Word: breakthroughs
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...show and a situation that has no answers, and a sense of acceptance of the past and potential for some future understanding. It’s a fitting end to a night of superlative performances and sensational moments, which made Fairfield’s Cloud 9 a breakthrough for the audience—and the Harvard stage—alike...
Rival campaigns immediately scrambled to prove that Dean's breakthrough meant little. "Nobody has ever doubted the intensity of Dean's support," says Jim Jordan, campaign manager for Kerry. "The question is, Can he broaden it?" Dean, meanwhile, is quick to downplay the notion that his rise is only a cybersurge: "The Internet is a tool, not a campaign platform...
...taking big risks in biotech and tend to shun early-stage research in favor of safer investments in drugs near approval or already approved. Bristol-Myers Squibb made a disastrous $2 billion investment in 2001 in ImClone Systems, which suffered costly setbacks with its cancer drug Erbitux before a breakthrough this spring. With Big Pharma playing it safe, steady-earning biotech leaders are the ones with the wherewithal - and the disposition - to partner with cash-strapped firms developing promising treatments. That's certainly Mullen's plan. He hopes to be remembered as the ceo who hurried business sense...
...biotech and tend to shun early-stage research in favor of safer investments in drugs near approval or already approved. Bristol-Myers Squibb made a disastrous $2 billion investment in 2001 in ImClone Systems, which suffered costly setbacks with its cancer drug Erbitux before that drug had a breakthrough this spring. With Big Pharma playing it safe, steady-earning biotech leaders are the ones with the wherewithal--and the disposition--to partner with cash-strapped firms developing promising treatments...
Brennan believes that artisanal cheesemaking (crafting cheese in small quantities) is on the verge of a breakthrough in the U.S., "like the wine industry was 20 years ago." Then a good bottle of wine was saved for special occasions. "Now, on weekday nights, people will open a nice bottle of wine," he says. "My goal is to get them to have a piece of good cheese as well...