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...think it has been pretty mild, [with] no hostility from either side,” said custodial worker Shakespeare Christmas, who has participated in the negotiations...
Researchers found that most of the increase came from just a few drugs, including the anti-inflammatory Vioxx, the antiulcer drug Prilosec and the antihistamine Claritin. These drugs lend themselves to so-called direct-to-consumer (DTC) promotion, researchers said, because they treat common chronic conditions and have relatively mild side effects that do not require long disclaimers...
...that the new budget buys too few warships. (It came mostly from lawmakers from shipbuilding districts.) "The Democrats are terrified to challenge the President on defense," says Lawrence Korb, a Reagan-era Pentagon appointee. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee, expressed only mild concern, noting that the budget "comes without a comprehensive strategy or a detailed guide to that spending...
...intriguing title, First, Break All the Rules. While I have not in fact read this book, I thought of its title recently as I was complaining to a friend about how unbelievably stupid the leaders of most corporations are. When it comes to getting through a recession, even a mild one like the one that may now be ending, big companies seem paralyzed by conventional thinking, unable to do the things that set apart leaders from failures. To illustrate this point, I’ll focus on a particularly vulnerable and hard-hit industry: PC vendors. The dismal state...
Soon after, then-Trade and Industry Minister Peter Mandelson chose not to submit the company's $2 billion takeover of the a British utility called Wessex Water to a review by antitrust authorities. This coincidence did not go unnoticed by the nation's broadsheet press: it received the mild scandal treatment in the left-wing Sunday newspaper, the Observer, while the daily Independent wryly called the decision "a test case for companies which have made donations to the Labour Party." In 1999, the party itself held an internal inquiry scrutinizing the payments. But soon the story was mostly forgotten, filed...