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• Close watch of Romney is a given

  - 2006-10-25

  Mitt Romney has not even officially declared his candidacy for the presidency yet, and he hasn't lived in Utah in four years, but you wouldn't know it from the flurry of denials, apologies, clarifications and official declarations this past week in the Utah capital. It's started before it's...

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• Flock of starlings drop in on Boston businesses after roost demolished.

  - 2004-12-17

  By Donovan Slack, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 17--Skip Perry has to collect himself every time he looks outside his Causeway Street photo shop, where it's been two months since the elevated Green Line cloaked the street in shadow....

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• Boston mayor eyes plan to sell historic school site.

  - 2004-12-15

  By Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 15--Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino is laying plans to sell the city's historic School Department building at 26 Court St., a downtown granite edifice that came to embody some of Boston's...

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• Telemarketers for charities in Massachusetts pocket 71 percent on average.

  - 2004-12-10

  By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 10--Telemarketers hired by charities to solicit money in Massachusetts last year on average pocketed 71 cents of every dollar they raised, according to a report released yesterday by Attorney General Thomas...

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• Planners open building design for Boston park system to competition.

  - 2004-12-07

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--At left, a concept of a Boston Harbor islands visitor's center before an architectural competition to build a structure was proposed. Rose Kennedy Greenway planners are launching...

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• The Boston Globe business briefs column.

  - 2004-12-07

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--LENNAR, LEGGAT MAY BID FOR FAN PIER: Home builder Lennar Corp. of Florida, which made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the 21-acre Fan Pier development site on the South Boston Waterfront, is teaming with...

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• Seasoned professional offers holiday gift of stress-free shopping.

  - 2004-12-05

  By Emily Shartin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 5--Bring Jenny DiDomenico a list of 12 friends and relatives, and she could have your holiday shopping done for you in about two hours. "Three hours tops," she says....

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• Massachusetts turnpike chief takes some heat from lawmakers.

  - 2004-12-03

  By Yvonne Abraham, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 3--Matthew J. Amorello looked nervous as he arrived at a packed State House hearing room yesterday morning. As the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority chairman sat down just before 10:30 a.m., he was...

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• Boston radio station lays off most staff members.

  - 2004-12-01

  By Andrew Caffrey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--The staff at WBIX-AM became the latest casualties of station owner and accused embezzler Bradford C. Bleidt yesterday when they were laid off by the station's new controllers, who canceled ...

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• Engineers say Boston's Big Dig tunnels will need constant care against leaks.

  - 2004-12-01

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--The Big Dig's tunnels are structurally sound, despite hundreds of leaks, but keeping them safe will require constant inspection and an ongoing leak-patching program, two consulting engineers told a legislative panel yesterday. ...

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