1.
County Estimates for Median Household Income for New York: 1998
Table C98-36. Estimated Median Household
Income
by County: New York 1998 |
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| (Estimates model 1998 income reported in the March
1999 Current Population Survey.) |
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Median Household Income |
| State and County |
Estimate |
90% Confidence Interval |
| -Nassau County |
$61,096
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$58,429 to $63,749
|
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/stcty/c98_36.htm
2. Verizon's net income for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000 is $11,797,000,000.
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3. Verizon's current PE ratio is 206.70. The industry's
current PE ratio is 21.70. Verizon's PE ratio is much higher than that
of its industry.
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4. A real-time stock quote for Verizon is on February 8, 2002 at
11:40am the stock price was at $45.05.
https://scs100.fidelity.com/tpv/webxpress.shtml
On March 14, 2000 Verizon was at $56.06.
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5. The Thirty firms that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average:
| Alcoa
Inc. (AA) |
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| American
Express Co. (AXP) |
| AT&T
Corp (T) |
| Boeing Co.
[BA] |
| Caterpillar,
Inc. (CAT) |
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| Citigroup
Inc. (C) |
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| Coca-Cola
Co. (KO) |
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| DuPont
(E.I.) deNemours (DD) |
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| Eastman
Kodak Co. (EK) |
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| Exxon
Mobil Corp. (XOM) |
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| General
Electric Co. (GE) |
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| General
Motors (GM) |
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| Hewlett-Packard
Co. (HWP) |
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| Home
Depot, Inc. (HD) |
|
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| Honeywell
Int'l. Inc. (HON) |
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| Intel
Corp. (INTC) |
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| International
Bus. Mach. (IBM) |
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| International
Paper Co. (IP) |
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| J.P.
Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) |
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| Johnson
& Johnson (JNJ) |
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| McDonalds
Corp. (MCD) |
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| Merck
& Co. Inc. (MRK) |
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| Microsoft
Corp. (MSFT) |
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| Minnesota
Mining & Mfg. (MMM) |
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| Philip
Morris (MO) |
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| Procter
& Gamble Co. (PG) |
|
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| SBC
Communications, Inc. (SBC) |
|
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| United
Technologies Corp. (UTX) |
|
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| Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. (WMT) |
|
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| Walt
Disney Co. (DIS) |
|
|
http://stock1.com/dow30.htm
6. On March 14, 1983 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at about
1114.
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here to see the link
The current closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average as of February
7, 2002 is 9,625.44.
http://www100.fidelity.com
7.
| Quick
Internet Tips To Save You Time |
|
- To search for a word or phrase on a Web page, press CTRL+f to open
the Find dialog box. Type in the word or phrase you are looking for.
- To go to a new web location, press CTRL+o.
- You can quickly put a shortcut to any Web page on your desktop by
right-clicking in the page and then left-clicking Create Shortcut
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here for the link
8. Google is much simpler than Metacrawler. Metacrawler has more
links on its front-page and has better search capabilities. For example,
when you type in words to search for, you have the choice if you want all of the
words, any of the words, or the words in an entire phrase to be found. Metacrawler
gives you more of a selection of the types of things you can search for, such as
web, images, mp3 files, auctions, multimedia, and shopping. Google only
gives you web, images, group, and directory. So, Metacrawler has
everything that Google has and more. Metacrawler also allows you to
customize the website, so you can fit the search to meet your own individual
needs. One disadvantage to Metacrawler is that there are advertisements on
the page. Google, on the other hand, has no advertisements. While Google has better access to current news, Metacrawler
gives you instant access to the yellow pages, white pages, and
classifieds. Considering these characteristics, both these sites have
their advantages and disadvantages; it is really just a matter of preference.
test the sites for yourself:
www.google.com
www.metacrawler.com
9. A company that recruits on campus is Vertical Alliance.
http://www.careers.villanova.edu/html/992000recruiters.htm
10.
Eucharistic Ministers
prepare the bread and wine and all the sacred vessels for the Eucharistic
Celebration. They serve the Body and Blood of Christ to the gathered community.
Finally, along with other liturgical ministers they prepare the Church for the
next liturgy. They typically serve every other week during the academic
calendar. Eucharistic Ministers are required to be practicing Catholics.
http://www.campusministry.villanova.edu/liturgical_ministry/eucharistic/index.html
11. a. We examine four areas of rapid technology development that exploit
the capabilities of interactive e-channels: Web-based self-service, data mining,
personalization and e-cash.
