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...could as separate entities," says William Rastetter, CEO of IDEC, who would get the title of executive chairman after the merger. The focus on managing will probably spill down as more treatments reach the market and more biotech firms start writing in black ink. A wave of mergers could sweep the industry, though that might be several years away...
...induce an electrical charge in the pole. An observer in the sentry box could detect the charge by touching the pole with an insulated ground wire and drawing sparks. Or if the pole itself was grounded, it would extract all the cloud's "fire" in a lightning bolt and sweep it harmlessly into the earth. Franklin had created the lightning...
...Massive sweep operations such as Operation Desert Sidewinder certainly help root out insurgents. But their ability to do so also depends primarily on good intelligence, which in turn requires the goodwill of the locals. And the very nature of the sweep operations often functions to alienate the local population, which at best makes the U.S. forces' job more difficult and at worst grows the insurgency...
...coalition body count is mounting steadily in the postwar insurgency, despite two large sweep operations north of Baghdad last weekend designed to eliminate resistance. U.S. commander have begun to acknowledge that they're facing an organized insurgency, blaming remnants of the old regime and jihadists from other Arab countries who had come to Iraq to fight the U.S. More worrying are the attacks that have occurred this week south of Baghdad, in predominantly Shiites areas. An insurgency confined to the Sunni minority is more easily contained than one whose base extends to the Shiite majority...
...Jacket." Ermey obliged by reciting some of his more memorable motivational lines from the movie, which as at least one embedded British reporter discovered, remains a key reference for today's Marines in the field. But there are others. Just last weekend, U.S. troops psyched themselves up for a sweep in search of Saddam loyalists by blasting Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries through loudspeakers in a bizarre homage to Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse...