Word: plough
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...help revive growth at battered Schering-Plough, Cox, 45, has been hired to head its global pharmaceutical group. She held a similar position at Pharmacia, where she built global sales, boosting Celebrex to a $3 billion brand. A trained pharmacist, Cox joins another recent Pharmacia recruit, CEO Fred Hassan, with whom she worked to revive that firm before it was bought by Pfizer earlier this year. Hassan and Cox face big challenges, which include declining profits, lost patents and a federal investigation into sales and marketing practices...
SAFE HAVENS Dividend-paying stocks like drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough and utilities (Consolidated Edison, Southern Co.) should do well as investors tiptoe back into the safest stocks they can think of. Consider a yield-oriented stock fund like T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation, which recently yielded 2% and gained 11% annually the past three years. If things go poorly for the U.S. in Iraq or elsewhere, this at least will provide some cushion and keep you in the game...
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a whiffletree is a crossbar on a plough, while bonny-clabber is a type of sour milk...
...They won’t plough new ground or be adventurous—there is too much risk taking,” Prescott says. “I was able to take risks. I feel like I’m really living...
...musical revues My Lady Friends or No No Nanette, but they continue to loom large over the Beantown sports scene. The entrepreneurial Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the Boston star Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in late 1919 for $100,000 which he could use to plough into the plays...