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Polaris Venture Partners Announces First Investments From Its Sixth Fund
BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – 07/14/11) – Polaris Venture Partners Fund VI LP, a $375 million fund which closed last year, announced several of its first investments of 2011. Polaris will continue its successful strategy of diversification, investing in the areas of technology, healthcare and growth-equity, with a particular focus on taking early stakes in disruptive opportunities that maximize …

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Union boss comes from union
In reply to The Union Boss Who Went Straight To The Top : Union boss comes from union busting American corporate strategists. You know, the people who earn a lot of money keeping workers poor. The idea is to pose a union as an outside third party who bosses a worker around with restrictive rules and regulations. Hence the term, “union boss”. www.tradeunion.wordpress.com[[[SHIFTIN …

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ECB Bancorp, Inc. Announces Agreement to Purchase Seven North Carolina Branches from Hampton Roads Bankshares
ECB Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECBE) (“ECB), the holding company for the East Carolina Bank, announced that the East Carolina Bank has entered …

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Michelle Rhee: Our Children and Our Country Will Benefit From the DREAM Act
I have seen students study hard, do well in school and go on to graduate. But with diplomas in hand and caps in the air, some of these teens have their hopes dashed for no fault of their own when they do not have proper legal documentation to apply to college.

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Demand for advice from first-time buyers hits annual high
The latest figures from unbiased.co.uk’s Advice Drivers report show that whole of market mortgage advice on first-time buying triggered 40% of total searches on its ‘find a mortgage adviser’ service.

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Strange but true tales from Chicago that could only happen here
Truth is stranger than fiction, and that’s definitely true in Chicago. On this July 4 holiday, fire up your Weber Grill, made by a Mount Prospect man inspired by Lake Michigan buoys, and read these weird but true local yarns.Cold as iceOn a bitter February night in 1951, South Side resident Dorothy Mae Stevens Anderson, 22, stumbled into an alley, drunk on whiskey. She was found there, frozen …

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Securian Buys Life Insurance Companies from Bank of America
ST. PAUL, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Securian Financial Group, Inc. is acquiring Balboa Life Insurance …

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King Diverges Further From Europe as BOE Set to Maintain Record-Low Rate
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King’s monetary policy may diverge further from the rest of Europe today as officials keep record-low interest rates to aid the recovery and guard against threats from the Greek crisis.

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Investment opportunities from the nightmare on the High Street
For the patient investor, there will be great opportunities on the High Street in the coming years. Jane Norman and Habitat have joined the growing list of UK retailers going into administration.

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Can a Credit Blemish Keep You From Landing a Job?
One-third of us who are lucky enough even to have work in this time of stubbornly high unemployment hate our jobs. A recent survey found that 32 percent of workers are “seriously considering” jumping ship, even though there were 4.3 unemployed people for every position available last month. In other words, you have to hit [...]

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