Word: developers
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Walker broke ground with The Color Purple by writing in the voice of a poor Black woman. She showed a stunning power over words by using simple language to develop complex characters and show strong emotion. In Temple, Walker has done just the opposite. The book is a string of cliches and reads like a pop novel--there is too much discussion of running shoes, crystals and jacuzzis and not enough about people...
PART of the problem is that the characters serve only as mouthpieces for Walker's ideas. They never develop any personality of their own. The novel is written as long strings of storytelling by the characters. but they all take the same tone and they all deliver the same, or at least complementary, messages. Walker called the book a "wisdom tale" and it is indeed didactic, at the expense of character...
...graduated 12 seniors," Hafferty said. "I thought it would take us a lot longer to develop. But the players pulled together quicker than I expected...
Around the world, drug companies are teaming up in search of success. Britain's Beecham Group, purveyor of Tums antacid and Brylcreem hair lotion, last month merged with Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the antiulcer drug Tagamet, in a deal that will create the No. 2 pharmaceutical company after Merck. American Home Products, the maker of Advil and Anacin, is acquiring A.H. Robins. Merck, meanwhile, is scarcely standing still. In March the company formed a joint venture with Johnson & Johnson, its New Jersey neighbor, under which Merck will develop over-the-counter versions of patented medicines that Johnson & Johnson...
Chiron's initial breakthrough was to isolate a viral protein from blood samples taken from patients with non-A, non-B hepatitis. By cloning large quantities of the protein, the company was able to develop a test to detect its presence in blood. Chiron called the pathogen the "hepatitis-C virus." In clinical studies done at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and laboratories in Italy and Japan, blood samples from patients thought to have non-A, non-B hepatitis were screened using Chiron's test. At least 80% of the samples tested positive...