Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late last week, however, the FDA bucked its own bureaucratic tradition when one of its advisory committees recommended that a similar drug made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, called DDI, or dideoxyinosine, be put on the market even though it has not undergone the agency's standard testing. While the decision heartened many AIDS organizations, some desperate patients have resorted to an immediate alternative: black-market DDC. Underground AIDS groups are buying the drug in bulk directly from chemical companies, which manufacture it for use in laboratory experiments. The clandestine suppliers then weigh out and package the counterfeit pills and sell...
...Pacific Coast's forests are teeming with hidden drugs, including the legal kind. Last week the Agriculture Department decided to allow the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb to cut down 38,000 Pacific yew trees for one such substance. The bark of the yew tree is the sole source for a drug called taxol, a promising treatment for breast and ovarian cancer. Despite concerns over the impact of the yew harvest, most environmental groups support the agreement because it specifies that Bristol-Myers will pay for Forest Service research into conservation and management of the yews...
...pointed out that the agency's analysis was not yet complete and that in any case the 4-in-10,000 figure greatly overstated the risk. "We don't know where those numbers came from," she said. Still, the FDA applauded a decision by the implants' manufacturer, Surgitek, a Bristol-Myers Squibb subsidiary, to halt immediately the worldwide distribution of the products until the investigation was completed...
...their effect in practice is just the opposite of what's intended. Berkeley's Crystal, a top compensation consultant, has done a complex computer analysis of these stock grants. In 1989 the average annual return on investment at 38 large companies offering all three types of stock awards (including Bristol-Myers, Sara Lee, Unisys and Allied Signal) was 11.3%. But at 215 companies that offered only two kinds of treats (including Morgan Stanley and Paramount), the return was 12.7%, and firms offering only one (Disney and United Airlines) yielded 14.2%. Companies that offered none of these so-called incentives (Reebok...
They gathered to demonstrate their unity to the world. Yet in the breaks between their formal sessions of solidarity posing at Beirut's Bristol Hotel last week, the disparate members of the Iraqi opposition could not resist heaping scorn on one another. Someone noted that before Youssef al-Durrah joined the Democratic Movement, he served as Saddam Hussein's press director. A rival pointed out that Hassan Alawi of the Arab Independents once worked as Saddam's speechwriter. And that communist, Naziha Doulaimi? Well, a critic readily volunteered, she had once been a full member of Saddam's Cabinet...