Personalization. Personalization in the form of customized portals
(e.g., MyYahoo) and news notification against personal profiles are already
mainstays of many Web offerings. However, most of today's personalization is
human-driven, requiring users to explicitly state or select their preferences,
or businesses to define rules to drive the customization. An emerging set of
capabilities (based on machine learning and data mining) enables data-driven
personalization, whereby the system learns the user's preferences automatically
based on behavior such as click-through patterns or length of time spent in
various areas of the site. In particular, real-time data mining enables a
context-rich and immediate response and adjustment to customer behavior rather
than relying solely on offline historical data. An early example of automated
personalization is Amazon's use of collaborative filtering to provide its
"users who bought this book also bought …" feature.
http://www.gartner.villanova.edu/ras_frame.html
b. Article on Verizon's Earnings Per Share:
Copyright 2002 Hoover's Inc., Austin, TX
Hoover's Company Profile Database - American Public Companies
2002
Verizon Communications Inc.
TICKER: VZ EXCHANGE: NYSE
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY, 10036
United States
TELEPHONE: 212-395-2121
FAX: 212-869-3265
LENGTH: 1453 words
EMPLOYEES: 260,000
DESCRIPTION: This Baby Bell has a new name, but it's no
infant. Verizon Communications, formed when Bell Atlantic bought GTE in 2000, is
the largest local phone company and the #2 telecommunications carrier in the US
(behind AT&T).
Based in New York City, Verizon felt severe effects from the terrorist attack on
lower Manhattan, where it operates 500,000 phone lines and 6 million dedicated
circuits, including phone service to the New York Stock Exchange. The company
reported damage to its central office facility adjacent to the World Trade
Center and the loss of 11 cell sites in the vicinity of the destruction. Verizon
also provides phone services to the Pentagon and suffered damage in that attack,
as well. Verizon has more than 62 million local access lines throughout the US,
serving most of the top 100 US markets. The company also has 7.4 million
long-distance customers, and it is expanding its Internet services, which boast
1.2 million DSL (digital subscriber line) customers.
Verizon Wireless, the company's joint venture with Vodafone, is the #1 wireless
telecommunications company in the US, serving more than 29 million customers.
Outside the US, Verizon affiliates operate in 40 countries in the Americas,
Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. The company operates a multinational
network carrying data, Internet, and voice traffic and it is one of the world's
leading publishers of directory information.
To gain regulatory clearance to be acquired by Bell Atlantic, GTE sold off 90%
of its Genuity Internet backbone operation (formerly GTE Internetworking).
However, Verizon retains an option to regain control of the business in five
years if it can show that local telephone markets in states formerly served by
Bell Atlantic have been opened to competition.
HISTORY: Verizon Communications (the name is a combination of
"veritas", the Latin word for truth, and horizon) was born in 2000
when Bell Atlantic bought GTE, but the company's roots are as old as the
telephone. What is now Verizon began as one of the 1870s-era phone companies
that evolved into AT&T and its Bell System of regional telephone operations.
AT&T lived happily as a regulated monopoly until a US government antitrust
suit led to its breakup in 1984. Seven regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs,
or Baby Bells) emerged in 1984, including Bell Atlantic. The new company, based
in Philadelphia, received local phone service rights in six states and
Washington, DC; cellular company Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems; and one-seventh
of Bellcore, the R&D subsidiary (now Telcordia). Bell Atlantic pursued
unregulated businesses such as wireless, Internet, directory publishing, and
catalog sales of computer parts and office supplies. It invested heavily in
data-transport markets to supplement existing voice services, offering the first
CO-LAN (central-office local area network) system in 1985. A year later it
introduced a switched public data network and began testing integrated
voice/data network (ISDN) services. Bell Atlantic expanded internationally in
the early 1990s: It was selected, with Ameritech, to buy New Zealand's public
phone system (acquired 1990; sold 1998); it partnered with U S WEST to ofr
cellular services in the former Czechoslovakia (1991); and it bought a stake in
Mexico's Grupo Iusacell. Its 1992 acquisition of Metro Mobile gave it extensive
East Coast cellular phone coverage. In 1994 Bell Atlantic tried and failed to
buy cable giant TCI (now part of AT&T), but succeeded in forming the PrimeCo
partnership with NYNEX, U S WEST, and AirTouch, which began offering PCS.
