Word: unite
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...Dole considered several drastic options, a senior Red Cross official says, including a proposal to sever the Red Cross's historic link to the nation's blood supply by setting up the blood unit as an independent operation. Instead, Mrs. Dole announced a sweeping campaign to modernize and centralize blood operations and improve the training of blood staff, a revolutionary effort that threatened to bankrupt the blood operation--the equivalent of a $1 billion company--and alienate its outlying blood banks, accustomed to a high level of autonomy. At a time of great worry about the blood supply, the bold...
...what the consent decree requires. But the Red Cross still has much to prove. A second progress assessment--delivered in June 1995--applauded improved communication between the Red Cross and the FDA, but also included a long list of violations, some of them troubling. Its Birmingham unit, for instance, drew blood from donors with histories of malaria and Hodgkin's disease. "One of the continuing problems," the FDA warned, "is the failure of employees to follow prescribed procedures...
...Cross blood network simmers now with discontentment arising primarily from the perception among its outlying blood banks that the new plan, with its emphasis on headquarters control, has devalued the contributions of local volunteers. Last year a group of employees and directors of the Red Cross's Ozarks unit quit and established an independent blood bank. At a time of such stress and dislocation, officials of some blood regions express unhappiness with Mrs. Dole's decision to take leave. "Frankly I was shocked that they would allow her to take a one-year leave of absence and then come back...
...known simply as "PC by Sony," but the $3,000 desktop unit, set to hit the shelves later this summer, is emphatically being presented by the Japanese behemoth as anything but a traditional computer. Instead Sony is positioning the sleek gray box as the first step on the road to digital "home media stations," machines that will combine video, stereo and Internet access. That may be a visionary strategy--or a clever way to lower expectations for a product that drew mixed reviews at last week's PC Expo in New York City. Herewith, a look at the features Sony...
...city now has the option to buy 100 of Harvard's formerly rent-controlled apartments of various size and location for $3,155,200, or less than $32,000 per unit--a significant discount from market value...