He has also signed fibre-building alliances with several big local electric utilities, including Boston Edison.

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We might've walked up and down the streets of Boston-Edison and Brush Park to appreciate the glorious old houses, or the sidewalks of Lafayette Park to see the more modern Ludwig Mies van der Rohe homes.

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But Brown, working with Edison, got three used Westinghouse generators through a dealer in Boston.

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In 2009, the New York State Public Service Commission retained Charles River Associates, a management consulting firm based in Boston, MA, to perform a two-phase investigative accounting audit to determine how much money Con Edison owed to its customers for overcharges for the period 2000 to 2009.

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