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Consider Claritin, the world's best-selling allergy drug, which is sold OTC in many nations. It costs about $17 a month in Canada. But in the U.S., Claritin requires a prescription and carries a $62 price tag. That's why Blue Cross of California has asked the FDA to shift Claritin to OTC status. But Schering-Plough, manufacturer of Claritin, sold $2.7 billion worth of the drug last year, 85% of which came from U.S. sales. Rx is O.K. for Schering...
...Tobacco and their attorneys get called a lot of things, but stupid - or suicidal - is rarely one of them. How, then, to explain the tactics industry lawyers used during and after their latest legal battle, tactics that incensed the very jurors charged with setting a price tag on tobacco's defeat...
...lovely floral arrangements b) electric carts c) an elephant ice sculpture d) a "Hello, My Name Is" tag for Denny Hastert...
Brothers, 33, tried to help the system in the small ways he could. He organized plant tours for students, hoping to stir their imagination, and even helped launch a "shadowing" program, in which high schoolers tag along with employees for a day. He became an officer of the Booster Club, which supports the district's popular athletic programs. "I couldn't get a single parent to attend a planning meeting, and we had just won a state championship in football," he says. But before ruling out the Osceola system for his five-year-old son Jackson, Brothers saw one last...
Certainly, it is a very cool concept, one that founder Jay Walker predicts will eventually eliminate price-tag shopping. Never mind that fixed pricing in one form or another has been around since the time of Xerxes for a reason: people like it. As Walker points out, though, myriad products--from FedEx shipping, where rates increase with the speed of delivery, to groceries bought with coupons--fall into the variable-price category. Thus Walker argues that he is merely pushing an already flexible system to its logical extreme...