By JEFF ZELENY
PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Before pausing for a brief holiday reprieve from a yearlong campaign, the leading presidential candidates on Saturday traded a fresh round of sharp exchanges over experience, campaign tactics and voting records as they worked to solidify support or change the minds of voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Senator Barack […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by admin
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By MOTOKO RICH
Joseph Weisberg looks about how you would expect a Brooklyn dad and schoolteacher to look, with a bald head, white-flecked beard and baggy leather jacket. So on a recent frigid night, when he ambled down a Park Slope street and surreptitiously passed off a plastic container from a […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by admin
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By ALAN SCHWARZ
Laveranues Coles is equal parts receiver and raconteur, the New York Jets player who talks when no one else will. But upon hearing one subject — concussions, specifically the two he has sustained in the past year — he immediately lost his smile, and looked around the […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by admin
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By ANDREW POLLACK
Genentech appears to have resolved a dispute with ophthalmologists that will allow the company’s drug Avastin to continue to be used to treat eye diseases, both sides announced on Thursday.
Genentech infuriated many eye doctors in October when it announced a change in the distribution of Avastin that would have made it difficult […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by admin
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By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
The private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase, One Equity Partners, agreed on Friday to sell its stake in Quintiles Transnational, a big manager of clinical drug trials, to the company’s chief executive and other buyout firms.
Two buyout firms, Bain Capital and TPG Capital, teamed with the chief executive, Dennis […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by admin
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By KENNETH CHANG
The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the nation’s premier center for plumbing the mysteries of the universe in the tiniest bits of matter, is planning to lay off more than 10 percent of its employees in the coming months, the result of impending budget cuts mandated by the spending bill passed by Congress […]
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by admin
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