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• Boston-area transit agency misses out on parking windfall due to poor contract.

  - 2004-12-14

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 14--The private company hired to run the MBTA's parking lots and garages, not the cash-strapped T, is pocketing millions from higher fees and a surge in customers, a state audit reported...

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• Amid rising costs, Boston transit agency considers cuts.

  - 2004-12-03

  By David Abel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 3--Plummeting revenues and mounting costs in the state's public transportation system are likely to lead to cuts in the MBTA's operating budget and may result in the curtailing of some services,...

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• Boston-area transit agency may alter ad policy in wake of court decision.

  - 2004-12-01

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--The MBTA's top official said yesterday he is considering either going to the US Supreme Court or banning all advertising that deals with political issues after a federal appeals court...

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• Bush says he'll press intelligence overhaul.

  - 2004-11-22

  By Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 22--WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday said he would work with Congress to pass a bill overhauling the nation's intelligence services for the struggle against Islamist terror networks after Senate majority...

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• Transit agency reports it had contractor fix leaks in Boston underground busway.

  - 2004-11-19

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 19--Boston's other big tunnel project, the long-awaited underground busway through the South Boston Waterfront, has also been leaking, MBTA officials disclosed yesterday. The problem, uncovered in late 2000,...

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• Massachusetts' social services agency buys gift cards despite pending suit.

  - 2004-11-16

  By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly yesterday sued a major mall operator for illegally selling a gift card with numerous fees and a one-year expiration date, but the terms haven't deterred the ...

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• Boston-area transit agency to probe janitors' abuse complaint.

  - 2004-11-11

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--MBTA officials agreed yesterday to investigate a company that cleans the T's subway trains after the contractor's employees said they were overworked and harmed by noxious fumes and dangerous materials....

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• Massachusetts governor says Boston-area transit agency expansion is in works.

  - 2004-11-10

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 10--Governor Mitt Romney says he needs more time to plot an orderly lineup of MBTA expansion projects as the state faces a possible lawsuit over its failure to improve the transit...

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• Boston agency approves $45 million plan to build freight facility.

  - 2004-10-27

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 27--The Boston Redevelopment Authority yesterday preliminarily approved a $45 million freight container handling facility that would be a modern gateway to the Boston Marine Industrial Park in South ...

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• Liquefied natural gas tank insulation is highly flammable, federal agency says.

  - 2004-10-14

  By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 14--Liquefied natural gas tankers use a highly flammable insulating material, the US Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged, reversing a statement the agency made in a May letter to a Massachusetts...

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