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The Prudential Tower, also known as the Prudential Building or, colloquially, The Pru,subscription required'The Pru' everyone calls it: a resigned shrug of a name, as flat and uninflected as the wan moue its pronunciation requires." is an International Style skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts. [1]

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Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting and professional services firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services.

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Acela Express

The Acela Express (colloquially abbreviated to Acela) is Amtrak's flagship service along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the Northeastern United States between Washington, D.C. and Boston via 14 intermediate stops including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City.

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Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Back Bay station

Back Bay station is a transit station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Back Bay, Boston

Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Berkeley Building

The Berkeley Building (also known as the Old John Hancock Building) is a 26-story, building located at 200 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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BostInno

BostInno is a local online news site and community publishing platform covering “the view from inside” innovation in Boston.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston and Albany Railroad

The Boston and Albany Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York, later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system, Conrail, and CSX Transportation.

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Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston.

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Boston Business Journal

The Boston Business Journal is a weekly, business-oriented newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boston Citgo sign

The Boston Citgo sign is a large, double-faced sign featuring the logo of the oil company Citgo that overlooks Kenmore Square in Boston.

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Boston Marathon bombing

During the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs detonated 12 seconds and apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs.

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Boston Properties

Boston Properties, Inc., a self-administered and self-managed American real estate investment trust (REIT), is one of the largest owners, managers and developers of Class A office properties in the United States, with a significant presence in five markets: Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boylston Street

Boylston Street is the name of a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Charles Luckman

20 Hawley Street, Binghamton, New York Charles Luckman (May 16, 1909 in Kansas City – January 26, 1999 in Los Angeles) was an American businessman and architect, famous as the "Boy Wonder of American Business" when he was named president of the Pepsodent toothpaste company in 1939 at the age of 30.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Copley Place

Copley Place is an upscale shopping mall in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts, as part of a larger complex that includes office buildings, two hotels, and a parking garage.

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Copley station

Copley station is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line subway, located in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Custom House Tower

The Custom House Tower is a skyscraper in McKinley Square, in the Financial District neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Demutualization

Demutualization is the process by which a customer-owned mutual organization (mutual) or co-operative changes legal form to a joint stock company.

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Donlyn Lyndon

Donlyn Lyndon is an American Third Bay Tradition architect and the Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Eataly

Eataly is a large format/footprint Italian marketplace (food hall) comprising a variety of restaurants, food and beverage counters, bakery, retail items, and a cooking school.

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Effective radiated power

Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter.

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Eversource Energy

Eversource Energy (formerly known as Northeast Utilities) is a publicly traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity, natural gas service and water service to approximately 4 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, commonly known as the Boston Fed, is responsible for the First District of the Federal Reserve, which covers New England: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and all of Connecticut except Fairfield County.

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Fenway Park

Fenway Park is a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts near Kenmore Square.

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Gillette

Gillette is a brand of men's and women's safety razors and other personal care products including shaving supplies, owned by the multi-national corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G).

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Grandfather clause

A grandfather clause (or grandfather policy) is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases.

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Green Line "E" Branch

The "E" Branch (also referred to as the Huntington Avenue Branch, or formerly as the Arborway Branch) is a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line.

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HD Radio

HD Radio is a trademarked term for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data by using a digital signal embedded "on-frequency" immediately above and below a station's standard analog signal, providing the means to listen to the same program in either HD (digital radio with less noise) or as a standard broadcast (analog radio with standard sound quality).

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Huntington Avenue

Huntington Avenue is a secondary thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning at Copley Square, and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods.

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Hynes Convention Center

The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston was built in 1988 from a design by architects Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood.

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International Style (architecture)

The International Style is the name of a major architectural style that developed in the 1920s and 1930s and strongly related to Modernism and Modern architecture.

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John Hancock Tower

200 Clarendon Street, previously John Hancock Tower and colloquially known as The Hancock, is a 60-story, skyscraper in Boston.

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Light-emitting diode

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.

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List of tallest buildings in Boston

Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the largest city in New England, is home to 251 completed high-rises, 31 of which stand taller than.

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List of tallest buildings in the United States

This list of the tallest buildings in the United States includes all buildings of or higher by architectural height, excluding antennas.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Man-hour

A man-hour, or less commonly person-hour, is the amount of work performed by the average worker in one hour.

