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Drugmaker Pfizer will cut 6,000, or 18 percent, of jobs at its 78 manufacturing plants over the next five years as it consolidates operations after  last year's purchase of  Wyeth. Wyeth - Business - Employment - Business and Economy - Pfizer

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