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...also worth putting BP?s transgressions, alleged or otherwise, in context. No other integrated oil company - certainly none with $285 billion in sales - has made a bigger commitment to alternative energy, cutting greenhouse gases and educating the public about conservation. Compared to Exxon, which still doesn?t support regulation of greenhouse gases, BP deserves high marks...
...barrier to using Lucentis," says Megan Pace, spokeswoman for the company. But while poorer patients may receive aid, the price will still wallop those institutions that bear the brunt of health-care costs: insurance companies, Medicare, and Medicaid. For them, too, Genentech might be onto something bigger than they bargained...
...looms over every modern president, not just Republicans, as a goad or a reprimand, a taunt or an inspiration. Historian, hunter, soldier, essayist, cowboy, megalomaniac - he was bigger than life, in the way that all politicians hope to be. Richard Nixon, a president whose insecurities and intimations of unworthiness reached pathological levels, invoked TR throughout his presidency, right up to the mawkish speech he gave as he left the White House two steps ahead of the sheriff. For politicians of the soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins...
...C.S.S. Alabama, the famous commerce raider on which his younger brother Irvine served.) The young Theodore had grown up with stories about earlier naval battles and eagerly read works on the history of war. Yet it would be fair to say that his notions about sea power--build bigger warships, concentrate the fleet--were primitive until the late 1880s, when he was introduced to one of the greatest luminaries of naval thought, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan. At the time of their first meeting, Mahan, then in his late 40s, was giving lectures at the Naval War College in Newport...
...large-scale capitalism, and he thought of huge enterprises as an inevitable development of the industrial age. He understood the idea of economies of scale. Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and William Jennings Bryan, the perennial standard bearer for the common man, might have wanted to dismantle everything bigger than a hardware store. What Roosevelt wanted was simply to regulate the big outfits. For starters, he wanted to compel them to open their books. Quarterly reporting in the corporate world was still a novelty and always voluntary. He wanted the government to see into companies' workings so it could judge...