Word: gathering
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...major pharmaceutical companies have been at the forefront of the campaign to crack down on the problem. All have growing security divisions that track illegal medicine-trafficking and gather evidence to give to law-enforcement agencies to help them take action. Pfizer has also started experimenting with safer packaging. For example, all its Viagra blockbuster packs in the U.S. now have a radio-frequency-identification tag. Merck, meanwhile, is funding the distribution of minilabs to developing countries to improve detection of fake ingredients in drugs used to combat malaria, HIV and tuberculosis...
...Executive Directors of all six Centers gather in Boston at least three times a year to compare “notes on research intelligence, business innovation and best research practices,” according to Winston...
...going ahead with a flawed battle plan that did not secure Kandahar, the second largest Afghan city and the fulcrum of the insurgency. That mistake made the six-month strategy review necessary, as did two other factors: the disastrously corrupt Afghan presidential election and a vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which has resulted in the killing of more than half of the 20 targeted al-Qaeda leaders. Several of the principals involved in Obama's strategy review have told me that their ultimate position on troop levels will depend on whether a plausible government, newly committed...
Harris and his wife Cheryl invited students to gather in their home yesterday evening to commemorate Shaker. Harris said that a memorial service for Shaker is currently being planned for Friday...
...Harrises have invited students to gather in their home this evening beginning at 7:30 p.m. "to share our grief, and to celebrate Ariel's remarkable life," according to Harris's e-mail...