Word: trialing
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...Citicorp's John Reed soon fell apart--but at first very profitable. Amid the corporate scandals of 2001 and 2002, though, Citi's investment-banking arm landed in more than its share of controversy and legal trouble. One last big suit, filed by Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., goes to trial in April...
...more than a quarter-century, the medical community has been trying to develop a vaccine against AIDS--and for more than a quarter-century, it has been disappointed. Earlier this year, it seemed that science had its best shot yet, with a large trial of a new vaccine that would use a novel strategy to protect the body against HIV. In September, however, the results were announced, and this vaccine too had failed. Its developer, Merck, has now released an analysis of the trial, and while the vaccine performed as poorly as reported, the reasons it failed provide insight into...
...Floating Your Own Boat" about the rise in the popularity of kayaking [Nov. 5]: In 2005 my son asked me if I wanted to look at kayaks with him. I went with him, took a kayak for a trial ride and bought it immediately. I can't adequately describe the pleasure of paddling on lakes, rivers and bays. I have since bought a second kayak and a trailer for travel. By the way, the first kayak was my gift to myself for my 70th birthday. It's an age-irrelevant sport...
...leader disowned by his more refined colleagues, Zuma has become a champion of the disappointed. His supporters gathered by the thousands outside the courthouse during his rape trial. In June, when public-sector workers went on strike for several weeks, they chanted Zuma's name at rallies. He has the official endorsements of the ANC's powerful Youth League and the party's partners, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. He has also been trying to widen his appeal. After meeting local business leaders in September, Zuma told TIME, "If international businesspeople...
...Tomislav Nikolic, who is running for president in Serbia's January elections. Nikolic, the caretaker of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party in Seselj's absence, is running neck-and-neck with incumbent President Boris Tadic, a pro-Western democrat. The radicals hope that the emotions stoked by Seselj's trial, which is being broadcast live on Serbian state television, will help Nikolic...