Show DOW JOKES at 11 am 1101245 -- 77X7 i : 6A Standard-Examin- Tuesday November 23 1999 er Business Editor 625-424- 5 Women in business program formed years have at least two employees (including the female owner) OgdenWeber North Davis chambers sign enhancement agreement and must meet revenue MARKETS stan- dards: $100000 a year for a service business or $250000 for a retail business or manufacturer By BRYAN CORUSS STOCK - OGDEN Two vvomen-owne- d businesses in the Top of Utah will get advice and mentoring from experienced business people under a program announced Monday The Chamber OgdenWeber and North Davis Chamber of Commerce signed an agreement to establish the Women’s Business Enhancement program “We're excited to partner with each other on this” said Chris Dallin the North Davis chamber's chief executive officer The program is an offshoot of the national Athena Foundation which was founded in 1982 to encourage leadership opportunities for women It calls the program PowerLink A group of volunteer business men and women will run the program It is financed with a $5000 grant from the US West Foundation Two businesses - one each from Davis and Weber counties -will be picked by the volunteers to participate Over the next year they will get work with a panel of unpaid advisors to achieve their business goals To participate must be at least businesses percent owned b women They must have existed for at least two 51 The goal is to help these J Monday Dow Jones Industrials High of 11 112 69 low Of 10 978 28 close at 11 069 52 U0 65 63 StandarOA Poors 500 Index 1 420 94 down 1 06 NYbE Index 644 64 down 1 46 3 392 56 up 23 31 Nasdaq Composite ind Amencan Stock Ex char ge index 828 12 up 2 Russell 2000 Index 460 77 down 0 5 N4shtre 5000 Index $13127 900 Wboft up $1 750 Drtbon wom-en-own- ed businesses “expand their busmess or reach a second level” said Holly Bauman who will be the program’s volunteer coordinator businesses Women-owne- d NORTHWEST face three hurdles said Nancy Singer who heads the PowerLink program nationwide Athena Foundation Grain for the 14 percent 2 13 (up 1) Female entrepreneurs typically lack sophisticated financial training Singer said Some are quite skilled in one aspect of business like marketing but don’t have experience in hiring or negotiating contracts And many suffer from a lack of a support network of LORI Paul Bertrand takes a photograph of the fountain outside the Mirage The hotel is seen as the genesis for the “new" Las Vegas CATALYST: provide advice Resort marking 10th anniversary was catalyst for city makeover “This gives them those opportunities” Singer said The volunteer board will start taking applications for businesses interested in the program in January and hopes to have two busi- - WASHINGTON Business groups are threatening court action to block proposed new rules intended to protect American workers from repetitive-motio- n injuries Businesses face an estimated $42 billion in annual costs to fix job sites and pay workers recovering from injuries under the ini VEGAS LAS February The Associated Press WASHINGTON US factories for - big-tick- et Orders to man- ufactured goods fell in October for the second straight month hit by the biggest drop in demand for electronic and electrical equipment in more than two ears The Commerce Department reported today that orders for du - On Monday marked the 10th 625-424- or 4 10 ago Steve Wynn the world will flock to see” Experts say he wasn’t far ofT Today the Mirage is credited as being the catalyst of the “new” Las Vegas - a multibil-lion-dollexplosion of megaresorts and a doubling of visitor volume hotel rooms and gambling revenue “It caused Las Vegas to go in the right direction to provide a ar tiative announced Monday by the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration “If OSHA persists in pushing forward this regulation then we will meet them in court” said Randel Johnson the an- niversary of Wynn's $630 million venture described by one a crisp morning for the the chair- man of Mirage Resorts Inc hotel-casin- o You can reach reporter Bryan o CAINThe Associated Press in Las Vegas analyst as one of the “key engines” behind the city’s growth in the past decade “The Mirage has created the reason for people all over the world to come to Las Vegas” said Jason Ader a casino analyst for Bear Steams & Co Inc in New York When the 3044-roohotel opened on Nov 22 1989 skeptics predicted it