Word: bristols
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...David Bristol knows all about hardship -- and overcoming it. The 42-year-old government attorney, whose cubbyhole of an office is just across the street ! from the White House, was born with cerebral palsy. When he started his job with the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision, his hands shook so much that it was impossible for him to type reports by himself...
...that was before technology lent him a hand. Watch him now. Taking a seat at his word processor, Bristol dons a headset with a microphone and starts to dictate. "This is a test of my new computer program," he says. As he talks, his words pop up on the screen. "This program allows me to dictate my weworts." Bristol spots the spelling mistake and grimaces. "Oops," he says into the microphone. The machine understands the word oops, backs up one word and automatically goes into spell-check mode. Five words sounding like weworts appear on the screen, including...
...critics who claim that the leaders of the $1.5 billion formula business have unfairly boosted their prices 150% during the 1980s. Last week the state of Florida filed a lawsuit in federal court against the top U.S. formula makers: Abbott Laboratories (maker of Similac), American Home Products (Nursoy) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (Enfamil). The civil suit accuses the companies of fixing and inflating formula prices...
...will make the review of the trial dataa top priority when Bristol Myers files forapproval of ddl, said FDA spokesperson Brad W.Stone...
Professor of Medicine Martin S. Hirsch, thedirector of the Harvard AIDS Clinical Trial Unitwhere the ddl research is performed, said theclinical trials are moving along as quickly aspossible, and ACT UP's protest should be directedat Bristol Myers and the FDA, not Harvard...