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...Minuto family said they sought the dismissal to avoid a long, drawn-out court battle...
...wait, just like the rest of us, for a ruling. In the long run, only a judge, not lawyers, can determine if the new evidence is actually important enough to merit consideration. The judge could reject the complaint outright, or he could accept it and order a brand new, drawn-out trial. In other words, he could order exactly the outcome the government is scrambling so desperately to avoid...
...almost 100,000 rely on a basic drug database from Epocrates to check out side effects, recommended dosages and interactions. Allscripts' E-prescription product also lets doctors do their dictation and automatically enter the appropriate billing codes for each procedure--thus eliminating a common error that usually results in drawn-out disputes with insurers. The business got a boost in February when the nation's three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) announced that they were building a standardized network, dubbed RXHub, to let doctors instantly beam e-prescriptions to client pharmacies...
...disposal for pressuring the Chinese - and it's palpably clear that visible forms of pressure are more likely to make them dig in their heels. But he may be helped by the fact that President Jiang may share an interest in speedily resolving the crisis, because a drawn-out standoff will likely harden both Chinese and American public opinion, further diminishing the leaders' room for maneuver...
...rooting for a quick, V-shaped economic rebound, don't visit the bear cave. "If we're lucky, we'll get a U-shaped recovery," Biggs says, referring to a drawn-out hard landing. And there's a real case for an L-shape, he adds. That's L as in hell, a recession that is just starting and would last 18 months. His main concern is $4 trillion of vaporized stock wealth, which is crushing consumers. Biggs says Fed chief Alan Greenspan blew it; he was too slow to cut rates to stimulate spending and put a floor under...