Brian Gormley
Water therapy links treadmill, pool
Company: SwimEx Systems, a division of TPI Composites Inc.
Location: 373 Market St., Warren
Employees: 30 in SwimEx division; 300 in TPI total
Year Founded: 1986
Annual Sales:...
Izzo bill to target lead paint again
All news about RI from Mark Searles and Tara Granahan.
After months of revising the lead paint bill that failed in the General Assembly last...
Quasipublic agencies flourish
John Swen, former director, RI Economic Development Corporation.
While the recent controversy surrounding the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp.'s use of state credit cards has...
For hospitals and HMOs, problems mount early, often
When Women & Infants Hospital Chairman Benjamin P. Harris III gave his speech before the hospital's annual meeting of the corporation last month, his...
Restoring estuaries makes news, slow progress for aquaculture
Numerous environmental issues came to the forefront in 1999, from Congressional attempts to revamp the Superfund program to the groundbreaking for Rhode Island's first...
Housing market enjoys record sales
Realtors will remember 1999 as a year in which sales surged past even 1998's lofty heights, and as one in which some of their...
Asking for organs: approach is critical
What could be more difficult than asking the father of a son who has just died if he is willing to donate his child's...
Michael A. Rice
Name: Michael A. Rice
Position: Associate professor of fisheries and aquaculture, University of Rhode Island
Background: Professor with tenure since 1993; visiting Fulbright professor,...
Age discrimination cases appear to be declining
Fewer Rhode Islanders are complaining of age discrimination in the workplace, the latest statistics show. Of the 375 total complaints filed with the state...
Health care costs keep rising, up 7.3% in 1999
Employers' cost of providing health insurance to employees jumped by 7.3 percent in 1999, an even steeper increase than the hike seen last year,...
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