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...label prescribing so common? Chiefly because pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to invest the time and expense to get FDA clearance on new uses for an established drug--especially when the drug's safety has already been proved. Says Dr. Martin Raber, physician in chief of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston: "It is accepted practice that once a drug is FDA-approved it can be freely used." But the FDA gets nervous when a drug's unapproved uses overshadow its original purpose. Retin-A cream, for example, was approved by the FDA for the treatment of acne...
...Bicycles not rationed," an ad for the bicycleexchange read. "Plenty on hand. pre-war parts andaccessories. "Douglas Shoes did not producefootwear for soldires, but at the bottom of theirads placed the line "Invest in victory-buy bonds...
Companies that treat employees with respect, invest in training programs and use innovative workplace practices tend to be more profitable, according to a Labor Department study released today. The two-year look at workplace strategies of American companies was conducted by the management consulting arm of Ernst & Young for the government. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who has advocated such strategies for years, said the path-breaking" study "shows the surest way to profits and productivity is to treat employees as assets to be developed rather than costs to be cut." An example from the study: Motorola Inc. estimates that...
...that Bloch was taken without incident by Dominican authorities and immediately placed on a plane back to the U.S. to stand trial. Prosecutors yesterday indicted the radio host, whose 15-year-old show has been heard across the nation on 170 stations, on charges that he induced listeners to invest in a phony wireless cable system...
...brief get-to-know-each-other meeting at the Los Angeles airport in November. "After about 15 minutes we hit it off personally," he says. "And we both instantly saw that there may be some genuine reason to pursue this." At the end of the pursuit, MCI agreed to invest heavily in News Corp. stock--$1 billion now plus $1 billion over the next four years. In return, Murdoch will send his company's immense fund of grunt-and-grin entertainment, news and information through MCI phone lines into home and business screens. In addition to the Fox network, Murdoch...