Word: yew
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...behind bars. ARRESTED. CHEE SOON JUAN, 39, leader of the Singapore Democratic Party, for attempting to hold a Labor Day rally outside the presidential palace without an official permit; in Singapore. In 2001, Chee was sued by Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew for defamation...
SmithKline Beecham, now part of GLAXOSMITHKLINE, anticipated BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB's acceleration of its anticancer drug Taxol, in part because Bristol-Myers Squibb took a curious interest in amending the Endangered Species Act to enable more harvesting of the yew tree, whose bark produces the active chemical agent in Taxol. SmithKline's suspicions were strengthened in the early '90s when it noticed an increase in the number of oncology positions listed in help-wanted ads run by its competitor in trade papers. Bristol-Myers Squibb had also told financial analysts it was investing more money in its oncology unit...
...Chee had much more on his mind than just winning or losing a seat in Parliament. He had already had to apologize three times in public for remarks he made about Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He had agreed to pay as yet unspecified damages. Given the large awards handed out by the courts in similar cases over the past two decades that had driven other opposition leaders into bankruptcy, Chee had good reason to be apprehensive. He had been at the receiving end of defamation suits himself. The 39-year-old neuropsychologist lost...
...leader, Lee Kwan Yew, have managed to create a prosperous state, but at the cost of personal and civil liberty. Of course, there are many countries in Southeast Asia (such as Indonesia) that offer their citizens neither liberty nor prosperity. So few countries have managed the difficult transition from Third World poverty to modern prosperity that Singapore’s achievement—at whatever cost—seems remarkable, and perhaps even admirable...
...poor for a sexual revolution. Or too stubbornly conservative. Or tangled in political ideologies. One thing they all had in common: they were tightly controlled by their stodgy, patriarchal leaders. And it always seemed the last thing on the minds of men like Deng Xiaoping or Lee Kuan Yew was getting a little non-government-regulated action...