August 27, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Getting Fit Is So Yesterday; Pampering Is Now Tops

Connecticut’s entrepreneurs go through fads as quickly as last season’s shoes get tossed to the back of...

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Condo Performance Perplexes Hartford Realty Professionals | Too much inventory is pushing up days on market, depressing sales stats. But nothing is stopping price...

When housing markets cool, condominiums are usually what plunge into the iciest waters. But Greater Hartford’s condo...

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Manchester Screenings

The Manchester chapter of UNICO National donated $5,263 to the Manchester women’s breast cancer screening program at...

Manufacturing

Number One With A Bullet | West Coast law change could stamp out gunmakers’ profits

California lawmakers next month are expected to vote on a measure that — if it passes —...

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Why Did You Hire Us?

The client is very strong-willed and opinionated about what they want. The informed and experienced recommendations from...

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Watching Liquidity Dry Up

So this is what they mean by a credit crunch. For months, there has been lots of...

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Delinquent Loans Surge To High Point

U.S. banks reported the biggest jump in delinquent loans in 16 years, largely because of the troubled...

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Focus Won’t Change Urban Violence

Even when he’s sort-of-right, there is little evidence to suggest that the emoting and marching and sermonizing...

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Early Jobs Gave Her A Taste Of Career Options To Come

Before they were called “sandwich artists” and wore tasteful green polos, Subway Sandwich workers wore mustard yellow...

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Reaching The Goal

The Greater Hartford Arts Council raised $4,326,180 for the United Arts Campaign. Hartford Steam Boiler and United...

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Putting For Pediatrics

The eighth annual Konover charity classic golf tournament by Konover & Associates Inc. in Farmington raised $65,000...

Manufacturing

Greenhouses And Fuel Cells In Somers

Tobacco has long been a staple crop of the farms of North Central Connecticut. In a small...

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The Burned-In Manager And The Weird Sisters

If you follow financial news, you’ve heard of the “inverted yield curve,” which is ... well, who...

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P&W Machinists Reject Contract Proposal

Machinists at jet-engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney last week overwhelmingly rejected a new three-year contract proposal by...

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Concentration: It’s More Than A Kid’s Game

A group of discouraged business people hired a consultant to come and speak to them on ways...

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Trumbull Street Gets $6 Million Makeover

Hartford’s Trumbull Street will be revamped in a $6 million project, slated to begin mid-September, city officials...

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Constructing New Ideas

It can be for as short a period as a weeklong vacation or as long as four...

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Howard To Take Helm Of Liberty Bank | Noted financier to leave start-up New Haven inner city bank

Chandler Howard left banking’s executive levels to direct a quasi-public agency and pioneer a community bank in...

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Judge Withdraws From Court Consideration

Superior Court Judge John R. Downey, Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s nominee for the Appellate Court, withdrew his...

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August 27, 2007 — State Contracts

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

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Dodd-ging The Issue

It would be nice to think our nation’s financial markets are being operated by men of sober...

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Point Taken

In the aftermath of the brutal murders of three members of a white Cheshire family, it didn’t...

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August 27, 2007 — Movers & Shakers

Manuel Vieira was promoted to director of materials management at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in...

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Bradley Seeking New Administrator | Interim chief will pull back to assistant role, despite desire for top job

The state Department of Transportation has decided to conduct a nationwide search for a new top administrator...

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Update Your ‘Elevator Pitch’

A few weeks ago, my friend Maria needed help. She was about to attend her high school...

Manufacturing

Stanley Works Purchase Gives Greater Medical Industry Access | InnerSpace will add new look to New Britain company’s product line

When most people mention “tools” and “shelves” in the same sentence, it’s to describe where they keep...

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