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Even with overtime production, the patch shortage is expected to last at least until early August. "We're only getting about 50% of what we could sell," says Carolyn Fray, spokeswoman for Rite Aid Corp., which owns 2,498 drugstores nationwide. Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Vietor estimates that sales will top $880 million this year and nearly $1 billion in 1993. (Six months ago, he predicted sales of only $150 million for all of 1992.) "This is overwhelmingly the biggest first-year market for any prescription product," he says...
...domination under the intolerant Milosevic helped speed the secession of Slovenia and Croatia, whose own fanatically nationalist leader fueled fears among the Serb minority there. It was as the savior of the Serbs who live outside Serbia's borders -- nearly one-third of the community -- that Milosevic entered the fray. His strategy has been simple -- and effective. He stirs up Serbs with talk of imminent genocide, then sets his proxies loose to "protect" them, with fatal consequences for Croats and Muslims. Yet he insists that his aim is not the creation of a Greater Serbia, only the preservation of Yugoslavia...
...Buell seems willing to leap into the administrative fray. He notes that his newcomer status may both help and hurt him. "I have more to learn in the way of history, so that's a disadvantage," Buell says. "On the other hand, by not being bound so much to history, I may at times see things in usefully different ways...
...supporters, the political world is a mess. Gridlock and stagnation rule the day. The only people with voices are the special interests represented by the Washington lobbyists who are corrupting our glorious democratic system. Perot is the White Knight--ready to ride in from his outsider, above-the-fray, private-sector perch and purify democracy...
NEUTRALITY CERTAINLY HAS ITS BENEFITS. BY STAYing above the fray in their landlocked mountain state, the Swiss have managed to stay out of international . conflicts while establishing themselves as the world's private bankers. But last week the governing Federal Councilors announced that they will apply for membership in the European Community. Emboldened by a recent popular vote that approved joining the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the government moved quickly to cash in on an emerging approval of multinational organizations among its citizens...