Word: nonprofit
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...every Congressman and Senator who is dismayed at having a base on the list," says Keith Cunningham, an analyst at Washington's nonprofit Business Executives for National Security, "there are many more who say, There but for the grace...
...years of existence, the Central Florida Health Care Coalition, a grouping of major employers including Walt Disney, Martin Marietta and General Mills, has nagged local hospitals into many cost-cutting procedures. A newly enacted Minnesota law extends the idea by encouraging formation of integrated service networks. ISNs will be nonprofit organizations set up by groups of doctors and hospitals, or insurance companies, or employers, or governmental subdivisions, or just about anybody able and willing to provide medical services to people who enroll and pay a fixed fee for a particular time period. The state will license ISNs, beginning July...
...Yorkin threatened a pro-choice boycott if it didn't. In the face of this dilemma and some badgering by the FDA, the company did what a typically cautious multinational would: it passed its burden (or tried to, anyway) onto the shoulders of someone else, in this case the nonprofit Population Council...
Aware of such potential problems, the pill's inventor, Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, is leading his own effort to establish a nonprofit foundation that would set up a new company both to manufacture and distribute RU 486 worldwide. Since the pill would be its only product, he says, the boycott threat would evaporate. The Population Council has expressed a willingness to discuss the plan with...
...company, Hoechst AG, had steadfastly shied away from becoming involved in the American market for fear of infuriating antiabortion activists. But in April, at the instigation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Roussel announced a compromise: it agreed to license RU 486 to the U.S. Population Council, a nonprofit organization based in New York City, which in turn would run clinical tests...