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Show BUSINE BG FRIDAY, JUNE 1,2001 THE DAILY HERALD (www.HarkTheHerald.com) Firestone fires back at Ford Novell considered company sell-off By NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press Writer Novell PROVO (AP) Inc. executives, faced with WASHINGTON The battle intensified Thursday between former business partners BridgestoneFire-ston- ....I e , m jfp- in sagging sales and profits, considered selling all or part of the company, spinning off subsidiaries or entering into a m,. Inc. and Ford Motor askwith the investo the government ing tigate the safety of Ford's Explorer SUV. Co., tire-mak- iA c er Iff joint-ven--tu- partnership. Instead, it agreed in March to buy Cambridge Technology Partners, a Massachusetts technology consulting company. The $245 million deal, if it goes through, is expected to increase Novell's annual revenue by almost 50 percent. Novell disclosed its earlier contemplations in a filing Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commis- BfidgestoneFirestone CEO John Lampe met with Secretary Transportation Norman Mineta and pre-- " sented him a lengthy report claiming the world's sport utility vehicle has a steering problem that contributed to rollovers Ford has blamed on faulty Firestone tires. 'When tires fail, either from a tread separation or a road hazard or other causes, drivers should be able to pull over, not roll over," Lampe said in a statement released after the meeting. "The Explorer does not appear to give the driver that margin of safety to make it to the side of the road and change the tire." NHTSA spokesman Rae Tyson would not comment on the information except to say it was under review. A call to Ford seeking best-sellin- g ' was not immedi- comment ately returned. a Dennis Guenther, mechanical engineering professor at Ohio State University who wrote the report for re - - , .. , ,.,,.,,.": i PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVIASThe .a Associated Press Check this out: BridgestoneFirestone Chief Executive Officer John Lampe, right, is pursued by a reporter after a meeting with Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta in Washington on Thursday. The battle between former business partners BridgestoneFirestone Corp.,and Ford Motor Co. intensified Thursday, with the asking the government to investigate the safety of the Ford Explorer. tire-mak- the company, said he tested the steering in the Explorer and two similar SUVs: the Jeep Cherokee and the Chevy Blazer. He also tested the Explorer with Goodyear tires. "This is a vehicle problem, not a tire problem," he said. "The vehicle performs the same following tread separation on the Goodyear tire as relationship ing a with Ford because of the automaker's claims about Firestone tires. Those 13 million tires were not included in August recall of 6.5 million Wilderness AT tires. The insists the tires included in Ford's action are safe and do not need to be replaced. it does with the Firestone 96-ye- ar tire." BridgestoneFirestone has been releasing information critical of the Explorer since last week, when Ford announced it was replacing all 13 million Firestone Wilderness AT tires on its vehicles. That move came a day after BridgestoneFirestone announced it was end Bridge-stoneFireston- tire-mak- er sion. Cambridge shareholders will vote July 10 on Novell's offer. If shareholders the acquisition after approve, will close immediately the meeting. "There were a number of us who felt like Novell was worth more dead than alive," said Donald Young, a securities analyst with investment banking firm UBS Warburg in Stamford, Conn. Young is pessimistic about Novell's prospects. He said the company's main software product, NetWare, continues to lose market share and Novell has not been able to field new products that offset the decline. Young said parts of Novell could have been sold easily when technology stocks were hot, but that opportunity has passed.. "Novell is dead in the water," Young said. "It is a company in decline. . They, are transferring themselves into a service (company) because their products are obsolete." The acquisition of Cambridge is part of Novell's previously announced strategy to reposition its networking software business to using the Internet for information exchanging inside and outside a company. Novell believes Cambridge will help it to develd products op new and services. Stephen Dube, an analyst with Dresdner Klein-woWasserstein in New York, believes the merger will be good for Novell. "They have recognized the need for substantial: assistance for developing' solutions and sales and techniques,"; marketing Dube said. Web-base- rt U.S. jobless claims still rising Success requires mastering change In the past two weeks I interviewed dozens of people who are looking to make a change in their lives. They are reinventing themselves and changing. Many of them do so with great fear yet the dilemma is that they hate change and love it at the same time: What they want is for things to remain the same but get better. Some have been fired, laid off, looking to improve their situation and some are just starting out in the work world. All of them are in a change mode which can be a very scary place to be in a world where change is the CHAMBER REPORT Steve Densley tion. They will be the ones who are not overwhelmed by the situation but use it as a springboard to a new law of life. Business is constantly changing with mergers, downsizing, expansion, and adventure. It has been said that it is not about what happens but what you do about what happens. I read in the Atlantic Journal about change or this threat to the security of humankind. The quote read, "The world is too big for us. Too much going on, too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in moving. The ones who will succeed and flourish will be masters of change. They will be adept at reorienting their own and others' activities in untried directions to bring about higher levels of achievement. They will be able to acquire and use power to produce innova- - 5. Don't seek out a low stress work setting. Growing companies naturally create stress. Stress isn't always negative. To succeed you must get out of the box or your comfort zone. 6. Don't try to control the uncontrollable. Accept what your can't change, and move on. As my grandmother would say, "Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere." 7. Don't try to use your the race, in spite of yourself. It's an incessant strain, to keep pace. ... And still, you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast that you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderment. The political world is news seen so rapidly you're out of breath trying to keep pace with who's in and who's out Everything is high pressure. ... Human nature can't endure much more!" I might add that this came from the Atlantic Journal on June 16, 1833. The basic mistakes that people make in dealing with change are as follows. 1. Don't expect somebody else to reduce your stress. Put yourself in charge of own pace of change. Keep moving along with everyone else. 8. Many people fail to abandon the expendable. Examine your priorities and be honest. Everything can't be number one on the list. You should eliminate the unnecessary. 9. Never fear the future. Examine the possibilities for the futures and define the opportunities ahead. 10. Don't avoid new assignments. Remain flexible and broaden your skills and experience base. you. Don't decide not to change or hold onto the past. Look at change as an opportunity. 3. Never act like a victim and give way to self pity. 4. Don't try to play an old game when it requires a new approach. Take tune to study and refocus your energies. 2. Summer School A V" MH DCMTAT WASHINGTON (AP) New claims for state unemployment benefits remained at the highest level in a the month, suggesting nation's labor market still is struggling. The number of workers filing new claims for the insurance jumped 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 419,000 for the work week ending May 26, the Labor Department said Thursday. "We're in very serious territory here," said David Orr, an economist with First Union Corp. The increase was the third in a row, keeping claims at their highest level since April 28, when they shot up to 425,000. Analysts had anticipated a smaller increase. The more stable moving average, k which levels fluctuations, .slipped 1,500 last week to 402,500, the lowest level sinceApril 21. The sputtering labor market concerns economists because consumers might cut spending sharply and tip the country into recession. four-wee- k week-to-wee- Microsoft unveils new Office SEATTLE (AP) Microsoft Corp. launched the latest version of Office, its flagship business software system, on Thursday with more than 100 marketing events throughout the coun- executive Steve Ballmer. "We try. An estimated 250 million people already use a version of Microsoft Office, but that doesn't mean the market is too saturated for the new version, called XP, have a a lot of users. And users want to be able to use more, get more done, col- said chief laborate with others better he said. 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