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June 3, 2008 Archives


A call to researchers to advocate for their work -- and funds

6:46 PM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paul Edward Parker    Email

Journal photo / Mary Murphy Barbara Alving, the director of the National Center for Research Resources, was a keynote speaker at the Rhode Island Research Alliance Symposium today at the Rhode Island Convention Center. PROVIDENCE — The head of......

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RI home sales, prices continue to fall

9:21 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
By John Kostrzewa    Email

The Warren Group, a Boston-based real estate tracking firm, this morning said the median price of a single-family home in Rhode Island fell 11.3 percent in April, from last year’s price of $270,000 to $239,500. The year-to-date price fell 10.3......

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EMC wins approval to buy Iomega

8:33 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
By John Kostrzewa    Email

EMC Corp., the world's largest maker of storage computers, won European antitrust approval to buy Iomega Corp. for about $213 million in cash. The European Commission, the 27-nation European Union's antitrust regulator in Brussels, said it approved the deal in......

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Newspaper group cuts workforce

8:31 AM Tue, Jun 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
By John Kostrzewa    Email

The Ottaway group of newspapers, which includes the The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass., and Hathaway Publishing in Somerset, Mass., said it is reducing its work force company-wide “to help the company meet its present financial goals and future......

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