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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 4, 2001

Contacts: Nicole Harry
(301) 975-4858
nicole.harry@nist.gov

MA 2001-03

Media Advisory
President and Commerce Secretary Present Baldrige Quality Awards

Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Va.
Friday April 6, 2001

This Friday, President George W. Bush and Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans are scheduled to present the 2000 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's premier award for business performance excellence and quality achievement, to four U.S. companies.

Dana Corp.-Spicer Driveshaft of Toledo, Ohio; KARLEE of Garland, Texas; Operations Management International Inc. (OMI) of Greenwood Village, Colo; and Los Alamos National Bank of Los Alamos, N.M. will receive the award in a ceremony.

The Baldrige Award is a public/private partnership to promote quality and performance excellence in the United States. The award is named after Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce from 1981 until his death in a rodeo accident in July 1987. Baldrige was a proponent of quality management as a key to this country's prosperity and long-term growth and helped draft one of the early versions of the quality improvement act.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Further information on the Baldrige Award and the winners is available at www.quality.nist.gov.

INTERVIEWS: Company executives of the Baldridge Awards winners will be available for interviews between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at the hotel on the day of the awards ceremony. To schedule an interview with any of the companies, please contact their representative directly.

Dana Corp.-Spicer Driveshaft, Kelly Moore, (419) 866-2638
Karlee, David Briggs, (972) 543-3043
OMI, Susan Mays, (303) 268-4280
Los Alamos National Bank, Linda Dissinger, (505) 662-1037

CHECK-IN: Videographic equipment must be pre-set by 11:00 a.m. Members of the media must be checked-in 12:30 p.m. The media check-in table is located near the Grand Ballroom on the hotel's first floor. Credentials, a news media badge with photo or a photo ID with a business card, must be presented.

SATELLITE FEED/WEBCAST:

Transponder numbers for the satellite downlink and webcast access information:

(Ku Band) SBS-6, Transponder 8
Orbital Position: 74 degrees West
Downlink: 11900 (Vertical)
12:30-14:00 w/approx. 30
(Website: www.omiinc.com/awardceremony )

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