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...nonprescription drug, Genentech stands to make at most 10% of any profits. Says Analyst Marilyn Hill of Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Mass.: "Royalties and fees are not going to make these companies a big success. Genentech still has to show that it can develop its marketing clout with its own products." Investors apparently agree. Although Genentech's stock ran up from $33 a share to $46 in the weeks preceding the announcement, it is well below the fantastic $89 it briefly hit when shares were first issued in October 1980. Last week Genentech reported a loss...
Neither course is open to the White House, which has its prestige, not to mention clout with Congress, at risk in the elections. So the Republicans are unleashing their most potent weapon: the President himself. As a top White House aide puts it: "We welcome a referendum on Ronald Reagan; he remains enormously popular personally." The President will give all Republican candidates for the Senate and House a pep talk at a reception in the White House this week, and is taping radio spots on behalf of his party's candidates; he is also considering a nationwide TV address...
...outlet to make its own choice, the government and media organizations are avoiding their responsibility to insure fair elections. Unfortunately, most pressure on the broadcasting industry likely comes from defeated politicians complaining about television's undue influence on their races--and in Washington, defeated politicians do not carry much clout...
Cooper, 28, a preppie-looking graduate of Groton and Harvard, cannot match Baker's family clout. Only elderly constituents remember his father, who in 1938 snatched the Governor's seat from Baker's grandfather Howard Sr. ("This is Round 2," quipped an aide to the majority leader), went on to serve three terms and died in 1969. The former Rhodes scholar has countered Baker's hard work with a little shoe leather of his own-literally. Since his campaign began in July 1981, Cooper has worn out three pairs of walking shoes and logged...
Strauss insists that he is not trying to spoil Kohl's chances. His motive, instead, is to gain as much clout as possible within the new coalition at the expense of Genscher's Free Democrats. After arriving in Bonn last week, Strauss declared: "It is high time that the F.D.P. learned moderation and modesty from its decline." With opinion polls showing that 52.7% of West German voters now support the Christian Democrats, Strauss believes the time is ripe to form a government without the F.D.P. He also has his eye on the posts of Vice Chancellor and Foreign...