1.   The company said it has consolidated its services into four groups to improve operations.

2.   The county wanted one company to consolidate administrative services, Simonsen said, not two firms working toward that goal.

3.   And the trend is to consolidate services rather than expand.

4.   But officials said more layoffs would be announced across the system as administrators continue to find areas where services can be consolidated and staff cut.

5.   Deaton said the city remained committed to the area but also needed to consolidate its services at City Hall.

6.   In an era when hospitals are consolidating services and cutting staff, catering to the rich can present public perception problems, hospital officials say.

7.   In some cases, hospitals have modified plans to eliminate or consolidate services after such proposals caused an outcry.

8.   Prominent Palestinians have publicly said that the competing security services should be consolidated, the judiciary made independent and corrupt economic officials fired.

9.   That network includes three other hospitals with psychiatric services, and Mirin said Partners officials are now considering ways to consolidate those services.

10.   The affiliations could broaden further if an earlier proposal to consolidate services at California Pacific and Davis Medical Center is ultimately consummated.