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Corporate sponsors including Apple Computer, Inc., Merck, Mobil Oil, Morgan Stanley, Xerox Corporation, Prudential and Union Carbide Corporation are backing Teach for America. Start-up costs for the teaching group will reach $2 million in its first year, the group stated...
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...Roche became the No. 1 maker of prescription pharmaceuticals and one of the most profitable companies on earth. But lulled by the success of Valium, whose U.S. patent expired four years ago, the company failed to keep pace in the '80s with such aggressive rivals as U.S.-based Merck and Swiss neighbors Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. Symbolic of Hoffmann-La Roche's backward ways was the firm's thinly held stock, the most expensive traded anywhere. In the past year the price of a single share of Hoffmann-La Roche climbed to more than...
...world, drug companies are teaming up in search of success. Britain's Beecham Group, purveyor of Tums antacid and Brylcreem hair lotion, last month merged with Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the antiulcer drug Tagamet, in a deal that will create the No. 2 pharmaceutical company after Merck. American Home Products, the maker of Advil and Anacin, is acquiring A.H. Robins. Merck, meanwhile, is scarcely standing still. In March the company formed a joint venture with Johnson & Johnson, its New Jersey neighbor, under which Merck will develop over-the-counter versions of patented medicines that Johnson & Johnson will market...
...Tums antacid, and Philadelphia's SmithKline Beckman, developer of the anti- ulcer drug Tagamet, said they will form a company with more than $6.7 billion in total sales. The merged corporation, to be renamed SmithKline Beecham, will rank No. 2 in the pharmaceutical world to New Jersey-based Merck...