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Business Definition for: Dormant Company

  • a company which has not made any transactions during a specified accounting period

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Power Plant Goes Dormant near Buttonwillow, Calif.; Outage to Last Weeks.
By Erin Waldner, The Bakersfield Californian Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 21--La Paloma, a 1,000-megawatt power plant in west Kern County, is temporarily dormant. The plant near Buttonwillow is not producing any electricity, according to the Independent System Operator,...
Tags: California Energy Commission, Manufacturing, mW, outage, turbine
Research articles 2004-05-21
Deadline kills many bills in Oklahoma Legislature
If the 2002 legislative session was a person, it would have lost about 42 percent of its body weight as of Thursday, the date by which bills and joint resolutions had to be heard in their original-house chambers. Measures that did not make it out of committee or were not...
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2002-03-25
Disaster Recovery: What Good is a Dormant Bank?
The Federal Reserve is pushing ahead with plans to create a "dormant" bank to be ready to step in and help with back-office functions in the Treasury market should it become necessary. The new bank, tentatively dubbed NewBank, will be chartered under the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....
Tags: bank, Federal Reserve Board
Research articles 2004-04-01
FYI.(Adertising contract of Manpower Inc.)
Employment services company Manpower is believed to have moved its previously dormant global account, worth an estimated $25 to $30 million, to WPP Group's Grey Global ... Employment services company Manpower is believed to have moved its previously dormant global account, worth an estimated $25 to...
Tags: Manpower Inc.
Research articles 2005-07-04
Dormant California privacy bill revives. (Regulation).(financial privacy bill, amended California Senate Bill 773)(Brief Article)
A dormant consumer financial privacy bill in California is coming to life in the final days of the current session of the state legislature. A dormant consumer financial privacy bill in California is coming to life in the final days of the current session...
Tags: financial, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2002-08-26
Lawmakers drop 42 percent of proposed measures
If the 2002 legislative session was a person, it would have lost about 42 percent of its body weight as of Thursday, the date by which bills and joint resolutions had to be heard in their original-house chambers. Measures that did not make it out of committee or...
Tags: FINANCE, MARKETING, Taxes, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2002-03-25
Negotiating federalism: state bargaining and the dormant treaty power.
ABSTRACT The orthodox view that states have no role in U.S. foreign relations is not only inconsistent with their place in the modern global economy, but the constitutional basis for a "dormant" bar on state participation--that is, absent a controlling federal statute or ...
Tags: agreement, Barclays Plc., conduct, consent, Johnson, M., negotiation, president, Richard, Robert, statute, Sutherland, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Virginia
Research articles 2000-03-01
Roth fund yields great dividends.(Sports)(Sidelines)
Byline: David Oberhelman In his Sports Extra column of Jan. 12, Kevin Schmit wrote that 2001 Willowbrook graduate Matt Roth, a defensive lineman with the Miami Dolphins, donated $5,000 to his alma mater. Willowbrook administration and coaches decided Roth's donation and...
Tags: athlete, coach, dividend, NFL
Research articles 2007-02-16
Government Alert: Giuliani starts to gather funds again.(Briefs)
Once-dormant PAC takes in $42,719; City Council prepares for a legal battle Rudy Giuliani is starting to raise money again for his federal political action committee, Solutions America, which was dormant from 2001 to 2003. The PAC took in $42,719 in June and July,...
Tags: Benefits, compensation, council, Mr., U.S. Senate
Research articles 2004-08-30
Insurer to market computer services. (Medical Mutual of Ohio)
As part of its efforts to shore up its ailing finances, Medical Mutual of Ohio will reactivate a dormant subsidiary to sell non-insurance services the company could provide to smaller health plans in and out of Ohio. The subsidiary, Mutual Holding Co.As part of its efforts...
Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, computer, Crain
Research articles 1997-05-12
Phoenix-Based Phelps Dodge Faces Possible Pollution Fine for Dormant Mine.
By David Wichner, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 2--Phelps Dodge Corp. faces a fine of up to $137,500 for violating federal pollution standards in 2000 at the company's dormant Christmas copper mine near Winkelman. ...
Tags: Litigation, Phelps Dodge Corp., Phoenix Technologies, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2003-01-02
Viacom resurrects dormant antitrust suit. (Viacom Inc.)
Viacom Resurrects Dormant Antitrust Suit New york - Viacom Inc. is turning up the heat on its $2.4 billion antitrust suit against Time Warner Inc. and Home Box Office Inc., but the case is nowhere near actually going to trial. ...
Tags: antitrust, Viacom Inc.
Research articles 1991-08-26
Industrial park evolves from recycled auto plant; a former GM facility was the cornerstone for a 171-acre development in St. Louis. (General Motors Corp.)
Dormant manufacturing facilities are a graphic reminder of the major changes that are reshaping American industry. The reutilization of these properties is a formidable challenge, but one that can be met through the resourceful blending of supporti Dormant manufacturing facilities are a graphic reminder...
Tags: General Motors Corp.
Research articles 1993-09-01
NETSCAPE TO ADD TRADITIONAL MEDIA TO MARKETING PLAN: NET SOFTWARE MARKETER TO START REVIEW IDLE SINCE '97.
Netscape Communications Corp. is expected to start its first significant consumer advertising soon, and to restart a dormant agency review for its account. Netscape Communications Corp. is expected to start its first significant consumer advertising soon, and to restart a dormant agency review for its...
Tags: marketing, Netscape Communications Corp., software
Research articles 1998-06-01
The Constitution includes one check on the federal courts that has largely lain dormant: the power of Congress to remove matters from their jurisdiction
* The Constitution includes one check on the federal courts that has largely lain dormant: the power of Congress to remove matters from their jurisdiction. The House has taken a step toward reviving that power, by voting 247-173 for a bill to block federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2004-10-25
Climax Mine To Reopen In 2009.
Staff Climax, Colo.- Phoenix-based Phelps Dodge Corp. has announced plans to reopen its dormant open pit Climax molybdenum mine atop 11,300-foot Fremont Pass in the Colorado Rockies. The company will spend between $200 million and $250 millio Staff...
Tags: Phelps Dodge Corp.
Research articles 2006-05-22
Time To Redo Your Benefits?
Article emphasises that a company’s benefits package is a work in progress. Each fall brings revised health insurance contracts to consider, and each swing of the economy can affect recruitment and retention strategies. But apart from yearly health plan tinkering and long-range strategic planning, company benefits plans often lie dormant....
Tags: Society For Human Resource Management, Health Care, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2002-12-01
Long-dormant GE plant in Valley changes hands
The owners of Spokane-based Granite Building Products Inc. have bought a long-vacant, former General Electric Corp. building in Spokane Valley and plan to move their buildingproducts company there this summer.
Tags: General Electric Co.
Research articles 2005-05-19
Datacast Players Say They're Here to Stay.
Proponents of datacasting initiatives by local television stations are looking to emerge from the shadows in 2001, providing cable operators with potential competitors in the dormant broadband-over-broadcast TV sector. Though Geocast Network Proponents of datacasting initiatives by...
Tags: PC, TV
Research articles 2001-06-04
At Deadline.(Late News)(Columbia University. College of Physicians and Surgeons goes in for buyouts)(Major League Soccer signed an 11-year lease and moved into a new office)(Allen and Overy's foreign operations)
Investment bankers who specialize in taking companies public are enjoying their busiest August since the bubble days, with 24 deals pricing so far during a typically dormant month, according to Renaissance Capital's IPOhome.com. That's the most since Investment bankers who specialize in taking companies public are...
Tags: Columbia University, Kate
Research articles 2005-08-15
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