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...result, there's another payoff: a healthy dose of gratitude. Vince Mattaliano, 53, a communications manager at Roche, carries more than 200 lbs. on his 5-ft. 6-in. frame. After measuring his blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, weight and height last year, company doctors wrote him a free prescription for Roche's weight-loss drug Xenical. Company nutritionists worked out a diet that allows Mattaliano to eat his favorite dishes while cutting out 400 calories a day. Fitness instructors designed his workout routine in the company...
...which has been smelling inflation all week, from running the yield on Treasury's benchmark 30-year issue to a new two-year high of 6.36 percent at one point. (When no one wants a bond because expected inflation would eat into its long-term value, its yield ?- the payoff for putting your money in it ?- goes up in response; 6.36 is about equivalent to abject begging.) But even that spike was showing signs of flattening as a correction of the correction set in. None of this changes the long-term outlook; Greenspan is still genuinely worried about an "asset...
Nichols began calling pharmaceutical houses in the U.S. and Europe, telling them that if they started making sulindac it would save thousands of lives. But it was about to come off patent, and as a generic drug it didn't offer much of a payoff because of the likelihood of competitive products and lower prices. Moreover, FAP--Nichols' cancer--is a so-called orphan disease, afflicting only 25,000 Americans, so there wasn't much of a market for it. Thanks, but no thanks, the drugmakers said...
...local seed store for their livelihood, while others feared that the suicide genes could cross-pollinate with other plants, creating widespread sterility. "Monsanto bowed to public pressure," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "This technology is still several years down the road, so there wasn't any immediate payoff, and it was costing them quite a bit in terms...
...trip to New York--along with a $1,000 prize--is the payoff for being chosen one of the "top ten college winners of 1999" by the magazine...