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Chelmsford computer firm pushes envelope in defense

No one knows how defense budgets will fare under the Obama administration, but Mercury Computer Systems Inc. of Chelmsford is banking on getting a greater share of military contracts and moving ahead on a profitable course, its executives ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  18 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Mercury Computer Systems,  Barack Obama,  NASDAQ,  Lockheed Martin,  Raytheon

Economy poses challenges for employment agencies

ANDOVER - Finding jobs is a precarious business today as companies hunker down in an ailing, unpredictable economy. According to the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, the November unemployment rate of 5.9 percent was the ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  28 Dec 2008

In bad times, there's gold in that there gold dealing

Bad economic times mean good business for buyers and sellers of gold, as people flocking to South Shore jewelers and gold dealers to cash in on items that had been put aside for a rainy day are finding. The hubbub hasn't abated, even though gold prices ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  6 Nov 2008

Temperature control firm keeping cool in hot market

MILFORD, N.H. - One of the hot issues in electronics today is how to regulate temperatures and airflow in corporate and institutional data centers. Providing solutions aimed also at reducing energy costs is a fast-emerging business line of Degree ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  2 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Lucent Technologies, Inc.,  Emerson Electric Company,  Motorola, Inc.,  IBM,  Hewlett-Packard

Lexington company has new analytic device

LEXINGTON - RainDance Technologies Inc. has come up with a revolutionary technology, the company says, that will change the way laboratory samples are analyzed for medical research and drug preparation. "What we're essentially doing is replacing the ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  31 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Thermo Fisher Scientific,  Harvard University,  Andrew Griffiths,  Richard J. Roberts

Skeptics pounce on plans for land in Burlington

BURLINGTON - Now that plans have been unveiled for converting a 270-acre swath of town-owned land to multiple uses, including a life sciences complex and senior housing, doubters are coming to the fore, arguing that the ambitious proposal is fraught ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  27 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Jones Lang LaSalle

In Brookline Village, the icemen stayeth

In the early 20th century, well before the advent of refrigerators, there were ice companies everywhere. In those days, ice was cut from lakes and ponds, stored in woodsheds with a covering of sawdust or salt hay, and delivered to homes and businesses. ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  13 Jul 2008

The icemen stayeth

I n the early 20th century, well before the advent of refrigerators and home ice makers, "there were ice companies in every city and town," said Scott Memhard, owner of Cape Pond Ice Co. In those days, ice was cut from lakes and ponds, stored in ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  13 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Boston Red Sox

New Devens complex is due to open in 2011

A new $81 million training complex at Devens for Army and Marine reservists and Army National Guard members is expected to open in mid-2011, according to an official for the Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the project. Kevin Jasper, a ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  8 Jun 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush

Medford pair creating way to use husks for ethanol

Renewable energy is a hot topic these days, given soaring gasoline prices and discussions of how production of ethanol, now primarily a home-grown, cornstarch product, can be boosted to reduce the nation's reliance on imported oil. One way to do that, ...

From DAVIS BUSHNELL, Boston Globe,  15 May 2008

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