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Boston Scientific Corp reported lower quarterly earnings and gave a disappointing outlook on Thursday as sales declined in its two biggest businesses, cardiac rhythm management and interventional cardiology, and its shares fell by as much as 7.6 percent.

Net earnings fell to $107 million, or 7 cents per share, in the fourth quarter, from $236 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier.

Sales fell 8 percent to $1.85 billion from $2.00 billion. Excluding the impact of foreign currency and sales from divested businesses, sales decreased 5 percent.

“This is really a reflection of their pipeline,” said Morningstar analyst Debbie Wang. “They are not leading on the technology front. Once you lose the edge on technology, it takes 5 or 10 years to catch up. Until then, they’ll just be limping along.”

Revenue from the interventional cardiology business, which includes heart stents, fell to $594 million from $641 million.

Cardiac rhythm management revenue, which includes implantable heart defibrillators known as ICDs, dropped to $482 million from $564 million.

JPMorgan analyst Michael Weinstein noted that a lower tax rate and reduced share count were not enough to offset notably weak gross margins.

During a conference call, management told analysts that most of the benefits from its restructuring would come in 2013 and 2014.

For 2012, the company’s outlook assumes continued weak demand for ICDs, with demand improving during the second half of the year.

“The ICD market appears to be showing signs of stability,” Chief Financial Officer Jeff Capello told analysts. “We expect it’ll take another quarter or two to see if the market has bottomed out.”

The company forecast first-quarter sales of between $1.83 billion and $1.90 billion, and net earnings of 2 cents to 5 cents per share. It expects adjusted earnings, excluding acquisition- and restructuring-related charges and other items, of 11 cents to 14 cents per share.

The procession began at 10 a.m. at the Parkman House, the city’s mansion on Beacon Hill, where thousands turned out Tuesday to pay their respects. The funeral service began about an hour later at St. Cecilia’s Church.

If the Pats win, Bloomberg’s offer includes dinners at the Russian Tea Room and B. Smith’s restaurant, and club seats at the Garden for a Knicks or Rangers game.

The plaintiffs say the hospital could have prevented alleged abuse by the late Dr. Melvin Levine if it had reported accusations of abuse that arose while he worked in Boston from 1966 to 1985.

Levine killed himself last year after he was sued by alleged victims in Boston, where he was accused giving medically unnecessary genital exams to dozens of boys.

The interviews are part of the Boston College Belfast Project which took place for five years from 2001.

The ruling has been considered a minor victory for US prosecutors but an appeals court will have the final say on the release of the interviews.

The men behind the project have refused to release any of their transcripts.

Former IRA member Anthony McIntyre and journalist Ed Moloney argue that the release of the documents could harm the peace process in Northern Ireland and risk the lives of some of those who gave confidential testimonies to the project.

US District Judge William Young ruled in favour of prosecutors after a brief hearing on Tuesday, finding that the two men who filed the suit do not have legal standing to bring the complaint.

Judge Young ruled in December that interviews with former IRA member Dolours Price could be turned over to US prosecutors but the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals had temporarily blocked the handover.

Arguments in that case – scheduled for March – will determine whether those interviews and the interviews of seven other former IRA members will be handed over.

If they are, it is thought they will also be passed on to the PSNI.

The hearing was held at Boston College Law School as part of an annual programme in which Judge Young holds court hearings at a law school so law students can attend.

The Belfast Project involved academics, historians and journalists conducting interviews with former republicans and loyalists about their activities during the Troubles.

The interviewees were promised their accounts would remain confidential until after their deaths.

On Sunday, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said he had “nothing to fear” from the evidence collected in the Boston College tapes.

When Davis stepped on the parquet floor Monday night at TD Garden wearing an opposing team’s jersey for the first time, he seemed set on showing his former team just what it was missing.

Judge William Young, in a five-page ruling Friday, ordered Boston College to turn over transcripts and recordings to U.S. prosecutors, who had subpoenaed the material on behalf of British investigators probing the 1972 killing of Jean McConville.

Allegations have emerged that Gerry Adams, an internationally known figure in the Irish peace process, commanded the IRA unit responsible for ordering McConville’s execution and secret burial.

The controversial material is part of an oral history project conducted by Boston College, and its release could prove damning for Adams, who in recent years has distanced himself from the IRA. Despite being incarcerated for Irish nationalist causes, Adams, the president of Sinn Féin (Irish for “Ourselves Alone”), the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland, has repeatedly denied ever being a member of the proscribed organization.

Critics of Young’s ruling believe relinquishing the archived material could implicate and harm former IRA members, some of whom are now elected officials in Northern Ireland. Boston College has expressed disappointment with the judge’s ruling.

“We are disappointed with (Young’s) ruling in light of the effect it will have on the enterprise of oral history,” Jack Dunn, a spokesman for the college, said in an email Sunday to the Boston Globe. “We will take the time allotted us to review our legal options, which include the right to appeal this decision.”

Two of the 26 people interviewed as part of the history project are believed to implicate Adams in the killing of McConville, a Catholic widow, mother of 10 and suspected informant. She was abducted from her home and shot in the back of the head, according to the Times of London.

Those opposed to the court order include a former IRA member and an Irish journalist, both of whom say turning over the material could trigger attacks against IRA veterans and undermine Northern Ireland’s peace.

Boston College had promised interview subjects anonymity until they died. Friday’s ruling follows previous court orders to turn over other materials from the oral history project.

“This time around the biggest issue is jobs and the economy,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney campaign senior advisor. “And so, therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising that the strongest candidate on jobs and the economy is the one who is doing so well so far in this process and that’s Mitt Romney.”

But South Carolina Republicans are more socially conservative than those in New Hampshire, and Romney has a record of changing his opinion on key issues, such as abortion and gay rights.

Gingrich has already begun airing millions of dollars worth of attack ads, calling Romney a Massachusetts moderate and painting him as a heartless corporate raider.

On all the negative ads directed his way, Romney says it may backfire on not just Gingrich, but others, too.

“And I don’t think its helped. Obviously Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich, those are the two that have really been leading the charge over the last week or so, their support from New Hampshire I don’t think rose, I think it declined as it took on this approach,” said Romney. “It’s not going to work among conservatives and I don’t think it will work with the president either when he launches it.”

In Boston, Romney held meetings with his finance team, where news of his latest fundraising totals were being released.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney, with a pair of presidential primary wins under his belt, heads to the next race in South Carolina with $19 million in cash on hand, his campaign announced Wednesday. Romney’s campaign raised $56 million in 2011, including $24 million in the fourth quarter and Romney has not made any personal loans to his campaign, as he did when he ran for governor in 2002. Romney eked out a primary win in the Iowa caucuses and followed that up with a victory in Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire, where he has a vacation home.

Threatening to break away from the pack, Romney rivals Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum will look to pull Romney back into the thick of the fray when voters go to the polls in South Carolina on Jan. 21.

Under terms of the deal, the Herald will pay the Globe an undisclosed sum to print and distribute its editions in the Boston area, enabling the Herald to eliminate the jobs of 53 truck drivers and other delivery personnel through layoffs and buyouts.