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...award probably won't exceed $26.1 million. Merck not only plans to appeal in Texas but also has vowed to continue fighting each Vioxx claim individually. Ailing as it is, the firm is expected to generate $3.5 billion in cash this year. In other words, Merck isn't going bankrupt tomorrow. Which is just what the trial lawyers like to hear. --By Daren Fonda
...several times. We are spending time with Chinese unions so they won't adopt a U.S. model with the attitude of "I've got mine, and the devil take the hindmost." The idea that the rich get richer and somehow wealth is going to trickle down is a bankrupt economic and moral theory...
Harvard Square lost another independent bookstore last fall, when WordsWorth Books went bankrupt, citing competition from internet sales and chain bookstores. Its children’s division remains open...
...covers the health-care costs of citizens who are over age 65 or disabled, paid for all "reasonable" hospital expenses. By the late '70s, however, this blank-check approach had led to a dizzying 17% annual increase in Medicare's hospitalization costs and warnings that the system would be bankrupt...
...experts estimate that the disparate Identity groups count from 2,000 to 5,000 members plus several times that many sympathizers and seem to have particular appeal for bankrupt farmers and the unemployed. A handful of Identity churches, like Butler's, hold services in traditional places of worship. But the network includes little-noticed groups that meet in private homes and individuals who regularly receive audiocassettes and publications in the mail. The word is also spread through contacts in prisons, computer bulletin boards and shows on public access channels on TV cable systems, which are required...