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(Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that its presentation at the
JPMorgan 33rd Annual Technology Conference in San Francisco, CA will
now be at 7:45 am PST on Tuesday May 17th. The cash dividend will be
payable on February 23, 2006 to shareholders of record on February 9, 2006.

Standard Pacific, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, has built
homes for more than 82,000 families during its 40 -year history.

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Additional information on Veeco can be found at
http://www. For more information about the Company and
its new home developments, please visit our website at:
http://www.

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Company provides mortgage financing and title services to its homebuyers
through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, Family Lending Services, WRT
Financial, Westfield Home Mortgage, Home First Funding , Universal Land Title
of South Florida and SPH Title.

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About Veeco

Veeco Instruments Inc. The Company
constructs homes within a wide range of price and size targeting a broad range
of homebuyers.

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Global sales and service
offices are located throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and
Asia Pacific.

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Standard Pacific operates in some of the strongest housing
markets in the country with operations in major metropolitan areas in
California , Florida, Arizona, the Carolinas, Texas, Colorado, and Nevada.

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Veeco Appearance at JPMorgan Conference

Business Editors
JPMorgan 33rd Annual Technology Conference

WOODBURY, N.-- --Veeco Instruments
Inc.

All classes are privately placed pursuant to rule 144A of the
Securities Act of 1933.

Standard Pacific Corp. Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

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products are used to measure at the nanoscale and our Process
Equipment tools help create nanoscale devices.

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NEW YORK----Banc of America Large
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For a detailed description of Fitch's rating analysis, please see
the report titled 'Banc of America Large Loan Inc.

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veeco., series 2005-BOCA, is rated by Fitch Ratings as follows:

$258,486,000 class A-1 'AAA';

$64,621,000 class A-2 'AAA';

$632,000,000 class X-1 'AAA';

$632,000,000 class X-2 'AAA ';

$52,283,000 class B 'AA+';

$23,462,000 class C 'AA';

$23,462,000 class D 'AA -';

$23,462,000 class E 'A+';

$23,462,000 class F 'A';

$23,462,000 class G 'A-';

$46,924,000 class H 'BBB+';

$23,462,000 class J 'BBB';

$46,914,000 class K 'BBB -';

$35,198,000 class L 'BB+';

$54,802,000 class M 'BB'.

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To the extent that this news release discusses expectations about
market condition, market acceptance and future sales of Veeco's
products, Veeco's future financial performance or disclosures, or
otherwise makes statements about the future, such statements are
forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from the
statements made.

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Scarborough,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Pacific Corp.

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The certificates represent beneficial
ownership interest in the trust, primary assets of which are five
full-service hotels and two golf courses with an aggregate principal
balance of $700,000,000 as of the cutoff date.

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veeco . provides solutions for nanoscale
applications in the worldwide semiconductor, data storage,
HB -LED/wireless and scientific research markets. Veeco's manufacturing
and engineering facilities are located in New York, New Jersey,
California, Colorado, Arizona and Minnesota.

Fitch Rates Banc of America Large Loan Inc. Series 2005-BOCA

IRVINE, Calif. (NYSE: SPF),
today announced that the Company's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly
cash dividend of $.

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These factors include the challenges of continuing
weakness in end market conditions and the cyclical nature of the
compound semiconductor/wireless, data storage, semiconductor and
research markets, risks associated with integrating acquired
businesses and the acceptance of new products by individual customers
and by the marketplace and other factors discussed in the Business
Description and Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of
Veeco's Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K.04 per share of common stock.

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This presentation,
originally scheduled for 5:00 PM PST, will be webcast on Veeco's
website, www.