Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Wednesday, March 3, 1999
State gets grant for Y2K project
The state government has received a $1.4 million federal grant to complete Year 2000 computer compliance measures in the unemployment insurance division of the Department of Labor & Industrial Relations. The U.S. Labor Departmentgrant, which comes on top of $2.5 million awarded in the past two years, is needed to cover costs that are higher than anticipated, prepare contingency plans, and conduct independent verification and validation work, said state Labor Director Lorraine H. Akiba. The money pays consultants who advise on upgrades for computers that process about $11 million a month in checks for 12,000 insurance recipients.
Local advertising executive retiring
Pat Davis, who has been with Smith Davis Miyasaki Advertising & Public Relations for 37 years, will retire from day-to-day operations of the Honolulu marketing agency next week. Kent Miyasaki was named president. Miyasaki became senior vice president and an agency principal in 1991. Davis remains chairman, a director and a principal shareholder.
In other news . . .
Jones Apparel Group Inc., a top U.S. designer of women's career apparel, is buying Nine West Group Inc., the nation's No. 1 maker of women's dress shoes, for $1.4 billion.
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