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...with a new President who has vowed to fight Big Pharma to lower drug costs and a Democratic Congress with several anti-DTC advocates, drug and media companies are justifiably jittery. "We are entering an environment that is going to be more open to those who are adamantly opposed to direct-to-consumer advertising," says Jay Bolling, president of Roska Healthcare Advertising in Montgomery...
...York Times (NYT) where income from NYT.com has to do well because the newspaper is losing sales so fast, online revenue fell at a faster pace than print revenue did in December. (Read about China's fight against internet addiction...
...knowledge, no one still there has Daschle's savvy and connections for shepherding legislation through the Senate, where the likes of Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus have their own strongly held notions of what reform should look like. His stature and close relationship with Obama also would have helped fight the impulses of some in the Administration - including chief economic adviser Larry Summers - to delay the push for health reform until after the economy gets fixed...
...state and got a big payment. Now if somebody bleeds or vomits or even spits in a police car, the officers aren't allowed to clean it up. They have to call someone to come and clean it. I know Neal was called in to clean up after a fight in a prison shower where there was quite a lot of blood. So there's quite a mixture of situations, although most of them are suicides...
...revisiting the issue this year. Now the focus is on Maryland. After years of failed attempts by death penalty opponents to bring a repeal bill to a vote in the state legislature, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is personally sponsoring this year's version, promising that he will fight to have the legislature pass it during the current 90-day session. In his state of the state address last week O'Malley called capital punishment "outdated, expensive and utterly ineffective." (See the top 10 crime stories...