ANDOVER – Raytheon, which has an enormous facility on Lowell Street, has been making a lot of news lately. Take, for example, the Patriot missile systems. The guidance systems for the popular weapon are built in Andover by the company’s Integrated Defense Systems, which is headquartered in Tewksbury. The Patriot is designed to intercept incoming [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2009 View Comments
ANDOVER — Life must be good down at the Dynamics Research Corp. HQ on Frontage Road in Andover these days. Over the past couple of weeks, the company has issued a series of statements regarding recent multi-million-dollar contracts, including the following: – A $14.3 million deal with the U.S. Air Force to provide the 303rd [...]
Gasoline prices are on the rise again. In the last 34 days the average price of gas has increased 46.4 cents, or 22.6 percent.Nationally, it hovers at just over $2.50 a gallon. In a previous blog post, I complained about my personal problems with high gas prices and how they affect my budget. At the [...]
When I heard the term ‘salaryman’ years ago at first I didn’t know what it meant. But I soon found out it’s a term that makes complete sense: It’s a person who works for a salary as opposed to an hourly wage. But it’s not quite that simple. In Japan, the phrase is loaded with [...]
For environmentalists, the housing downturn is being viewed as a sigh of relief. After years of rampant construction of homes, shopping malls and office parks, such activity has fallen off a cliff. The result is that for the first time in a long time, the amount of land being lost to development in Massachusetts has [...]
Sort of. As if Obama doesn’t have enough to do, what with Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan, the economy, swine flu and all the rest, he’s decided to take on the credit card companies, too. And it looks like he may be succeeding. Yesterday the U.S. Senate passed a measure to put limits on how credit card [...]
Allstate Insurance, after a lengthy hiatus, is returning to Massachusetts to offer coverage for motor vehicles. The company plans to start doing business here starting in November. Massachusetts policymakers have recently adopted positive changes that make the insurance market more competitive, according to Allstate Protection President George Ruebenson. The recent changes set a new direction, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2009 View Comments
Riverbank, headquartered in North Andover, is holding a series of shred days to help people fight identity theft. The company’s PR firm, Warner Communications of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., sent out a press release that’s worthy of mention itself: In a well-sealed business envelope containing the press release, media contact Erin Vadala had also placed shredded paper. [...]
Philips Medical Systems of Andover recently won a $77.2 million contract with the Department of Defense for patient monitoring systems, accessories, spare/repair parts and training, according to a press release on the Department of Defense Web site. Using the services provided by Philips will be the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian [...]
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