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• EDITORIAL: Can U.S. Consumers' Spending Surge Help Reelect Bush?

  - 2003-11-02

  By Thomas Oliphant, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 2--WASHINGTON--My YOUNGEST child bought a car last weekend with his bride, late for the third-quarter gross domestic product figures but illustrative to a point -- just like the long-delayed spurt ...

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• Boston Foundation Kicks Off Work-Force Development Plan.

  - 2003-09-11

  By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 11--The Boston Foundation yesterday launched a $14.3 million collaborative between employers, nonprofits, labor, and government aimed at boosting skills and creating jobs for the city's low-income residents. ...

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• U.S. Economy Grows Briskly in Second Quarter; Eclipsing Earlier Estimates.

  - 2003-08-29

  By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 29--The U.S. economy, driven by solid consumer, business, and government spending, grew in the second ...uarter at its fastest pace in nine months, underscoring mounting evidence of an accelerating recovery....

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• Cambridge, Mass.-Based Vertex Pharmaceuticals Lays Off 111 Employees.

  - 2003-06-11

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 11--Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said yesterday it has laid off 111 employees in Cambridge and San Diego as it makes the transition from a company largely focused on research to one with marketed products. ...

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• Eager to Push Ahead, Bush Puts Homeland, Jobs at Top of List.

  - 2002-11-08

  By Anne E. Kornblut, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 8--WASHINGTON--Buoyed by his party's triumph in the midterm elections, President Bush laid out plans yesterday for Republican governance at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, pledging to hold fast to conservative...

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• Boston-Area Travel-Related Jobs Drop 13.3 Percent over Two Years.

  - 2002-10-18

  By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--The economic downturn, coupled with last year's terrorist attacks, resulted in the loss of 14,475 travel and tourism-related jobs in the Boston area over the past two years, a 13.3...

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• Law Will Give Rare Powers to New Transportation-Safety Chief.

  - 2001-12-12

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 12--WASHINGTON--The appointment lasts longer than a presidential term. The job could pay more than a Cabinet post. Its occupant will have daily access to the top product of US intelligence agencies...

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• Boston-Based Computer Equipment Maker Makes More Job Cuts, Trims Salaries.

  - 2001-09-14

  By Jeffrey Krasner, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 14--Teradyne Inc., the Boston maker of computer test equipment and electronics, said it is taking steps to cut another 11 percent of its work force. Those left after another round...

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• Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Sees Dark Future With Last Mine Closing.

  - 2001-08-21

  By Colin Nickerson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 21--SYDNEY MINES, Nova Scotia--It's a dark and dangerous road leading down into the coal pits, but for generations of Cape Bretoners it seemed paved in gold. "On that...

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