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...Nations to cut the price of AIDS drugs by as much as 90 percent on a continent where more than 23 million people are infected with HIV. The business context for that decision was highlighted by Wednesday's announcement of an executive order by President Clinton that Washington would refrain from enforcing U.S. patents on AIDS drugs in African countries battling the disease. That would leave those countries free to license or develop far cheaper generic versions of the patented drugs - already in Brazil, for example, a generic version of AZT sells for about 10 percent of the patented drug...
Sure as a soldier squeezing his M-16 trigger knows a burst of bullets will follow, politicians know that deploring "G.I.s on food stamps" will trigger a burst of applause. Senator John McCain has repeatedly called it a "national disgrace." The presidential front runners have picked up the refrain. Both Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush have decried the scourge of food stamps for the military and pledged to boost soldiers' pay to end it. "We must eliminate the need for any active-duty families to be eligible for food stamps," Gore declares...
...take advantage of the possibilities of high tech, and the Frankfurt market has turned itself into Europe's NASDAQ - the center of the continent's burgeoning technology investment sector." NASDAQ appears to have recognized that reality, too, by signing a memorandum of understanding with the new iX company to refrain from opening a competitor and to allow the trading of share flotations...
...trying to make it; and at the St. Botolph, they enjoy it.” The Chilton and Somerset are primarily social. Even discussing business in the morning room used to bring a waiter with a silver platter and a small card asking the offender to refrain. “Even now,” says Minturn, “flagrant displays of briefcases and papers, are frowned upon.” Cell phones are a cardinal sin. At the Algonquin, on the other hand, there are no such qualms. “It is a business club...
...season for selection and the winner is staged and performed by the members. In the late ’80s, the Tavern was perhaps the most vocal opponent to sexual integration. One production, included a song entitled, “We love the ladies.” Its final refrain: “But we’d rather have the place in embers/ Than see them as regular members.” At the time, Globe editorial page editor H.D.S. Greenway was quoted as saying: “There should be clubs for men, clubs for women...