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Fellow transplant surgeons speculate that the FDA crackdown may have been triggered by complaints from commercial drug companies. These companies, the thinking goes, were annoyed that their university-based competitor was selling an experimental drug as if it had been approved for full marketing. Or it may be that regulators, who sent letters to Najarian complaining of infractions, were unwilling to cut off the supply of a drug that filled such a desperate need. Whatever the reason, by the time the fda barred ALG production in 1992, two drugs capable of taking its place had come on the market...
...even for the software industry's master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal investigation...
...performed astonishingly well. With only four days to practice on the 10-meter platform, Jacobson placed sixth in a field of 36 dives, stockpiling 411.69 points in two days worth of competition. Patty Armstrong, a non-collegiate competitor from the private Woodlands Diving Team, garnered 451.74 points and first place in the competition...
...Crimson also got a dramatic victory in the pole vault. Sophomore Matthew Brannon matched his Yale competitor's vault at 16' 8" (or 5.1 meters for the metrically inclined...
...each other as part of an all-out circulation war. Today, dozens of police poured into the Tel Aviv headquarters of Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily, carting off crates of documents and detaining the publisher and two top editors for questioning. The editor of Yediot's main competitor, Maariv, has been under arrest since Saturday. "It's a black day for journalism," said Israeli Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who took time to remind the country that "not everything is permitted...