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Gordon "Pat" Alexander, a retired can company manager and longtime Greater Baltimore Medical Center volunteer, died of bone cancer Tuesday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Towson resident was 92. Mr. Alexander was born in Beith, Scotland, and when he was age 9 immigrated with his family to Penn Yan, N.Y., where he graduated from high school. He worked for Eastman Kodak Co. and Esso Standard Oil Co. before going to work in 1938 for Continental Can Co. in Rochester, N.Y. In 1960, he was transferred to Baltimore and at the time of his 1974 retirement was service manager for the company's Eastern District.

Imre & Associates LLC, a Baltimore-based public relations agency, announced yesterday that it won two awards in the National 2000 Public Relations Society of America Silver Anvil Competition. The firm won a Silver Anvil award in investor relations - one of 42 Silver Anvils awarded - for its campaign work for US Foodservice on launching its e-commerce initiative. Baltimore-based P. W. Feats Inc., a special events company, helped the agency create on Nov. 9 the world's largest cybercafM-i on Wall Street to announce the venture.

PASADENA, Calif. -- So far this year, there have been outraged ethnic groups and peeved feminists in the build-up for tomorrow's 103rd Rose Parade. Who else can get into the act?How about Mother Nature? Another rain storm is brewing out in the Pacific, and it's scheduled to arrive in Southern California tomorrow, weather forecasters say.As of late yesterday, the best estimates were that the storm will arrive sometime in the afternoon.The parade, featuring 60 floats, 22 bands and 29 equestrian groups, as well as co-grand marshals Cristobal Colon and Rep. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, D-Colo.

WASHINGTON -- Fuji Photo Film, citing "glaring flaws" in an annual U.S. review of foreign trade barriers, yesterday renewed its call for a neutral fact-finding mechanism to resolve allegations that Japan's market for photographic film isn't open to foreign competition.A National Trade Estimate report released this week "provides a one-sided picture of market conditions in Japan," Fuji Film lawyer Bill Barringer said in a letter delivered to U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor.The NTE report is based entirely on the "uncritical acceptance of Kodak's allegations rather than any objective investigation of hotly disputed facts," Mr. Barringer said in his letter to Mr. Kantor.

William P. Lentz, a retired consulting engineer and World War II veteran, died in his sleep Monday at his Roland Park home. He was 90. Mr. Lentz was born in Baltimore and raised in Ten Hills. He was a 1935 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1939. He worked for Eastman Kodak Co. until enlisting in the Army Signal Corps. Trained in radar, Mr. Lentz flew aboard B-24 bombers as a navigator while stationed in Italy.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Eastman Kodak Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer George Fisher said he plans to stay at the photography company at least through 2000 and denied speculation that he may seek the top job at AT&T Corp.Fisher, 56, said in a statement that he wanted to make clear "in the strongest terms" that he won't leave Kodak until his work is done. The comments came amid speculation that Fisher, an AT&T board member, might be courted to run the nation's biggest long-distance provider after the company's board rejected President John Walter as successor to Chairman Robert Allen.

The bankruptcy filing of Eastman Kodak Company this week marked the end of a chapter in American manufacturing history. The venerable corporation that gave the world the Brownie camera and the slogan "You push the button, we do the rest" once dominated the photographic world with its inexpensive cameras and amazing variety of amateur and professional films. But by the end of last year it was rapidly running out of cash, its market share had plunged, and its stock was selling for just 54 cents a share.

On April 2, 2006, GERARD T. BOUIE, age 34. He is survived by his father, General Bouie, SR. and six living siblings. Wake will be Saturday, April 8 at 10 A.M., funeral 11 A.M. at Vaughn C. Greene, 5151 Baltimore Nat'l Pike. April 5, 2006, PAUL J. BURNS, passed away at The Forest at Duke in Durham, N.C. Mr. Burns was born in Greenville, SC on April 16, 1919 to the late James Fleming and Pauline Brissey Burns. He graduated from Clemson College in 1940 with a B.S. degree in Textile Engineering.

Consider what happened this year: James Robinson III, American Express Co. chairman and chief executive officer, was unceremoniously toppled by his board.So were John Akers of International Business Machines Corp., and Paul Lego of Westinghouse Electric Corp. Kay Whitmore of Eastman Kodak Co. was fired. And just last month, Anthony D'Amato of Borden Inc. was shown the door.What's more, for every IBM or Kodak, there was a small or midsized company that parted with its chief executive.Among them, Egghead Inc., General Instrument Corp.

PARIS -- American executives, in a series of interviews yesterday, applauded the agreement between the 12-nation European Community countries and the seven-nation European Free Trade Association to create a barrier-free market of 380 million people in Western Europe, saying it would reduce the cost of doing business in Europe and spur the continent's economic growth.For Becton Dickinson, a medical supplies company that has three divisions in Maryland, the accord means that new products it introduces in Europe would have to satisfy one harmonized set of standards, rather than many sets.