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• Many U.S. businesses suffer as fewer youths turn to skilled blue-collar careers.

  - 2004-11-23

  By Kimberly Blanton, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 23--WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Rob Chermesino's college-educated friends went into finance and sales. His fiancee is a meeting planner. Chermesino picked up a wrench. After a restless year at...

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• The Boston Globe business briefs column.

  - 2004-08-20

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 20--BOSTON OKS NORTHEASTERN DEVELOPMENT PLAN: The Boston Redevelopment Authority approved plans by Northeastern University to construct a residence hall and a home for the John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute. The...

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• Some Colleges to Test Charging Students for Digital Music Downloads.

  - 2003-09-03

  By Chris Gaither, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 3--SAN FRANCISCO--The tuition bill for some universities may soon include an unusual fee: for digital music. In the latest effort to combat digital piracy, as many as two dozen ...

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• New England's Rich Widened the Pay Gap in the 1990s, Study Shows.

  - 2003-06-06

  By Kimberly Blanton, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 6--New England's rich got bigger pay raises during the 1990s economic boom than in the 1980s, widening the gap between the top and everyone else, a new study shows. ...

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• Janitors' Issues Keep Union Worker on Move.

  - 2002-10-05

  By Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 5--It was 7:10 a.m. when union organizer Aaron Bartley, staked out with striking janitors in front of the Northeastern University campus, confronted the first replacement worker of the day. ...

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• Housing Is Houston's Top Need, Poll of Residents Finds.

  - 2002-05-15

  By Scott S. Greenberger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 15--How should Boston spend its scarce dollars in a tight budget year? At a city councilor's behest, a dozen Northeastern University students asked Bostonians that question at MBTA stops across...

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• The Boston Globe Business Notebook Column.

  - 2001-10-03

  By Kathy McCabe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 3--NORTHEASTERN RESEARCH FACILITY TO HOUSE CEREMEDIX OF BOSTON: CereMedix Inc. of Boston will announce today that it is leasing laboratory space at Northeastern University's Egan Research Center. The move is...

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• Study Finds that Massachusetts' Median Household Income Fell 10 Percent.

  - 2001-03-27

  By Naomi Aoki, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 27--A decade of unprecedented economic expansion did little to help the typical Massachusetts family, according to a study of household income by MassINC, a local think tank, and The Center for Labor...

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• The Boston Globe Robert Jordan Column.

  - 1999-08-16

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 17 -- Northeastern University could have -- should have -- learned from Harvard University's experience. Less than two weeks ago, about two dozen African-American painters working at Harvard went on strike over wages and benefits. The painters,...

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