Word: elie
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...same time, Israelis watched with interest as sections of their new wall began to appear along the ridges of East Jerusalem. It has brought a sense of security that perhaps exceeds reality: only 11 miles of a planned 52 miles of fence through Jerusalem are completed. Eli Mizrahi, who owns a cafe in the market and heads the merchants' association, says the wall has had one clear effect: store owners are finally willing to look to the future and listen to his plans to upgrade the market...
...answer may come soon. The U.S. spends more than $1 billion a year on dementia drugs, and new ones are being developed every day. Researchers at Eli Lilly reported progress in Philadelphia on a compound that targets the sticky plaques in the brain that are the root cause of Alzheimer's. Other people, like Nancy Reagan, are pinning their hopes for a cure on stem cells--although experts are worried that in the wake of Ronald Reagan's death from Alzheimer's, those prospects may have been oversold. There are no miracle cures on the horizon, but there is reason...
...notion that a marketplace is a better organizer of insight and predictor of the future than individuals are. Once confined to research universities, the idea of markets working within companies has started to seep out into some of the nation's largest corporations. Companies from Microsoft to Eli Lilly and Hewlett-Packard are bringing the market inside, with workers trading futures contracts on such "commodities" as sales, product success and supplier behavior. The concept: a work force contains vast amounts of untapped, useful information that a market can unlock. "Markets are likely to revolutionize corporate forecasting and decision making," says...
...Eli Lilly, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, which routinely places multimillion-dollar bets on drug candidates that face overwhelming odds of failure, wanted to see if it could get a better idea of which compounds would succeed. So last year Lilly ran an experiment in which about 50 employees involved in drug development--chemists, biologists, project managers--traded six mock drug candidates through an internal market. "We wanted to look at the way scattered bits of information are processed in the course of drug development," says Alpheus Bingham, vice president for Lilly Research Laboratories strategy...
HEALTH CARE Kerry wants to import cheap drugs from Canada, which would hurt stocks like Pfizer, Merck and Eli Lilly. Bush opposes such imports. But hospital firms may do better with Kerry, who wants to expand Medicaid and give more patients the means to pay their bills. "Companies like HCA have been hindered by bad-debt expense," says Wendell Perkins of Johnson Family funds. "We like HCA anyway, but a Kerry win would make it more attractive...