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...Some critics have suggested that intelligence analysts may have felt pressure from Vice President Cheney - who more than once visited their Langley, Va., campus to quiz them - and others in the administration to present findings that supported the case for war. Others have countered that analysts should welcome such attention from policymakers, and should be prepared to defend their findings in the face of robust questioning. One senior CIA analyst suggested last week, in a little-noted conference speech elaborating on an article she'd written long before the Iraq war, that the intelligence community must ensure that its analysts...
...because of weak competition. The country's next biggest music-store chain, privately held Sam Ash, has 40 stores concentrated on the East Coast. A 79-year-old family-owned business, Sam Ash doesn't have the capital to grow at Guitar Center's pace, says William Blair & Co. analyst Zackfia, nor can it match the big chain's massive catalog and online sales. Another national retailer, Mars Music, went under last fall...
...American blockbuster appears to be invulnerable these days. On Aug. 21, for instance, a stock analyst at Smith Barney warned that the threat posed to Lipitor from a potential generic rival created by Ranbaxy, India's largest drugmaker, was bigger than previously thought. That day, Pfizer's stock dipped 3% as investors grappled with the prospect of this unexpected challenge. Ranbaxy, a vigorous exporter to the U.S., claims that its generic version of Lipitor doesn't infringe on Pfizer's patent and is scheduled to argue its case in a Delaware court late next year. And this wasn...
...third of its sales in the U.S. Though domestic sales for Indian drugmakers as a whole are growing at less than 10% a year, their exports soared by 20% last year. "Even the small and midsize companies are looking to go into the U.S.," says Giridhar Iyengar, a pharmaceutical analyst at ABN AMRO. Thanks to their successes in America, Iyengar thinks profits of Indian drugmakers might grow by up to 30% over the next few years...
...enforced, local drugmakers that don't want to be buried by multinationals will have no choice but to compete globally?and make original medicines themselves. "It's their fear of losing the domestic market post-2005 that's driving (Indian companies) to expand overseas," says Ashit Kothari, an analyst at brokerage firm ASK Raymond James. Dr. Reddy's Prasad admits, "Beyond 2005, growth will suffer in India...