Word: merck
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...attention, class. Pachter, whose clients include Microsoft, DaimlerChrysler and Merck, strides in with her tailored black pantsuit, black purse and black heels, looking serious. Are people suddenly ruder? she asks. The need for etiquette tune-ups has become direr as a result of changes in the business world, Pachter tells her students--more women, more international commerce and new technologies like cell phones, BlackBerrys and e-mail...
...Frankly, I thought that the vision that Larry Summers had was super,” says Albert W. Merck ’43, whose family founded one of the 10 largest pharmaceutical firms in the world. “This one was going to take us into the 21st century...
...best things that happened was that he put undergraduate teaching on the front burner,” Merck says. The president feuded with some faculty members—most publicly, African-American studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74, over what Summers saw as an insufficient emphasis on teaching students at the College...
...give that search committee of Mr. Houghton a lot of credit for bringing somebody in that could really shake the place up,” Merck says, alluding to Houghton’s role on the panel that picked Summers. “The big thing is that they shook the cage and things are starting to move...
...health fee to cover this new cost,” Rosenthal wrote. There are over 120 different strains of HPV, but the four that Gardasil fends off are responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancer cases and 90 percent of genital warts infections. According to the website of Merck & Co., Inc.—Gardasil’s manufacturer—testing found the vaccine to be 100 percent effective in preventing high-grade cervical pre-cancers and non-invasive cervical cancers associated with HPV type 16 and 18 infections. But the cost of the injection series, each priced...