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Drug companies are balking at the giveaway plan because they fear the government will force prices down. Vaccines are not big profitmakers, and widespread discounts could lead manufacturers to abandon the field. Even supporters admit that a free-vaccine program will not be totally successful unless it includes an educational and outreach program to make sure parents get the message...
...admit, that might be an overreaction. More practically, the police and the University should abandon ridiculous policies that punish innocent students and make a concerted effort to offer assistance when it is needed...
...They revel in the play. Modern productions of hardcore Elizabethan shlock tend to degenerate into a protracted joke at the expense of the crude plot. But Skin and Bone avoids this temptation. Rather than 100 minutes of dreary self-parody, the production flings itself into the play with gay abandon. Of course it still appears garish, over-the-top, even absurd; but it is not cast as simply worthless. The distinction may seem subtle, but it makes the difference between a snide exercise in self-congratulation and a vigorous rendition of a difficult, dated play...
...election might seem about as good as the chances of surviving a head-on collision with a train. That, at least, was the opinion of many Kenyans one year ago, when President Daniel arap Moi started his campaign after Western donors cut off development aid, demanding that he abandon his single-party rule and hold an election. Fortunately for Moi, however, the opposition turned out to be so deeply divided that the President emerged the apparent winner in his first electoral encounter in 14 years. Running against seven challengers, he squeaked by with 38% of the popular vote, though half...
...corporate culture has been drastically altered by the radical changes under way. After years of enjoying the comfort of lifetime employment, IBM workers now labor under the threat of dismissal and the pressure of pay-for- performance. For many IBMers, the company's announcement last week that it may abandon its no-layoffs policy merely formalized what Big Blue has already been doing. Although IBM largely relied on attrition and early-retirement programs to reduce its labor force by 100,000 from a peak of 406,300 workers in 1985, the company began de facto layoffs last year through...