September 17, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Subway, Dunkin’ Donuts Give Pizza A Try

Subway is to sandwiches what Dunkin’ is to doughnuts. So why are both chains exploring — pizza?...

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Sarbanes-Oxley Costs Lessening, Public Benefit Is Increasing

To The Editor: The discussion about a recent study of auditing costs related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

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Health Insurance Premiums Vault Past Inflation | Bosses wondering what affect will be on worker retention, demands for raises

Health insurance premiums rose 6.1 percent this year — the lowest rate of increase since 1999 —...

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A New Business Park Looms in Bristol

It’s by no means a first, but the industrial park set for completion next year in Bristol’s...

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Learning Through Literacy

New Boston Fund supported literacy in the Greater Hartford region by supplying free warehouse space at 100...

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From Castoffs To Councilman

When young Robert Painter opened the door to the deliverymen outside, he might be greeted with a...

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Center Shops Sale Doubles Money For Owner | Growth potential, planned upgrades lure Greenwich developer north

The small Greenwich development firm that earlier this summer snapped up the 40,000-square-foot Center Shops Plaza in...

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Foreclosure Proceedings Set Record

With a warning that the worst is yet to come, the Mortgage Bankers Association said that lenders...

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Did You Hear The Story About Office Gossip?

Office gossip, though rarely talked about or researched, has taken on new dimensions in this high-tech age,...

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Make Your Customer Number One And They’ll Make You Number One

All across the country, school kids have been writing essays about “What I Did on My Summer...

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New Junior’s Restaurant At Foxwoods | First location outside of Gotham

Junior’s Restaurant, the landmark New York eatery famous for its cheesecake, will open at Foxwoods Resort Casino...

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Sept. 14, 2007 — Movers & Shakers

Hartford Stage elected the following to the board of directors: Sue Ann Collins, chief financial officer and...

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The Self-Immolation Of A Senator

Regardless of Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s standing, there is now time to consider what’s truly behind his...

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Sept. 17, 2007 — State Contracts

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

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The Great Leadership Lesson

How does it happen that a company’s morale and performance move in opposite directions? I’ve experienced it...

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Flushing Through Fashionable Ideas

Many readers of the Hartford Business Journal have asked whether Cohen will ever run out of column...

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Books In New Britain

The TD Banknorth Charitable Foundation announced “Strike Outs for Literacy” in partnership with the New Britain Rock...

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Fall’s Priorities

More phone calls. More e-mail. Hopefully, more orders. You’re still wondering where summer went, when — bang!...

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Sept. 14, 2007 — Movers & Shakers, section 2

McLean in Simsbury appointed Kelly Papa to administrative director of resident services. Papa previously was director of...

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A Special Donation

The Greater Hartford Association of Realtors presented Special Olympics Connecticut with a $7,500 donation, the proceeds from...

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DMR Slapped For Continuing Problems | State auditors say agency fosters carelessness

State Auditors of Public Accounts found a bevy of financial gaffes in the Department of Mental Retardation;...

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Sharing The Day’s Bounty

Whole Foods Market in West Hartford held a “Five Percent” day to benefit Foodshare. Five percent of...

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Tome Tracks Our Trends

In a world where even the ring of a phone is individualized, it makes sense that the...

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On Track All Along

Diversity means different things to different people. When it’s the focus of your life, job, and energies,...

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Skies Are Darkening For Building Loans | Deal terms tightening as commercial investors react to residential mortgage drought

The market for commercial real estate in Connecticut and throughout most of New England has been strong...

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Strategies When It’s Fourth And Down

The unofficial rush to the end of the year is upon us. Though there is no fiscal...

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FDA Takes Closer Look At Pharmaceutical Advertising

Requests for potentially dangerous drugs by people who have seen the medications advertised on TV are leading...

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A Patriot’s Duty

In all of the harrumphing over the war in Iraq, the omnibus and ill-named War on Terror...

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State Puts Big Lien On National Hotel Firm | Interstate owes hundreds of thousands, but bill vanishes from tax delinquent list

The state has smacked a $435,000 lien on Interstate, the former management company for the Doubletree Hotel Bradley...

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Home-Equity Loans Harder To Get | Lenders pull back from market, even for good-credit borrowers

Back when the real estate market was flying at 30,000 feet, getting a home-equity line of credit...

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Parting Gifts

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (EAPD) in Hartford donated IBM laptop computers to two students who worked...

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