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• Kudos and caution voiced at economic summit.

  - 2004-12-16

  By Michael Kranish, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16--WASHINGTON -- A White House-picked parade of specialists lauded President Bush's policies at an economic summit yesterday, but some peppered their praise with warnings that the economy could tumble unless...

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• Big Dig project managing firm apologizes, considers fund for repairs.

  - 2004-12-03

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 3--Top executives of the company managing the Big Dig, testifying at a packed State House hearing yesterday, apologized for lapses that led to a massive leak in the Interstate 93 northbound tunnel wall on...

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• Bush's attorney general pick can expect tough hearings, but is no lighting rod.

  - 2004-11-11

  By Anne E. Kornblut, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--WASHINGTON -- For his first major appointment since reelection, President Bush turned to a close friend, a mild-mannered centrist -- and a candidate who will probably cost him little of...

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• Kerry could be party's top voice.

  - 2004-11-05

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--WASHINGTON -- The last time a Massachusetts senator won the White House, his Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon, went home to California in 1960, regrouped, and came back and won the...

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• Turnout was strong among young voters, but maintaining interest is key.

  - 2004-11-05

  By Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5--WASHINGTON -- More young voters cast ballots this year than they have in the last two presidential contests as the record turnout reversed the downward trend in youth participation in national...

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• Kerry forces planned for battle that never was.

  - 2004-11-04

  By Patrick Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--When senior campaign advisers left John F. Kerry's town house around 10 p.m. Tuesday, the decision was made: Even if President Bush were ahead in the popular vote or Electoral College,...

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• Student vote drive in New Hampshire called success.

  - 2004-11-03

  By Donovan Slack, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--DURHAM, N.H. -- They plied them with free coffee, oatmeal-raisin cookies, and shuttle buses to the polls. They ousted them from dorm rooms and study halls with bullhorns. Even Jon Bon...

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• Bush, Kerry campaigns prepare for tight nationwide vote today.

  - 2004-11-02

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 2--President Bush and Senator John F. Kerry hurtled toward the finish last night, still locked in a dead heat in opinion polls, their campaigns steeled for an extraordinary surge of voters today as coast-to-coast...

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• Foot soldiers may hold key to presidential victory in battleground states.

  - 2004-11-02

  By Yvonne Abraham, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 2--COLUMBUS, Ohio -- This presidential contest isn't just President Bush versus Senator John F. Kerry any more. For days now -- and especially today -- it has been a battle between...

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• After 4 tumultuous years, landscape of 2004 election looks awfully like 2000.

  - 2004-11-02

  By Peter S. Canellos,, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 2--MIAMI -- After four years of tragedy and recovery, of victory and recession, the arc of American politics has circled back to almost exactly where it was four years ago....

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