Ms. Clark owned several Manhattan apartments and a 52-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut.

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Francos Wine Merchants, a family-owned business on Elm Street, the main drag in New Canaan, Conn.

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His wife and daughter followed that April, while his youngest son stayed behind in New Canaan to finish high school.

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In 1947 Noyes set up his own firm in New Canaan, Conn.

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"It's like getting to clerk for the Supreme Court, " gushes Godin acolyte Alex Krupp, 24, who commutes to Godinland from his parents' home in New Canaan, Conn.

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Pick up the phone to book a flight with JetBlue and you might reach Margo Canaan at her rented home in Salt Lake City.

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Canaan Sodindo Banana was born in 1936 near Bulawayo.

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As an architect Noyes designed homes in and around New Canaan.

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Well known venture firms Canaan Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Accel Partners have set up outposts in the past twelve to eighteen months and are actively seeking deals in NYC.

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Canaan is one of 700 reservation phone agents for discount carrier JetBlue who don't work in some telephone warehouse in New Mexico or in an office in Bangalore, India.

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