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...Relman expressed doubts that the legislation would pass at the national level because of the strength of the pharmaceutical company lobby...
...strength of the pound has long been a source of British pride - the word "sterling" has come to describe something of the highest standard. When the pound plunges, as it did in 1976 and in 1992, the damage to the British psyche is almost as far-reaching as the impact on the economy. And right now sterling's losing its shine. In the past year, the U.K. currency has lost about a fifth of its value against the euro, the currency used in much of the rest of Europe, and 30% against the dollar. Causes aren't hard to come...
...Saturday before coming up short, 30-11, against Army on Sunday. Although the grapplers faced a daunting challenge in the eighth-ranked Mountain Hawks (19-1, 5-0), Harvard coach Jay Weiss expressed disappointment at the effort.“Even going against a top team, not at full strength, I still don’t think we wrestled well,” he said. “[Lehigh’s Leeman-Turner Arena] is an exciting atmosphere with lots of people, but we didn’t bring out our best.”Junior co-captain...
...word as a sign of the movement's clout and relevance. "The movement is very strong now, even better than before," says al-Masiodi. "You can notice this when we call for demonstrations in the number of people who come to join." But al-Sadr has not tested his strength with street marches lately. And that power, too, may go the way of his waning influence in national politics...
...representatives, then holding state office - Perry, a rancher and U.S. Air Force pilot, as agriculture commissioner and then lieutenant governor, and Hutchison, a former television reporter and lawyer, as state treasurer. But the two rivals draw their support from different wings of the Republican Party. Perry has found strength among conservative Christian Republicans, while Hutchison gets high marks from urban Republicans, many of them female, plus independents. And Hutchison's move is forcing some of the party's major financial backers to choose sides, among them several important Perry backers - including Houston beer distributor John Nau and Dallas oilman Louis...