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Howard H. Bosley, a retired Goodyear Tire manager who had been active in the Army Reserve, died of respiratory failure Wednesday at York Hospital in York, Pa. The former Owings Mills resident was 78. Born in Upperco, Mr. Bosley was a 1946 Towson High School graduate and earned a degree in agriculture and economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the Army in 1952 and served as an instructor at the U.S. Army Engineer School. He remained active in the reserves for many years.

Nothing leaves a person jaded like a good Goliath-beats-David story. Such was the case in Baltimore in the mid-1980s when electronics giantSony Corp.famously succeeded in running a Filipino restaurant out of business because the owner had the nerve to attach her name to it. Her name was Sony Florendo. Sony Corp. attorneys came to town and filed a $2.9 million lawsuit against Sony's restaurant on Park Avenue, claiming trademark infringement. It didn't seem to matter that Sony Corp.

A weekly briefing on the economic calendar Monday Earnings reports: Conseco, OfficeMax, Wynn Resorts Tuesday Retail sales for February; business inventories for January Earnings reports: Albertson's, Goodyear Tire, Interpublic Group of Companies Wednesday Industrial production for February Earnings reports: Bear Stearns, Kmart, Lehman Brothers, Lennar, Bed Bath & Beyond Thursday Leading economic indicators for February Earnings reports: Apollo...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats failed yesterday to overcome a threatened Republican filibuster of a bill that would loosen the restrictions on the length of time in which workers could file pay discrimination claims against their employers. The 56-42 vote was split largely along party lines. Six Republicans joined all but one of the Democrats and independents in attempting to block the filibuster, which required 60 votes for success. Two Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona, did not vote.

C. Colmery Gibson,82, a retired Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. '' executive who became the chief executive officer of the Knight Foundation, died Sunday in Akron, Ohio. Mr. Gibson was hired by Goodyear in 1937 and retired in 1973. In 1977, he became the chief executive officer of the Knight Foundation, a private group that makes national grants in journalism, higher education, the arts and culture.Henry Oren "Buddy" Grisham,92, a great-uncle and a childhood role model for President Clinton, died Monday in Hope, Ark.Pub Date: 6/27/97

Thomas Clifton Mann , 87, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and El Salvador, died Saturday in Austin, Texas.Irene Seiberling Harrison, 108, whose father founded Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., died Thursday. In 1898, she pulled the switch that signaled the start of her father's company in Akron, Ohio.Victor Stello Jr., 64, a nuclear power regulator who played a key role in the response to the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa., died of cancer Friday at his home in Potomac.

Help wanted: The shrinking unemployment rate is making it harder for employers to find the workers they need. In a survey of chief executives of fast-growing companies, Coopers & Lybrand, the accounting and consulting firm, found 47 percent were having a hard time finding skilled, trained employees. The skills most needed -- and the hardest to find -- were in information technology, including programmers and systems and networking specialists. Salespeople with experience in specific industries were also hard to find.

Theophilus Karnaghan Seiberling, 100, a member of a pioneer tire-making family who had a second career as an inventor, died Thursday in Akron, Ohio. At age 82, Seiberling created a tire-curing process known as electron irradiation that enabled the curing process to begin while a tire was being built. He was the son of C. W. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Thomas Howard James, 87, an internationally recognized photographic scientist, died Aug. 24 after a brief illness in Rochester, N.Y. He began his 42-year career with Eastman Kodak Co. in 1936.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said yesterday that it will close its Kelly-Springfield Tire operations in Cumberland next year, displacing 323 workers.About a third of the workers -- all of whom have sales, marketing or financial duties -- will be transferred to Goodyear's headquarters in Akron, Ohio, and the rest will be terminated through layoffs and retirements.The plan for about 120 employees in the company's technical center is not final, said Goodyear spokesman Chuck Sinclair. He expects many of those workers to be transferred to Akron.

At the Abilities Network "2001 Afternoon of Polo," folks strolled in and around a white tent on the grounds of Monkton's Ladew Fields. Voices blended into a quiet hum. What would normally be a refined afternoon of Sunday lunch and polo was even more subdued by the previous week's terrorist attacks. For many of the 400 there, the afternoon provided a certain solace in the company of friends. At the beginning of the afternoon's program, Lee Ann Kingham, executive director of the agency for the disabled, announced that a portion of the day's proceeds would go to victims of those tragedies.

Howard H. Bosley, a retired Goodyear Tire manager who had been active in the Army Reserve, died of respiratory failure Wednesday at York Hospital in York, Pa. The former Owings Mills resident was 78. Born in Upperco, Mr. Bosley was a 1946 Towson High School graduate and earned a degree in agriculture and economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the Army in 1952 and served as an instructor at the U.S. Army Engineer School. He remained active in the reserves for many years.

