April 23, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Pier 1 Falls Off Shoppers’ Radar

Once a must-shop store for tchotchkes, wicker and affordable Asian furniture, Pier 1 has wound up one...

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Movers & Shakers — April 23, 2007

The Capital Area Health Consortium elected Laurence A. Tanner chairman of the board. Currently, Tanner is president...

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In The Interim

Interim HealthCare held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of their new staffing and recruitment...

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Retailers Take Aim At Protecting Firearms Sales

When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a nationally televised gun control speech earlier this month,...

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Law Firm Warming To Climate Changes

Polar bears grab headlines, Americans fret about disappearing glaciers, Al Gore takes home an Oscar. Clearly, going...

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Distressed Hospitals On The Rise

More than a half-dozen of Connecticut’s 31 hospitals are bleeding red ink, and that number is on...

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Faith, Doubt And Effort

On my desk, I have a small book of quotations that I look at from time to...

Manufacturing

It’s Last Call For Analog Cell Service

Regulators are poised to send the crackling and bulky analog cell phone to the scrap heap next...

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Don’t Let A Makeover Prove To Be Your Unmaking

Talk about Superman pulling a phone-booth style switcheroo. There’s a New Zealander named David Kirk who is...

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Is Arbitration Benefit Or Burden?

Litigation is expensive. So a prudent business should always consider alternatives to litigation as a means of...

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If You Don’t Like My Plan…

Gov. M. Jodi Rell is easily annoyed by criticism and is impatient. It is ironic, because one...

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Of Note — April 23, 2007

OF NOTE • The following grants were provided to these local organizations from the Ronald McDonald House Charities...

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Celebrate

Nine-year-old Koushik Ficsher inspired volunteers and supporters with a speech at Boundless Playgrounds’ ramp up event for...

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The Perfect Tyrant

In the movie “Breach,” there’s a scene where a young FBI employee is being reassigned and he...

Manufacturing

Manufacturers Desperate For Younger Workers | Search on for machinists and engineers

There are pamphlets and posters and Power Point presentations explaining that the perception of manufacturing as greasy,...

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A Banker’s Best Friend

The U.S. Supreme Court these days seems to be just infatuated with ultimate authority. That is, if...

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Downtown Office Space To Be Converted Into Rentals | Common Ground finalizing finances, plans

After four years, New York-based Common Ground is expecting to finalize its financing for the renovation of...

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A Message Big As A Billboard

Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez, a tax-raising, subsidy-hunting, grant-writing kind of urban type, was awakened one morning by...

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State Contracts — April 23, 2007

Here are the latest bids for products and services received by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services...

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Recognizing A Need For Older Workers

As the baby boom generation enters retirement age, New England employers will become increasingly dependent on older...

Manufacturing

$1.3B MacDermid Buyout Approved By Shareholders

MacDermid Inc. shareholders have agreed to a $1.3 billion buyout of the specialty chemicals maker, which was...

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Former Teenage Model Knows About Marketing

It is fitting that turning heads and getting someone’s attention is something Andrea Obston learned about from...

Manufacturing

Mayonnaise And Lasers In Farmington

Orange Juice. Laughing gas. The Saturn and Jupiter orbiters. Mayonnaise. All of these important things share a...

Manufacturing

CI Searches For A CEO: What’s Wrong?

Reviews in the technology community of the performance of Frank A. Dinucci, outgoing president of Connecticut Innovations,...

Manufacturing

Companies Drill Down To High School

In just a few weeks, local high schools will graduate thousands of students. Some will become doctors,...

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Bank On It

My Sisters’ Place in Hartford honored Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage (CBRB) Cares Foundation with the Reaching Out...

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Game Theory

Did you know that virtually everyone under 21 has played a computer game at least once? People...

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Prosecutors Investigating Mayor’s Parking Deal | Parking contractor owed back taxes, was in default of state filing requirement

Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez is under investigation by the Chief State’s Attorney’s office for a North Main...

Manufacturing

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