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Show BUSINE IDHOR SAS( Y BLISS Till 344-26- DAILY B8 THURSDAY. JANUARY 6, 2000 HLRALD(wwheraldcxtncom) ao,peDH,eijfs potesftDiraig POSITIVE STRUGGLES to?j wages By C AN DACE PERRY The Daily Herald I'KOVO Union carpen- ters are protesting for a better way of life something they say IIakvky Mack ay Visualizing your future can lead to business success KMKCC even went so far . pic- played 18 holes every day. He dreamed every detail, from his clothes to his golf clubs and all the sights and Hmells of the course. He imagined different weither conditions, different 'cup placements, different seasons. He held the club find experimented with different grips. He saw his swing improve. He watched the ball sail down the fairway, and rejoiced as he sunk every putt. Nesmeth took his time, every day, to "play" a full round. Four hours a day, seven days a week,. for seven years. All this time, his physical condition was deteriorating many of remember horrible the you pictures of the J'OWs as they were freed. Hut this guy kept his mind in shape. And the first time he played after his release, he shaved 20 strokes off his game, all because of the power of visualization. I learned, long ago that projecting yourself into a successful situation is the most powerful means of attaining personal goals. Success is no surprise to visionary people. They know what they want, determine a plan to achieve it and expect positive results. Tom Fatjo knew what he wanted to do, and turned a $500 investment and a used garbage truck into the coundisposal comtry's largest "creative dreaming." pany through tip-to- solid-wast- to picket in front of Intcrmountain Health Care's Provo hospital Wednesday because of work done at IHC's Ogden hospital by Standard Drywall, and plans to picket University Mall as ing his golf name from tain UHual score ho i new he re in the 90s. Circumstances forced him to quit t he game completely for seven years. Never teed up, never swung a club. And yet, the next time he played, he shot an incredible 74. NeHmeth did think about the game during those seven years. In fact, that's probably what saved hia life. You Hee, Nesmcth npent that time as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, confined in a cage that measured approximately four and a half feet high and five feet. long. For most of his imprisonment, he saw no one, spoke to no one and could barely move in the small space. At first, he spent most of his time praying for his release. Hut as the weeks dragged on, ho realized he would lose his sanity or even his life if he didn't keep his mind active, lie learned to visualize. IK DECIDED to play golf. He tured his favorite golf course and p e SAYS FATJO, "In the beginning stages of developing our first garbage company in Houston, I used to imagine trucks, a whole fleet of blue trucks, running out of our lot onto the streets of Houston in the early morning mist." He visualized hia dream us a reality. Forty years ago, who could have imagined putting a man on the moon? President John F, Kennedy, of courBe, gave America the vision in I960, and set a goal of achieving it in 10 years. While some folks scoffed at the idea, millions of others shared the president's dream. The rest is history. Visualization allows you to see your ideal tomorrow. It doesn't do the planning and it doesn't r icipate the obstacles. It gives you a real idea of what is possible, if only you want it badly enough. The journey may not be simple, but worth every mile if you remember where you started and have a clear destination in mind. Mackay'g Moral: Vision is not so much what you think as how you think. If you can visualize it, you can today. KMKCC k can-tacl- ed Councn Little and Hotel America University of Utah for projects done ' by Standard Drywall. Hut Standard Drywall and their general contractor Big-I- ) construction said it's all a ploy to get them to join their union and their work is above board. "We are in competition with two large union contractors and the union would like to have control of the three major players in town," said Hob Caya, Standard Drywall operations manager in Salt Lake City. RMRCC And though insists their argument is not unionnon-union- , their claims do not size up. A state Utah Occupational Wages survey stated the average wage for trained car- between penters - $10.90- Rocky Mount! area failing ROBERT JOHNSON TTic Daily Herald Protest: Carpenter's Union members Dave Undsey, left, and Steve Chapman stand behind a sign labor dispute with By $15.30. "A fourth make less and a fourth make more," said John Mathews, state labor market economist. Though RMRCC provided paychecks from Standard Drywall showing hourly rates as low as $7-- an hour, Caya said that is the apprentice rate paid until the employee is trained. However, trained journeymen earn up to $25 hour at Standard Drywall. Hruce Hutler, organizer for . 