Word: biotech
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...from headhunters in the last two months," says Florence Prioleau, a lobbyist who has maintained close ties with her former boss, New York's Charles Rangel, incoming chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Pelosi's former chief of staff, George Crawford, has just been hired by Amgen, a biotech company, to represent its interests with the new Congress. Toby Moffett, a former Democratic Congressman from Connecticut now with the Livingston Group, says he recently told a Republican lobbyist desperate to hire Democrats that he had two options: "One is to go after [congressional] staff members who are thinking...
...breakthrough was no small scientific feat, but taking vaccines like Edwards’ to the world’s poorest may require more than just biotech savvy...
Reynolds urged Mark Foley to seek re-election despite knowing of a complaint against him by the parents of a House page, but Reynolds was already vulnerable to the populist Davis because of his district's struggling economy. Pork projects like a $25 million biotech center in Buffalo are keeping him in the race...
...Tech, which supplies pollution control and cleaning equipment to those nasty coal-fired power plants. Robinson also maintains stakes in the healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping networks to move data faster, reducing the use of paper," he says. By that measure, though, almost any Internet firm would pass muster...
...readers and infuriating more knowledgeable ones. Take, for example, the Guide’s definition of “Biotech” (“A massive industry devoted to the manipulation of life for profit…Harvard currently has extensive partnerships worth millions of dollars with big biotech companies”), which fails to note the tremendous medicinal benefits that Harvard’s biology and biotechnology investments have yielded. Further, the Guide implores freshmen to be “up in arms” about the existence of the Harvard Corporation, writing, “incoming first...