THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, May 30, 1996 TAG: 9605300351
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Business Briefs
LENGTH: 77 lines
Homeowners who want to sell their homes without a real estate agent can advertise their residential properties free on the Internet. About 4,300 homeowners nationally have listed their properties on a World Wide Web site that was launched recently by Abele Owners' Network. Shoppers can search for properties by state, metropolitan area, price, number of bedrooms and type of home - including townhome, condominium or farm/ranch. Homeowners can list their properties on-line. Homeowners can e-mail, fax or mail their information. To obtain listing forms, call (800) 273-7322. The address for the Web site is http://www.owners.com (San Francisco Examiner) Whirlpool, Kenmore dishwashers recalled
Half a million Whirlpool and Kenmore dishwashers are being recalled because wiring in the door latches may overheat and catch fire. Owners should not use the dishwashers until they can be serviced. They were sold from June 1991 to October 1992. Whirlpool brands have model numbers beginning with DU8, DP8, DU9 and GDP. Kenmore brands model numbers start with 665. Both brands have serial numbers ranging from FA2400000 to FA5299999, or from FB0100000 to FB1899999. Owners of Whirlpool dishwashers should call (800) 874-9481 to schedule a free repair. Kenmore owners will be contacted by a Sears representative, who repairs at no cost. Sears customers also may call (800) 927-1625. (Associated Press) LCI offers Internet access for customers
LCI International, Inc. said it will offer direct nationwide Internet connection service for commercial customers. The company said that its new service, LCIccess (sm), offers significant economies of scale to business customers. Also, LCIccess customers will qualify for cross-product discounting, based upon their total usage of LCI's telecommunications services. LCIccess will be available in June, and will provide customers with a dedicated Internet connection for a variety of functions, including browsing the World Wide Web, transferring files, sending and receiving e-mail, and conducting electronic commerce. LCI will offer this service at a full range of access speeds - from 56/64 kilobits-per-second to 1.544 megabits-per-second. (Staff) WLR Foods closing N.C. poultry plant
WLR Foods Inc. plans to close its Wampler-Longacre Inc. poultry processing plant in Charlotte on August 29. ``The Charlotte operation is small and now needs modernizing. Since we do not own the facility, it is more cost effective to move these operations to our modernized, larger facilities,'' said company President James Keeler. The Charlotte plant employs about 100 people. All those employees will be given the opportunity to transfer to open positions at the other North Carolina turkey facilities in Monroe and Marshville. Wampler-Longacre operates 10 other poultry processing plants: three in North Carolina, one in West Virginia, two in Pennsylvania and four in Virginia. The company is based in Broadway, Va. (AP) FDA asked to target Snythroid in drug probe
The government is allowing makers of about 200 drugs to manipulate consumers by arguing - without proof - that they're better than cheaper competitors, a consumer advocacy group contended. Public Citizen filed a petition asking the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the drugs, starting with Synthroid, a widely prescribed thyroid replacement medicine. For the vast majority of drugs sold today, the FDA sets ``bioequivalency standards.'' Any competing drug that meets those standards can be substituted safely as equivalent to the original. But the FDA wasn't required to regulate drugs before 1938, and drugs sold before then never got formal FDA approval - they simply were left on the market. Thus, the FDA never set equivalency standards for their future competitors. Public Citizen targeted Synthroid because of allegations that manufacturer Knoll Pharmaceuticals suppressed a study that found its three cheaper competitors were equivalent. (AP)
KEYWORDS: RECALL by CNB