At last month's meeting in Boston of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, the chief economist of the NASDAQ stock exchange offered some honest, if startling, advice to local biotechnology companies struggling to survive the ongoing economic crisis. Leave town, urged Frank Hatheway, just moments before Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick was scheduled to speak. "The goal is to survive," Hatheway said. "And there . are cheaper places to live and work."
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