The WARN Act requires employers to provide 90 days of notice before a mass layoff, defined as a reduction in workforce by 250 jobs (or 33 percent of the total) at one site.

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Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) compared the thinning of the telecom marketplace to the reduction of teams during college basketball's "March Madness" championship.

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The company added that cash to be realized from the reduction in accounts receivable and inventory from its recently closed Devens, Mass.

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From 1990-2005, Ms. Harrington served at the U.S. Department of State as an expert on nonproliferation and cooperative threat reduction and was responsible for developing policy and implementing programs aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile expertise in Russia and Eurasia.

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