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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...
...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...
...lunch? That's the impression that Kellogg's gave last week when the company announced price cuts averaging 19% on two-thirds of its product line (not included: best sellers Rice Krispies and Special K). The move came in the wake of sharp gains by the Post Cereal unit of Kraft Foods, owned by Philip Morris. Post lowered prices on its brands 20% on April 15, and quickly stole nearly 4 points of Kellogg's 35.5% share of this $8 billion market. "This is not a price war," says John McMillin, a leading food-industry analyst at Prudential Securities. "Kellogg...