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...consequence of the drug-regulatory authorities, who pile on regulation after regulation, which makes getting a drug to market hugely expensive. But the expectations of investors have to be tempered as well. The 15-20% [growth] of some companies is not going to be possible in the future. A third of staff of some big pharmacy companies work in marketing, and many companies spend twice as much on marketing as R&D. That has got to go. I mean for Christ's sake, it's hopeless...
...Seven unearned runs plagued the Crimson in its final game against the Gents. Harvard had taken a 2-1 lead in the top of the third, but Centenary answered with six runs in the bottom of the frame. Another six runs in the eighth sealed the win for the Gents and allowed them to take the four-game series, three games...
...Sophomore right-hander Anthony Nutter left in the third inning in his first start of the season for the Crimson. Junior Dan Zailskas then pitched through the seventh, allowing only one run. Douglas went 2-for-3 in the game, knocking in two of Harvard’s four runs...
...house increased by about half. Meanwhile, the average American gained about a pound a year, so that an adult of a given age is now at least 20 lb. heavier than someone the same age back then. In the late '70s, 15% of Americans were obese; now a third are. (Read "What's the Best Diet? Eating Less Food...
...known people who, having survived the 1930s, never lost their Depression habits of frugality. And so it will be again. We don't need to turn ourselves into tedious, zero-body-fat, zero-carbon-footprint ascetics, but even after the economy recovers, deciding to forgo that third car or fifth TV or imperial master bathroom or marginally cooler laptop will come more naturally...