8 during the afternoon session, sending the Nasdaq index EILEEN GLANTON AP BusincsK Writer NEW YORK Investors moved back into the battered stock market Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrials sharply higher and helping the technology-dominateNasdaq composite recover from a steep decline to finish modestly d lower. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 124.72 to 11,122.65. The blue-chiindex had risen as much as 216 points in earlier trading; it lost 359.58 on Tuesday. The Nasdaq ended a highsession with a loss volatile ly of 24. 15 at 3,877.54. In early trading, the index fell as much as 166 points and appeared likely to extend Tuesday's plunge of a record 229 points, or 5.6 percent. But buyers stepped in p said Standard Drywall is also trying to undermine the thousand year practice of apprenticeships, something the union provides, but is not required in Utah. IHC and Big-- backed up Caya, stating the books were opened up to them and wages and health care benefits were as good or higher than the union's. Pension is hot provid-- " ed, which Caya said they cannot afford. RMRCC, "Standard Drywall is not only paying standard, but above standard wages and have great health care benefits," said Rob Moore, president of Big-- construction, "Standard Drywall is a very, very good company. They are the largest drywall company in Utah right now and you don't keep good employees by paying poor wages," Moore said. Base pay for trained union carpenters is $19.50, though briefly into positive territory. Broader stock indicators also gained ground, with the Standard & Poor's 500 rising 2.69 to 1,402.11. "The selling just, kind of ran its course," said Bill Schneider, head of block trading at Warburg Dillon Read. "People don't like to be out of this market." The catalyst for steep selling on Monday and Tuesday the fear of rising interest rates was still in the background for the market Wednesday. Bond yields rose, hurting shares of many banks and brokerages. American Express fell 3 2732 to 147 14. And investors began shifting into cyclical stocks, which follow the fortunes of the broader economy and are generally seen as a safer bet than technology or financial issues when interest rates are rising. As interest rate worries have knocked the market some investors have found a reason to take some e, The Dow was led higher by cyclical companies like DuPont, up 2 1516 to 67 15716, and Alcoa, up 4 1116 to 86. Oil companies were mostly higher, with Exxon Mobil up 4 316 to 81. Nonetheless, IBM was also among the Dow's strongest performers, rising 3 1516 to 116. A Bank of America analyst labeled the computer maker a "strong buy" and said its stock price should reach 150. But some analysts were wary of the Dow's recovery, suggesting it was a mere technical bounce in response to Tuesday's sharp drop and warning that the blue chips' advance might not last. "It's the way the market tries to find a bottom, by trial and error," said 'Larry Wachtel, a stock market analyst at Prudential Securities. profits from 1999's meteoric gains, especially in the technology and Internet group. Many of those companies in a slump remained Yahoo! fell 32 12 Wednesday. to 410 12 and Qualcomm fell 5 58 to 156 716. Amazon.com fell 12 316 to 69 34 after saying its quarterly losses would widen because it overstocked for the holiday season. But as the trading session wore on, some of the shares that tumbled this week attracted buyers at their new, lower prices. "In the absence of downward pressure, a little took place," said Schneider, the Warburg Read Dillon analyst. Software maker Intuit rose 17 916 to 78 716. value-huntin- g Strong demand for electronic goods lifts factory orders WASHINGTON (AP) Factory orders rose 1.2 percent in November as strong demand for electronic products gave American manu- facturers their first increase in orders since August. The November advance followed no gain in October and a 1 percent decline in September, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Orders