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• Pittsburghers Slow to Quit

  - 2008-04-02

  To: HEALTH EDITORS Contact: John G. Craig Jr. of Pittsburgh Regional Indicators, +1- 412-779-9054, jgc14@pitt.edu; or Bernard D. Goldstein, M.D., of University of Pittsburgh, +1-412-648-9994, bdgold@pitt.edu PITTSBURGH, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire/ - The latest health data on smoking suggests that while Pittsburghers are cutting back they lag the nation...

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• The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour Visits Pennsylvania Before Presidential Primary

  - 2008-03-13

  To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Jonathan DeWald of the Concord Coalition, +1-703-894- 6222, jdewald@concordcoalition.org WASHINGTON,March 13/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On March 25, The Concord Coalition will join with former Comptroller General of the United States David M. Walker and federal budget analysts from The Brookings Institution and The Heritage Foundation for a...

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• Allegheny Technologies News Release

  - 2007-09-14

  PITTSBURGH -- Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:ATI) announced that L. Patrick Hassey, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, underwent successful cardiac artery bypass surgery today at Presbyterian University Hospital, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Mr. Hassey's doctors have characterized the procedure as a complete success, and he is...

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• 1920s AD

  - 2007-09-01

  Radio transmission evolved into something new on November 2, 1920. On Election Day a recently established radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA, reported the election results to a public that was becoming increasingly interested in radio. How to define "the first broadcast station" is still debated, but on that day...

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• Fitch Rates University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's $225MM 2007 Bonds 'AA-'

  - 2007-05-08

  NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA-' rating to the Allegheny County Hospital Development Authority's revenue bonds, subseries 2007A-1, 2007A-2, and 2007A-3 issued on behalf of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Fitch has also affirmed the 'AA-' rating on University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's UPMC outstanding...

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• Johnson Controls

  - 2007-02-01

  Johnson Controls was awarded a $55 million contract to serve as the technology contractor for the construction of its $575 million, multi-building Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC, Inc.

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• BEAR DREAMS

  - 2007-01-01

  Cooper, Elisha BEARDREAMS. II. by author. ISBN 0060874287. New York: Greenwillow Books,2006. 40pp. $11.55. Thisbook, by the author of Dance! and Ice Cream, tenders a character named Bear to whom children could easily relate. As young children move toward autonomy, they want to have more control over their bodies and...

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• Pitt official backs Rendell aide on questioned plane trip

  - 2006-10-28

  A University of Pittsburgh official has clarified the times of meetings involving Gov. Rendell's chief of staff last September, after the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann suggested the aide might have used a state aircraft to attend a Rolling Stones concert. Details provided by Pitt Associate Vice Chancellor...

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• Cohen & Grigsby Attorney Assumes Role of President of the W. Edward Sell Chapter of the American Inns of Court

  - 2006-10-17

  PITTSBURGH -- W. Scott Hardy, Esq., a director at Cohen & Grigsby, P.C., has assumed the role President of the W. Edward Sell Chapter of the American Inns of Court formerly known as the University of Pittsburgh Chapter for a two-year term. The chapter's 80 members include members of the...

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• S. Frederick Kapff of St. Charles.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2006-05-14

  S. Frederick Kapff of St. Charles Visitation for S. Frederick Kapff, 89, will be from 9 a.m. until the time of a funeral service at 11 a.m. Monday, at Yurs Funeral Home, 405 E. Main Street, (corner of Route 54 and Route 25), St. Charles....

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