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Article: Business Benefits? Expect A Delay.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
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- July 4, 2007
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Byline: Eric Gershon
Jul. 4--AMSTERDAM -- A lot of people come to the Dutch capital with joints on their minds. Paul Pendergast did, too -- knees, hips and elbows.
With the debut of Hartford's nonstop flight to the Netherlands through Northwest Airlines, the fundraising chief for St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center kept thinking about its soon-to-be-announced Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute -- and the well-to-do Hollanders who might need its services.
So he flew over on the first Hartford-Amsterdam flight Sunday to spread word of the institute. He's met with people at the local IBM office, where he worked in the early 1990s, and he ...