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...Janey's plight might elicit sympathy from the three other blonds Bushnell depicts: the journalist who learns to appreciate her frequently cuckolded husband only after sleeping with his best friend; the sedated socialite discovering that marriage to a European prince isn't all it's cracked up to be; and the Manhattan society columnist sent to London to uncover the real story of sex in the British Isles...
Consider the plight of biotech firm Genentech in the early '90s. It had four promising drugs that it wanted to take into clinical trials one year, but it had resources for only three. On the bubble: the breast-cancer drug Herceptin. The R.-and-D. tax credit provided funds for Genentech to proceed with that fourth drug, which came to market last year and is now saving lives while ringing up sales of $75 million a quarter. With the tax credit, says Walter Moore, vice president of government affairs at Genentech, his company is able to pursue one additional drug...
...time being, companies will suffer. Consider the plight of British media company Trinity Mirror, which publishes the Daily Mirror and other newspapers and owns the Internet service provider ic24.com. The IOC has sued in the U.S. for control over several site names Mirror New Media had registered, such as icolympics.com and iseeolympics.com, for its coverage of these and future Games. "We want people to be able to go direct to our coverage of the Olympics," said Jill Playle, the firm's marketing director. The company used iceuro2000.com for its coverage of the Euro 2000 soccer competition without any problems...
...appropriate commercial purposes. "This is a classic example of the net running faster than the people on the ground," said Jonathan Robinson, CEO of NetBenefit, probably Europe's largest domain name registration company. A staunch defender of trademarks on the Internet, Robinson has some sympathy for the IOC's plight but he believes that they are going...
...plight of the Colombian campesinos, their extreme poverty and social immobility, does not appear to affect the plans of the United States government. The chairs of the House Government Reform Committee and the International Relations Committee have been ardent supporters of the military-style tactics of Colombian anti-drug units, tactics that include widespread aerial fumigation of drug crops. And so, when starving children and destitute farmers see an approaching UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, they do not praise their savior. Crop dusting might destroy one batch of drugs, but it obliterates the lifestyle of ordinary people struggling to survive...