Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Schering-Plough would pay almost any amount of money to protect its exclusive right to sell Claritin, a drug that brings it more than $5 million in revenue a day. Claritin sales totaled $1.9 billion last year, and will balloon to $4 billion by 2002, according to a market analyst. To keep the money coming in, the company doubled its lobbying outlay starting in 1996 to more than $4 million in 1998. Among its other paid advocates: former Senator Dennis DeConcini; former Watergate assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste; and Thomas Parry, former chief of staff for Senator Orrin...
Marketers know plenty right now. Advertising networks like DoubleClick and MatchLogic, content sites like Time.com (TIME's online affiliate), and even retailers like Amazon.com are able to gather information by depositing numerical files called cookies into your Web browser. Embedded in the cookie is an identifying number, like a cyber fingerprint, that alerts a server to your presence. Whoever sent the cookie can monitor where you go on the Web, what you click on, what you read, what you buy and what you don't buy. Some sites, including Amazon, maintain strict privacy policies that promise to guard the data...
...implications of this technology--and the potential threat to your right to privacy--are only now becoming understood. "A tremendous amount of personal-data collection is going on. Millions of people's preferences, behaviors and desires are being profiled," says Jeffrey Chester of the Center for Media Education...
...Even though they are labeled for onetime use, biopsy needles, catheters, angioplasty balloons (right), scissors and other medical supplies are often sterilized and reused by hospitals. The government is considering regulating the companies that reprocess these devices. But if experts are not particularly alarmed, why is everyone so upset by this news...
...denied care have produced the worst horror stories associated with managed care. The process has left doctors frustrated and patients anxious. It also fueled a revolt in Congress last month in which a band of rebel Republicans rolled over the House leadership to pass a bill giving patients the right to sue their insurance companies for the medical decisions they make...