Word: rhone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Company, whose subsidiary Searle makes the wildly successful arthritis drug Celebrex, has been casting around for a merger partner for over a year, and now, executives say, the search is over. Monsanto will merge with Pharmacia & Upjohn, joining the ranks of other mega-merger firms like Astra-Zeneca and Rhone-Poulenc-Hoechst, to form a corporation worth about $52 billion. Why did it take so long for Monsanto to find its mate, and why was Pharmacia willing to take it on? The answers lie in Monsanto's agri-chemical division, a successful but controversial arm of the company, which...
...evidence comes from a cave in the Ardeche region of southeastern France, overlooking the Rhone River, where archaeologist Alban Defleur of Marseilles' Universite de la Mediterranee discovered 78 Neanderthal bones about 100,000 years old. They were from at least six individuals--two adults, two teenagers and two six- or seven-year-olds. Like the deer bones with which they were intermingled, most bore unmistakable signs of deliberate butchery...
...corporate money that the medical center has been aggressively pursuing in recent years. Last fall Duke opened a new 10,000-sq.-ft. laboratory, a set of "clean rooms" where cell cultures can be cultivated in sterile surroundings. The $1.5 million facility was paid for by the pharmaceutical giant Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, based in Collegeville, Pa. But this particular deal is unusual in that the company has no commercial claim on any products developed through the use of the new lab. Sue Strauss is one of 18 Duke patients in Lyerly's trial, one of several vaccine tests approved...
...their own. Whenever antibiotics are used indiscriminately, mildly resistant bacteria survive and breed with one another, creating increasingly resistant germs. Pharmaceutical companies are racing to create new antibiotics that can replace vancomycin as the drug of last recourse. The leading candidate: Synercid, an experimental drug being developed by Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. Tests show that it should defeat even vancomycin-resistant staphylococci--at least until a tougher strain of bacteria evolves...
...CALIFORNIA VIOGNIERS Originally from the Rhone valley in France, viognier (vee-oh-nyay) will never displace Chardonnay, but this white wine's complex array of flavors--a soft simulation of sweetness--has California vineyards devoting huge acreage to the difficult grape. Arrowood and Kunde Estate are choice...