Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even in this gilded era of unsurpassed profit for biotech and pharmaceutical conglomerates, one company always struck analysts as something of a black sheep. The Monsanto Company, whose subsidiary Searle makes the wildly successful arthritis drug Celebrex, has been casting around for a merger partner for over a year, and now, executives say, the search is over. Monsanto will merge with Pharmacia & Upjohn, joining the ranks of other mega-merger firms like Astra-Zeneca and Rhone-Poulenc-Hoechst, to form a corporation worth about $52 billion. Why did it take so long for Monsanto to find its mate...
...that there is no way to prevent it other than abstinence. Condoms to prevent transmission through bodily fluids, once thought to be enough, no longer are. The virus can live in outer skin cells and even in dead cells for a short time, then be transmitted to a partner...
...Crimson backcourt also turned in a stellar effort against the Big Green. Sophomore guard Drew Gellert chalked up seven rebounds and thirteen points, and Prasse-Freeman, his freshman partner-in-crime, finished with eight rebounds, six assists, and 12 points...
...Winthrop JCR taking swing dance lessons in preparation for the Adams swing that night. A very good friend [Beth A. Stewart] wanted to take the class to prepare for the Winthrop formal and she's kind of tall so she needed a tall partner. I had only been swing dancing once before two years ago in D.C....I consider myself someone who tries hard. I don't think I embarrass myself...
...Senate, but he or she may win a MacArthur Prize or be invited to Sweden for a hefty award down the line. Many of you may be recoiling in disgust, but if a good philosophical conversation interests you and you can't find the right conversation partner, then you know what sort of intellectual I mean is missing from Harvard...