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...Back to the crosswords The following people are winners of the Monday and Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065...
...Herman Miller: A Way of Living edited by Amy Auscherman, Sam Grawe, Leon Ransmeier Phaidon, £69.95 Designer Bill Stumpf once said that “designing a chair for Herman Miller is like running for pope”....
...As part of the shake-up, Amy Jackson, political secretary, will also move across to the Southside headquarters in Victoria but will keep her existing title....
...But, Martin notes, there is one other tandem act like theirs: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey — who both men clearly admire....
...After a spate of foreign takeovers of Indian drugmakers by companies such as Daiichi Sankyo, Sanofi-Aventis and Abbott Laboratories in the past decade, some policymakers demanded that pharmaceuticals be...
...In the past few years, several large Indian generic drug companies have been acquired by global players, including Daiichi Sankyo, Sanofi, and Abbott Laboratories....
...The entrepreneur is not a disinterested observer: in 2010 he sold the generics unit of his Piramal Healthcare to America’s Abbott Laboratories for $3.7bn....
...The following year, Sanofi paid €550m for a controlling stake in Indian vaccine-maker Shanta Biotech and in 2010, Abbott Laboratories of the US paid $3.7bn for Piramal Healthcare’s domestic drug formulation...
...Thomas Malthus, the British theorist, postulated that the world’s population would eventually outstrip the planet’s ability to produce sufficient food for all, leading to widespread famine and death, writes Amy...
...Colourful though his Russian Jewish ancestors were – a cousin became a friend of the American comedy duo Abbott and Costello, his mother dated jazzman Ronnie Scott – would such a book sell?...
...Last year, US-based Abbott Laboratories paid $3.7bn for Piramal Healthcare’s generic drug formulation unit, and Reckitt Benckiser, the UK household products group, agreed to pay £454m for Paras Pharmaceuticals...
...Sanofi-Aventis paid €550m for a controlling stake in Indian vaccine-maker Shanta Biotech in 2009; and last year, Abbott Laboratories of the US paid $3.7bn for Piramal Healthcare’s domestic drug formulation...
...Abbott, with Merck and Sanofi-Aventis, which have also been affected, fear other middle-income countries will follow Thailand’s example....
...Abbott said: “We do not view them [the Thai actions] as legal or in the best interests of patients.”...
...However, Thai newspapers and activists have speculated the drugs are Kaletra, the second-line Aids drug produced by US-based Abbott; and Plavix, the heart medicine jointly controlled by Sanofi-Aventis and...
...The move strengthens its position in negotiations with other pharmaceuticals companies such as Abbott over the price of other patented drugs, as Bangkok seeks to fulfil a pledge to provide anti-retroviral...
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