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...business is now run as a global operation out of Paris, and its eye-care business was spun off as a separate company, Alcon, with its own stock-market listing. Nestle's most futuristic business, an attempt to develop nutritional supplements that enhance beauty, is being pursued as a joint venture with L'Oreal. But Nestle's national organizations still manufacture much of what they sell locally, controlling the chocolate, milk and most other products they sell in their countries...
...will contribute our technology to the joint venture," he said. The local partner would be expected to provide the creative talent for the games and chip in toward setting up the studio...
...beauty and personal-care division--a group that added more than $20 billion in sales to P&G's top line last year--P&G invested an additional $1.5 million in the project after the product got FDA over-the-counter clearance. Days later, P&G also signed a joint agreement to develop and distribute home-use antiaging devices with Syneron Medical Ltd., a $150 million medical-device maker in Yokneam, Israel, known for its patented "elos" technology, which combines bipolar radio frequency and light sources to combat the signs of aging. "P&G clearly views the consumer segment...
...good shape. The two half-inch-long incisions I made on his knee doing arthroscopic surgery had not healed when he came to my office a week afterward to get his stitches out. So I had him come back a week later, then two more weeks later. The knee joint was ok but at the fourth week I was still staring at two gaping holes in unhealed skin. They were like cuts on a cadaver; it was creepy. There didn't seem to be a reason for this failure of his skin to close. His pre-op labs had been...
...readers of foreign-relations tea leaves, it's worth nothing that Bush - who tossed out his "Word War III" warning only three weeks ago - didn't mention military options when discussing Iran at a joint press conference with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday. "The idea of Iran having a nuclear weapon is dangerous," he said. "Therefore, now is the time for us to work together to diplomatically solve this problem...