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Health reform in jeopardy as House delays action House Democrats will not unveil their full healthcare reform package on Friday nor begin committee work on the bill next week as planned, the latest sign that President Obamaa s signature domestic initiative is in trouble.

Saturday July 18, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. It was July 18, 1776 and a copy of the Declaration of Independence had just arrived from the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia.

As we recover from Saturday's fireworks and barbecues this star-spangled weekend, we're keeping the patriotic spirit going by offering a civics quiz, based on one developed by the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash.

3. We celebrate the July 4, 1776, signing of the Declaration of Independence. 4. John Hancock's signature is the largest on the Declaration of Independence.

The State Department said its embassies may invite representatives of Iran to Independence Day celebrations complete with hot dogs, flags and apple pie.

Saturday is the Fourth of July, and for many Americans the true meaning of the holiday will be lost on picnics, parades and fireworks.

Bethesda resident John P. Keenan, CFP, was recognized as one of the top 10 financial representatives nationwide for 2008 by John Hancock Financial Network and named to the President's Roundtable.

Ownership of the 325,000-square-foot Downtown Woodinville Shopping Center has refinanced the development with a $43.7-million loan from John Hancock Life Insurance Company.

John Hancock Financial Services says it hopes to broaden the appeal of variable annuities by making them less like the complicated insurance products they've been and more like mutual funds.

Registered investment advisers City National Corp., a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based bank holding company that owns Convergent Capital Management LLC, has agreed to buy a majority interest in Lee Munder Capital Group, a firm with more than $3 billion of assets under management.

June 8, 2009 By: Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor Despite the ongoing weakening of industrial market fundamentals, banks are warming up to certain players like First Industrial Realty Trust Inc., which has just managed to get its hands on $154 million in the form of three loans secured by assets encompassing a total of 6.3 million square feet.

John Hancock Retirement Plan Services, located at 3842 Harlem Road, Suite 400-112, appointed Todd Tevens regional vice president, Upstate New York.

June 6 is the big day for all waiting to get through the doors at the Museums of Old York.

John Hancock Financial Services today released a variable annuity called the John Hancock AnnuityNote.

WLFM-LP, which broadcasts at 87.7 on the FM dial from an antenna at the John Hancock Center with what was originally supposed to be a low-power analog TV signal, has acquired local broadcast rights to the format from the Clear Channel-owned Smooth Jazz Network.

Unknown Source: PR Newswire US Wordcount: BOSTON, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- John Hancock Financial Services, the U.S. division of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corporation, has named James R. Boyle as President.

THE wind-down of Babcock & Brown's assets is continuing with the sale of its stake in the unlisted North American infrastructure fund it launched 18 months ago and the management rights it had over the business.

Bob Pritikin, a true bon vivant and ad man who made a fortune in the 1950s with his Rice-a-Roni jingle, has come up with another bright idea.

As you may have heard by now, the Office of Personnel Management has signed a new contract with John Hancock Life and Health Insurance Co.

Janet Redmond-Mercereau is escorted to a court appearance last April. The fire marshal's wife stood to rake in nearly $800,000 from her husband's pension and life insurance policies upon his death, two fire officials and a John Hancock Insurance representative told jurors yesterday.