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...Other indicators seem to point to troublemakers within: More than 150 threatening letters to Planned Parenthood clinics strikes some law enforcement officials as a classic "copycat" crime, although at this point no one is willing to rule out a wider connection...
...There's no indication yet that the anthrax attacks came from Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda. Another group, or a freelance copycat, might have done it (that's the thing about attacking the media: there's no lack of motive), although obtaining anthrax is not quite as simple as sticking a needle in a candy bar. And in one sense, it hardly matters. If someone sends you a package of death, it's hardly going to make you feel better that the package didn't carry Osama's return address...
...Perhaps US Airways? prospects wouldn?t look quite so dire if the ailing airline hadn?t tried this before. In fact, part of the new Plan B is cutting back on operations by Metrojet - the mini-airline it started a few years back as a copycat to Southwest. To save money, Metrojet flies only Boeing 737 planes just like Southwest, and often flies to secondary airports, just like Southwest. US Airways even made a smart leadership move - in a surprising break with tradition - and negotiated special arrangements with the unions in order to lower costs at Metrojet, so it could...
...widening drive by Washington to restrain the relentless rise of prescription prices, which remain the fastest-growing component of America's $1.3 trillion health-care bill. The action is on two fronts. The FTC, for its part, is going after brand-name drug companies that seek to block cheaper, copycat generic drugs from the marketplace. At the same time, a bipartisan duo of congressional lawmakers is pushing legislation designed to restrict those anticompetitive tactics and speed up government approval of generic medicines...
...crackdown is timely, given that 200 patents are set to expire over the next five years on branded drugs with annual sales totaling $30 billion. That will give the makers of copycat products a rare opportunity to steal market share, since generics on average debut at 75% of the cost of their name-brand rivals. The price difference could be crucial to many Americans since the average cost to fill a prescription jumped 10.5% in 2000--to $45.27--according to the National Institute for Health Care Management. That increase was more than three times as great as the overall rate...