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• Military Budget under Fire Hits Defense Stocks.

  - 2004-03-18

  By Stephen J. Glain, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 18--WASHINGTON -- Once bulletproof, the defense budget now looks like a softer target. Lately, even some Republicans have started to question whether federal outlays can cover the...

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• The Boston Globe Business Briefs Column.

  - 2004-02-24

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 24--EXELON TO TURN OVER 3 PLANTS BY SUMMER: Exelon Corp. said it reached terms to turn over control of three Boston-area power plants to a consortium of banks by summer. It also resolved its lawsuits...

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• Lost Electronic Data Won't Hinder Military's Review of Patriot Missile.

  - 2003-05-08

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 8--Some of the Patriot anti-missile units in the Iraq war lacked data recorders to track their performance, US Army officers said this week, and a number of the recorders that were...

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• War Offers Defense Contractors Mixed Messages.

  - 2003-04-10

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 10--The US-led campaign in Iraq offers mixed messages for defense contractors struggling to adapt to the Pentagon's new emphasis on "military transformation" and high technology in its weapons budget, but...

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• United States May Face Shortage of Smart Bombs.

  - 2003-04-01

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 1--A smart-bomb shortage looms if the war in Iraq drags on for several months, military analysts say, and the Bush administration has already taken steps to boost the supply of weapons,...

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• Extra $15 Billion for Military Would Profit Companies in New England.

  - 2003-02-04

  By Robert Schlesinger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4--WASHINGTON--The $15 billion increase that President Bush requested yesterday for defense would pump millions of dollars into New England, thanks to the presence of what one military analyst called the ...

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• Boston-Area Businesses Pause to Remember Lost Colleagues, Friends.

  - 2002-09-12

  By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 12--Businesses around Boston remembered colleagues killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks yesterday, striving to strike a balance between mourning those lost and the resolve to keep working. ...

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• Construction Projects Lead Raytheon to Post Additional $88 Million Charge.

  - 2002-03-19

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 19--Raytheon Co. said it will record an additional $88 million charge against its 2001 financial results because of additional costs it incurred completing two power plant projects the company assumed ...

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• Shares in Defense Contractors Soar.

  - 2001-09-18

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 18--Shares in defense contractors soared yesterday on expectations of increased military spending, the one bright spot in otherwise gloomy markets on their first day of trading in nearly a week....

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• The Boston Globe Boston Capital Column.

  - 2001-05-02

  By By Steven Syre and Charles Stein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 2--IT WAS A BAD STRETCH for chief executive Dan Burnham and his executive team at Raytheon Co. Raytheon had already eaten a $221 million charge to complete...

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