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Only Chrysler outline celtic woman pbs is running celtic women retells the employee discount promotion, which it resumed at the end of June, offering 10% off sticker prices, along with three-year, interest-free financing, on most 2006 models. Ford has been offering five-year, no-interest financing on most models, along with a prepaid debit card that can be used to buy as much as $1,000 of gas. The promotion ends today. GM has been trying hard to wean itself from incentives but has not cut them completely. It offered interest-free financing for as long as six years on most of its models for one week ending July 5 and recently began offering discounts and no-interest financing on specific models until Sept. 5. Slower sales of large sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks are leaving GM, Ford and Chrysler Group particularly vulnerable. The domestic Big Three depend on big trucks for much of their sales and profits. From the Associated Press*The Week AheadToday* Treasury bill auction. * Avon Products, MetLife, Tyson Foods and UAL release quarterly earnings. Tuesday* Commerce Department reports on personal income and spending for June. Data on construction spending for June also are expected. * Institute for Supply Management reports on activity in the manufacturing economy during July. * Automakers release sales figures for July. * Archer Daniels Midland, Burger King Holdings, Eastman Kodak, Electronic Arts, Hilton Hotels, InterActiveCorp, International Paper, Molson Coors Brewing, Sirius Satellite Radio, Valero Energy, Verizon Communications and Vonage Holdings release quarterly earnings. Wednesday* Cigna, Las Vegas Sands, MasterCard, Napster, Procter & Gamble, Prudential Financial, Starbucks and Time Warner release quarterly earnings. Thursday* The nation's largest retailers announce July sales figures. * Labor Department reports on weekly jobless claims. * Commerce Department reports on factory orders for June. * Freddie Mac reports on mortgage rates. * CBS, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Duke Energy, Gateway, Marsh & McLennan, MGM Mirage, Morningstar, Revlon, Sprint Nextel, Tyco International, Univision Communications and Warner Music Group release quarterly earnings. Friday* Labor Department reports on employment for July. * Berkshire Hathaway, Occidental Petroleum and Washington Post release quarterly earnings. Saturday* Deadline for auto parts maker Delphi. to file its plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection. From the Associated Press.

ALBANY, N. Y Celtic Woman . — A former telecommunications CEO has agreed to pay $4. 4 million to settle an investigation into insiders who made windfalls in initial public stock offerings, according to the New York state attorney general's office. Clark McLeod, who had been chairman and chief executive of McLeodUSA, agreed to turn over profit he was accused of receiving from the so-called act of spinning, Atty Gen Eliot Spitzer said celtic women pbs . The deal was to be formally announced today. The former executive was accused of directing $77 million of McLeodUSA's investment banking business to what was then Salomon Smith Barney. In exchange, the company "secretly" gave McLeod shares of 34 companies before their initial public offerings, which resulted in a windfall of $4. 8 million on the first days of trading, according to Spitzer's 2002 civil lawsuit. There was no finding or admission of liability in the settlement, which dismisses Spitzer's action against McLeod. McLeodUSA Inc. , a telecommunications company based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January after eliminating $600 million in debt. The settlement on Friday closes one of Spitzer's early Wall Street investigations celtic womam . Some critics of the probe had initially said the practice of "spinning," in which executives receive stock in a company before it goes public and the shares leap in value, couldn't be proved to be illegal. While handling the case in February, state Supreme Court Justice Richard B celtic women dvd . Lowe called spinning a "sophisticated form of bribery. "Lowe issued summary judgment against McLeod and scheduled a hearing to determine how much he would pay in damages and restitution. The settlement avoids the hearing. The $4. 4 million will be given to New York law schools to fund arbitration clinics involving securities disputes affecting smaller investors, said Spitzer, who after two terms as attorney general is the leading Democratic Party candidate for governor. Previous Spitzer settlements in the IPO spinning investigation resulted in $6. 3 million in payments from Bernard J. Ebbers of WorldCom, Philip Anschutz and Joseph Nacchio of Qwest Communications, and Stephen Garofalo of Metromedia Fiber Networks. John C.

