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...Swiss drugmaker will continue to invest in China vs. India, where a court recently rejected the company's attempt to protect a patent on a leukemia drug. "China has made tremendous progress and taken the steps to show they have the right priorities," he says. Or, rather, it's done just what the doctor ordered...
...debt has quadrupled since Brabeck took over in 1997, to $13.8 billion in 2001, the latest year for which figures are available. The company has nonetheless managed to hang on to its top-shelf, triple-A rating, and Brabeck still gets some respect from Wall Street. "He's done well so far in keeping the top line bubbling and extracting better margins," Wood says. Wood and other analysts--including those at Goldman Sachs, which recently added Nestle to its list of recommended stocks--believe that Nestle could outperform its rivals in the next few years precisely because the company...
...expanded to include severance and deferred compensation, Lynn University’s Donald E. Ross tops the charts with earnings over $5.7 million in the 2005-2006 year. Some presidents, on the other hand, decline to take any salary at all. Boston College President William P. Leahy has done just that since at least 1996, the earliest year for which data is provided by The Chronicle. His salary has been donated to religious organizations. Derek C. Bok also declined pay when he served as interim president of Harvard last year. In the past, Bok has spoken out against rising presidential...
...another moment from his senior season that will stay with him the longest.“The night game against Brown was pretty amazing,” Van Niel says. “We could win an Ivy championship, we could do this and that, but people have done that before, and no one’s ever played a night game here.”For now, though, Van Niel’s focus rests solely on applying to vocal schools, beating Yale in The Game and, all the while, not completely forgetting about school...
...already being cited by those advocating systemic change in Veterans Administration programs. "Every one of these studies is another canary in the coal mine," said Paul Rieckhoff, of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America. He predicted dire results - increased homelessness, suicide and marital and employment problems - unless something is done by Congress to improve mental health services for vets...