Officials castigate decision on MCP

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Philip S. Schaengold, Tenet Health Corp.'s vice president for operations in Pennsylvania was grilled by several City Council members about the company's decision to close the 153-year-old MCP hospital. The council members questioned Tenet's authority of asking the city or state for funds to bail it out of crisis and also inquired whether a proper buyer could be found so as to delay the closure of the hospital.

Plant shutdown, Management dynamics, HEALTH SERVICES, Management, Health care industry, Company business management, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Facility closures, Schaengold, Philip S.

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Exton firm to cut jobs by 100 and revise focus

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ViroPharma Inc., a small Exton company announced that it was cutting its workforce by 70 percent to focus on commercializing later-stage products. ViroPharma states that it would conserve cash for those products that have had more advanced testing and could reach the market sooner and would halt early-stage drug-discovery research and development.

Pharmaceutical preparations, Personnel administration, Pharmaceutical industry, ViroPharma Inc., Downsizing

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US Airways to upgrade baggage handling

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The US Airways announced on spending $2.7 million to upgrade its baggage-handling capabilities at Philadelphia International Airport. The airways plans to begin construction in March 2004, for improvements of domestic and international baggage handling capabilities in Terminals B and C, and the international terminal.

Services information, Air Transportation, Scheduled, And Air Courier Services, Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing, Construction and Related Machinery, Airline Baggage Equip, Baggage & Cargo Systems, Airlines, US Airways Inc., Baggage handling equipment, Service enhancement

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