Word: keening
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Vasella keeps a keen eye on his cherished drug business from an elegant second-floor office in the old Sandoz headquarters. On a counter behind his black leather chair are a pair of ancient Egyptian vases, a sword from the Han dynasty and a large blue-green bust of Buddha from the Tang dynasty. An avid collector of Oriental art, he recently bought a 13th century Tibetan statue of Buddha made of gilded bronze, which he keeps at his home in Zug. "I talk to him sometimes," says Vasella, "and I say, 'You know, I like you better than Jesus...
...marketing efforts focus on areas, such as cardiovascular diseases, in which treatments are judged to offer the greatest potential for profit. Senior vice president for business development Paul Sekhri, who helped pick these areas by going systematically through some 980 categories of ailments, says Vasella took a keen interest in how they were chosen. But while Vasella has taken aim at larger markets, he has ensured that more specialized products, such as ophthalmologic drugs, are not neglected. If there is enough of an unmet medical need, they too can be enormously profitable. David Epstein, head of Novartis' oncology unit, observes...
...that.RR: A lot of this story has to do with a dysfunctional family. Do you have any good dysfunctional family stories?OB: Well, my father was arrested for indecent exposure before I was born. I suppose that’s dysfunctional. My mother wasn’t too keen on that.Allegra M. Richards ’09 & Nathan D. Johnson '09 RR: So what are your roles in the production?AR: We’re the directors.RR: What inspired you to direct this show?NJ: Well, I think it started when Allegra and I saw “Cats?...
...some keen observers had predicted, nothing tangible came out of the meetings. But Sarkozy still got what he came for: a burnishing of his image as the new pivot player in U.S.-European relations - a role left vacant by the departure of Tony Blair as Prime Minister of Britain. And it's a role whose value on the continent Sarkozy recognizes. "What he wants is a bilateral relationship with Bush so that he can do what Blair so often did, which is serve as a swing between the U.S. and its European partners," says Jeremy Shapiro, a fellow...
...NGOs pays off. One Vietnamese specialist whom Rawson trained has helped record the country's largest single group of grey-shanked douc langurs, a gorgeous monkey with an orange face and white beard that lives in the highlands of central Vietnam. Some organizations have even hired primate hunters, whose keen tracking skills make them useful for surveying elusive populations. "It's a matter of engaging the local people so they have some input," says Rawson. "Making sure they get some benefit from it as well...