Enjoying freedom from wires, Bell Atlantic and NYNEX combined their cellular and
paging operations in 1995. In 1996 Bell Atlantic and the six other RBOCs sold
Bellcore to Science Applications International. Bell Atlantic doubled in size
with the $ 25.6 billion purchase of New York City-based NYNEX in 1997, moving
from the Cradle of Liberty to the Big Apple. The deal created the second-largest
US telecom services firm (after AT&T) but brought with it NYNEX's reputation
for poor service. In 1999 Bell Atlantic agreed to buy GTE, the giant non-Bell
local phone company, in a $ 53 billion deal. Later that year the FCC granted
Bell Atlantic permission to sell long-distance telephone service in New York,
making the company the first of the Baby Bells to be allowed to offer
long-distance in its home territory. Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch (now
Vodafone) combined their US wireless operations, including PrimeCo, to form
Verizon Wireless in 2000. Regulators later that year approved Bell Atlantic's
acquisition of GTE, and Verizon Communications was formed. Tapped to run the new
company were chairman and co-CEO Charles Lee, formerly of GTE, and president and
co-CEO Ivan Seidenberg, formerly of Bell Atlantic. In 2001 the company teamed up
with FLAG Telecom to develop a European backbone network. Verizon was also
greenlighted by the FCC to offer long-distance in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and Pennsylvania.
EXECUTIVES:
Chairman and Co-CEO: Charles R. Lee, age 61, $ 4,111,200 pay
President, Co-CEO, and Director: Ivan G. Seidenberg, age 54, $ 3,927,000 pay
Vice Chairman and President, Telecom: Lawrence T. Babbio, age 56, $ 2,209,500
pay
Vice Chairman and President, International Wireline and Wireless Operations,
International Connectivity, and Domestic and International Directory and
Information Services: Michael T. Masin, age 56, $ 2,271,900 pay
Vice Chairman and CFO: Frederic V. Salerno, age 57, $ 1,877,000 pay
EVP; President and CEO, Verizon Wireless: Dennis F. Strigl, age 55, $ 1,924,500
pay
EVP and General Counsel: William P. Barr, age 50
EVP Human Resources: Ezra D. Singer, age 46
EVP Public Affairs and Communications: Mary Beth Bardin, age 46
EVP Strategy, Development, and Planning: David H. Benson, age 51
SVP, Deputy General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary: Marianne Drost
SVP and Treasurer: William F. Heitmann, age 52
SVP and Controller: Lawrence R. Whitman, age 49
SVP Investor Relations: John W. Diercksen
SVP Public Policy and External Affairs: Thomas J. Tauke
VP Internal Auditing: Joleen D. Moden
Chief Information Officer and President, e-Business unit: Shaygan Kheradpir
President, Advanced Services: Frederick D. D'Alessio
President, Enterprise Solutions: Eduardo Menasce
President, Global Network and Transport Solutions: Tom Bartlett
FINANCIALS:
Note: This table may be divided and additional information on a particular entry
may appear on more than one screen.
1991 1992 1993 1994
Sales ($ mil.) 12,279.7
12,647.0 12,990.2 13,791.4
Net income ($ mil.) (222.7) 1,340.6 1,403.4 (754.8)
Income as % of sales (1.8)% 10.6% 10.8% (5.5)%
Earnings per share( $ ) (0.26) 1.57 (0.41) 0.04
Stock price - FY high( $ ) 27.06 26.94 34.56 29.81
Stock price - FY low( $ ) 21.50 20.13 24.81 24.19
Stock price - FY close( $ ) 24.13 25.63 29.63 24.88
P/E - high 16 17 39 20
P/E - low 13 12 28 16
Dividends per share( $ ) 1.24 1.29 1.33 1.37
Book value per share( $ ) 9.89 9.01 9.43 7.07
Employees 75,700 71,400 73,600 72,300
1995 1996 1997
Sales ($ mil.) 13,429.5 13,081.4 30,193.9
Net income ($ mil.) 1,858.3 1,739.4 2,454.9
Income as % of sales 13.8% 13.3% 8.1%
Earnings per share( $ ) (0.07) 2.19 1.57
Stock price - FY high( $ ) 34.44 37.44 45.88
Stock price - FY low( $ ) 24.19 27.56 28.38
Stock price - FY close( $ ) 33.44 32.38 45.50
P/E - high 19 18 29
P/E - low 13 14 18
Dividends per share( $ ) 1.40 1.43 1.49
Book value per share( $ ) 7.66 8.64 8.36
Employees 61,800 62,600 141,000
1998 1999 2000
Sales ($ mil.) 31,565.9 33,174.0 64,707.0
Net income ($ mil.) 2,965.3 4,202.0 11,797.0
Income as % of sales 9.4% 12.7% 18.2%
Earnings per share( $ ) 1.86 2.65 4.31
Stock price - FY high( $ ) 61.19 69.50 66.00
Stock price - FY low( $ ) 40.44 50.63 39.06
Stock price - FY close( $ ) 54.00 61.56 50.13
P/E - high 32 26 17
P/E - low 21 19 10
Dividends per share( $ ) 1.54 1.54 1.58
Book value per share( $ ) 8.39 10.20 12.57
Employees 140,000 145,000 260,000
2000 Year-End:
Debt ratio: 61.4%
Return on equity: 46.8%
Cash ($ mil.): 757.0
Current ratio: 0.65
Long-term debt ($ mil.): 55,034.0
No. of shares (mil.): 2,751.7
Dividend yield: 3.2%
Dividend payout: 36.7%
Market value ($ mil.): 137,940.2
Advertising as % of sales: 1399
MARKET:
Verizon Communications provides local telephone service in 31 US states, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Worldwide, the company has operations or
investments in 40 countries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific
region.
