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• Helium Adds Publishing and Online Industry Veterans to Board, Executive Team

  - 2008-08-05

  ANDOVER, Mass. -- Helium (www.Helium.com), the online spot to learn what you need and share what you know, has added three industry veterans to its team. Peter Newton, who most recently served as Monster.com's senior vice president and GM of Monster's media alliances, has been named Helium's vice president of...

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• Jet-A-Way Inc.: Winning Despite the Odds

  - 2005-09-01

  ABSTRACT This is the hand that God dealt me and I am going to play it Darlene Jeter, 1991. Darlene Jeter, co-founder of Jet-A-Way Inc., a recycling and waste disposal company, became CEO in 1991 upon the death of her husband, Eddie Jeter. Despite a recent loss of almost 50%...

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• Massachusetts is criticized for not using funds to lure tourists.

  - 2004-12-07

  By Keith Reed, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--Europeans are flocking to the United States to shop, drawn by a weak dollar that promises cheap holiday shopping excursions. But some say Massachusetts businesses are missing out because $2 million ...

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• Ten named to govern, raise money for, Greenway board in Boston.

  - 2004-12-01

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--A decade and a half after planning began for a new set of downtown Boston parks to replace the Central Artery, a 10-member board was named yesterday to govern and...

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• Union supporters disagree with labor board's ruling on work rules.

  - 2004-12-01

  By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that employers may post regulations in the workplace that critics contend will discourage workers from organizing bargaining units or engaging in other...

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• Malpractice costs level off in Massachusetts, report says.

  - 2004-11-16

  By Scott Allen, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--Jury awards and doctors' payments to settle malpractice lawsuits in Massachusetts have declined 8 percent from their peak in 2001, according to a new state report, potentially easing the insurance...

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• Bank fires founder of Peabody, Mass.-based mortgage firm.

  - 2004-11-11

  By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--John F. Gallagher, a founder of 1-800-East-West Mortgage Co. and ISoldMyHouse.com and the radio voice of many of its ads, said he was fired yesterday by the bank that he and...

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• Former owner of Lawrence, Mass., mill's buyback plan hits setback.

  - 2004-10-29

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 29--Aaron M. Feuerstein's ambitions to buy back control of Malden Mills Industries Inc. suffered a blow recently when a major real estate partner said it was no longer interested in continuing...

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• Boston tenant board to offer another proposal for rent control.

  - 2004-10-18

  By Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--Two years after being turned back, proponents of rent control are trying to resurrect a controversial housing plan that would cap rents and protect tenants from evictions. The...

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• Director resigns at Cambridge, Mass., biomedical research institute.

  - 2004-09-17

  By Scott Allen, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 17--The first woman to lead the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge is stepping down as director of one of the nation's leading biological research centers to return full ...

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