Joseph Kennedy News
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CIT Group Inc., the financial services company led by John Thain, arranged a $26 million credit facility for Citizens Energy Corp. to build five solar farms in Massachusetts.
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Robert Osborne arrived in Hollywood in the early 1960s as a contract actor with Desilu, the production company founded by Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz. It wasn’t long before Lucy persuaded him to switch careers.
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Pandora Media Inc., the biggest online radio service, is subject to an “astonishingly high royalty burden” that Congress should fix, Chief Executive Officer Joseph Kennedy told U.S. lawmakers today.
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On a stormy night in October 2009, Mary Schapiro , the newly appointed head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, returned to her alma mater, Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to be inducted into the hall of fame for student athletes. Receiving her award, she grasped the podium, confessed she was near tears and spoke of how she had never even seen a lacrosse game before attending college.
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More than 50 years ago, Joseph Kennedy used his wealth to advance the political career of his son, President John F. Kennedy. Last month, Jon Huntsman Sr. tried to do the same thing.
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For more than half a century, the Kennedys were a force in U.S. politics. Their dominance began with John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential run and lasted until the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 2009.
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“My maid just asked for leave,” a friend in Beijing told me recently. “She’s rushing home to buy property. I suggested she borrow 70 percent, so she could cap the loss.”
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On the eve of its Aug. 11 initial public offering, Carbonite Inc., a Boston-based firm that provides online data backup, cut its offering price to $10 a share from a range of $15 to $17.
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Roy Neuberger , a co-founder of money manager Neuberger Berman who traded stocks until he was 101 and was a collector of such American artists as Jackson Pollock , Georgia O’Keefe and Edward Hopper, has died. He was 107.
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Sargent Shriver , who married into the Kennedy family and became the founding director of the Peace Corps, the unexpected 1972 Democratic nominee for vice president and a lifelong champion of humanitarian causes, died yesterday. He was 95.
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