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RI hospitals turn to ex-nurses, offer retraining
Donna Austin admits to being "petrified" before stepping into her first clinical-training shift as part of a St. Joseph Hospital’s School of Nursing "refresher"...
Hasbro strikes back<br><I>Tighter controls to avoid "Phantom" flops</I><br>
Hasbro Inc. officials assured shareholders that its new line of Star Wars toys – to be rolled out in conjunction with next month’s movie...
Staying alive: Bio-firm shows how to finance
Before biotherapeutics firm Cell Based Delivery announced earlier this month that it had obtained $9 million in venture capital, it was living on fumes....
‘Distance Learning’ through Bryant producing MBAs
Twenty-six employees from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport are set to receive master of business administration degrees from Bryant College next month,...
RI acts to forge bio-pharm link by training workers
Rhode Island’s economic development leaders have been successful over the last few years attracting companies in an industry with huge upside potential for capital...
Ridgewood Power to expand landfill plant
For years, a power plant at the Central Landfill in Johnston has been converting methane gas, emitted from rotting garbage, into electricity.
Now the...
Bill seeks direct payment for non-network dentists
A bill now in the Rhode Island House Finance Committee would in some cases mandate that insurance companies directly pay doctors who don’t participate...
Premium prices for new apartments on East Side
A new luxury apartment building under way on Wayland Avenue in Providence will demand what might be the priciest rents on the East Side...
GTECH on a rollStock rides bullish forecast to record
A bullish fiscal 2003 outlook from lottery-systems operator GTECH Holdings Corp. on April 4 sent the company’s stock soaring 20 percent to more than...
Readers like the new face of Wall Street Journal<br><I>It’s the first...
The Wall Street Journal injected a bit of color into its stodgy black-and-white front page last week, changing the paper’s look for the...
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