Coffee, a securities law expert at Columbia Law School, said the Securities and Exchange Commission hasn't banned quid pro quos such as spinning, although a measure was proposed two years ago celtic woman a new journey . However, it was banned at a dozen top Wall Street firms under Spitzer's 2003 "global settlement" of conflicts of interest by stock analysts. celtic women cd . SanDisk Corp. , the world's largest maker of memory cards for portable electronics, agreed to buy M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd celtic someday . for about $1. 3 billion in stock to add storage products for mobile phones. M-Systems holders will get 0. 764 SanDisk share per M-Systems share, Milpitas, Calif. -based SanDisk said Sunday celticwoman . That's about $36 a share, or 13% more than M-systems closing price Friday. SanDisk said it will assume about $75 million of M-System's debt. The acquisition of Israel-based M-Systems will help SanDisk cater to the growing market for mobile handsets, SanDisk Chairman and Chief Executive Eli Harari said. The deal will expand SanDisk's line of flash-memory products Celtic Woman - celticwoman . SanDisk shares, up 39% in the last year, rose 80 cents to $47. 14 on Friday. The shares of M-Systems gained 70 cents, or 2. 3%, to $31. 79 The stock has climbed 23% in the last year. .

salt lake city -- Fueled by drought and development, wildfires in the West are getting so aggressive and dangerous that fire bosses are reluctant to risk lives for houses -- particularly if the owners have done nothing to protect their property. From Southern California to Montana, seven firefighters have died this year battling blazes that have destroyed more than 400 houses, a 55% increase from last year. The firefighters' job has been made more hazardous by an onslaught of houses and vacation cabins being built across the West -- some inside national forests chloe celtic woman . An estimated 8. 6 million houses have been built within 30 miles of national forests since 1982. "There's the frustration of knowing these people aren't taking care of their home, and why do we have to do it?" said John Watson, a Fairfield, Mont. , firefighting contractor who uses a 750-gallon fire engine to protect remote houses chloe celtic women . "I've asked them, 'Do you understand the danger?' There isn't a whole lot that needs to be done to mitigate the threat, but they won't do it celtic women singers . They say: 'I'd rather have my cabin burn down with the trees than have you cut some down. ' "Fire commanders say they are more likely to walk away from houses without a buffer zone, which can be as simple as raking debris from around a house and leaving a bed of gravel at the foundation, or putting on metal roofs instead of flammable wood shingles. Until recently, firefighters "saluted and went out and did it," said Don Smurthwaite, a U Celtic Woman - celticwoman . S Bureau of Land Management spokesman and former firefighter celtic pbs . Now, he said, "we will not ask a fire crew in a dangerous fire to defend a structure that has not taken precautionary steps. That's definitely a change. "Wildfires have always naturally swept the landscape, but scientists say they are becoming more catastrophic. There is little dispute that the wildfires are being fueled by warmer weather, yearslong drought, the spread of weeds that burn like oily rags, and the buildup of forest debris from decades in which fires were routinely suppressed. "We at least seem to be having larger and more intense fires," said Jack Cohen, a Forest Service fire researcher, in Missoula, Mont. This year's wildfires have consumed 8. 2 million acres nationwide, an area larger than Maryland, and most of it in the West, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

That figure is fast approaching last year's record of 9. 9 million acres, and the fire season can last through November, particularly in fire-prone Southern California. By Sept celtic woman someday . 26, wildfires had destroyed 409 houses across the West, appreciably more than last year's total of 263, federal statistics show chloe celtic . California, as usual, has the most, with 338 houses burned so far this year. From the West Coast to a few Plains states, 26 million houses -- 40% of the housing stock -- are in forests or perched on the edge of flammable wildlands, according to Volker C celtic journey . Radeloff, a professor of forest ecology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "There's more at stake," Radeloff said caltic woman . "Everybody loves to live close to the wildlands and the houses are getting dispersed, making them harder to defend. "From his deck, Chris Horton was enjoying the national forest view on a Sunday in June near Lake Tahoe when he picked up reports of a wildfire over a police scanner. His wife, Joyce, heard the roar of the wind-whipped fire over a nearby ridge. When the flames came into view, they had 15 minutes to flee before fire engulfed their house and leveled 253 others, leaving only chimneys standing. The Hortons regard wildfires as a small risk to pay for the beautiful summers and the fun winters, with hiking, rock climbing, boating and skiing.

