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...many ways, Big Pharma can't afford not to. Getting drugs to the market has never been more expensive. The price tag for developing a single medication can now top $1 billion, compared with less than $300 million 15 years ago. That rise is due, in large part, to a growing need to produce bigger and bolder breakthroughs as portfolios mature and patents lapse. The market wants fewer "me too" products, instead demanding originality. And drugmakers are working overtime to distinguish themselves: in 2006 the top seven pharmaceutical companies spent twice as much on marketing...
...failures in other parts of the American economy. Other detractors of the plan have pointed out the undue burden on American taxpayers, but the price of stability may not prove so high if the Treasury can shrewdly make a profit from the assets they purchase. The $700 billion price tag, however, appears to have been derived somewhat arbitrarily—especially considering that the targeted assets evade precise valuation. This large sum needs to be used sensibly, coupled with thorough negotiation with banks to determine fair values for damaged assets. Furthermore, the government should be more forthcoming in where they...
...latest shot in the abortion wars is not a new law or a court case. It is a fat blue-covered tome entitled Abortion under State Consititutions: A State-by-State Analysis by Paul Benjamin Linton. Although intended - as indicated by its $75 price tag - for libraries, it could become one of the country's most thumbed-through tomes if the Republicans win in November and take steps to overturn the Supreme Court ruling that protects abortion rights, Roe v. Wade...
...sure, American productions of Ayckbourn are usually botched; directors tend to broaden the comedy and stomp all over the delicate (and very British) nuances. It's as if they still believe that silly Neil Simon tag. Better to compare Ayckbourn--who, at 61, has written nearly 60 plays and directs them himself--to another artist whose work was misunderstood in his lifetime, Alfred Hitchcock. Both worked in popular genres that had few pretensions to art--the suspense thriller and the domestic comedy. Both were technical virtuosos who loved to set themselves challenges in their chosen medium. And both managed...
...with an annual $13 million in additional expenses to be tacked on under a new accounting rule, which requires public employers to record costs for post-retirement benefits. Bailey declined to release additional figures as an audit has yet to be completed, but stated that without the $13 million tag, the Health Alliance would have been on “very solid footing...