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...White House. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning." That is the kind of cowboy chatter that makes U.S. allies so itchy, but some on Blair's team have grown used to Bush's bark being worse than his bite. "The great thing about the United States is that it always does the right thing in the end," deadpans a Blair adviser. "It's a little too bad that it sometimes takes until...
SmithKline Beecham, now part of GLAXOSMITHKLINE, anticipated BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB's acceleration of its anticancer drug Taxol, in part because Bristol-Myers Squibb took a curious interest in amending the Endangered Species Act to enable more harvesting of the yew tree, whose bark produces the active chemical agent in Taxol. SmithKline's suspicions were strengthened in the early '90s when it noticed an increase in the number of oncology positions listed in help-wanted ads run by its competitor in trade papers. Bristol-Myers Squibb had also told financial analysts it was investing more money in its oncology unit...
...what you can't say, for what's in your heart. Sidney, J.J. - what heart? And their success, which J.J. bathes in and Sidney just sniffs at, has as much to do with what they hide as what they say. These men do not explain themselves. They bark; the long note of a song's musical climax is not in their emotional repertoire...
...elicited almost no reaction on either side, prompting speculation among China watchers as to why Jiang, who aggressively vied to win diplomatic concessions after the Sino-U.S. spy-plane incident last spring, has kept this one under wraps. "I'm interested in the dog that didn't bark here," says James Mulvenon, a China analyst at Rand Corp. "Both sides want the trip to go well so badly that they're willing to weather this storm...
...Jane. Dear, sweet Jane. She’s a tawny, high cheek-boned, all-American kind of girl. She’s got chocolate brown eyes and windblown, I-combed-this-with-my-fingers and washed-with-tree-bark-herbs hair that really looks good wrapped in a simple leather string. Her assorted Laura Ashley-esque flower print dresses and full petticoat skirts are unadorned, yet ethereal. Jane bakes bread. She knows how to make those Little House on the Prairie daisy chains and how to tell if it’s going to rain in a fortnight by smelling...