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...notion of Big Pharma cowering before the feds is a bit of a stretch, considering its army of lobbyists encamped in Washington--a total of 526, about one for every member of Congress, according to a report issued last week by the watchdog group Public Citizen. Despite the siege mentality at the conference--and fears of a shortage of blockbusters in the pipeline just as several billion-dollar drugs get ready to come off patent--the industry remains one of America's healthiest. U.S. prescription-drug sales grew 11.5% last year, to $216 billion; the top 10 pharmaceutical firms netted...
...Medley, it became the top-selling flavor, according to Field Trip Factory. In another case, sales of children's toothpaste shot up 18%. "These field trips are nothing more than a way to clobber a captive audience of impressionable children with ads," says Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a watchdog group. But Abbie Levi, whose daughter Sarah asked for a hamster after attending the Petco field trip, says simply, "Parents have the power to say no." Easier said than done. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen. With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
...Paris in December 2002 that is suspected of planning a chemical-bomb attack. "Arif's activities and associates span from Azerbaijan to England ," the French official says. "Getting hold of him is very big." Nuclear Rebuke IRAN The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, unanimously adopted a resolution deploring Tehran's failure to fully cooperate with the IAEA's investigation into the country's nuclear activities. Tehran's chief delegate to the IAEA, Hossein Mousavian, criticized the resolution but said that Iran would continue to work with the agency. President Mohammed Khatami earlier threatened...
...American private-equity firm, for $136 million. Boto said its manufacturing operations had peaked and the sale was a good deal for shareholders. Angry minority shareholders said they were being shortchanged and criticized the sale as an effort to benefit insiders. Led by shareholder and Hong Kong stock-market watchdog David Webb, they tried to block the restructuring, but narrowly lost a vote. "Christmas is canceled," Webb lamented. That left Kao's animation unit as the core of the company. "What do these guys know about the animation business?" Webb asked...
...idea was quickly discarded, and as a result, PSLM took a backseat to the new school of campus labor activists and focused instead on lobbying for the University to enter into the Workers’ Rights Consortium, an international sweatshop watchdog group that Harvard ended up joining in December...