Word: launching
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...flirting with ideas that are isolationist in their potential consequence if not in their actual intent. There's a resurgence of the view that we can now afford to go it alone." This is hardly a platform from which Clinton, flush from his Bosnia success--if it comes--can launch a new internationalism...
That doesn't mean that it never will. "He doesn't want to launch a whole new round of expectation and speculation," Michael says. "But that's not saying that come August, if asked by the candidate, his answer would be absolutely no. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if he was in government again as secretary of something or even Vice President. And I'm not entirely convinced he wouldn't run in 2000. He's only 58. In 2000 he'll be 10 years younger than Dole will...
...OPENING SCENE OF SHAKEspeare's The Tempest, as a ship careens in a gale, a sailor cries, "What care these roarers for the name of king?" In fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...
...somewhat milder versions of the blockers. At stake as the companies tout these products, say industry analysts, is an additional $1 billion in sales for heartburn medications. "This is a blockbuster," says Paul Kelly, president of Silvermine Consulting Group, in Westport, Connecticut. "It's the most dramatic medical launch since Advil." Two acid blockers, Tagamet HB and Pepcid AC, have begun battling it out for market share, and two more--including the British colossus Zantac in over-the-counter form--will be joining the fray by next year...
Competition heightened soon after the debut of Tagamet HB, when SmithKline filed suit against J&J/Merck in federal district court in Manhattan. The company sought "to stop defendant from deceiving the public and undermining the launch of Tagamet HB...through false and misleading television commercials" and advertisements. The suit cited such claims as "8 out of 10 doctors and pharmacists chose Pepcid AC over Tagamet...