Word: aloofness
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...most: developing new medicines. Pfizer's biggest product, Lipitor, could lose its patent protection within four years. And Wall Street is losing patience with the pace of new-drug development. Pfizer's share price has slumped more than 30% since 2001. Former CEO McKinnell didn't help matters, appearing aloof to investor concerns while pocketing more than $140 million during his tenure, including a retirement package worth an estimated $83 million. Mending fences with shareholders will be critical for Kindler. They are, after all, paying his salary...
...year school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puckish Tom (Leon Cain), the son of poor English migrants, is making his first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold Coast resort, respectively?only to meet up on the same stretch of beach after a New Year storm, Gow miraculously captures the full weave of Australian baby-boomer society. Here...
...While their aloof, athletic McCarthyism towards high profile sports has failed to achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the level of competition to the point that a move to Division III would be acceptable or prudent, it provided me with basically all of my column material during my time here...
...thundered at a Crimson reporter in 1955, “and build a parking lot...I’m not concerned with whether the Fly Club is willing.”Given the confusion, it comes as no surprise that no solution emerged, and the University remained relatively aloof from the situation. Although it stepped up efforts to improve and centralize registration of cars in 1955 and 1956, the University annually reminded students that it did not feel responsible for providing parking facilities, and many students continued to ignore the car registration rules. In 1958, the University forbid students...
...great building, Joryleen Grant comes up to Ahmad at his locker. He does track in the spring; she sings in the girls' glee club. As students go at Central High, they are "good." His religion keeps him from drugs and vice, though it also holds him rather aloof from his classmates and the studies on the curriculum. She is short and round and talks well in class, pleasing the teacher. There is an endearing self-confidence in how compactly her cocoa-brown roundnesses fill her clot! hes, which today are patched and sequinned jeans, worn pale where she sits...