Word: dozen
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...rules, however, Agouron can profit immediately from sales of Viracept, which, as one of only four protease inhibitors currently revolutionizing AIDS treatments, is sure to sell well. Viracept could earn $500 million in its first year in the marketplace alone. "We've essentially been losing money for a dozen years at high rates every year," Johnson says, "and Viracept is the product that will be responsible for the turnaround...
They won't be alone. Nearly two-dozen CD-ROMs aimed at preteen girls will be released this fall by companies with names like Girl Games and Her Interactive. It's a market that has been all but ignored in favor of the seemingly bottomless appetite of boys and young men for so-called twitch games, like the bloody, light-speed shoot-'em-ups Quake and Doom. Why the sudden interest in what young women may want? In a word: Barbie. Mattel last fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once...
...Before I came, the new concentrators were sort of randomly distributed to the Faculty--each Faculty [member] may have half a dozen advisees," he says...
Three members of the Class of '98 will ring Lowell House's bells tomorrow morning. According to bell-ringer Luis A. Campos '98, more than a dozen hand pulls and a foot pedal control the bells...
ALGIERS: As voters go to the polls for the first national elections in five years, it says a lot about what life has become in Algeria that nearly two dozen people could be killed by bombs in Algiers in the previous week -- and observers remarked at the relative quiet. More than 60,000 have been killed in the struggle between the government and the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) since the Islamic party, which looked sure to gain control of the government in the 1992 elections, was outlawed after an army coup. Hoping to establish legitimacy after coming to power...