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• Massachusetts regulators plan utility discounts for poor.

  - 2004-12-07

  By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--As many as 225,000 low-income Massachusetts families may become automatically eligible for discounts of 20 percent and more on gas and electric service next month under a new policy adopted...

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• Regulators block sale of Boston radio station.

  - 2004-11-16

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--Bradford Bleidt tried to commit suicide after confessing to scam. Federal regulators are blocking the planned sale of WBIX-AM and investigating whether prospective buyer Christopher Egan is paying a lowball ...

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• Marsh & McLennan says Putnam Investments isn't on block.

  - 2004-11-11

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--Officials of embattled Marsh & McLennan Cos. yesterday moved to squelch speculation that its Boston money management firm, Putnam Investments, will be divorced from its corporate parent, either in a sale to an outside...

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• Boston greenway plan eyes shuttle, parking.

  - 2004-10-18

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--The Rose Kennedy Greenway will be the aboveground centerpiece of the $14.6 billion Big Dig, transforming a vast section of downtown into a 30-acre central park. And officials are...

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• Bush to take message on 'voter choice' on trail though Midwestern states.

  - 2004-10-14

  By Rick Klein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 14--TEMPE, Ariz. -- President Bush is coming out of the final presidential debate this morning with a sharpened campaign message designed to portray the election as a stark choice between him and...

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• Civil liberties issue fade into background of presidential campaign.

  - 2004-10-04

  By Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 4--WASHINGTON -- Despite three years of outcry from activists who say the Bush administration has been sacrificing basic individual rights in the name of preventing terrorism, other issues in the ...

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• Boston investment firm to pay $575,000 to settle charges.

  - 2004-08-26

  By Andrew Caffrey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 26--The Boston investment firm Adams, Harkness Inc. will pay $575,000 to settle charges that it failed to disclose it was paid by investment banks to write research reports on the banks' ...

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• Traces of perchlorate in tap water spur concern at 7 Massachusetts sites.

  - 2004-08-24

  By Stephanie Ebbert, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 24--TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- At the Tewksbury Victory Garden where she tends tomatoes, cantaloupe, and cucumbers, Kim Viens points to a frustrating irony. She goes to great lengths to grow her produce...

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• Arab-American voters gravitate toward Kerry, polls suggest.

  - 2004-08-13

  By Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 13--Arab-American voters, disenchanted with President Bush's policies on the Middle East and what they consider an assault on their civil liberties around the country, are abandoning the Republican president and ...

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• Norwood, Mass., mortgage broker to repay clients for broken promises.

  - 2004-08-13

  By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 13--A Norwood mortgage brokerage will pay 148 consumers $2,000 each for promising them low mortgage rates last summer they never received, state officials said yesterday. A judgment in...

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