Word: tap
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...bagging its annual golf tournament this year. The event, which would have been held this month in San Diego, used to draw big bucks from drug companies eager to talk shop with doctor-duffers. One year Pfizer served breakfast, Otsuka America brought lunch, Novartis supplied the golf carts, TAP Pharmaceutical stocked the beverage cart and nine other drugmakers each sponsored a hole or two. But these days no one is willing to give or take so much as a logo-stamped golf ball...
...during a dinner cruise is drawing the attention of legislators trying to bring down prescription-drug costs, which have risen 30% since 1996--nearly twice the rate of inflation. The industry's sudden call to heal itself comes in the wake of a record $875 million fine that TAP Pharmaceutical agreed to pay last fall to settle charges that it gave kickbacks and lavish gifts to get doctors to prescribe its prostate-cancer drug Lupron...
...tough artist to crack. Last Friday night at a reading sponsored by the Harvard Advocate he refused to be pigeonholed as a “political” cartoonist. But his newest series of cartoons transcends the conventional cynicism of Doonesbury or even those Boondocks kids to tap into a real, terrified American consciousness. Over the past year, in a country newly raw to terrorism and wartime brutality, the Get Your War On web-links hopped from cubicle to office to dormitory. Now Rees has a publisher, Soft Skull Press (run by Richard Nash...
...these rooms, hung with wreaths and watercolors, we learned to add and subtract with translucent jewels. When we got to multiplication, we were crowned knights of the three-times table by a tap on each shoulder with a wooden sword...
...they can search you, tap your phones—not that they weren’t doing that before—but now legally,” he said. “They can try you in a military court and shoot you. They’re tearing up the constitution little by little in the name of security...