Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar struggle has been going on in Thailand, which has an estimated 1.5 million HIV infections out of a population of 60 million. Yet Thailand's ability to produce drugs locally has forced the multinational companies to drop prices. Until last year, Flucanazole, an important antibiotic used to fight a fatal form of meningitis that accompanies AIDS, cost $7.36 a tablet. This year the Thais began manufacturing it locally, and the price dropped to $1. Glaxo Wellcome reduced the price of AZT to less than $1 per tablet after Thailand began making its own version...
...death competition. The old childhood ideal of goofing off--what the grimmer parenting books term "nonstructured play"--isn't an option. As the kids get older, the more talented rise to ever more selective teams, perhaps representing an entire county, while their less gifted (or less committed) teammates drop away. Family holidays, including Christmas and Thanksgiving, dissolve into long treks to tournaments...
...superiority of its brother. The machines are nearly identical, and do 36-bit color scanning relatively fast (about 30 sec. for an acceptable 300-dpi resolution of a snapshot). The difference is that the 2100U has buttons on the front for one-click scanning or copying. (Yes, copying. Just drop a document or photo on the scanner, hit the copy button, and the image transmits directly to your printer.) The scanners come with an array of software that allows sophisticated editing, archiving and e-mailing of images. But don't expect to be able to do all this without studying...
...contrast, the Kodak-Intel Picture CD is simple and fun. You drop off your 35-mm or APS film at a participating photo center (Walgreen's, Wal-mart, CVS, Target or Eckerd Drug, to name a few) and pay $10 or so more than you would for print-only processing. The Picture CD package you get back includes a contact sheet, a set of paper prints and a CD with digital renderings of your photos. Put the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, and you'll see the images displayed in an interface that looks like a magazine...
...both sides refused comment, but a source close to the principals says Combs' payout to Stoute amounts to about $500,000. Part of the payout will be cash, and part will allow Bad Boy producers and rappers to work for Stoute on future records and videos. Stoute will drop the threat of a civil suit, but Combs is not out of the woods yet: he'll return to court in August to answer criminal charges. The relatively low settlement price is a sweet deal for Combs but carries enough concessions for Stoute to save face. And not least, it allows...