Word: craning
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...companies in its brief past, the biotech industry each year grows closer to losing sway with the moneymen who fund its research. Even though biotech stocks have been moving up this year, among critical pre-ipo investors like venture-capital funds "there's a lot of fear," says Alan Crane, ceo of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, an early-stage drug-discovery firm. "There's a lot of concern about losing your money." Mullen's focus on diverse products, production synergies and profitability is already part of the culture at top industry players Amgen and Genentech. Biogen's Avonex for multiple sclerosis...
...failed companies in its brief past, the industry each year grows closer to losing sway with the moneymen who fund its research. Even though biotech stocks have been moving up this year, among critical pre-IPO investors like venture-capital funds "there's a lot of fear," says Alan Crane, CEO of Momenta Pharmaceuticals, an early-stage drug-discovery firm. "There's a lot of concern about losing your money...
...nonstop trip through Beverly Hills and other L.A. tourist spots. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle will show how car stunts can outdo kung fu. In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, mankind's savior will try to keep his Toyota Tundra out of the clutches of a 160-ton crane. The summer keeps on truckin' with Bad Boys II (Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in a Ferrari and a Hummer) and the freewheelers of S.W.A.T. Fasten your seat belts and renew your auto insurance, film lovers; it'll be a bumpy, rambunctious ride...
...latter along a wide, crescent shore, in faux Grecian- or Californian-style mansions. Every few years their walls grow taller?concrete evidence of the rising tide of instability that engulfs Karachi. The latest fad among the very wealthy is to have a lion cub or a Siberian crane (an endangered species), which clacks loudly when a stranger approaches, roaming in the garden. In a country where more than a third of the population lives below the poverty line, many of the wealthy believe in enhancing their status by importing Filipina maids. The spoiled kids hang out at Karachi's single...
...Russians are mad at Harvard again. But this time, instead of faculty bungling their economy, it’s an alum pilfering their bells. In 1930, Charles Crane bought 18 bells from the St. Danilov Monastery to save them from the Soviet authorities, who wanted to melt them down, and donated them to Harvard. But now the rebuilt monastery wants them back by March...