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...thick and thin. You didn?t get rich; you didn?t get fired. But now even profitable companies shed long-time employees at the first whiff of trouble. ?Think like a free agent,? says John Challenger, who runs outplacement firm Challenger Grey & Christmas. ?You need to be able to dump your company before it dumps you.? When companies are hungry for talent, as many are today, you can drive your hardest bargain. Negotiate stock options and performance bonuses, or work on commission. Don?t be shy. After all, if your job may disappear in the next downturn it?s only...
...rare for teenagers of any generation to think that far ahead, never mind the cohort that reached adolescence at the height of the drug boom. It may be impossible to slow the demographic conveyor belt that's going to dump so many of them into the senior population with a habit they picked up during their summers of love. But it's not too late for them to shake it off, achieving the peace in the last chapters of their lives that the drugs promised them in the first...
...annals of pharmaceutical fumbles--and there have been some real doozies--the flu-vaccine shortage of fall 2004 occupies a special place. That crisis began when California biotech company Chiron was forced to dump 48 million doses of its flu vaccine, nearly half the U.S. supply...
Chiron's incompletely recovered operations contributed to a fifth consecutive year of initial vaccine shortages this flu season. But its largest shareholder, Swiss drug firm Novartis, did not dump its stake in the company. Quite the opposite. Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella decided to buy for $5.1 billion the 58% of Chiron that Novartis does not own, and the Federal Trade Commission approved the deal last month. But the California hedge fund ValuAct, which owns 5% of Chiron, has announced that it intends to vote against the deal, calling Novartis' $45 per share offer "tantamount to stealing the company." Vasella, however...
...into a separate tank. On the front, there's a small vacuum mechanism meant to pull grit and small particles out of the way before the scrubbing. Another advantage the Scooba has over the Roomba is that it's easier to empty out when the cleaning is over. You dump the dirty water into the sink or toilet, shake the vacuum filter out over the trash can and eject the brush and- get this-throw it into the dishwasher...