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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Raytheon growth leads to expansion, new jobs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/09/04/raytheon-growth-leads-to-expansion-new-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Integrated Defense Systems, which is headquartered in Tewksbury. The Patriot is designed to intercept incoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government contracts lucrative for local company</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/09/03/government-contracts-lucrative-for-local-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANDOVER &#8212; 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:
&#8211; A $14.3 million deal with the U.S. Air Force to provide the 303rd Reconnaissance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What goes up, must go &#8230; up?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/06/02/what-goes-up-must-go-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneur vs. &#8217;salaryman&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/29/entrepreneur-vs-salaryman/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/29/entrepreneur-vs-salaryman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard the term &#8217;salaryman&#8217; years ago at first I didn&#8217;t know what it meant. But I soon found out it&#8217;s a term that makes complete sense: It&#8217;s a person who works for a salary as opposed to an hourly wage. But it&#8217;s not quite that simple. In Japan, the phrase is loaded with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing downturn has green lining</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/21/housing-downturn-has-green-lining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are saved!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/20/we-are-saved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 17:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sort of.
As if Obama doesn&#8217;t have enough to do, what with Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan, the economy, swine flu and all the rest, he&#8217;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 companies go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here we go again</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/20/here-we-go-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh good, oil prices are up again! That must mean we are getting out of the recession! That must mean everyone has a job and can afford $4-a-gallon gas at the pump again!
NOT!
As gas prices have been marching steadily upwards, my wallet continues to grow more and more anemic. I drive about 70 miles round [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allstate returns to Baystate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/18/allstate-returns-to-baystate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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, giving insurers greater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence company goes global</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/11/lawrence-company-goes-global/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/11/lawrence-company-goes-global/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NxStage Medical Inc., a medical device manufacturing company headquartered on South Union Street in Lawrence, just signed a deal with a European company to export its portable kidney dialysis machines and support systems to England and Ireland.
The company&#8217;s System One and PureFlow SL dialysate preparation system will be available to dialysis centers and hospitals throughout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riverbank hosts shred days; PR firm sends shredded documents</title>
		<link>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/06/riverbank-hosts-shred-days-pr-firm-sends-shredded-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.eagletribune.com/bizbuzz/2009/05/06/riverbank-hosts-shred-days-pr-firm-sends-shredded-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Kirk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Riverbank, headquartered in North Andover, is holding a series of shred days to help people fight identity theft.
The company&#8217;s PR firm, Warner Communications of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., sent out a press release that&#8217;s worthy of mention itself: In a well-sealed business envelope containing the press release, media contact Erin Vadala had also placed shredded paper.
It was [...]]]></description>
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