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...drugs were a massive success. In 1987 analysts predicted Prozac could earn its parent, Eli Lilly & Co., up to $175 million a year by 1990. It blew past that target in 1989, earning $350 million - more than had been spent annually on all antidepressants put together just two years previously. By 1990, Prozac was the country's most prescribed antidepressant, with 650,000 scrips written or renewed each month. Annual sales soon topped $1 billion...
Nevertheless, sales stayed strong. By 1993, Prozac had been taken by some 10 million people around the globe. In contrast to the obscure antidepressants of generations past, Newsweek noted in 1994, "Prozac has attained the familiarity of Kleenex and the social status of spring water." Depression had begun to shake its stigma...
...Harvard Kennedy School has received a $20.5 million gift—one of the five largest in the school’s history—to be directed toward Asia-related programs and research, officials announced Wednesday...
...gift from the PT Rajawali Corporation, one of Indonesia's largest conglomerates, will be used to further scholarly research on Indonesia and is divided in two parts. The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia will receive $10 million for its permanent endowment, spread over five years, and an additional $10.5 million, also paid over five years, will fund research, teaching, and exchange programs focused on Indonesia...
...earlier version of the Jan. 7 news article "Kennedy School Receives $20.5 Million Gift to Support Asian Studies" incorrectly referred to the recently renamed Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Leadership as the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Leadership...