"It's always in the back of your mind, like hurricanes are for other people," said Joyce Horton, a hospital receptionist, who with her husband, a postal clerk, plans to rebuild with insurance money. Wildfires have killed 113 firefighters in the United States over the last five years, including seven this year as of mid-September, according to government figures. Heart attacks and vehicle and aircraft crashes are the leading causes of death celtic woman tour . The last five years logged 11 "burnover" and fire-entrapment deaths, according to a database maintained by the National Interagency Coordination Center. Firefighter deaths over the last decade are averaging 18 a year, up from 6. 6 during the 1930s, according to Forest Service statistics someday celtic women lyrics . Last year's death toll was two dozen, double the number in 2005. Five firefighters died last October trying to defend a half-built mountain house in the foothills near Banning They were overcome by a 90-foot wall of flame celtic women christmas dvd . An auto mechanic accused of setting the wildfire awaits trial on charges of murder. Associated Press writers John Miller in Boise, Idaho, Matt Brown in Billings, Mont. , Gillian Flaccus in Los Angeles, Aaron C celtec woman . Davis in Sacramento, Scott Sonner in Reno, Brendan Riley in Carson City, Nev. , and Colleen Slevin and Catherine Tsai in Denver contributed to this story. . A bus collided with a train in the eastern province of Granma, killing at least 28 people and injuring 73 others, including 15 reported to be in critical condition, state television said. Celtic Woman tickets The bus was reportedly dragged by the train until it fell below a bridge. State TV showed images of a derailed train. The collision occurred around noon in the town of Yara at a level railroad crossing about 400 miles east of Havana.

The train was traveling from Santiago to Manzanillo. Authorities were trying to determine what caused the collision, the country's worst road accident since a truck overturned in June in eastern Cuba, killing 11 people and injuring 50. . In a summer dominated by wacky pirates, talking cars and other light fare, moviegoers over the weekend turned to something different: director Michael Mann's gritty big-screen version of "Miami Vice. "The stylish, R-rated adaptation of the 1980s cop show sank "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" from its perch atop the box office after three straight weeks It grossed an estimated $25. 2 million in the U. S celtic women tour . and Canada. Boosted by generally favorable reviews, the Universal Pictures release drew a crowd of which 62% was over age 30. "Mann's films have a following that's more adult than you usually find," said Nikki Rocco, Universal's president of domestic distribution. "We were very clear in sending the message that this was not the same old treatment of a classic TV series," Rocco said, referring to the campy, comic style of such adaptations as "Starsky & Hutch. ""Miami Vice," starring Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell as undercover cops Tubbs and Crockett, averaged $8,342 per theater at 3,021 locations. If Sunday's estimate holds up, "Vice" will be Mann's biggest opening, topping 2004's "Collateral. " That picture opened at $24. 7 million and ended up grossing $100. 2 million in the U. S celtic women concerts . and Canada and $217. 7 million worldwide. "Vice" was costly to make, with a budget of about $140 million . If it posts final grosses similar to those of "Collateral," however, it will be profitable, Rocco said, noting that Mann's films tend to do well on DVD and in ancillary markets such as pay television. Walt Disney Co. 's "Pirates" slipped to No. 2, grossing an estimated $20. 5 million to bring its total to $358. 4 million in the U. S and Canada. That made it the studio's biggest success ever, beating "Finding Nemo," and kept it on pace to exceed $400 million, a level reached by only six movies. Vastly different results greeted the weekend's two other wide releases. The teen comedy "John Tucker Must Die" finished third with $14 Celtic Woman . 1 million, at the high end of expectations for 20th Century Fox.