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Business Wire, Dec 3, 2002

Customer-Centric City Furniture Continues Rapid Growth

As Keith Koenig walks the aisles of City Furniture's massive 660,000 square foot distribution center, his vision of the future is bolstered by a successful formula developed in the not-so-distant past.

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Fleet Names Kenneth Colloton Director of Government Banking

FleetBoston Financial Corporation today announced the appointment of Kenneth B. Colloton as Director of Government Banking. Fleet Government Banking is the second largest depository of government funds in the country, with more than 3,500 municipal and large government clients.

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Conexant Delivers the Industry's Most Powerful, Highest Density and

Lowest Power DOCSIS 2.0-Specified Single-Chip Cable Modem

Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor system solutions for communications applications, today announced a single-chip cable modem that includes technology specified in CableLabs(R) DOCSIS(tm) 2.0, the latest version of the cable modem standard. Conexant's new CX24951 device is backward and pin-compatible with the company's earlier CX24943 DOCSIS 1.1/1.0 solution.

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Silicon Motion Selected for NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems

Corporation's New VISYM PD1500

Silicon Motion announced today that the LynxEM low-power mobile display controller, was designed into new VISYM PD1500 of NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual Systems Corporation (NMV). The VISYM PD1500 is a new ultra-portable LCD intelligent display for the Japanese market that enables users to make a presentation without using a personal computer. Its 15-inch LCD display can display PowerPoint(R) files with animation and still image files, and also can be used as a LCD monitor for your personal computer.

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L.A. Mayor Hahn To Take Delivery of First Fuel Cell Vehicle Dec. 2

Mayor Jim Hahn announced today he will take delivery of the first Honda FCX fuel cell vehicle being leased by the City of Los Angeles in a ceremony including Hiroyuki Yoshino, President and CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., on Monday, Dec. 2, at City Hall. Video available Tuesday morning, Dec. 3.

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Child Musical Prodigy, Legal Pioneer, Financier and Civil Rights

Pioneer Joseph Ranzini Dies, At 73

Joseph Louis Ranzini, chairman of NASDAQ-listed University Bancorp Inc. (Nasdaq:UNIB), born on April Fool's Day 1929 in Joliet, Ill., died today at his daughter's home near Princeton, N.J. A man of unflagging optimism, wit and grace he retained a positive attitude until the end despite a twelve-year struggle against lipo-sarcoma, a rare cancer of fatty tissues.