California
State authorities are rushing toward deciding if Southern California Edison can merge with a San Diego utility, despite expected increases in chest-burning, eye-watering smog in Ventura County and other places.
July 15, 1990
Business
California-based firms on the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, ranked by 52-week stock price change. *--* Rank Company 52-week % change 1 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 157 2 Cisco Systems Inc. 144 3 Times Mirror Company 112 4 Raychem Corporation 109 5 Gap, Inc., The 76 6 Amgen, Inc. 66 7 Computer Sciences Corp. 62 8 Oracle Corporation 61 9 ALZA Corporation 57 10 Hewlett-Packard Company 56 11 3Com Corporation 52 12 Wells Fargo & Co. 52 13 BankAmerica Corporation 51 14 Teledyne, Incorporated 46 15 Mattel, Inc. 41 16 Intel Corporation 40 17 Avery Dennison Corp. 39 18 Clorox Company, The 37 19 Applied Materials 37 20 Bay Networks, Inc. 37 21 Hilton Hotels Corp. 35 22 Fluor Corporation 34 23 Transamerica Corp. 33 24 Longs Drug Stores Corp. 33 25 Rockwell Int’l Corp. 31 26 Allergan, Inc. 29 27 Tenet Healthcare Corp. 28 28 Western Atlas, Inc. 26 29 H.F.
May 7, 1996
Consolidated Edison Inc. said it’s buying Northeast Utilities for up to about $3.5 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create one of the nation’s largest electric utilities.
Oct. 14, 1999
Consolidated Edison Inc. asked New York City residents and workers to conserve power today after a fire at a transfer station knocked out service to the west side of Lower Manhattan.
July 22, 2002
Technology and the Internet
While several tech companies issued profit warnings Wednesday, an analyst issued a bit of a warning of his own for one Southland stock.
Jan. 6, 2000
Paramount Citrus will retain its lemon-processing plant in Oxnard and consolidate its former McFarland operations at a new facility in Delano.
April 7, 1998
Sattel Global Networks Inc. in Chatsworth, incorporated in Delaware, has signed an agreement to consolidate operations with Sattel Global Networks Inc., incorporated in Colorado.
Nov. 7, 2000
Here is a list of the 38 mayors of Los Angeles since 1850, when California became a state, the pueblo became an incorporated city and the first elected mayor took office.
Sept. 6, 1988
Supporters expect more money to flood the industry. Critics fear regulatory uncertainty.
Aug. 7, 2005
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc. filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Rosemead-based Edison International, claiming that the electric utility had special rights to the Edison name, court papers showed.
Oct. 3, 1997