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“There’s a reason that younger people tend to have high-deductible health plans, and obviously it’s affordability,” Robert Jeter, a financial adviser with Back Bay Financial Planning and Investments, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025
Forecasts called for sunshine and temperatures in the mid-50s, rising into the mid- to high-60s for the stragglers who make it to Back Bay in late afternoon.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024
Under that scenario, the streets of Boston's Back Bay we are gazing out across at would become capillaries of the Charles River.
From Salon • May 20, 2023
But following them from Hopkinton to Boston’s Back Bay on the third Monday in April are 30,000 others who are not in it to win it, or maybe not even to achieve a personal best.
From Washington Times • Apr. 13, 2023
The child of a well-heeled, status-oriented Back Bay family of antique dealers, she was far out of the league of a jockey with a seventh-grade formal education and no fixed address.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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