Word: developable
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...other countries' drug prices is becoming a major sore point. The reason drug companies charge more in the U.S. is that, until lately, the market would bear it. Most countries in the world are too poor to pay top dollar for name-brand drugs, and in almost every other developed country, governments regulate lower prices with suppliers. That's the case in Canada. The U.S. government has largely avoided doing so, mainly because of drug-industry lobbying and political resistance to anything like price controls, but rifts have begun to develop. State and local governments from New Hampshire to California...
...when Libya's Muammar Gaddafi agreed to dismantle his secret unconventional-weapons program [Dec. 29--Jan. 5]. Gaddafi may have seen Saddam's fate and become worried that the war on terrorism might be moving toward him. It is encouraging that Libya has come clean about its attempt to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD). But there is a strong possibility that countries not listed as rogue states or as part of the "axis of evil" may still be producing WMD. Let us hope that nations like North Korea and Iran are paying attention. HAROLD AYODO Aurangabad, India
...been dominated by black-centered companies that are close to their customers. Over the past five years, L'Oreal bought two of them, SoftSheen and Carson, and integrated them into a single entity that the company sees as a worldbeater. Researchers at the Chicago institute will help develop products that SoftSheen/Carson can take well beyond the U.S. "You can't pretend to be No. 1 in the world," says Alain Evrard, L'Oreal's managing director for Africa, "and forget about 1 billion consumers of African origin...
...NGOs) in poor countries that could work with the firm to help smooth relations with local people. In Africa's Niger delta, Total is funding a project by a Brazilian-French NGO called Pro-Natura that is trying to help local communities set up democratic decision-making bodies and develop their economies. "They are not doing this to save the planet," says Guy F. Reinaud, Pro-Natura's president, of Total's motives. "But they've understood that it's in their own interest...
...Solutions business group. She arrived from Hewlett-Packard, where she ran strategic planning. At HP, McDowell, a systems engineer, helped build and run the industry-standard servers group, which became a $7 billion business and market leader. The challenge at Nokia: to pull together existing products and services, and develop new ones, to give companies seamless mobile-communication capabilities, from PDAs to network security...