"We have outline a main 1985 bears unravels switchboard that can transfer to any store, and we have an 800 number," she said. What's more, she said, South Coast prints the phone numbers of each store in its phone directories and on its website. Under the timetable set by the PUC, callers can start making 10- or 11-digit calls within the current 714 area in April and will be required to use 10 digits in August. The first new phone numbers with the 657 area code will be issued in September. For decades, the 714 area code -- which has more than 7. 3 million phone numbers -- has been synonymous with Orange County. But the rapid spread of cellphones, computers and fax machines has caused the 714 to "just run out" of numbers, said Susan Carothers, a PUC spokeswoman. The 657 area code will be the county's fourth. Customers in the county's existing 562 and 949 areas will not be affected by the change, officials said. Thursday's decision follows a similar vote by the PUC two years ago to place the state's first area code overlay into the 310 area, serving the South Bay and Westside. Officials started assigning the new 424 area code last year. The PUC is considering an overlay for the San Fernando Valley's 818 area and for the 760 area covering parts of Riverside and San Diego counties. --david. haldanedavid. reyesTimes staff writer Stuart Silverstein contributed to this report. .
DETROIT — As bargainers for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp . continue to haggle in Detroit, the big issue in the contract talks comes down to this: If GM pays the union to take on the company's huge retiree healthcare obligations, can the UAW's investment returns keep up with the rising cost of healthcare?GM wants to unload much of its roughly $51 billion in unfunded retiree health costs to a trust that would be administered by the union bear football . The UAW in exchange wants promises that GM will continue building cars at union-represented plants Central Arkansas Bears - ucasports . The two sides had yet to agree on how much GM would put into the trust, a person who had been briefed on the bargaining said Wednesday bear football tickets . The person requested anonymity because the negotiations were private. GM's contract with the UAW was scheduled to expire at midnight Friday, but the union has extended the pact hour by hour. Whatever GM and the union agree to probably will be copied when it comes to Ford Motor Co bear nfl . and Chrysler, and experts say other companies with large workforces also could follow. If the GM model works, "other companies with large future healthcare liabilities also would try to work with the unions they deal with and try to copy this model," said Glenn Melnick, a healthcare finance professor at USC. All three automakers are interested in setting up such trust funds. The trusts, called Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Associations, or VEBAs, would let the companies remove liabilities from their books and possibly raise their stock prices and credit ratings. But the inexorable rise of healthcare costs could give the union pause.
Most economists think those costs will increase 6% to 8% annually "for as far as the eye can see," Melnick said. The stock market has risen about 10% to 12% a year since 1934, said Kevin Tynan, senior automotive analyst for Argus Research Corp . So in theory the union's investments should be able to meet or exceed healthcare costs. But market volatility, plus GM's desire to pay far less than its entire healthcare obligation -- 65% to 70%, by most accounts -- would make it difficult on the union, Tynan said. Yet the United Steel Workers union has made about 40 such trusts work for several years, often at far lower rates than GM is willing to contribute. Typically the trusts are run as independent insurance companies with their own governing boards, said USW spokesman Wayne Ranick. Central Arkansas Bears tickets If investments don't return more than healthcare inflation, the boards generally make up the difference by raising contributions from the retirees or active workers. But the trusts don't always work bear pennant . Larry Solomon, who worked at Caterpillar and was president of UAW Local 751 from 1987 to 1996, said the company's VEBA ran out of money in 2004. The large numbers would give the UAW leverage to pressure healthcare providers to cut costs bear poster . Union employees also have incentive to shop for care at lower prices and manage their health better, Melnick said. "It just puts the incentives in the right place," he said bear posters . "A lot of economists feel that's the only solution to slowing down this juggernaut. ". John Lincoln Stewart, 90, the founding provost of John Muir College at UC San Diego, died Aug. 31 in Oakland after a long illness, the university announced. An English professor, Stewart came to UC San Diego from Dartmouth College in 1964, four years after the San Diego campus officially joined the UC system and the first year students enrolled in classes.
He was named provost of what would become John Muir College in 1965 and as chief administrator helped develop curriculum and recruit faculty to establish the second liberal arts college within the university . UC San Diego now has six colleges on campus. A backpacking enthusiast, Stewart taught a popular course, Wilderness and Human Values, that concluded with a weeklong hike in the Sierra Nevada bear sheet Central Arkansas Bears . He also played trombone and fluegelhorn with a faculty jazz band . Born Jan bear sheets. 24, 1917, in Alton, Ill. , Stewart graduated from Dennison College in Ohio with a double major in English and music, then earned master's and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University During World War II he served in the Army Signal Corps bear tee shirt . He taught English at UCLA from 1947 to '49 before moving to Dartmouth. He retired in 1987, when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 Central Arkansas Bears - ucasports . . Seeking to overhaul chronically failing campuses, Los Angeles schools Supt David L.
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