A weekly briefing on the economic calendar Monday Earnings reports: Conseco, OfficeMax, Wynn Resorts Tuesday Retail sales for February; business inventories for January Earnings reports: Albertson's, Goodyear Tire, Interpublic Group of Companies Wednesday Industrial production for February Earnings reports: Bear Stearns, Kmart, Lehman Brothers, Lennar, Bed Bath & Beyond Thursday Leading economic indicators for February Earnings reports: Apollo...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - In the waters off Fort Lauderdale, just past the second reef, lies a bizarre graveyard of discarded tires. An estimated 2 million of them are scattered over 35 acres of ocean floor, dumped there in the early 1970s in an attempt to create an artificial reef. The reef of tires turned out to be a spectacular failure. Few marine creatures made their homes among the steel-belted radials. And the nylon bands that held bundled tires together broke, allowing the tires to break free, ride the currents and slam into the natural coral reefs.

Xerox Corp., whose sales have dropped eight quarters in a row, had a first-quarter loss because of costs to depart the inkjet printer business, job cuts and a decline in demand for color copiers. The loss was $64 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with net income of $202 million, or 25 cents, a year earlier. Xerox said the figures are preliminary because it's restating results for the past five years as part of a settlement of allegations that it inflated revenue to bolster earnings.

Mario A. LaScola Sr., 77, Goodyear manager Mario Anthony LaScola Sr., a retired Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. manager, died Saturday of respiratory failure at St. Agnes HealthCare. He was 77 and lived in Bel Air. Mr. LaScola was born and raised in Washington, and graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in 1943. A combat Marine during World War II, Mr. LaScola was awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded during the battle for Guam. He attained the rank of corporal. Mr. LaScola worked more than 40 years for Goodyear, and was manager of its Beltsville tire and truck center when he retired in 1987.

At the Abilities Network "2001 Afternoon of Polo," folks strolled in and around a white tent on the grounds of Monkton's Ladew Fields. Voices blended into a quiet hum. What would normally be a refined afternoon of Sunday lunch and polo was even more subdued by the previous week's terrorist attacks. For many of the 400 there, the afternoon provided a certain solace in the company of friends. At the beginning of the afternoon's program, Lee Ann Kingham, executive director of the agency for the disabled, announced that a portion of the day's proceeds would go to victims of those tragedies.

Leo Anthony Flynn, 81, designed Baltimore signs Leo Anthony Flynn, a commercial artist who designed well-known Baltimore signs, died Friday of pneumonia at Armacost Nursing Home. He was 81 and resided in Idlewylde. While working for more than 30 years for Belsinger Sign Works Inc., he designed a freckle-faced girl for the White Coffee Pot restaurants and signs for A.D. Anderson Oldsmobile, Brager-Gutman department stores, the Kent Lounge in Towson, Mrs. Filbert's margarine, and Gino's and Ameche's drive-in restaurants.

A federal judge dealt another blow yesterday to a decade-old lawsuit by 66 former rubber workers in Western Maryland, dismissing their claims that they were made ill by chemicals they worked with at the Kelly-Springfield tire factory in Cumberland. It was the third time the case has been dismissed. District Judge Alexander Harvey II ruled that the workers were not entitled to seek further information about what chemicals they were exposed to, despite an appeals court's ruling that the workers deserved a chance to discover new evidence.

Leo Anthony Flynn, 81, designed Baltimore signs Leo Anthony Flynn, a commercial artist who designed well-known Baltimore signs, died Friday of pneumonia at Armacost Nursing Home. He was 81 and resided in Idlewylde. While working for more than 30 years for Belsinger Sign Works Inc., he designed a freckle-faced girl for the White Coffee Pot restaurants and signs for A.D. Anderson Oldsmobile, Brager-Gutman department stores, the Kent Lounge in Towson, Mrs. Filbert's margarine, and Gino's and Ameche's drive-in restaurants.

In the Region 2 EntreMed drugs, delivered by viruses, show promise in mice EntreMed Inc., of Rockville, said yesterday that two of its anti-cancer drugs had shown effectiveness after the genes for them were carried to mouse tumors inside disabled viruses, a sign that gene therapy might one day be used to deliver its drugs in people. The results of the experiments on lung tumors in mice were reported by Cell Genesys Inc. at the American Society for Gene Therapy meeting in Seattle. Cell Genesys, of Foster City, Calif.