Word: dollars
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...Tamiflu. Sales of the drug more than doubled, to $215 million in the quarter. Roche expects to rake in as much as $925 million from Tamiflu sales this year, up from $266 million in 2004. And as governments keep building their stockpiles, it will continue to generate billion-dollar revenues for the next couple of years, according to Keith Redpath, head of Wood Mackenzie Life Sciences Research...
Hence the technical, intensely academic articles about issues like the “twin deficits problem” and the valuation of the dollar...
...Harvard State Fair, a well-planned event with so much free food that there couldn’t possibly be a line. The same students who probably won’t go to the Harvard-Yale Game, and who have never attended a dollar draft Pub Night in Loker because “that’s lame.” They won’t do any of that, but they will walk from the Quad to Lamont to fight over half a burrito...
...While it was true that the University might have had other questionable investments, PetroChina was a particularly egregious and visible case that demanded the University’s consideration. It commanded student and faculty attention and thus the University responded to community concern. Harvard’s $25.9 billion dollar endowment is not a bottomless well of money that can be donated to charity. Harvard needs the money to fund education and research and maintain it’s preeminence in the academic world. In order to do so, it draws a small amount from the endowment each year...
...years of age, an Americans can gamble their lives, but not their money. Holding the gambling age at 21 is inconsistent, for at 18, a person can buy a lottery ticket in most states. The lottery is a very popular form of gambling. By buying a ticket for a dollar (or more), a person can get lucky and win millions of dollars. This is no different in principle or substance from walking into a casino, putting down a dollar and picking a number in roulette. But there is a difference legally: while 18 year-olds can buy a lottery ticket...