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...course, Schering-Plough would pay almost any amount of money to protect its exclusive right to sell Claritin, a drug that brings it more than $5 million in revenue a day. Claritin sales totaled $1.9 billion last year, and will balloon to $4 billion by 2002, according to a market analyst. To keep the money coming in, the company doubled its lobbying outlay starting in 1996 to more than $4 million in 1998. Among its other paid advocates: former Senator Dennis DeConcini; former Watergate assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste; and Thomas Parry, former chief of staff for Senator Orrin...
...Pritchard tells how, years later, he ended up in an emergency room after a gang member conked him on the head. And guess who was his nurse? Gina, who took note of the fact that while she had slimmed down nicely, Pritchard was the size of a weather balloon. "I tried Ultra SlimFast," he says. "I found out it tastes great on Ben & Jerry...
...Some of these cartoons start out innocently enough. In "Billy's Balloon," a little stick figure boy carries a red balloon with him. The sun is shining in the peaceful clouds. Then, all of a sudden the balloon starts hitting poor Billy on the head and then hanging him from the sky and next dropping him to a gloomy fate below. Soon the sky is filled with a swarm of evil balloons carrying little children. This might not quite appeal to your sense of humor, but the films are short enough, ranging from the one-minute Forrest Dump and Foreskin...
...least some parts of Kosovo, and would very likely jeopardize NATO-Russian cooperation on keeping the peace there. In short, it could leave KFOR's Western ground troops in the middle of a shooting war. Though the "policy shift" reported by the Post could be something of a trial balloon (the Washington Post and the New York Times are often used as litmus tests by government officials), expect it to draw some fearsome flak, either...
Since then, the College has seen the number of large blocking groups balloon, leading to concerns among House Masters that students were using large blocking groups as a way to insulate themselves from involvement in House communities...