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Macclesfield (măk`əlzfēld), town (1991 pop. 46,832), Cheshire, W England. Silk manufacture, of which Macclesfield is the principal center in England, was introduced in the town in 1756. Other manufactures are clothing, shoes, electrical appliances, and paper. The Church of St. Michael dates from 1278 and the grammar school from the beginning of the 16th cent. Macclesfield Forest is a moorland east of the town. Macclesfield a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop.: 50 688 (2001) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Cyprotex plc (LSE: CRX), Macclesfield, England, the drug discovery technology and information company, has received peer-approved publication of its "virtual human and rat" system, known as Cloe PK(R). Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ([dagger]) Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ([double dagger]) The Jones Group, North Liberty, Iowa, USA; ([section]) Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and ([paragraph]) AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom According to a Macclesfield hospital spokesperson, although all of the 24 Filipino nurses recruited spoke English, their vocabulary was more American than British. |
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