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Woburn
Woburn woo´bern , city (1990 pop. 35,943), Middlesex co., NE Mass.; settled 1640, inc. as a city 1888. Formerly a major center for tanneries, the city has electrical, pharmaceutical, chemical, and leather industries, as well as greenhouses. The scientist Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford ) was born there; his house is now a museum.
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Woburn's wooing new house buyers; Route 128 community has lots of custom-built homes.(Real Estate)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 3/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...over $600,000 for a new-construction Woburn four-bedroom home. The couple's shingle...said. Buyers such as the Gudens love Woburn's big new-contruction houses, which...to buy a $689,000, four-bedroom Woburn house. The place boasts a custom granite...
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Woburn litigants left a legacy.(Editorial)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 12/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...families, like the brave families of Woburn who preceded them, will hear the results...families took the path first traveled by such Woburn mothers as Anne Anderson and Donna Robbins, whose sons were part of a group of Woburn children suffering leukemia at a rate...
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First Woburn Bancorp announces first quarter earnings.
PR Newswire; 10/20/1988; 700+ words
; FIRST WOBURN BANCORP ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER EARNINGS Company Announces Results of Annual Meeting of Shareholders WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- First Woburn Bancorp, Inc., (NASDAQ: WOBS) today announced first...
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WOBURN CLEANS UP ON WINCHESTER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; WOBURN - Overcoming a slick field and an overmatched...its season with a Thanksgiving Day upset, Woburn routed Winchester, 35-7, yesterday...the Sachems for the fourth straight year. Woburn's reward for knocking off Winchester...
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WOBURN WIELDS THE AX AS ITS LEDGER NEARS RED
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/4/1990; ; 700+ words
; WOBURN -- Officer William Coakley worked undercover...kids to stop." Coakley, who grew up in Woburn, began a drug abuse resistance education...by budget cuts in this city of 34,293. Woburn's City Council, like the leaders in many...
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WOBURN PLAYS HOST TO PIECE OF HISTORY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/15/1998; ; 700+ words
; WOBURN -- One hundred years ago today, the battleship...Remember the Maine!" Remember it they do in Woburn, where a piece of the USS Maine has long...since I was a little kid, wondering, `Why Woburn?' " said Thomas Smith, past chairman...
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Unique effort at Woburn High BC joins school in chemistry course
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; WOBURN -- Twelve seniors at Woburn High School have begun a novel chemistry class in which they will...about this. We think it'll be great for the students and for Woburn." George Ladd, a professor at the BC School of Education and...
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GEORGIA WOMAN HAS WOBURN ON HER MIND HISTORY OF THE CITY RECORDED FROM AFAR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/19/2001; ; 700+ words
; WOBURN - She lives a thousand miles away, in the heart of the...genealogist behind the Web site www.yeoldewoburn.com, Woburn has become a cyberspace hometown. "I've adopted Woburn and it's adopted me," said the 39-year-old mother...
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Halloween comes early to Woburn Safari Park with the arrival of five Drills - rare African primates with a taste for pumpkins!
M2 Presswire; 10/29/2009; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-29 October 2009-Woburn Safari Park: Halloween comes early to Woburn Safari Park with the arrival of five Drills - rare...M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:29102009 Visitors to Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire will be able to see...
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Woburn students shine on MEAP tests
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/11/1994; ; 700+ words
; Students in Woburn's public schools demonstrated gains...fourth, eighth, and 10th graders shone. Woburn's eighth graders in particular have...of Boston. In 1992, only 9 percent of Woburn's eighth graders scored at the desirable...
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Woburn
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Woburn (Beds.). Woburn abbey came into the hands of the 1st earl of Bedford , along with...noblemen to perceive the commercial potential of country houses and Woburn has a zoo and amusements. J. A. Cannon
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Anne Anderson, et al. v. W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods: 1986
Book article from: Great American Trials
...1965 to the early 1980s, residents of Woburn, Massachusetts, particularly children...of the national norm. The citizens of Woburn wondered why, and some felt they had...leukemia among other children in the town of Woburn, as well as cases of liver disease and...
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
Book article from: Pollution A to Z
...Department of Energy. In 1986, residents of Woburn, Massachusetts, relied on CERCLA's...drinking water wells located in the city of Woburn. The lawsuit claimed that three industries...abnormally high incidence of leukemia in Woburn was the result of consumption of contaminated...
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Russell
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the family until the 20th cent.; these now include Woburn Abbey and large parts of Bloomsbury in London. His...succeeded to the title in 2003. The family seat is Woburn Abbey (see Woburn , England). Bibliography: See various studies of...
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PolyMedica Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
PolyMedica Corporation 11 State Street Woburn, Massachusetts 01801 U.S.A. Telephone: (781) 933-2020...PolyMedica serves more than 800,000 patients through facilities in Woburn, Massachusetts; Port St. Lucie, Florida; Salem, Virginia...
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