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Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (MOHG), a member of the Jardine Matheson Group, is an international hotel investment and management group with luxury hotels, resorts and residences in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Turnpike

The Massachusetts Turnpike (locally called the "Mass Pike" or "the Pike") is a toll road in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).

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MFS Investment Management

MFS Investment Management (MFS) is an American-based global investment manager, formerly known as Massachusetts Financial Services.

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Mixed-use development

Mixed-use development is a type of urban development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment uses, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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One Prudential Plaza

One Prudential Plaza (formerly known as the Prudential Building) is a 41-story structure in Chicago completed in 1955 as the headquarters for Prudential's Mid-America company.

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Orange Line (MBTA)

The Orange Line is one of the four subway lines of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

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Partners HealthCare

Partners HealthCare is a Boston-based non-profit hospital and physicians network that includes Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), two of the nation’s most prestigious teaching institutions.

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Playoffs

The playoffs, play-offs, postseason and/or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade.

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Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) is an American multi-national consumer goods corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by British American William Procter and Irish American James Gamble.

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Prudential Financial

Prudential Financial, Inc. is an American Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and in over 30 other countries.

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Prudential station

Prudential station is an underground light rail station on the MBTA Green Line "E" branch, located below Huntington Avenue next to the Prudential Tower complex near Belvidere Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas (also known as aerials) for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television.

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Robert Campbell (journalist)

Robert Campbell (born March 31, 1937 in Buffalo, New York) is a writer and architect.

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Ropes & Gray

Ropes & Gray LLP is a global law firm with 11 offices located in the United States, Asia and Europe.

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SAS Institute

SAS Institute (or SAS, pronounced "sass") is an American multinational developer of analytics software based in Cary, North Carolina.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Sheraton Hotels and Resorts

Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is an international hotel chain owned by Marriott International.

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Shopping mall

A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.

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Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately.

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Stanley Cup playoffs

The Stanley Cup playoffs (Les séries éliminatoires de la Coupe Stanley) is an elimination tournament in the National Hockey League consisting of four rounds of best-of-seven series.

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Sun Life Financial

Sun Life Financial, Inc. is a Canada-based financial services company known primarily as a life insurance company.

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Terminal Tower

Terminal Tower is a 52-story,, landmark skyscraper located on Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Shops at Prudential Center

The Shops at Prudential Center is an urban shopping center located at the base of the Prudential Tower in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue.

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Urban Land Institute

The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a nonprofit research and education organization with offices in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, London, and Frankfurt.

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WBCN (FM)

WBCN was a terrestrial radio station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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WBOS

WBOS (92.9 MHz, "Alt 92.9") is a commercial alternative rock radio station licensed to Brookline, Massachusetts and serving Greater Boston.

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WBPX-TV

WBPX-TV, virtual channel 68 (UHF digital channel 32), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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WBQT (FM)

WBQT (96.9 MHz "Hot 96.9") is a commercial FM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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WEZE

WEZE is an AM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts on 590 kHz.

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WMJX

WMJX (106.7 MHz; "Magic 106.7") is a commercial adult contemporary radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts.

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WODS

WODS (103.3 FM) - known on-air as 103.3 AMP Radio - is a radio station in Boston, Massachusetts. WODS airs a Top 40 (CHR) radio format, and is owned by Entercom. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is in Newton.

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World Series

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in North America, contested since 1903 between the American League (AL) champion team and the National League (NL) champion team.

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WROR-FM

WROR-FM (105.7 MHz) is a commercial classic hits radio station licensed to Framingham, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group.

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WWBX

WWBX (104.1 FM, Mix 104-1) is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts.

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WXKS-FM

WXKS-FM (107.9 FM), branded as Kiss 108, is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station serving Greater Boston and owned by iHeartMedia.

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WZLX

WZLX (100.7 FM) is a classic rock radio station in Boston, Massachusetts.

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111 Huntington Avenue

111 Huntington Avenue is a Boston skyscraper.

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875 North Michigan Avenue

875 North Michigan Avenue, built as and still commonly referred to as the John Hancock Center, is a 100-story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Prudential Center (Boston), Skywalk Observatory.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential_Tower

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