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Cove Point, a Dominion-owned natural gas plant on the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, Md., is fully operational after the delivery of the first full load of liquified natural gas. (The Washington Post)

MCI, a telecommunications provider headquartered in Ashburn, received top honors from The Customer Respect Group's Summer 2003 Online Customer Respect Study, for best overall online customer experience. (PR Newswire)

Reynolds Consumer Products, a business unit of Richmond-based Alcoa, received the 2003 Category Colonel award for "Best in Class" for aluminum foil by PLBuyer magazine, a private label market publication headquartered in Illinois. (Business Wire)

RR Donnelley of Roanoke, a book-manufacturing plant, was recognized by Fortune magazine as an elite factory and was featured in a September profile. (The Roanoke Times)

webMethods Inc. of Fairfax, a provider of integration software enabling Global Business Visibility, received exceptional rankings from governance advocate, Institutional Shareholder Services, for outperforming 97 percent of companies in the Software and Services Group and 92.9 percent of the companies in the Russell 3000 Index for effective corporate governance practices. (PR Newswire)