2000
Sales
$ mil. %
of total
US 62,066 96
Other 2,641 4
Total 64,707 100
PRODUCTS:
2000
Sales
$
mil. % of total
Domestic telecom
Local services 21,368 33
Network access services 13,142 20
Long-distance services 3,153 5
Other 5,680 9
Domestic wireless 14,236 22
Information services 4,144 6
International 1,976 3
Other 1,008 2
Total 64,707 100
Selected Subsidiaries and Affiliates
BayanTel (19%, Philippines)
Cable and Wireless plc (5%, telecommunications provider, UK)
Cellco Partnership (Verizon Wireless, 55%, joint venture with Vodafone)
Citra Sari Makmur (37%, telecommunications provider, Indonesia)
Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV, 29%, telecommunications
provider)
Compania Dominicana de Telefonos, C. pr A. (CODETEL, telecommunications
provider, Dominican Republic)
CTI Holdings, S.A. (60%, wireless communications, Argentina)
Eurotel Bratislava a.s. (25%, wireless communications, Slovakia)
Eurotel Praha s.r.o. (25%, wireless communications, Czech Republic)
FLAG Telecom Holdings Limited (19%, undersea fiber-optic network operator, UK)
Genuity Inc. (10%, Internet backbone network operator)
Gibralter NYNEX (50%, telecommunications provider)
Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V. (39%, wireless communications, Mexico)
Micronesian Telecommunications Corporation (MTC, local telecommunications
services, Northern Mariana Islands)
Omnitel Pronto Italia, S.p.A. (23%, wireless communications, Italy)
NTL Incorporated (9%, cable TV operator, UK)
Pacific Communications Services Co. Ltd. (12%, Taiwan)
P.T. Excelcomindo Pratama (23%, wireless communications, Indonesia)
STET Hellas Telecommunications (20%, Greece)
Taiwan Cellular Corporation (14%)
Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited (25%, telecommunications provider)
TelecomAsia (14%, Thailand)
Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico, Inc. (40%, telecommunications provider)
TELUS Corporation (22%, telecommunications provider, Canada)
COMPETITORS:
ALLTEL
AT&T
BT
Cingular Wireless
Deutsche Telekom
KPNQwest
Level 3 Communications
McLeodUSA
Nextel
Qwest
Sprint FON
Time Warner Telecom
WorldCom
INTERNET: http://www.verizon.com
LOAD-DATE: February 4, 2002
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12. a. Wav file: click here to hear a portion of Top Gun
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b. Midi file: click here to hear a piece from Handel's Messiah
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14. a. The author of the weekly column Personal Technology in The Wall
Street Journal is Walter S. Mossberg.
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here to see an example of his work
The two devices featured in his recent article "New
Music Players Let You Cram CDs With MP3 Favorites" are the Philips Expanium
and the Pine D'music SM-200C. The problem with the Pine D'music is that it
skips and sometimes it plays five to ten seconds of static before starting a
song. The problem with Philips Expanium is that it does not display song
information and is difficult to navigate. It is also flimsy and its
controls are clumsy.
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b. "For a Company, Charitable Works Are Best Carried Out Discreetly"
By RONALD ALSOP
Staff Reporter of
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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