Word: reaping
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...kids wasn't profitable; the money was in the adult market. The law led to a flurry of studies (more than 400) and labeling changes that have been helpful for treating children, though at a huge cost: pediatric studies that often cost companies just a few million dollars often reap them rewards totaling hundreds of millions thanks to the extended monopolies...
...debate really comes down to whether U.S. companies will ultimately hold the patents and reap the benefits from medicines and therapies developed through this research, or whether we let foreign scientists and foreign-owned corporations beat us to the draw and the profits. We can soul search over the morality and ethics of this matter until the cows come home, but bottom-line considerations will ultimately determine how far we take this research. HAL GREENFADER Los Angeles...
...NATO hopes its limited action will start a chain reaction of mutual trust in a place that seems chronically inured to it. The troops have to reap enough weapons to convince Macedonia's Slavic majority that the N.L.A. is committed to the larger task of forging a political modus vivendi with the Macedonian-speaking majority. And just how many weapons would that be? Sources close to NATO in Skopje said the alliance had arrived at a "credible" goal of gathering at least 3,000 weapons in 15 designated collection points. A spokesman for the Macedonian government said it would accept...
...protest, not participation in the democratic process--is the best way to advance a political cause. It is not too much to hope that the next time his friends stoop to pick up a cobblestone, they will remember a lesson learned when plows first broke the Mesopotamian earth: You reap what...
...astonishing $200 billion in shareholder value in the last year and a half.) Alcatel's investors were just as unhappy, and perhaps with greater justification. Alcatel has problems of its own: its stock is down around 65% from its high last year - and a merger with Lucent would reap some $2 billion in short-term debt...