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...Scott acquired his firm, said the company will cooperate fully with the government's probe. Frist confirmed that Columbia's board forced the change, angered by the surprise federal searches and concerned that its business and reputation were being damaged by the probes as it mulled a major merger. "Rick Scott and David Vandewater have done a fabulous job in putting this group of assets together," said Frist. "They were the right people. But in any institution there is a time for a different style . . . It might have been an impediment if they had stayed." Wall Street responded favorably...
...because the ad wars are turning Madison Avenue into a shelled-out battleground where huge chunks of business are blasted loose and flying around, creating career casualties when they land. At Burnett, a boardroom coup in March toppled CEO Bill Lynch and his protege, Jim Jenness, and restored chairman Rick Fizdale...
...raid on Rick Arritola's mink farm in Mount Angel, Ore., was carried out with military precision. Working under cover of darkness, a small group of antifur activists cut through a wire-mesh fence, pepper-sprayed a watchdog, bypassed an alarm system, opened cages and set free as many as 10,000 scurrying animals, most of them destined to be made into sleek, high-priced fur coats. It was a daring act of ecovandalism, perhaps the largest illegal animal release in U.S. history...
Your article on the biotech company CellPro and the development of a new treatment for cancer [MEDICINE, May 19] left out some vital facts. The stem-cell technology used in CellPro's product to help treat its ceo, Rick Murdock, was developed not by CellPro but by the researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. To date, CellPro has paid Johns Hopkins nothing for its use of our stem-cell technology, thus depriving us of resources that could be applied to further cancer research. In March a federal jury found that CellPro willfully infringed Johns Hopkins' patents...
...Turnover makes anything difficult," said Coordinator of Residential Support Rick Osterberg '96. "You lose your internal consistency when you bring new people in and they have to catch-up and we have to get used to their needs and our environment...