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...year ban on new-drug marketing could hurt the bottom line of drug companies. But it wouldn't be devastating. "I don't think it will have a particularly big impact," says Eric Schmidt, equity analyst at Cowen and Co., an investment bank. "The companies have already started scaling back their marketing budgets, and they've tended to direct advertising into more established brands." According to Jon Swallen, a research analyst at TNS Media Intelligence, pharmaceutical companies spent about $4.7 billion in magazine and television advertising in 2008, a 10.7% drop from 2007. And only about...
...consumers? Or required them to help fund some kind of public health or education initiative? "The pharmaceutical companies are most nervous about a financial requirement for those who are doing DTC advertising," Bolling says. "It would have companies over a barrel. That's where it's really going to hurt." Things may be quiet on the drug front right now, but with a new Democratic President and Congress in place, Big Pharma should stock up on the painkillers...
...advantage created by a Crimson penalty with just over two minutes remaining in the game. Less than 20 seconds into the power play, Terrier Jason Lawrence slammed in the deciding goal to advance his team to the championship round. “This is a team that can really hurt you on the power play in a lot of ways,” Donato said. “We did a decent job killing penalties for most of the night, but when you give them opportunities in the 6, 7 range, they’re going to score a couple...
...Allegations that the CIA chief in Algiers (identified in the press, though not by the government, as Andrew Warren) drugged and raped two women is going to hurt badly. The accusations that Harold Nicholson, a former CIA operative in federal prison convicted of spying for the KGB, continued his work from behind bars isn't nearly as serious, but it won't exactly help the agency's reputation. Nicholson, who allegedly enlisted his Nathaniel son to collect his KGB "pension" and to pass on whatever secrets Dad still knew, is pretty much stale history. But even so, the news...