.7 billion, or $6.51 per share, compared with $3.8 billion, or $7.14 per share, in 2003, officials reported earlier today. On an adjusted basis, earnings from continuing operations were $3.6 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share, led by record earnings from financial services and a 12% improvement in automotive earnings.The automaker reported market-share gains in three out of four automotive regions in 2004, ending the year with a global market share of 14.5%, down slightly from 14.6% in 2003.
Journal Opinion
Wednesday, January 19, 2005A Bargain at One-Tenth the PriceIn 2004, Poland Township budgeted $1.14 million for its police department. At the other end of Route 224, Canfield Township -- threatened with the loss of safety protection when Mahoning County's half-percent sales tax expired last year -- cut a deal with the sheriff's department to provide road patrols. The cost: $205,000. Now that's power buying.
Points of View
Wednesday, January 19, 2005Museum Displays Bad ScienceSpecial exhibit on eugenics tours U.S. in 6 months.Few who spend any time at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., leave without feeling some mix of disbelief, horror, shock, shame and revulsion. Many people from the Valley have toured the permanent display, but the staff periodically offers a special exhibition on the first floor of the building.The most recent, on eugenics, is the latest in a series that has included righteous gentiles, partisan resistance, the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and Jewish political art.
Points of View
Tuesday, January 18, 2005"Museum Displays Bad ScienceSpecial exhibit on eugenics tours U.S. in 6 months. Few who spend any time at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., leave without feeling some mix of disbelief, horror, shock, shame and revulsion. Many people from the Valley have toured the permanent display, but the staff periodically offers a special exhibition on the first floor of the building.The most recent, on eugenics, is the latest in a series that has included righteous gentiles, partisan resistance, the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and Jewish political art.
Journal Opinion
Tuesday, January 18, 2005"A Bargain at One-Tenth the PriceIn 2004, Poland Township budgeted $1.14 million for its police department. At the other end of Route 224, Canfield Township -- threatened with the loss of safety protection when Mahoning County's half-percent sales tax expired last year -- cut a deal with the sheriff's department to provide road patrols. The cost: $205,000. Now that's power buying.
GM Nets $3.8 Billion for 2004
Tuesday, January 18, 2005"DETROIT -- Consolidated net income for 2004 at General Motors Corp. was $3.7 billion, or $6.51 per share, compared with $3.8 billion, or $7.14 per share, in 2003, officials reported earlier today. On an adjusted basis, earnings from continuing operations were $3.6 billion, or $6.40 per diluted share, led by record earnings from financial services and a 12% improvement in automotive earnings.The automaker reported market-share gains in three out of four automotive regions in 2004, ending the year with a global market share of 14.5%, down slightly from 14.6% in 2003.
Enrollment Up at YSU on First Day of Classes
Tuesday, January 18, 2005"YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The number of students enrolled at Youngstown State University at the end of the first day of spring semester classes yesterday was 12,327, up by 185 students from the same day last spring semester. "We keep moving in the right direction," said Bill Countryman, YSU interim executive director of enrollment services.Official enrollment numbers will be reported to the Ohio Board of Regents on Feb. 1, the 14th day of classes.
"Regulators Approve F.N.B. Corp., NSD Bancorp Merger"
Tuesday, January 18, 2005"HERMITAGE, Pa. -- The application to merge the Pittsburgh-based NSD Bancorp into F.N.B. Corp. has been approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Pennsylvania Department of Banking, F.N.B. officials announced yesterday. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has waived its need for the filing of a regulatory application concerning the pending merger.Also yesterday, F.N.B. announced that employees at the bank and other corporate subsidiaries contributed over $15,800 towards tsunami relief during their one-week campaign that ended Jan. 14.
Parker Hannifin Nets $171.1 Million for Second Quarter
Tuesday, January 18, 2005"CLEVELAND -- Second-quarter net income at Parker Hannifin Corp. was $171.1 million, or $1.41 cents per diluted share, on sales of $1.94 billion, officials announced yesterday. Comparatively, net income was $55.8 million, or 47 cents per diluted share, on sales of $1.59 billion for the second quarter of the last fiscal year.Current-quarter results include 47 cents per diluted share related to the operations and sale of the company's Wynn Oil specialty chemicals business, which was divested on Dec.