wouldn’t be able to generate the $ million a day needed to meet its debt service and operating costs Wynn made light of the skep m 1 ry PORTLAND - White wheat 3 01 (steady) bartey 90 00 (Steady) 14 percent spnng 4 02 (up 1) 11 percent winter 3 04 3 08 (down I) CALDWELL ticism then noting the $1 million daily nut and boasting “Anything above that we get to keep” The resort generated revenues of $7205 million in its first year averaging nearly $2 million daily “Sure enough he did it” Ader said "Nobody ever doubted Steve Wynn again” In 1989 Wynn predicted the Mirage’s success would prove Las Vegas and its casinos were a safe bet for Wall Street and the investment community The city's early casinos were built with mob money and later d through the - White wheat cwt 3 77 (down 1) baney 4 00 (steady) METALS PRICES Monday Aluminum 66 7 cents per to London Metal Exch Copper - 78 85 cents per lb NY Merc spot Lead cents per tb Zmc 57 21 57 71 cents lb delivered Gold $295 30 troy 04 NY Merc spot Silver $5 200 troy oz NY Merc spot Mercury - Si 50 00 per 76 lb flask N Y Platinum $405 70 troy oz NY Merc spot rCS INTEREST RATES Inflation note 1 year bill 3 month Ml Feoeral Funds Municipal bonds - Monday 30 year 10 year bond note 619 608 4 560 5 24 550 6k7 Standard-Examine- staff r and wire services scandal-plague- Teamsters Pension Fund “In the end that was the most important thing” Wynn stocks aawmactiffif said Monday US Chamber of Commerce’s vice president for labor policy Labor leaders however welcomed the initiative 1999 Pursuit NFp? orders fall s visitor” said Wynn the grounds of his new and promised it would be “a wonderment ECONOMY Durable-good- deeper richer experience The Associated Press nesses picked and advisory boards picked to help them by at hotel-casin- Mirage changed Vegas’ fortunes other businesspeople who can Corliss Monday POCATELLO White wheat 2 36 (steady) bartey 3 80 (steady) 3 20 winter 3) ordinary (up spring OGDEN - White wheat 2 68 (down 2) bartey 3 75 (steady) 14 percent spring 2 79 (down 1) 1 percent winter 2 49 (steady) New OSHA rules draw heat The Associated Press ROUNDUP Aj Standard Examiner staff Excellence National Funeral Directors Association rable goods - items expected to last at least three years - declined by 13 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted $2009 bil- lion October’s performance was worse than many analysts’ expectations They were forecasting orders would rise by 1 percent It marked the first back-to-ba- ck monthly declines since February-Marc- h 1998 Internet company settles charges The Associated Press BOSTON - An Internet bookseller has agreed to pay $250000 to settle federal charges its corpo- rate predecessor intercepted sent by giant rival Amazoncom and possessed unau- thorized password files Alibris based in Emeryville Calif was charged in a criminal information Monday with 10 counts of unlawful interception of messages and one count of unauthorized possession of passwords with intent to defraud The information focuses on the company’s corporate predecessor - the now defunct Interloc Inc an online bookseller that also provided Internet service in the Greenfield area through a business called Valinct Alibris which faced a maxi- mum penalty of $250000 on each count agreed Monday to settle the case for $250000 t i “We’re a different company in a different business now and it was just time to clean this stuff up” said Martin Manley Alibris’ president The information alleges that between January and June 1998 AlibrisInterloc intercepted ail messages from Amazoncom to AlibrisInterloc clients that used Interloc addresses Many of the Interloc clients were themselves booksellers Prosecutors say the interceptions were designed in part to gain competitive advantage for busiAlibris’ online book-sellin- g ness In January of last year US Attorney Donald K Stern said Interloc altered its service so that it automatically intercepted and stored addressed from Amazoncom to Interlock book dealer customers No confidential customer fi- nancial information was obtained or misused Stem said ft ' Shaun Myers Receiving Pursuit of Excellence Award from NFDA Executive Director Robert Harden j I j j One of funeral service's highest awards the PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE EMERITUS AWARD has been presented to the Myers Mortuaries of Ogden Roy Layton and Brigham City I ! 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