Word: elie
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...Minneapolis, Minn., saw net earnings rise 22.5%, to nearly $2 billion, in the past fiscal year, and that's great news for the company's new president and chief operating officer, William Hawkins, 50. Hawkins, an avid Duke University basketball fan, knows his competition; he has also worked for Eli Lilly, Guidant and Johnson & Johnson. The challenge for the biomedical engineer and former head of Medtronic's vascular business will be to keep the company hitting nothing but net. Next up on Hawkins' game plan: overseeing the launch of its first drug-coated cardiac stent in Europe later this year...
Despite a valiant effort by the Crimson, Harvard falls to Yale 34-24 in the 117th Harvard-Yale Game. A strong Eli defense and turnovers sealed the Crimson’s fate...
Playing traditional Eli tunes, the band concluded their antics with a 20-minute serenade on the Sterling Quad...
...unwittingly buying fake pharmaceuticals all the same. A raid of a ramshackle warehouse in southern China's Guangdong province last month turned up plenty of evidence that brand-name drugs are not always what they seem. In the raid, Chinese police working with investigators for U.S. drug manufacturer Eli Lilly discovered 40,000 little blue "Viagra" pills, knockoffs of Pfizer's erectile-dysfunction treatment, sealed in plastic bags and ready for shipment, according to Eli Lilly officials. Also seized were 750,000 tablets that were imitations of sexual-dysfunction drugs Cialis and Levitra, the former marketed by Eli Lilly...
...Eli Lilly officials say it will be weeks before they can analyze what, exactly, is in the seized pills. They are certain about one thing: it isn't medicine. Although phony prescription and over-the-counter drugs often look like the real things, right down to the blister packs and corporate logos on the packaging, they may have few-if any-active ingredients and might contain toxic substances. These days, drug companies and international health organization officials are alarmed by the health threat posed by the increasing availability of fake drugs pouring out of illegal factories, mostly in China...