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Year 2000 Glitch Costing Millions

If there was any question about how seriously Arkansas’ larger companies are taking the looming Year 2000 computer crisis, the answer is becoming evident. First Commercial Corp. of Little Rock,…

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Embedded Problem

Many businesses will be surprised to learn that the Year 2000 glitch isn’t just a software problem and will rear its ugly head in common, everyday places. It’s the embedded…

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Har-Ber Meadows Renews Mortgage

Har-Ber Meadows Development Co. of Springdale renewed a $3.5 million mortgage with Springdale Bank & Trust in November. The mortgage was signed by Ken Childress, president of the company. The…

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Iowa Group Buys Tyson Stock

Invista Capital Management Inc. of Des Moines, Iowa, has purchased 6.7 million shares of Tyson Foods Inc. stock, making Invista the third largest holder of Tyson Foods stock with 6.1…

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Yuletide Hog

By next Christmas, a giant, illuminated running Razorback may scamper along the roof of Bud Walton Arena on the University of Arkansas campus, if Jennings Osborne, the Little Rock businessman…

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Virtual Bust

Some things never die, like our interest in the carved bust of H.G. “Jack” Frost that, until a few months ago, graced the entrance of the Harvey and Bernice Jones…

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The Plaza Auction

It’s an inglorious end to what was one of the area’s finest restaurants for 10 years. The remains of the Plaza Restaurant & Club at 200 S. First St. in…

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Wanted: Name, Place, Volunteer

Expect word soon from the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce about a new annual summer festival. We don’t know the name or the location, but then, we’re told, neither does anyone…

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No Vacancy?

The Fayetteville building that housed Consumers Food and Drug until the store moved to Bella Vista in November may soon be leased to another tenant, says Joe Fred Starr, owner…

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Let Him Go

James Dennie, the former owner and president of the former Dentech Systems Inc. of Springdale, was released from prison Jan. 7 after serving exactly one year of his sentence. Dennie…

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Union Contract

The contract to renovate and expand the Arkansas Union building at the University of Arkansas will be awarded to Kinco Inc. within the next two weeks. The company, with offices…

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Toggery to Go

John W. Cole, who is behind construction of Singletree Plaza, a 15,900-SF shopping center on Millsap Road in Fayetteville, says The Toggery is the first store, besides his own Walker…

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Walton to Join Wal-Mart

Alice Walton has left the board of directors for Cannon Express Corp., apparently to join the board of directors of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. “She has been asked to join the…