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LIFE SCIENCES IN BAY STATE SET TO GAIN A NEW GIANT
May 8, 2006
Thermo Electron Corp., a Waltham scientific and medical instruments company, was set to announce today that it would acquire rival Fisher Scientific International in a deal valued at $10.6 billion, adding a new life sciences giant to the Massachusetts corporate
landscape.
Boston Globe