had risen by 1.3 percent in August. The rebound in manufacturing was just one more piece of evidence that the U.S. economy is showing little evidence of a slowdown,, despite three Yamarone, an economist at Argus Research in New York, said there was little doubt the Fed will raise labor markets, we are looking for another three Fed Factory orders up rate hikes," Yamarone said. Here it a took at total new orders to American factories. t370 Stocks, led by technology ' mm tHHion I. i : 380 I.llllll 350 340 Changi from pravioui month Nov. 1.2S 330 320 Oct. 310 438pt. 300 -- 00 1.0 I1111U1 290 1MS . Sourer Otptrtmnt ot Comma companies, had plunged Tuesday as investors grew increasingly worried about the possibility of nature Fed actions. The Dow Jones industrial average, which Buffered its fourthworst-poin- t drop' of all time Tuesday, losing 360 points, recovered a bit Wednesday, rising by more than 200 points in trading. Clinton President announced Tuesday that he was Alan nominating r Greenspan for a fourth, term as Fed chairman, something investors saw as removing any uncertainty over the Fed's freedom to increase interest rates if late-afterno- OJFMAMJJASON '! in front of UVRMC as part of a IHC Wednesday. Stocks end mixed as investors edge back Richard ofMackay Envelope Corp. and can be fit harvi'y(ima( kay.com. picketed year by the Federal Reserve. tamy Mavkay h the chairman and CEO 1 Over the past few months, interest rate increases last make it happen. , L programs. Kike a million other people, Maj. .JanieH NeHmeth dreamed of improv- I carpen- non-unio- n ters are taking from them. Subcontractor Standard Drywall has taken heat for the past few months from Kocky Mountain Regional Council of Carpenters for what the union calls undercutting wages, health benefits, pension and apprentice Af . rates again at their first meeting'this year, a session on. Feb. with more increases to follow. "If we get continued economic strength and tight two-da- y four-yea- they saw the need to move. For November, manufac- turing orders increased by $4.5 billion to a seasonally adjusted $365.2 billion. The rebound in demand was led by a $3 billion increase in orders for electrical equipment, which rose 8.4 percent over the October level, the biggest gain for this category since July 1998. Demand for electronic components, a category that includes computer chips, shot up by 32.9 percent. Orders for primary metals, including steel, rose 1.8 percent to $15.7 billion. Compared with a year earlier, orders for primary metals were up 8 percent, a hopeful sign for an industry battered by a flood of cheaper imports since the Asian crisis started in 1997. are also much lower. "We had lunch with (RMRCC) six months ago and two people have to apprenticeships the bring something to table," Caya said. "We bringing 250 people when I asked what were bringing, they were and they said 'Peace." He said that indicated they would harass Standard Drywall until they signed into the union. Jenny Craig franchises opt out on new Lewinsky ads APPLETON, Wis. (AP) -SCraig weight-los- s franchises are refusing to run the new Monica Lewinsky ads, saying the former White House intern at the center of ome Jenny President Clinton's impeachment scandal is not an appropriate role model. The owner of Jenny Craig locations in Green Bay, Grand Chute, and Des Moines, Iowa, says he plans to stick with an old ad campaign rather than pay for television commercials of Ms. Lewinsky, Jenny Craig's new spokeswoman. "As a person who has been successful on our program she's done great," said the franchise owner, David Lahey. "But, as a person to look up to, there are certainly some issues there. "I wouldn't be pleased if my daughter came home and said T want to be just like Monica Lewinsky'." The commercials of Ms. Lewinsky began airing nationally on Sunday, showing her slimmed-dowfigure and a "before" picture of her looking heavier. Ms. Lewinsky, 26, was the subject of allegations of sexual improprieties in the White House when she was an intern. Clinton finally admitted to a sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky after seven months of denials. n . Jenny Craig ; spokesman Brian LusComb said Wednesday that various other U.S. franchises also have decided against airing the ads, but he declined to say where or how many. Fifteen percent of Jenny Craig franchises are privately owned, he said. The overall response to the new ads has been favorable, he said. |