Word: mylan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current scandal started to unravel after Roy McKnight, head of Pittsburgh-based Mylan Laboratories, began to suspect the FDA of favoritism. Frustrated that a rival firm consistently won FDA approval for its products before his company did, McKnight hired private detectives to spy on the Government. The detectives' snooping produced enough evidence of corruption to encourage the Justice Department to initiate a probe. In July, Charles Chang, 47, former head of the FDA's generic-drug division, and two co-workers pleaded guilty to accepting a total of $24,300 in illegal gifts in exchange for preferential treatment. The favored...
About a dozen manufacturers applied to produce the tranquilizer, but permission has so far been granted only to Zenith Laboratories, Mylan Laboratories and the Parke-Davis division of Warner-Lambert. Diazepam is expected to sell for up to 50% less than Valium. One hundred 5-mg tablets of the tranquilizer now cost around $25. Hoffmann-La Roche could lose 50% of its market share within three years. Says Zenith President James Leonard: "Consumers won't pay for a trademark. They are more interested in therapeutic value...
...classes, activities, and the ostensible influences a college bears on its students. These leaders present a veneer to the world and to each other, which slowly disappears as graduation approaches, replaced by an embryonic but certain grasp of their own attitudes, feelings and opinions. Julie Carol Woods, playing Lorraine Mylan Thomas, gives up the games and poses she adopted in her tendency to be a white Black, and comes to terms with her anger at early mistreatment by whites, which previously, perhaps, she would have liked to forget...